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V3.00.29 - December 24, 2002 (Christmas edition)
New submission status "Not applicable" added. Use it when your submission is not applicable for site, but you want to create submission item.
New field "Hardware ID" is in the registration order record. It may be used for hardware checking in registration keys. If assigned, AsProtect's keys will be created using the specified Hardware ID.
DeuPAD support improved: The exchange rate for DM ->EUR is 1.95583.
SVA asks before exit if inbox contains non-committed registration orders.
Bug fixed: work around for opening multiple IE windows when you break loading webpage and close auto-form.
V3.00.28 - December 14, 2002
"SAVE" membership is supported. You can specify your ID and Unique ID as member of German shareware community "SAVE".
DeuPAD extension is supported. This extension was developed by DeuPAD (Copyright (c) 2000-2001 by Oliver Grahl Software Design). More information on DeuPAD can be found on: http://www.o-grahl.de/deupad/. This extension is used primary in "Deutsche Shareware Autoren VEreinigung SAVE - Deutsche Shareware und Freeware zum Download", German shareware association. About supporting it in SVA:
1) Fill out SAVE section in membership section in the Global preferences. 2) Fill out DeuPAD section in the Version properties. 3) Generate PAD file.
Bug fixed: Customers information had been lost when you changed of storage scheme from "united" to "separated" or both.
V3.00.27 - December 8, 2002
Bug fixed: In the PAD import routine you can select product from list and import from PAD file only version information.
Bug fixed: Maximum length of SMTP outgoing message bodies was 1023 according to RFCs (SMTP protocol (RFC-821), File attachment using MIME format (RFC-1521)). Unfortunately, these restrictions are not implemented in most SMTP servers. Outgoing message length is limited to 32K now.
Bug fixed: ShareIt detector is corrected
Bug fixed: Products with long names were not detected correctly.
Bug fixed: Prevent of causing EIntOverflow error.
V3.00.26 - December 2, 2002
Bug fixed: Formatting of "human-readable" PAD files is more similar to PADGEN. Old format was caused errors in simtel.net PAD parser.
Bug fixed: Sometime "Stop" button was not enabled during loading web page into internal browser. It was needed to click "Refill document" due to this bug.
Bug fixed: Macro "Product.NewFeatures" did not work correctly for customers-related message templates.
Google query URL now contains only server domain without subfolders for wider search range.
Bug fixed: Correct handling of auto-form list in site properties.
Bug fixed: It was unable to import site collection due to serious internal error. Many thanks to Paul Diemer for the helpful bug report.
V3.00.25 - November 27, 2002
XP themes and skins are supported.
Bug fixed: Trying to eliminate errors with empty messages.
Bug fixed: Access Violation errors happened when navigating through sites and using quick search.
Bug fixed: If "AutoWrap" was switched off in global preferences messages was posted with empty bodies sometime
V3.00.24 - November 11, 2002
New tab on the SVA switch panel: "Today actions". This tab is intended for centralizing of all your today jobs in SVA. This mode displays unchecked submissions, timed out submissions, submissions that are needed to resubmit and so on.
All backup/restore routines are moved to "XML Export/Import Wizard" from any other interface points.
Import/Export Wizard includes new option, which enables erasing untouched sites after successfully site collection updated. This feature enables full integration between master and slave sites collections including deleted sites.
Evaluation version now contains FULL latest collection of sites, not only 25 most used items.
Only 10 first sites in each category are accessible for your submissions in evaluation version.
Now you can use all power of Google to check presence your products on any sites! This option intended to use instead of standard auto-form "Search product" for sites that have not search features.
Last awaited outgoing message editor is added. Now you do not need to recreate message if you need to do small changes in completed outgoing message.
ESMTP (SMTP with authentication) is implemented now. You can use it, if you have a SMTP server that requests this. There are supported modes list: "none", "plain", "login" and "CramMD5". Look to "Authorization mode" parameter in global preferences.
New registration orders detection engine is redesigned. Engine is based on Perl-compatible regular expression parser. You can define as many registration orders filters as you want. Refer to any regular expression manual (as instance, it is available from http://www.perldoc.com/) and predefined filters in "rods" folder to understand mechanism of SVA registration orders detection filters.
It is possible to extract customer's information from multi-product incoming orders. Using both "ProductRow" parameter in "[CommonRules]" section and "[ProductRowFieldsRules]" section you can define rules to do it. See "rods\esellerate.rod" for example.
Registration orders detectors editor dialog. Now you can tune registration orders detection process inside SVA quickly and easily.
New field in registration order record: "Customer IP". It is intended for automatic IP tracking in next releases.
New customers macros: "Registration.RegName", "Registration.OrderID", "Registration.License", "Registration.Total" and "Customer.Zip"
New registration orders fields: "OrderID" and "WhereHeard".
AsProtect integration is done. Now you can specify AsProtect's project for each version and SVA will generate registration keys when new customers are detected.
Greeting messages is done. You can link any greeting messages template for each version and SVA will automatically fill out message from this template and put this message into SVA outbox. Use this feature with AsProtect key generation and save your time!
Now strings are used for "Major Version / Minor Version" properties instead of integer. This gets you ability to number your product more flexibly such as "Version 3.01.beta"
All dialogs have been redesigned from scratch using new dialog style.
Now all dialogs are resizable windows. It gives you ability to tune sizes and positions of all windows, as you want.
Online manual scientifically revised.
Centralized log messages and progress indicator are placed at the bottom of all pages.
Command-line parameter "check dupes" is replaced by new command-line parameter "/repair". Using this switch, you can try to repair broken SVA database: check duplicated IDs of objects and delete orphaned items, which causes Access Violation errors. First action of repairing process is turning off any automated actions such as "Delete when next version is submitted", "Check old version status" and so on.
Installation tool was changed.
Examples of registration letters are added to startup template.
Now SVA displays letters count in the SVA outbox.
"Hungarian", "Bulgarian", "Croatian", "Danish", "Norwegian", "Catalan", "Portuguese", "Slovak", "Slovenian", "Ukrainian" languages were added to languages list.
"SMTP Timeout" property gives you ability to work with slowly servers.
Ability to abort outgoing messages posting process any time.
SVA brings to front after MAPI processing. This is useful for some E-mail non-MS MAPI providers such as TheBat, Eudora etc.
Remark for site is displayed as hint when you move mouse on sites list.
New operating systems in list: Windows CE 2.11, Windows CE 3.0, Palm OS 3.5, Palm OS 4.0, Palm OS 4.1, and Palm OS 5.0
Full path to "sva.xml" is now displayed in main window caption. This is valuable if you use more that one SVA instance at one time.
Bug fixed: SVA was using blank working directory instead of "C:\Program Files\SVA" to run sva.exe. Now it is fixed.
Bug fixed: Trying to eliminate dates conversion errors.
Bug fixed: Pressing "Reset to defaults" button in "Registration orders overrides" dialog could raises error.
V2.60.11 - May 3, 2002
Module with HTML syntax highlighting ("Export to HTML...") is no longer used because it was contained some bugs. Standard memo editor is used instead of it.
V2.60.10 - March 28, 2002
MAPI options dialog with advanced tuning features for MAPI.
V2.60.9 - March 1, 2002
FAQ page is accessible from SVA menu
Now SVA detects duplicates using formula: "lowercase(trim(site.Title))+clearUrl(site.url)" when you restore sites collection.
Bug fixed: Posting errors wasn't displayed
Bug fixed: Message template editor dialog was not been properly displayed when you have installed large fonts on your PC.
V2.60.8 - February 5, 2002
Changes in splash design
Bug fixed: Dropped over value (if you had replaced or concatenated with old value) has been assigned incorrectly in auto-submit window.
V2.60.7 - February 3, 2002
New macros: "Self.Contact_Name", "Self.Contact_FirstName", "Self.Contact_LastName", "Self.Contact_Email".
New macro "Product.OS" represents a list of supported OS as "95/98/NT/2K/XP".
Dropping into field that contains macro already causes special merge dialog.
New splash and about graphics is looks according our new site design.
New command-line parameter "/check_dupes" is intended to repair databases with duplicated records.
Macro "FileSize_M" now is present in "#0.#" format.
Macros "Self.Name", "Self.FirstName", "Self.LastName" and "Self.Email" is renamed to "Self.Author_Name", "Self.Author_FirstName", "Self.Author_LastName", "Self.Author_Email". Old named still supported in auto-forms, but not visible in list.
V2.60.6 - January 22, 2002
Bug fixed: SVA has been crashed in some PC configurations when registration information in registry is broken or trial is expired.
V2.60.5 - January 17, 2002
New macro "FileSize_m" represents distributive package size in MB.
SVA validates filename for separated customers storage and display readable error message instead of fatal error.
Bug fixed: Troubles with Visage registration orders detection plug-in.
Bug fixed: SVA was crashed sometime when you try to close auto-forms and build-in browser is in progress
V2.60.4 - January 11, 2002
Bug fixed: Access violation errors were display after loading new sites items.
Bug fixed: Duplicates in site collection after loading sites items.
V2.60.3 - January 5, 2002
Registration orders detection engine has been redesigned. Now you can define custom links between fields in the incoming registration order and SVA registration order entity for each version and each registration order type. All links can be a constant value or detected field macro. Default fields mappings are included in the each registration orders detection plug-in.
Visage registration service is supported for automated customers extraction.
Bug fixed: More intelligent auto-save handling. Now auto-save is called only when SVA is idle.
Bug fixed: More friendly registration procedure. "Enter registration code" dialog is insensitive to spaces, line breaks and other special symbols in registration keys.
Bug fixed: When trial is expired, "Enter registration code" dialog will be displayed instead of main window.
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