Software Development Notes
timestart
Version: 3.1
Release status: Full
Application	Form/Module/Class	Fault/Improvement	Magnitude	Explanation	Date Reported	Status	Date Completed	Reported By
timestart	New .exe file (Report Scheduler)	Improvement	Minor	The Report Scheduler allows the user to set up a number of timestart reports to run automatically on a specified day at a specified time. These are saved to file and may also be printed automatically		Completed		timeware Ltd
timestart	Report Viewer	Improvement	Minor	The user can now print the weekly clock card report without any information at the bottom of each page running over to the next page.		Completed		timeware Ltd
timestart	Startup	Improvement	Minor	Included a basic password screen that appears each time the user enters timestart. This includes a password that may be changed or turned on/off from the Support screen.		Completed		timeware Ltd
timestart	Reports Form	Improvement	Minor	An Archived Report Viewer that allows the user to open, view and print archived reports from within timestart.		Completed		timeware Ltd
timestart	Communications Form (New)	Improvement	Minor	A new screen that allows the user to communicate with the terminal and set up the connection type as desired (RS232 or TCPIP).		Completed		timeware Ltd
timestart	System Setup Form	Improvement	Minor	2 new options are now available. The relay parameters and badge source can now be changed from the software.		Completed		timeware Ltd
timestart	Schedules Form	Improvement	Minor	There is now a link in the Schedules Form that when clicked will display help on the auto out feature.		Completed		timeware Ltd
timestart	Edit Form	Improvement	Minor	Entry into and entry out of the Edit screen is now faster..		Completed		timeware Ltd
timestart	Registration Form	Improvement	Minor	The Terminal Config screen no longer shows until the registration screen is complete.		Completed		timeware Ltd
timestart	Windows menu	Improvement	Minor	A link to the html help text is now available from the START menu in Windows.		Completed		timeware Ltd
timestart	Help buttons	Improvement	Minor	When the user clicks a help button, timestart opens the help page that relates to the screen they are currently on.		Completed		timeware Ltd
timestart	Startup	Improvement	Minor	If Windows is set up to large fonts, the timestart screen becomes distorted and the links do not work correctly. Setting the Windows fonts to small fonts solves this problem. A message now appears at startup if fonts are set to large fonts.		Completed		timeware Ltd
timestart	Schedules Form	Improvement	Minor	The default rounding (6:00-23:00 at 15 mins) has been removed from the database as users were not changing it when it didn’t fit in with their schedule and this caused confusing results.		Completed		timeware Ltd
timestart	Support Form	Improvement	Minor	After a backup has been restored successfully, a confirmation message appears.		Completed		timeware Ltd
timestart	Time and Date Form	Improvement	Minor	Year 2003 BST and GMT times have been added.		Completed		timeware Ltd
timestart	SYS01.mdb file	Improvement	Minor	The SYS01.mdb now only contains fields relevant to timestart.		Completed		timeware Ltd
timestart	All Forms	Improvement	Minor	Links to the timestart website still appeared although they didn’t work when hovering the mouse pointer over the version number on each screen.		Completed		timeware Ltd
timestart	Report Folder	Improvement	Minor	Increase the amount of archived reports saved to 52 of each type.		Completed		Wisegrove Ltd
timestart	Report Viewer	Fault	Minor	timestart no longer saves away blank reports to text files when there has been no communication with the terminal.		Completed		timeware Ltd
timestart	Time and Date Form	Fault	Minor	The terminal time and date is now only retrieved when the form opens and when an update takes place. This prevents the software having to communicate with the terminal every second to retrieve the time and date from the clock.		Completed		timeware Ltd
timestart	Date and Time Form	Fault	Minor	The software now communicates with the terminal in a more efficient way when retrieving the terminal date and time.		Completed		timeware Ltd
timestart	Schedules Form	Fault	Minor	Band overtime did not work on a night shift. For this to be resolved, the band defaults had to be changed. Defaults that are changed are marked with a question mark that will take the user to the help on this section if clicked.		Completed		timeware Team/Wisegrove Ltd
timestart	Main Forms	Fault	Minor	If the user exits timestart using the ‘X’ in the top right corner of the screen, timestart does not unload properly. On entering again, an error appears saying that the application is already open. This has been resolved.		Completed		timeware Ltd
timestart	Report Viewer	Fault	Minor	If the user clicked print to print a report and the default printer was not communicating, a runtime error ‘482’ would occur. This no longer appears.		Completed		timeware Ltd