Thursday, July 29, 2021

Stonefield Query for GoldMine Version 8.0.7864

We are pleased to announce the release of version 8.0.7864 of Stonefield Query for GoldMine. This is mainly a maintenance release adding support for the new GoldMine version 2021.1.

Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Reporting4Act! Version 8.0

We are pleased to announce the release of version 8.0 of Reporting4Act!. Here are the new features.

  • You can now choose to display a Microsoft Office-like ribbon rather than a toolbar and menu at the top of the Reports Explorer.

  • The Microsoft Excel - Data Only and Microsoft Excel - Data-Only (Fast) output types were replaced with a single Microsoft Excel - Data Format output type. Any reports or scheduled tasks using Microsoft Excel - Data Only or Microsoft Excel - Data Only (Fast) now automatically use Microsoft Excel - Data Format instead.

  • You can now specify that a field should be output as a bar code in quick and label reports.

  • You can now use multiple page columns in a quick report. This is useful for reports that don't have many fields: rather than having the right side of the page empty, another column of records can be output there.

  • A new date format is available: Abbrev. Month/Year. This displays a three-letter abbreviation for a month, such as "Jan 2021" for "January", which allows columns in a report, especially a cross-tab report, to be narrower.

  • You can now use a dynamic expression for both the foreground (text) and background colors of a field in a report. Also, dynamic colors and font styles are now supported when you output to Microsoft Excel - Data Format.

  • You can now specify an email address to be notified when a scheduled report fails due to an error.

  • The Scheduled Tasks dialog has three new features: you can stop a running task, you can disable a task without deleting it, and you can select multiple tasks and delete or disable/re-enable them.

  • The Preview window has some new features:

    • The new left panel, which can be expanded or collapsed, contains bookmarks, page thumbnails, and search results.
    • There are more choices for Pages to Display: all the way up to 11x5.
    • You can now zoom a report up to 6,000%.
  • You can now get the CC email address to use for a report from a field.

  • Fields in the group header of a quick report are now left-aligned with each other if they appear on separate lines.

  • Turning on the Auto-Fit to Page setting for a cross-tab report now causes the font to be reduced automatically if it can fit all of the columns on one page.

  • The GetValueForParameter function now accepts a format parameter.

  • Hovering your mouse over the file name in the Output page of the Reports Explorer now shows the type of output as a tooltip. This is helpful because, for example, several output types use XLSX as a file extension.

  • The SQL statement generated for a report can now be up to 16,000 characters; previously, the limit was 8,000.

Stonefield Query for GoldMine Version 8.0

We are pleased to announce the release of version 8.0 of Stonefield Query for GoldMine. Here are the new features.

  • You can now choose to display a Microsoft Office-like ribbon rather than a toolbar and menu at the top of the Reports Explorer.

  • The Microsoft Excel - Data Only and Microsoft Excel - Data-Only (Fast) output types were replaced with a single Microsoft Excel - Data Format output type. Any reports or scheduled tasks using Microsoft Excel - Data Only or Microsoft Excel - Data Only (Fast) now automatically use Microsoft Excel - Data Format instead.

  • You can now specify that a field should be output as a bar code in quick and label reports.

  • You can now use multiple page columns in a quick report. This is useful for reports that don't have many fields: rather than having the right side of the page empty, another column of records can be output there.

  • A new date format is available: Abbrev. Month/Year. This displays a three-letter abbreviation for a month, such as "Jan 2021" for "January", which allows columns in a report, especially a cross-tab report, to be narrower.

  • You can now use a dynamic expression for both the foreground (text) and background colors of a field in a report. Also, dynamic colors and font styles are now supported when you output to Microsoft Excel - Data Format.

  • You can now specify an email address to be notified when a scheduled report fails due to an error.

  • The Scheduled Tasks dialog has three new features: you can stop a running task, you can disable a task without deleting it, and you can select multiple tasks and delete or disable/re-enable them.

  • The Preview window has some new features:

    • The new left panel, which can be expanded or collapsed, contains bookmarks, page thumbnails, and search results.
    • There are more choices for Pages to Display: all the way up to 11x5.
    • You can now zoom a report up to 6,000%.
  • You can now get the CC email address to use for a report from a field.

  • Fields in the group header of a quick report are now left-aligned with each other if they appear on separate lines.

  • Turning on the Auto-Fit to Page setting for a cross-tab report now causes the font to be reduced automatically if it can fit all of the columns on one page.

  • The GetValueForParameter function now accepts a format parameter.

  • Hovering your mouse over the file name in the Output page of the Reports Explorer now shows the type of output as a tooltip. This is helpful because, for example, several output types use XLSX as a file extension.

  • The SQL statement generated for a report can now be up to 16,000 characters; previously, the limit was 8,000.