Update History

Release date: 2008-06-12

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Consistent semantics for coding options when selected from the quotation manager menu:
• Code-by-List, Quick Coding and Open Coding now affect the selected quotation in the manager, not the quotation activated and displayed in the hu editor. It is now possible to code quotations for primary docs that are not currently loaded. And you can code any number of selected quotations at once.
• Correct name for keyboard short cut for Code-by-List (ctrl-shift-L)
• Confusing refresh behavior in tree-based browsers (e.g., Object Explorer) fixed
• Network editor failed to roll up after last update
• New setting in General Prefs/HU Editor/Rollup Window: the Hover Delay Time triggers expanding the window after moving the mouse over the caption bar
• Live Update settings dialog did not display the options correctly
• Attachment of bug reports to mailed reports could fail with Outlook
• Graphic PD failed to display in image mode in network editor under certain conditions
• Code Picker held on to already deleted codes with the danger of their revitalizing as zombies
• Allow comment editors to be opened on objects even if they do not have a comment yet
• Several preparations for future media engine ..

Release date: 2008-04-10

New, Fixed and Improved:

• user configurable connection settings (via Help men) to specify proxy address, silent authentication (provide username/password), proxy mode
• more space for items in a variety of lists (QueryTool, Select Codes, Family Manager, Merge list)
• resizable selection lists (merging, etc)
• slightly configurable QueryTool output option (new output item in QueryTool print menu)
• removed annoying tool tips from QueryTool panes
• in-place editing areas in the margin extend automatically when typing
• Delete key functional in family manager
• added context menu in relations list. Improved resizing (prefer list)
• drop down buttons in main menu for tree explorers and preferences
• processor info in system report\n\nFixed in 5.2.19:
• improved handling of Unicode/DBCS on non-DBCS systems
• accounts without passwords switched to guest account
• doc and other converters did not work on file paths with non-ansii characters
• prevent false dragdrop actions in code manager when doble-click selecting a quotation
• newly opened quotation manager displayed already erased quotations during an edit session which could also be used as if still alive
• XML import of codes failed when during assignment to a selected family
• multimedia documents were displayed in the statuspane as assigned even if they were rejected as invalid
• deleting relations in RelationEditor failed
• when updates were already downloaded, the update manager could fail on startup
• abd a few more ...\n\n\nImproved and Fixed in 5.2.18:
• Non administrative ATLAS.ti users were not able to start after upgrading to 5.2.13
• In DBCS systems, the word cruncher did not count correctly under certain conditions
• Determining the main program folder via registry failed in some rare cases
• Autocoding back again
• Printing, copying and storing networks as meta files did not include PD nodes
• Draw replacement image for image PDs that cannot be rendered as full image nodes
• SPSS records not correctly determined
• Scrolling image PDs did fixed
• Remember folder when loading a HU

Release date: 2007-11-30

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Non administrative ATLAS.ti users were not able to start after upgrading to 5.2.13
• In DBCS systems, the word cruncher did not count correctly under certain conditions
• Determining the main program folder via registry failed in some rare cases
• Autocoding back again
• Printing, copying and storing networks as meta files did not include PD nodes
• Draw replacement image for image PDs that cannot be rendered as full image nodes
• SPSS records not correctly determined
• Scrolling image PDs did fixed
• Remember folder when loading a HU

Release date: 2007-11-19

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Autocoding back again
• Search categories were not loaded
• HU Merge anomalies removed
• merging composite objects (families, networks) did not migrate all conteined items \n PD numbering of source HU now retained whenever feasible

Release date: 2007-11-16

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Revised and new stylesheets for the XML Converter\
• New background wallpaper images

Release date: 2007-11-16

New, Fixed and Improved:

• VISTA: Taking care of complex permission issues\n
• XML
• Optional full Unicode compatible quotation content export to XML
• Code and memo import/export Unicode compatible
• Remember XML Converter window settings
• List and transform current HU
• Operate with all current MSXML versions including version 6 (default under Vista)\n
• Live Update
• Specifiable proxy servers
• Allow custome Intranet servers
• Intermediate Restarts with Multipart Updates
• Compact data list and matrix for SPSS generator
• Allow super codes as non-dichotomeous SPSS vars
• A few more explorer locations in Extras menu
• All paths displayed with special path prefixes whenever possible
• Print cooccurring codes with quotation count in brackets also if quotations are not included
• Output target dialog and other dialogs with radio buttons allow direct click-through per double-click (instead of selecting an option plus clicking OK)
• New wallpapers
• Optionally disable logo text display in HU Ed
• Optionally prohibit individual wallpapers via atlas.ini (admin task)\n\nFixed:
• Correctly display loaded HU path in status window
• Improved redraw with splitter bar (XML Converter, families)
• Check file access permissions precisely under NTFS (NT, XP, Vista)
• Removed display bug (error) for codes that started with an "& "
• Search swarms were sorted alphabetically resulting in changed semantics: the|that is not equal that|the
• Coding with open code tree or forest created an error sometimes
• Output of code-pd matrix failed when quote flter was selected code and none was selected
• QueryTool was not correctly updated when quotations or PDs were deleted

Release date: 2007-08-21

New, Fixed and Improved:

• Vista compatible main executable (manifest)
• Outsourced PostUpdateProcessor
• Transaction based update management with rollback recovery
• Remember position and size for relation editors
• Wording for memo context menu in margin area
• Changing relations in Relation Editor did not update dependent network views
• Prevent the empty manager effect (splitbar directly below toolbar)
• When quotation manager in rollup mode loses focus after double-clicking a quotation, do collapse the window

Release date: 2007-07-4

New and improved:

• Admin friendly global setting of auto update checking feature
• Further analysis of Vista related problems during live update
• Much improved information when attempting to load access restricted HUs
• Improved description of merging quotations

Bugs fixed:

• Export PD Families Table.

Release date: 2007-06-19

New and improved:

• Automatic update check when launching ATLAS.ti
• Adjacency operators (follow & precede) revised.
• Cooc explorer: switch between symmetric & asymmetric display of quotations
• Cooc explorer and cooc print did not restrict the displayed quotations to the currently filtered pd set
• SPSS: optionally create SAVE OUTFILE instruction
• Vista specific report details
• Immediate resort after object creation for code, network and memo manager
• Do not expand rolled up windows when holding down the Ctrl key
• Shortcut Ctrl+Shift+R for Rollup toggle
• Also included Ctrl+Shift+T for On Top toggle
• PD-Family table: Import native Excel tables using ADO
• Arrange drop-downs egal sized when opening HU Editor in maximized mode
• New Support entry in Help menu
• Improved time format detection for video files
• Cosmetic changes to a variety of tools

Bugs fixed:

• Unable to login next time after creating and switching to a new user.
• User Editor did close without complaint without saving the database when the user missed the needed write permissions.
• Folder and file name processing (espec. under Vista)
• Code forest and code tree did not update after linking or unlinking
• Code family browser did not accept super codes via drag & drop
• Search Relevant Text back again, thanks to Zdenek !-)
• Import XML super codes failed when queryTerm could not be resolved within the namespace of the HU
• Remember tiled/no-tiled layout for wallpaper
• Hello text corrected
• Corrected line wrap in graphic comments

Release date: 2007-01-26

New and improved:

• appearance of hierarchical tools: hot tracking, improved text display
• display comment mark (tilde) in network browsers, nwe caption and family managers
• added comment button on PD toolbar (left of HUEditor)
• display hint in margin or network editor comment tooltips (CLICK INSIDE TO OPEN EDITOR/VISIT xy)
• store individual frames for network editors, comment and memo editors
• use fixed width and alignment optionally for rolled up captions

Bugs fixed:

• correctly restore time format settings for multimedia
• do not check GREP in crawler when checking ALL
• rotated link labels in network editors displayed weirdly since 5.2.6
• with Windows special folder My Files being moved to a volume's root (not a subfolder) created dysfunctional path references
• default path of standard file dialog could create an error on Macs
• bug with open object explorer
• cooccurrence explorer did not remember view settings
• removed weird resizing (and loss of original frame) for rollup windows when minimized or maximized
• detect situation of users exceeding licensed seats with restricted shares

Release date: 2006-12-12

Bugs fixed:

• open code tree with sub codes already expanded
• open choice of browsers with CTRL key pressed when opening the code manager from the code drop-down button (replaces opening the family manager directly)
• detect Windows Vista for system report
• reworded a few tool tips (Quick Coding)
• creating codes from a plain text memo truncated 10 characters of the first code name
• when deleting codes after previously having used in-vivo coding an error occurred
• merging or deleting codes with cooccurrence browser open caused an error
• improved overall stability

Release date: 2006-11-16

Bugs fixed:

• Fixed Copy Bundle bug "catastrophic failure" (wording a bit too strong) related to storing directly on burnable media like CDs or DVDs (new feature with 5.2.6)
• Deleting a quotation for a selected code could create error
• Quick Coding now uses all codes that were used last for coding and it is NOT neccesserarily the selected codes (wrong tooltip)
• List of quotations in the browser window for the selected code was not updated when deleting quotations

Release date: 2006-10-19

Bugs fixed:

• PD Code Word Frequency table failed
• Deleting a quotation without a code selected failed
• Executing selected text starting with .: failed

This one's a real mini patch released hours after the last one. Some bugs fixed that although not critical are annyoing. Now you know why Windows has a 4-digit build number ...

Release date: 2006-10-17

This patch updates ATLAS.ti 5.2.4 to 5.2.5. It addresses the following issues:

New and improved:

• code-pd tables: take current quotation filter into account
• improved drawing in network editors
• store copy bundles directly on CD-ROM or DVD
• Google for selected codes (code and code family manager Miscellaneous menu)
• updated compression library
• new PD filter: Selected Code
• overall improved performance

Bugs fixed:

• merging code memo links could result in false links which prevented loading the result HU
• excluding PDs in a HU merge launched an error
• solved problems with memos not accessible during HU save
• checking available disk space for Copy Bundle accurately also on removable CD and DVD drives
• Copy Bundle failed with a certain combination of data sources

Release date: 2006-08-29

This patch updates ATLAS.ti 5.2.3 to 5.2.4. It addresses the following issues:

• optimization fault resulted in "array" error
• printing memos with quotations failed
• save hu failed under certain conditions ("missing memo content type strategy")
• creating relations on-the-fly failed when using the relation editor
• drag & drop flicker and delay removed
• doc converters access problem preventing loading and display of PDs fixed
• converter access compatibility mode for IE 7 beta

Release date: 2006-08-03

This small patch updates ATLAS.ti 5.2.2 to 5.2.3. It addresses the following issues:

Improvements:

• Significantly improved performance in displaying, sorting, deleting, reporting, table generation, esp. when using super codes
• Multimedia Control switch time format via context menu
• Optimize super code (and families) terms after editing

Fixes:

• Correctly handle doc converter paths and other converter related problems
• Auto coding with many converter driven documents could result in extreme ressource leakage
• HU Merge:
  Supercodes were allowed to migrate without checking dependencies to codes removed via MERGEIGNORE. This resulted in "ghost" objects.
  A code containing %0 in its name stopped the merge.
• Code Merge did also not check super codes for dependencies regarding the merged (= deleted) codes, leaving super codes with invalid term components.
• Switching to another object in a manager or explorer with pending comment edits created confusion, e.g., item was selected but old comment still shown.
• Export to XML failed with quotes in code or other objects names when encoding was set to iso-8859-1
• Some toolbars did not display their buttons in Classic (non-themed) mode and large system fonts under Windows XP
• First search pattern of a search swarm was ignored the first time it was used
• Dont throw the HU Editor up front when using Rollup mode in child windows

Release date: 2006-06-25

This small patch updates ATLAS.ti 5.2.1 (Servicepack 4) to 5.2.2. It addresses the following issues:

• Browsing folders failed in PD Path Mapper with empty entryfield
• Merging HUs failed to migrate memos in ADD mode
• AutoCoding failed when starting with Multiple Hard Returns as the default match mode

Release date: 2006-05-27

This patch updates ATLAS.ti 5.2.0 (Servicepack 4) to 5.2.1. It adresses the following issues:

• Mixed Japanese (or other DBCS languages) and Western text in entity names (codes, memos) was truncated or completely invisible until the HU was loaded again.
• In comment and memos the text was also visually truncated to about one half.
• Handle DBCS printer names correctly.
• Local file links in comments and memos can now be used to start the associated application. Use URL file:// notation, e.g., file://c:\mytable.xls.
• Errors signaled during creation of an error report was not handled correctly but resulted in subsequent error messages.
• Incompatible file types were not blocked from being assigned as wallpapers resulting in ATLAS.ti not starting up.
• Deleting (including implicit deletion via merging) codes with the Code Forest window open created an error.
• Update status window display of item count in object managers correctly after adding or removing items

Release date: 2006-05-15

Please see this page for more info.

Release date: 2005-07-25

This "patch" updates your ATLAS.ti version 5.0.66 (the last number is the so called build no.) to 5.0.67.

Thanks to all our users who provided the neccessary feedback for further improvements.

The following fixes and changes since build 66 (Service Pack 3) were incorporated into this update:

Changes:

• Rollup window mode now does not expand window when cursor is moved fast across the collapsed caption. This allows to move the mouse to specific windows without disruption by expanding unwanted windows.
• Improved document caching
• Maximized windows displaying videos quotations restored to non-maximized windows
• Play multimedia quotations from network editor via context menu or double-click plus Alt key.

Fixes:

• Editing super code and family queries did not set the HU to modified
• Editing queries did not succeed when families were involved
• Windows in rollup mode could not be minimized
• Duplicating super codes did not work
• Dragging multiple network views in netview manager
• Marquee selection of multiple nodes in network view was displaced when view was previously scrolled from default position.
• Filtering for co-authors had no effect or created an eroor condition
• Alien objects from other HU could be imported without proper migration via drag & drop
• imported memos were not included in current family
• Memo creation via drag & drop from A5 text editor failed
• Codes created from a memo created rubbish (rtf tags) when the memo contained rich text
• Cutting links in hyperlink manager OK
• Saving a HU with a primary document file in edit mode continued saving even with data source changes discarded resulting in a corrupt HU
• QUESSY imported PDs with URL reference were not assigned a useful filename
• Deleting PDs under certain circumstances left residual quotations in the HU which created problems when loading.
• Fixed loading of 4.2 HUs with outsourced memos
• Disabled coding items and modify in quotation manager when not selected in PD pane
• Merge now use the quotation selected in the quotation manager

Release date: 2005-05-03

New Features:

• The Cooccurrency Explorer lets you quickly identify and navigate to multiply coded parts of your documents.
• A Live Update Service Pack Manager. All these numerous steps to check, download, copy and install future service packs and patches are gone. The new SP Manager does it all for you.
• Remember dropdown lists positions and widths in the toolbar, optimize width per row (Ctrl Double Click) or reset to default layout (Ctr-Shift Double Click or View menu "Default Toolbar Layout")
• In-context preview of print margin borders (set word wrap to printer)
• Create memos by dropping files onto memo manager.
• New code filter: current quotations
• QUESSY import lists all unmapped database fields into the PD comment
• Assign web based PDs via QUESSY
• Unlimited import of QUESSY results

Improved:

• Significantly improved image processing: use large images without need to crop and reduce before assignment. High image quality with any size. Current zoom factor remembered across sessions (via document context menu “Current Zom as Default”).
• Extended Margin Menu for Hyperlinks (Flip, Change Relation etc)
• Renumber PDs may use an arbitrary start index
• More robust import of hand made PD Family Tables containing syntax flaws
• Create Codes from memo does not duplicate existing codes (with !!! prefix) anymore
• Correct accessibility reporting of invalid or missing DOC converters
• Crawler with settable GREP and cross session memory for queries
• Update quotation list names after changing the name length.
• Code PD table: take both pd AND current code sort into account
• Warn and suggest solutions when Excel limits are reached (Total cells < 65000 and columns < 256)
• Display comment mark for codes in report view
• Open new HU Editors with a slight offset so that it already open hueds are not completely covered
• Reject Non HU files when forced to be loaded with A5 via the file’s context menu “Open with …” in Windows Explorer (some tried to open all kinds of stuff with A5!-)
• Set focus to Code Picker list for increased keyboard control

Bug fixes:

• Correct display of non-western (e.g., Cyrillic) text in reports.
• Handle "ghost codes" created with builds prior 61. Ghost codes are objects that came back into play although they were deleted previously. However, being half-dead they created all kinds of nuisances.
• Copy Bundle now takes care for HUs currently in use.
• Auto coding “Use Grep” does not affect the global grep setting anymore
• Orphanized quotations may now be automatically deleted when a code is deleted
• Object Managers selections stay where they are when an item is removed.
• Drawing in network editor cleaned up a bit
• Merging codes in NEW with one of the merged codes as the target code deleted them all
• Cooccurring codes contained the original code in some cases
• Printing with margin when no quotation was on the next page did not work
• Changing paths in preferences did not work correctly. New paths were not accepted.
• Auto recovery now with correct detection and processing of the original HU’s path
• Reject passwords written in a DBCS (East Asian) language
• Under a DBCS system recovery infos (automatic backup) were sometimes not correctly created and recovery was not possible