What’s New in Office Connector 2.02.0017

Posted 4/6/2009

• Improved compatibility with Timberline 9.5 and above:  Non-administrative users can now access data folder paths longer than 68 characters in length.
• Added the ability to suppress and re-enable optimization prompts for workbooks created using Office Connector between versions 2.01.0023 and 2.01.0033.
• Minor updates to the look of various windows.

What’s New in Office Connector 2.02.0016

Posted 2/16/2009

Improved Network Connectivity

• Adds the ability to use a Viewer license while connected on the network using a computer that does not have Timberline installed.
• Resolves the issue where a mapped drive that is not actively connected causes an error message to be displayed "Unable to open the license file.  Please contact technical support."
• Resolves the issue where a mapped drive that is not actively connected is not recognized by the setup program.  This update eliminates the need for the workaround of opening a subfolder of the mapped drive in Windows Explorer.

What’s New in Office Connector 2.02.0012

Posted 12/23/2008

Support for Timberline 9.5 and Windows Vista

This update is forward-compatible with Timberline 9.5 and Windows Vista.  Note that for Office Connector - Write users, this means that the location of the recap reports has moved.

Enhanced Licensing

Licensing functionality has been greatly streamlined by consolidating multiple windows and menu items into a single wizard that can handle all of your licenses at once.

• New - Standard and Designer licenses for Office Connector Query and Write.  Standard licenses provide an affordable solution for users who only need to refresh or write data.  Designer licenses augment the Standard license feature set with design elements like the Query and Function wizards.  With Office Connector 2.02.0010 you can have any mix of these license concurrencies for your company.
• Online licensing provides a greatly streamlined process to automatically request and enter multiple sets of license keys in a single step.
• You can now release concurrencies without closing Excel.

All New Office Connector Administrator

The Office Connector Administrator program is not included in the standard setup package, but is available to administrators by request.  Click here to see a video tutorial.  Note that you will need to install the Camtasia codec to see the video; a link to the codec is displayed under the video player controls.

• Control Office Connector toolbar visibility per Windows user.
• Control access to Designer and Standard licenses for Query and Write per Timberline login.

Other Enhancements

• The Save As Values feature now supports the new file extensions introduced in Excel 2007.
• The function and query wizards now display internal field names along side the friendly names.
• Online help was updated and expanded.
• The HTML in the Write Results report was enhanced to support browsers other than Internet Explorer.
• Validation checks and backward compatibility features were removed, resulting in lower memory requirements and a faster startup experience.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the OCSetConnection macro so it now refreshes workbook functions when called from the WorkbookOpen event.
• The focus is now restored to the table / field list after the user clicks the Preview button, so keyboard continues to navigate the list.
• Fixed aggregate performance optimization to correctly handle filters that contain NULL.
• Fixed a bug in the Write Results report where a null key in the first record would cause the report to be displayed catawampus.
• No longer require the user to close Excel in order to free resources used by closed workbooks.

What’s New in Office Connector 2.01.0041

Posted May 30, 2008

New Features

• Click on a query and then click the Edit Query toolbar button to edit using the wizard.  If the query has been customized in a way that is not compatible with the wizard then you will be given the option to edit the SQL instead.
• When a workbook from a prior version is opened, you will be prompted to let Office Connector optimize it.  For compatible workbooks, this will automatically “fast forward” you to an optimized state.  For older workbooks, please contact our Services department for assistance.
• There is now an SQL Monitor window that shows in real-time what data you have loaded and how long it took to load.  It also shows a history of table changes so you can see the self-optimization behavior in action.  This feature is enabled via the Advanced tab of the Preferences window.  Once enabled, the window will automatically pop up the next time a workbook function is evaluated.

Performance Enhancements

• Filters in TSCount and TSSum functions are automatically converted to use “Where technology” whenever possible, resulting in HUGE performance gains for large data sets.
• The method for reading data for workbook functions has been enhanced to be self-optimizing according to which columns are actually being used.
• Templates now employ a faster technique to fix the #NAME? issue when opening a new workbook.
• Load time for non-Office Connector workbooks has been decreased (actual speed up depends on your Timberline setup).

Other Improvements

• The Add-in and the templates have been digitally signed to help take some of the pain out of dealing with the heightened security features in Excel.  If you opt to “Trust Event 1 Software”, then you will not receive macro warnings when opening our templates.
• When using the wizard to insert a new query, existing data is always moved to make room regardless of the Move existing columns setting, which now only affects the subsequent behavior.
• The Optimize Workbook Functions button has been added to the tech support toolbar so you can optimize a workbook without refreshing it.
• The TSWrite wizard now checks to see if rows can be added to the selected table and uses that information to enable or disable the Create and Create or Modify actions.

Bug Fixes

• The duplicate refresh of queries that would happen when the FirstRefresh property is set to “Manual” and the Refresh Timberline Data button is clicked has been fixed.
• Eliminated the duplicate prompt for a data folder that would sometimes occur when the TimberlineDataFolder custom workbook property was set to “Prompt” and the user canceled the first prompt.
• Zero and blank values are no longer being skipped by the TSWrite function.

Maintaining Compatibility

• Timberline 7.5 has case-sensitive operator IDs, so the last used operator ID is no longer being stored as upper-case.
• ADO behavior has changed to use NULL for blank dates, so the wizard now inserts NULL (it used to insert two single quotes).
• Excel behavior has changed to automatically remove the named range associated with a query, so the Import feature has been modified so if a runtime error occurs when deleting the named range, it is ignored.

Technical Notes

• In preparing for Timberline’s upcoming move to Vista, many files have changed locations.  Files that used to be stored under the Program Files or Windows directories are now located under Documents and Settings under Windows XP.  View the System Information report to see the new locations.
• There is no longer any need to set the TimberlineDataFolder custom workbook property to “Prompt” in order to force a workbook containing only queries (and no functions) to prompt for a data folder.
• Adding a custom workbook property LoadAllColumns and setting it to “1” will turn the self-optimizing behavior off.
• Adding a custom workbook property UseFilters and setting it to “1” will turn the “Where technology” enhancement off for TSCount and TSSum functions.

What’s New in Office Connector 2.01.0023

Posted July 1^st, 2007

New Features

• The TSFind function now supports negative values for the Offset argument.  A value of -1 indicates that the last record should be returned, a -2 indicates the next to last record, and so on.  This change is also reflected in the Find Wizard.  Two radio buttons now provide the option to return either the first record or the last record.  If a different row number is desired, then the offset argument of the function can be edited after completing the wizard.
• When using the Save As Values feature within a macro, the path of the new file can now be supplied within the macro.  This suppresses the prompt for the file name.

Other Improvements

• Resolved issue with Office Connector Write where an error message would be returned if writing to a primary key field while creating a new record.
• The hidden cache worksheet that stores cached function results is no longer deleted when there is no cached information.  This was done to resolve an error that would be encountered if a workbook that used persistent caching is saved via a macro.
• The Office Connector menu that was previously under Excel’s Help menu has been relocated to Data / Office Connector in Excel 2007.  This was done to consolidate all Office Connector menu items in one location and to provide better support for Excel 2007.
• If an error is encountered while attempting to insert a new query, a message box is now displayed in addition to writing information about the error to the error log.
• The current selection is now validated to make sure that it is a worksheet cell (not a Chart or other object) when using a wizard to insert a function or query.  Previously, this was not validated and an error message would be displayed if the current selection was not a worksheet cell.

·         The System Information report now recognizes and identifies Excel 2007.

What’s New in Office Connector 2.01.0017

Posted March 6^th, 2007

New Features

• Specify your conditions by clicking on a drop-down list of existing values to greatly increase your speed and accuracy.
• Developer note – “Watch out sliced bread, there’s a new ‘best thing’ in town!”
• Use a calendar to pick your date values and a checkbox for True/False fields.
• Click the Preview button in the wizard to “scout your data” before you create a query or function.
• Change the default setting for PersistentCache on your workstation.  There is currently no UI to support this feature, so please refer to this document for instructions.

Performance Improvements

• Checking for online updates is now delayed so startup is faster the first time you launch Excel each day.
• The Refresh command now simply discards data and allows it to reload on demand.  This method adds the benefit of skipping tables that have been recently used but are no longer in use.
• Processing for TSCount and TSSum functions that contain no criteria is now passed to the Timberline server.  This prevents the entire table from being loaded when no other workbook functions access it.  It also makes the wizard much more responsive after you click Finish.

Other Improvements

• The setup program has been updated and no longer overwrites stock templates that you have modified.
• Information, such as our telephone and fax numbers, is now retrieved from the Internet so it will always be up-to-date.
• Keyboard support is improved for the Conditions and Condition windows.
• SQL Editor Improvements
• Formulas embedded inside of queries are now preserved when you edit the SQL.  The new behavior results in the underlying query table not showing fields in the same order as the SQL, but this situation is easily remedied by dragging the columns around in the Excel UI.
• The SQL is now formatted in sections with each field indented on its own line.  Show me what this looks like.
• Query parameters are now maintained if you modify them by editing the SQL.
• Selecting a chart object and then clicking the Edit SQL button no longer causes an error message to be displayed.
• Email now has enhanced tracing to help troubleshoot issues like technical support emails and license key request being blocked.
• The System Information report now correctly identifies Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Office 2007.
• No longer write spurious error messages to the error log when you resize a window to a very small size.
• If the Timberline system directory is stored as a UNC path, the licensing now automatically converts the UNC path to a mapped drive
• The TSFind wizard no longer retains the previously used offset when you click Finish before reaching the Offset step.
• There is now a topic in the online help for when you try to create a record in a table that does not allow it, for example, Transactions.
• Fixes an issue where an Import would be refreshable if inserted on a worksheet other than Sheet1.

What’s New in Office Connector 2.01.0009

Posted November 10^th, 2006

New Features

• New Paradigm – The wizard now has a much more powerful way to specify report conditions that is also simpler to understand!  Existing customers can click here to sign up for a free online session on how to use the new wizard.
• See your conditions in an intuitive graphical layout.
• Specify cell references right in the wizard – without editing formulas.
• Specify query parameters without switching to Advanced view.
• Quickly specify a list of conditions using “One Of”.
• New templates – Added GL Financial Statement (No Prefixes) and JC Job Schedule.

• The wizard now detects when you are using Date fields as criteria and automatically inserts Excel’s TEXT function for you.
• You can now use the wizard to name your queries before inserting them into Excel.
• The wizard now clearly indicates key fields by displaying a “key” icon next to the name.
• Click on your query and click Edit QueryTable SQL to go directly to editing the SQL.

Performance Improvements

• Office Connector now takes advantage of a more efficient method to refresh workbook functions available in newer versions of Excel (2002 and above). Testing showed speed improvements on the order of 20%.
• License checking is now more efficient, which can lead to significant performance gains in certain network environments for all versions of Excel.

Other Improvements

• Canceling the Timberline Data Folder window no longer results in a duplicate prompt.
• If you copy and paste a query, the pasted version will now refresh as expected.
• If you delete a query and then create a new one, the new query will now refresh as expected.
• The OCWorkbook function now refreshes when you click the Refresh Timberline Data toolbar button.
• Conditions typed into the Advanced view now work properly.
• Fixed the SQL Editor so it does not delete your text when you use the X to close the window.
• Range limits on Integer values were removed to support ranges actually allowed by Timberline.
• Importing data no longer creates a named range in Excel.

What’s New in Office Connector 2.00.0028

Compatibility release for Timberline 9.4 Released October 11^th 2006.

Other Improvements

• Faster Cache Saving – Added performance enhancement to speed up loading and saving cache data.  Saving the cache is now 10 times faster.
• Improved Support for Automatic Refreshes

What’s New in Office Connector 2.00.0021

Compatibility release for Timberline 9.3 Released May 5^th 2006.

New Features

• OCWorkbook function – optionally returns Path, Name and Extension components of the workbook name.  See the help topics for a description and examples.
• Automatic Refreshes – You can now create a VBA macro that will allow you to pass login credentials and automatically refresh your workbook without user interaction.  Due to the inherent security risks associated with storing your Timberline operator ID and password in a workbook, we are not documenting this feature.  Please contact support if you wish to learn how to use it securely.
• FirstRefresh custom workbook property – Add to custom properties and enter "Manual" for the value.  This prevents Office Connector from automatically prompting for a data folder when the workbook is opened.  The behavior is identical to what happens if you click Cancel when automatically prompted for a data folder at startup.

Other Improvements

• The previously undocumented function TSCustomCaption now has documentation.
• Messaging is more graceful now when you open a workbook and all license concurrencies are already in use.

What’s New in Office Connector 2.00.0016

Released October 11^th, 2005 and updated March 30^th, 2006

Performance Enhancements

• Save As Values function is faster for all supported versions of Excel.  It is dramatically faster for Excel 2002 (XP) and 2003.
• Significant speed enhancement when refreshing workbooks that contain Office Connector formulas that are adjacent to queries.

Other Improvements

• Improved feedback in the progress meter during refreshes.
• Improved concurrency tracking – view the license information report to see how often you run out of concurrencies.
• Improved tracing – all applications now write to a centralized trace log and additional tracing information has been added.

What’s New in Office Connector 2.00.0012

New Features

• Tutorial movies in the launch pad are updated, and new movies will automatically show up as they are added to the web site.
• Persistent toolbar
• The Office Connector toolbar can now be customized like Excel toolbars and menus. 
• The buttons now have transparent backgrounds in Office XP and above.
• Excel loads faster and clipboard contention on Terminal Server environments has been eliminated.
• Modified TSSum and TSCount so they return a zero when the table is missing and Ignore Missing Tables is checked.
• Removed requirement to log in to Timberline to edit query SQL.
• Now display query name in progress meter when refreshing.

Resolved Issues

• License file now stores the zip code and country so you don’t have to enter it for every license key request
• Web update feature now has updated license logic so server changes do not cause the license to be converted into an evaluation.
• Lifted the requirement to supply an SMTP mail account in case the server does not require it.
• Worked around issue in the ODBC driver where some tables would be missing when the short name to the data folder is used.

Other Improvements

• Menu captions have been simplified
• Modified ODBC DSN properties are now automatically corrected at startup.
• Implemented a license registry to make it easier to keep track of which machines are using the software.
• Implemented license logging to assist when troubleshooting licensing issues.
• A message is now displayed after submitting a license key request letting you know if it was successful.
• Now display an error message when the refresh of a query fails after editing the SQL.
• Tracing
• Modified tracing to show cell address and instance count for function evaluations.
• Tracing can now be started and stopped in real-time, eliminating the need to restart the application.
• Tracing is now centralized so all Event 1 applications will be interleaved into a single file.
• The file format has been expanded to facilitate analysis in Excel and other tools.
• Technical Support Email
• Diagnostic files are now automatically moved to a zipped archive file after being submitted to technical support.

What’s New in Office Connector 2.00.0005

New Features

• Integrated email component
• Does not require email to be set up in order to use technical support and licensing features.
• Adds the ability to reference your support case number.
• Eliminates false virus warnings caused by Microsoft’s MAPI.

Resolved Issues

• Resolved an issue where stored activation codes could be displayed as 0000 in the Enter License Keys window.
• Resolved an error message that would be displayed the first time using the wizard if GL was not installed.
• Improved utilization of existing connections when switching between multiple data folders.

Other Improvements

• Email and web update information for one Event 1 application is used as the default for any others that have not been set up, thus reducing set up time.
• Toolbar and menu graphics and captions have been updated.
• Improved the licensing window.
• Added tracking and status information to facilitate troubleshooting for licensing.
• Added logging for when the machine is unable to access Internet resources.

What’s New in Office Connector 2.00.0003

Resolved Issues

• Newly inserted queries can now be refreshed without having to save and reopen the workbook first.
• Queries are now automatically refreshed after using the Edit QueryTable SQL feature.
• Queries are now automatically refreshed upon opening a workbook with the “Persistent Cache” set to None or Write-Only.
• Using Save As Values now removes all Office Connector custom workbook properties.  This prevents a situation where a user with on old version of Office Connector who opens the spreadsheet would see a message about it having been saved in a newer version.
• When switching data folders, the existence of visible TSWrite functions is verified before updating their results.  This results in faster refresh times after switching data folders in workbooks that do not use TSWrite functions.

What’s New in Office Connector 2.00.0001

Office Connector – Write

Office Connector now features two “modules” – Query and Write.  When you upgrade your Query license, you automatically get an evaluation license for Office Connector Write.  For more information, please see the brochure or contact sales at http://www.event1inc.com/action/contacte1.htm.

New Features

• Web Help – The help pages are now located on the Internet, allowing Event 1 to continually improve and update the documentation without requiring you to update your software
• New Preferences
• Persistent Cache lets you control how Office Connector optimizes your connection to Timberline.  Previous versions used “Read and Write”, which was great for users who wanted to stretch their license concurrencies by working on local copies of the data.  We have found that most users always want to see current data, and the new default of “None” speeds up opening and closing workbooks for them.  Other settings simplify sharing workbooks with non-Timberline users and streamline demonstrating the software to others.  See the new web help topic for more detail.
• Ignore Missing Tables allows you to create a template for multiple data folders and skip the error messages when a folder does not contain all files used by the template.
• Check for Updates allows you to check the Internet for updates by clicking a button or by having Office Connector do it automatically when Excel is opened.
• New Menu Structure was introduced to organize Office Connector Query and Office Connector Write and to make the Help menu match the standard Event 1 Help menu.
• The TSCustomCaption Function (Query Only) was added to give you access to customized field captions.
• Operator Administrator Program allows you to grant or deny the use of Office Connector Query and Office Connector Write.  For more information, please see the online help topic at http://www.event1inc.com/products/officeconnector/help/general_operator_admin.htm

New and Updated Templates

If you have customized the default templates and not renamed them, be sure to back them up before applying this update.  If you want to guarantee that you get all of the updated templates, delete your existing XLT files from the Office Connector folder.  The following templates were added or improved:

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• Query – AP Vendor Query, AP Year End, AR Aging by Customer, AR Aging by Customer (No retainage), GL Financial Statement, GL Trial Balance, JC GL Reconciliation, JC Work In Progress, PR Year End, TS Batch Analyzer, TS QuickView
• Write - AP Invoice Approval, EQ Equipment Maintenance, GL Budget, JC Cost To Complete, JC Work In Progress, PJ Correspondence Log, PR Employee, PR Rate Table Rates, PR Union Items.

Other Improvements

• Improved architecture reduces the need to frequently access Excel objects resulting in a 400% speedup in recalculating workbook functions.
• Removed the obsolete message about selecting non-key fields in the Import wizard.
• Clearer and more intuitive toolbar tips and labels.
• The System Information report now contains additional items:
• Links for support pages on the Internet
• License information for Query and Write
• Your MS Office version in plain English
• Performance information such as the time it takes to refresh your data is recorded in the activity log.
• Added enhanced technical support tools so we can resolve your issues sooner.
• Improved tracing features to clarify what you have to do and to prevent accidentally leaving tracing on.

Resolved Issues

• The Temp directory under Event 1\Common is now created automatically when Timberline is not installed or not reachable and a viewer license is needed.
• The Select Query Table window is now centered instead of using the Windows default position.
• Added compatibility to edit SQL text in Excel 97

What’s New in Office Connector 1.01.0006

New Features

• Added a percent complete indicator to the progress meter when Office Connector is recalculating workbook functions.
• Added support for editing query SQL in Excel 97.
• Added support for named files that include spaces.
• Added information regarding the status and location of MS Query to the Additional Information report.
• Validation of license codes now tells the user which license code was invalid and sets the focus appropriately.
• Now default to the active sheet when the user does not specify a sheet when prompted for a cell reference when the filter text exceeds Excel's limit of 255 characters for a function parameter.
• When the current data folder is missing the underlying tables for queries, the user is now presented with the option to cancel recalculating the workbook formulas.

Resolved Issues

• The WIP template now functions properly.
• The toolbar now reappears when opening a new workbook after the Close Window button (the small ‘x’) was used to close all previously open workbooks.
• The Office Connector “viewer mode” now protects the status of the license on the network should Timberline become available at a later time.  The viewer mode allows the user to work out of the cache when Timberline is either not installed or is otherwise inaccessible.
• Worked around an issue where Excel would sometimes evaluate cells in the wrong order causing Office Connector to prompt for a database connection even though the values exist in the cache.
• Now display only one message when the wizard is used to create multiple workbook functions with criteria that return no results.
• If the user deletes the word "Where" from the Advanced view of the query wizard, it is automatically restored.
• Now prevent multiple error messages from being displayed when recalculating workbook formulas that use an invalid custom query.
• Enhanced the logic regarding the clipboard being locked to work around a bug in Microsoft Terminal Services, which affected Citrix and Terminal Server environments, especially under high-traffic conditions:
• Pushed the messaging for clipboard access problems from the add-in over to Office Connector so the user doesn't get messages from both the Excel side and the VB side.
• Modified messaging logic for clipboard competition so that the message is only displayed once if the user clicks cancel (it could be displayed once per button otherwise).
• Added the ability to set the threshold for how many retries Office Connector will make when the clipboard is locked.  The default is 10.
• Added the ability to totally suppress any messages about the clipboard being locked.
• Fixed an issue where upon closing a workbook after having canceled out of the database sign-on, many entries would be written to the error log saying that there was not a valid TS.CTL file in the current directory.
• Fixed a bug with Excel 2000 where Excel would prompt to save changes even though no changes were made.
• Fixed failure to initialize workbook when MS Query was not installed.
• Now prevent functions from evaluating twice when the workbook is opened from a workstation that has the add-in installed to a different location.

Other Improvements

• Greatly enhanced performance for calculating formulas based on an invalid custom query by not writing messages to the error log and storing a collection of "known missing tables" to speed up the test for existence.
• Enhanced tracing now integrates Excel events, messages displayed on the screen and error messages into a single file with the original Office Connector tracing information.  Also augmented the core Office Connector tracing.
• Added information about the license, Timberline and MS Query to the "unexpected situation" diagnostic files email attachment.
• A message is written to the error log when the attempt to create the E1 DSN fails.

What’s New in Office Connector 1.00.0200

New Features

• Improved Wizard UI
• The exclude Duplicate Rows checkbox now always defaults to unchecked.
• The Adjust Column Widths checkbox now always defaults to False.
• The criteria panel now always defaults to Normal (grid-based) view, even when the Advanced view was used previously.
• The Keys grid in the TSLookup wizard now defaults to “cell reference” and initializes the focus to the Value column.
• Improved Licensing
• Multiple license keys can now be entered in response to a single license key request email.
• Added support for new license models – subscriptions and site licenses.
• Added the ability to set the maintenance or subscription expiration to a specific date.
• Improved and standardized the wording of messages across all Event 1 applications.
• Implemented the “consultant’s license” feature to allow consultants to use their laptops at customer sites without affecting the customer’s license.
• Improved Preferences
• Added the ability to turn PushDownFilterSupport on and off from the Preferences window instead of having to use Regedit or merge the .REG file supplied by Timberline into the registry.
• Added tooltips to the check boxes on the Advanced tab to help users understand what they do.
• Improved “Additional Information” report
• Replaced the simple message box with a fully formatted HTML report.
• Added sections with information about Windows, Timberline, licensing and Office Connector.
• Added a Support section with links to the Movies, Install Guide, Templates and Webex.
• Enhanced security for QueryTable objects to eliminate a situation where a user could manually refresh a query to bypass the need for a password.
• Office Connector will now automatically recognize and offer to apply the workaround for the bug in the 8.x Timberline ODBC where parameters don’t work. “Recognition” happens when a query fails to refresh and it uses parameters and the ODBC driver is older than 8.03.12.5910.
• Added a new custom workbook property "PersistentCache" that controls how the persistent cache (cache worksheet) is handled.  A setting of 0 prevents the cache from being used.  A setting of 1 uses the cache for reading but does not update the cache when the workbook is saved.  A setting of 2 is the default value, which reads and writes the cache worksheet in the same way as previous versions of Office Connector.

Updated Templates

• JC Work In Process - The JTD Extras Work Billed and NM Extras Work Billed columns were pulling cost instead of work billed.
• GL Trial Balance - The range of cells referenced in the SUM functions at the bottom was not getting updated correctly when the number of rows in the query changed.  This was because the range of cells in the template only referred to one row, which would have made it appear as though the GL was out of proof even though it wasn't.

Resolved Issues

• Restored Office 97 compatibility for QueryTables.
• Fixed a bug where saving the workbook as a new name would prevent queries from refreshing until the workbook was reloaded.
• Fixed a bug introduced in version 1.00.0190 where you could click a Wizard toolbar button, select data folder, cancel login and then the wizard toolbar buttons stop working.
• Fixed a bug where selecting a data folder and then canceling the password prompt would leave "Connecting to Timberline..." in the Excel status bar.
• Modified the sign-on logic to prevent extraneous messages from being written to the error log when the current directory is not a valid data folder.
• The "Saving Cache" progress window is no longer displayed when there are no Office Connector data in the spreadsheet.

What's New in Office Connector 1.00.0194

New Features

• Customer information is now stored in the license file so it only needs to be entered once.
• Added "Reason for request" to the Request License Keys form and made other minor improvements.
• Added support for hidden files and folders in the Timberline program directory and in the data folders.
• Added ability to turn off "Adjust column width" in the query wizard.
• Added "Preserve column sort/filter/layout" and "Preserve cell formatting" as defaults for queries.
• Fixed icon captions for the tutorial movies.
• Added ability to suppress maintenance expiration messages.

What's New in Office Connector 1.00.0190

New Features

• Enhanced support for Excel 2003.
• Enhanced support for named files.
• Added toolbar button for editing preferences. You can now control web updates, the tech support toolbar and tracing functions from the new Preferences window.
• Expanded the tech support toolbar to include buttons for opening the error, program and trace logs and the INI file.
• The Configuration (INI) file is now included in the Tech Support email.

What's New in Office Connector 1.00.0185

New Features

• Web-Update: Office Connector now automatically checks the web for updated versions at startup. You will be prompted if there is an update available. This feature can be turned of if desired. Please contact Event 1 support to disable the web update feature.
• The Email Support feature now includes more support files and zips them all into a single attachment.
• Added a checkbox to the Query and Fill Down wizards that allows you to control whether Excel will scoot existing columns and rows over to make room for the data or if the data simply overwrites anything in the way.
• Added a prompt for a cell value when a function filter exceeds Excel's limitation of 255 characters.

Features For Advanced Users

• Added a "Tracing" feature that allows you to see what functions are being executed and in what order. This feature can be turned on and off via the INI file. Call Event 1 if you need to use this feature.
• Added the "TechSupport" toolbar, which adds buttons for editing QueryTable SQL, opening the error log, audit log and INI file. This feature can be turned on and off via the INI file. Call Event 1 if you need to use this feature.

Resolved Issues

• The Tutorials now play correctly from the Launch Pad.
• The TSDataFolder function result is now written to the cache. This resolves an issue where Office Connector would prompt for a database login even if all of the other required values were in the cache.
• The TSDataFolder function no longer returns 0 if you pass True. Example: =TSDataFolder(TRUE).
• Eliminated some unnecessary messages that were being written to the error log.