Release Notes TransLution Version 3.00 – Release Date 30 August 2012

 

Release Summary

The most important part of this release was the introduction of the VB Provider which allows visual basic code to be run from TransLution processes and buttons. This is intended as a long term replacement for the existing VB Scripting support offered by TransLution due to the greater flexibility that it offers but existing VB Scripting is still supported.

 

There have also been some enhancements to the Touch Screen which are mainly related to the fact that the external TL Selector functionality has been embedded into the core TransLution Touchscreen product.

 

VB Provider

The Visual Basic Provider allows the user to write Visual Basic code which can then be called from within TransLution. The key benefits offered by using Visual Basic instead of VB Scripting is that the code is now stored in the database instead of in text files, the code runs synchronously with TransLution so the product will be aware of when code has executes or not and of course the additional power and flexibility offered by Visual Basic over VB Scripting.

 

We have however recognised that many implementations will still need the fairly simple functions of printing reports or labels and therefore the VB Provider is shipped with sample code to print a BarTender label, view or print a Crystal report or show the user a message box.

 

 

Enhanced TL Selector Functionality

TL Selector is now part of the core TransLution Touch Screen product. Users can define any view and show the result of the view on the touch screen. In addition to making this application part of our core offering, we have added a number of new features as well:

•         The visible data can be automatically filtered by the user so that users are only able to see data relevant to them. It is now also possible to make any number of columns modifiable allowing data entry onto the TL Selector grid. This modified data is then available to the VB Provider for further processing.

•         Row colours can be changed depending on the row status

•         The search options can be hidden in cases where the grid is used only for display purposes.

•         Columns in the view can be directly mapped to business object XML tags allowing users to post data directly from a TL Selector view to Syspro using a selected business object.

 

 

 

Other Minor Product Enhancements

There have been a number of other enhancements to various parts of the product –

Multiple Business Object Calls

The Direct Syspro communications has been enhanced so that now multiple business objects can be called from a single scanner prompt sequence. Any prompt/s can be mapped to a business object not the previous limit of only one prompt per scanner prompt sequence.

Flexible Parameter definition

Previously, only XML tags could be mapped to scanned data and parameter values were fixed in the XML definition. Now, Parameter values can also be mapped to scanner prompts.

Cancel Button

On both the touch screen and RF scanner there is an option to Cancel before anything is scanned if a job has been selected in error

Scale Communications

It is now possible to define any scanner prompt to be a prompt that reads data from a scale as opposed to a scanner or keyboard entry.

Buttons for FA selection

When selecting jobs on a hand held scanner, the user no longer has to use a menu structure as in the past, they can select jobs using buttons like on the touch screen.