10.22 - October 3, 2012

• Export: HTML: Added support for a compact and frameless layout better suited for exports you intend to use on mobile devices. This will create a simple overview menu (based on the first letter of the selected data field) on the index page. Clicking one of the menu letters will open a new page with an overview list based on your menu selection. When you make a selection in the overview list, another page is opened that will show the records according to your selection. Click the back link to go back to the previous page, or the home link to go back to the index/home page.
• Export: HTML: Added support for exporting Want List data.
• Export: HTML: Updated the default setups to reflect the new explorer layout.
• Export: HTML: All formatting now controlled by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
• Export: HTML: 'External CSS files' option now selected by default for new setups.
• Report: Width of left pane in the 'Print Preview' window now saved.
• FIXED: Data Entry: Problem entering/displaying dates on some systems.
• FIXED: Loan: Send email: Message encoding not set to UTF-8.
• Various other fixes and enhancements.

10.21 - August 7, 2012

• Report: Better quality output when printing memo fields to PDF files.
• Report: Bar Code field: 'Print number' property no longer checked by default.
• Loan: Check Out: Added more fields to search for borrower (including E-mail, and Custom 1-4).
• Loan: Explorer: Number of reserved titles now displayed on the index page (hyperlinked).
• FIXED: Problem with 'View Image' window position/size if Windows taskbar was displayed along the left edge of the screen.
• FIXED: Some issues with creating custom browse views.
• FIXED: Report: Text labels: Multiline text not displayed correctly in the 'Report Designer' window.
• FIXED: Report: Problem printing labels on some systems (rightmost label column not printed).
• FIXED: Report: Formatted memo text not printed to PDF files.
• Various other minor fixes.

10.20 - July 5, 2012

• Updated the layout of all explorer templates.
• Updated and fine-tuned all standard reports. NOTE: Since old reports are not overwritten by SETUP, you will have to delete the old report files in the Report folder if you want to install the new updated reports.
• Print List: Various enhancements to layout of generated report.
• Updated to latest version of the report engine.
• Report: Added a 'Prevent orphans' setting for groups. When this setting is activated, group headers that would appear at the bottom of a page without corresponding detail, will be moved to the top of the next page. Group footers that would print alone at the top of a page, will have the last detail of the prior page moved to the top of the page, followed by the group footer.
• Report: Added an outline list in the 'Print Preview' window. This list shows the values of the first report group, and allows you to quickly go to a specific page.
• Report: Printing to PDF creates smaller PDF files (better image compression).
• Report: Better quality output when printing to HTML. All report pages are now generated in one single HTML file.
• Report: More accurate positioning of report objects when printing to MS Word file.
• Report: Print to File: Better support for printing to Excel files. No longer "Excel found unreadable content" error when opening file in Excel 2007/10.
• Report: Added a "If empty" property for memo fields.
• Data Entry: Various enhancements to the auto-capitalize feature.
• Loan: You can now disable the warning if the borrower has one or more overdue titles when checking out titles (Tools=>Options=>Miscellaneous=>'Check out: Overdue warning').
• Quick Search: Now searches image filename, image notes, file links and web links.
• Lookup View: Show Books command will now show books linked to *all* selected lookup records.
• Pressing F1 will open help file in Report Designer and Form Designer.
• FIXED: Problem searching/filtering on multivalue fields (for example Keywords) with "Is not equal to" operator.
• FIXED: Error when sorting on the New Book field.
• FIXED: Print List: Width of last column not set correctly when 'Adjust columns to fit page width' was selected.
• FIXED: Report: Problem setting width of text labels from Properties window.
• FIXED: Report: Selected font not always used when printing a DBXsl field ("Times Roman" used instead).
• FIXED: Search: Show Previous/Next commands did not work if quick search was active.
• FIXED: Problem with dates if date separator was set to space in Windows Control Panel.
• FIXED: Problem with TWAIN image scanning if more than 3 scanner devices installed.
• FIXED: Problem printing chart from Statistics window.
• Various other fixes and enhancements.

10.14 - March 22, 2012

• Implemented a new registration key/license file format. If you purchase the program after April 2, you must update to this version before you activate your registration key.
  NOTE: Existing licenses will continue to work as before!
• Form Designer: Right-clicking and choosing Paste will now paste control(s) on clipboard where you right-clicked.
• Report Designer: Right-clicking and choosing Paste will now paste report object(s) on clipboard where you right-clicked.
• Download from Internet: Better error handling if a timeout occurs.
• Added a command to reset the list layout in the 'Download from Internet' window.
• Contents View: 'Show Books in Book View' command now processes all selected sections.
• Export: HTML: Possible to create index based setup without a detail page.
• Data Server: Info on lookup tables now included in XML data file for lookup fields.
• FIXED: Explorer: Strings with Unicode characters not displayed correctly on some systems.
• FIXED: Search/Replace: Problem with empty fields and 'Match any part of field' & 'Match whole words only' settings.
• FIXED: Report: Not possible to rotate barcode field.
• FIXED: Loan: Email: "Too many messages for this session" error.
• FIXED: Loan: Email: Error if borrower name contained a comma.
• FIXED: Export: HTML: Problem creating code based setup if setup name contained a space.
• Various other fixes and enhancements.

10.13 - February 8, 2012

• Added support for Windows 8.
• Sites menu: Added a new field code: "%SEARCH%". This is used by, for example, the "Search Google" menu entry. The field value to search by is set according to the active view (for example, if the Book View is active the search is by author and title, if the Publisher Lookup View is active the search is by the publisher name, and so on).
• Sites menu: Added the Sites menu to the 'Want List Edit' window.
• Added a 'Copy Serial Number to Clipboard' button in the About window.
• Explorer: Updated layout of the person credits page.
• Explorer: Updated "list" templates (GenreList.xsl, PersonList.xsl, etc.).
• Download from Internet: 'Transfer barcode number' option is now selected by default.
• Loan: Search by barcode: Searches the ISBN field if no match found in Barcode field.
• Loan: Check Titles Out window: Moved Date Borrowed/Date Due fields up above Borrower field.
• Export: "Auto-organize images" filename setup used when exporting internal images.
• FIXED: Edit Sort Order: Name of selected field not displayed if the first field in the drop-down list was selected.
• FIXED: Print List: Stretch property not set for image fields.
• FIXED: Report: Stretch property always set when printing to the screen, or to a file.
• FIXED: Export: Fixed some issues with image fields.
• FIXED: Internet.dll file date/time reset when downloading update.
• Various other fixes and enhancements.

10.12 - December 30, 2011

• Download from Internet: Input focus now automatically set to ISBN/LCCN field when opening the download window.
• Download from Internet: Better error handling when importing ISBN list.
• Now possible to use Search & Replace/Set Field Value to update the Release No field.
• Report: Sub-detail band now prints even when height of Detail band is zero.
• Auto-organize image files: Added support to use only the first value of a multivalue field (add "_f" after the field code).
• Image: Link to file: Image file no longer renamed when dragging file from Windows Explorer to image field.
• Various enhancements to the auto-capitalize feature.
• FIXED: Download from Internet: Role column drop-down button not shown if 2 or more authors when editing book data from the download window.
• FIXED: Vertical scrollbar in browse list sometimes hidden after backing up database.
• FIXED: "Template file could not be found" error when clicking Explorer button below contents list in 'Book Edit' window, or choosing Book=>Explore in the 'Contents Edit' window.
• FIXED: Explorer: Problem with Person_Credits.xsl template.
• FIXED: Auto-organize image files: Generated filename sometimes too long ("The field is too small to accept the amount of data" error).
• FIXED: Options: Default multivalue separator was incorrect.
• FIXED: Data Server: Error when opening database after creating new instance.
• Various other minor fixes.

10.11 - December 7, 2011

• Added a new "Welcome" panel that will appear the first time the program is run (also displayed when you close the open database).
• Update Path: A progress dialog with a Cancel button is now displayed.
• Explorer: Index: On the statistics page, removed the labels to the right of the chart.
• Report: Added a new book report grouped by Primary Genre.
• Loan: Check Out Titles: Will not warn you if a borrower has overdue titles.
• Export XML: The "auto-organize" filename pattern is now used when exporting images.
• Export XML: External images now copied to the export folder.
• Database Maintenance: Status information displayed on the statusbar when using the 'Extract images', 'Load external images' and 'Cleanup image folder' commands.
• Auto-Organize Image Files: Existing filename will be used if the filename pattern is empty.
• FIXED: Explorer: Error in preview pane if a memo field contained a control character.
• FIXED: Grid: Row not selected when right-clicking in browse list.
• FIXED: HTML Export: Book sometimes listed multiple times if filtering on two (or more) fields with the OR operator in an index based setup.
• FIXED: Auto-Organize Image Files: "Digit grouping symbol" included when using the ID field in the filename pattern.
• FIXED: Data Entry: Image: Old image file not overwritten when replacing existing image.
• Various other fixes and enhancements.

10.10 - November 23, 2011

• You can now automatically organize external image files into a folder structure and filename format of your choice based on information in the database. To use this feature, choose 'Auto-Organize Image Files' from the Tools menu.
• The folder and filename setup used by the 'Auto-Organize Image Files' function is also automatically used if you have chosen to link to external image files: When you download images from the Internet, when you paste an image into the image field or drag an image from the web browser, and when you use the 'Extract images' feature. To edit this setup, choose Tools=>Options=>Multimedia, then click the 'Images/Filename setup' button.
• If BookCAT is unable to locate external image files because you have moved the files, you can use the new 'Locate Missing Image Files' function available on the Tools menu. This will scan the specified drive/folder and attempt to locate the missing image files.
• Updated the 'Extract images', 'Load external images' and 'Cleanup image folder' functions to support the new features.
• Data Entry: Image: Removed the two separate "Load Image" and "Link to Image" buttons. Instead there is now one button that will use the 'Store images in database/Link to image files" setting (you can now also right-click the image control to change this setting).
• Data Entry: Image: Now possible to manually rename the external image file from the data entry window.
• Data Entry: Image: Added Paste and Resize buttons below the field.
• Data Entry: Image: Added a Center property (changeable from the Form Designer). When this is checked, the image is centered within the control (this is now the default behavior).
• Data Entry: Image: You can now change the background color.
• Data Entry: Use Default Layout: Will now automatically remove fields that are hidden.
• Data Entry: The Clone command is now available on the browse list right-click popup menu.
• Edit Memo: Insert hyperlink: You can now add links to files and folders.
• Loan: Send E-mail Notifications: 'Overdue' is now the first tab.
• Loan: Send E-mail Notifications: All operations are now logged. Click the 'Log File' button to open the latest log file. The log file includes details about all the processed borrowers with information about sent e-mails, borrowers with no e-mail address, and any errors.
• Loan: Send E-mail Notifications: Various issues with setting SMTP server username.
• Loan: Extend Loan Period: You can extend the loan period for the selected book(s) by a specified number of days from both the Book and Loan view.
• Download from Internet: Added a 'Transfer barcode' option. When this is not selected, BookCAT will not convert the ISBN to an EAN barcode and add this to the Barcode field.
• Database Maintenance: Added a 'Update Title Sort' function. This is useful if you have edited the 'Ignore when sorting' list in the Option window, and want to update the Title Sort fields.
• You can now hide the Loan View and Want List View entries on the View menu, in the view bar, and on the toolbar by deactivating these tables in the 'Database Setup' window.
• Log files now automatically deleted after 30 days.
• Total Value: If multiple books are selected in the Book View, only these books will be included in the calculation.
• Statistics: Added support for GDI+ which provides better anti-aliasing (edge smoothing) based on ClearType technology.
• Import: Now possible to import both book and contents data from the same textfile/Excel worksheet.
• Export: Added a 'Open file' button in all export windows. This will open the last file you exported data to.
• HTML Export: Index based setup: The name of the entry selected in the left pane is now displayed at the top of the list page.
• HTML Export: Index based setup: The height of the top pane is now automatically increased when specifying an export title.
• HTML Export: Removed some space after the list page title.
• HTML Export: All temporary .xsl and .css files are now always deleted when the Export window closes.
• HTML Export: Added a 'External CSS files' option. Activate this to store CSS formatting in external files, and share the same CSS file by all generated html files (one file for each page type: index, overview list, list and detail). If this option is not activated, all CSS formatting is stored in the HTML files.
• HTML Export: Added a 'Create virtual image' property for image fields.
• Import: When importing links to files (file links and image files), BookCAT will now look for the file in the import folder if folder is not specified.
• XML: Memo fields: The unformatted plain text is now always included in the xml data file (for example "<Notes_PlainText>").
• Updated the internal XML engine resulting in better performance.
• FIXED: Download from Internet: Thumbnail always 42x64 pixels regardless of the size specified in 'Database Setup'.
• FIXED: Password: Problem turning off 'Login without password' setting.
• FIXED: Data entry: Paragraph color sometimes reset when opening the Edit Memo window.
• FIXED: Grid: Not possible to change the 'Create virtual image' column property.
• FIXED: Explorer: Images pasted from a Word document into a memo field would sometimes not display in the explorer.
• FIXED: Search: Problem searching for "#" when using the "Begins with" and "Contains" operators.
• FIXED: HTML Export: Not possible to change the export title of a code based setup.
• FIXED: HTML Export: Problem with upper and lower case characters mixed up in top menu in an index based setup.
• FIXED: Problem resizing left pane in import/export windows.
• FIXED: Removed a resource leak when converting old database.
• Various other fixes and enhancements.

10.02.01 - September 26, 2011

• FIXED: Download from Internet: Downloading data from BIBSYS did not work.
• FIXED: Report: Print to File: Problem printing date fields (year only) to Excel file.

10.02 - September 13, 2011

• Loan: Check Out: Now supports barcode lookup if you have multiple copies with same barcode number.
• You can now hide the Contents, Loan and Want List View buttons on the toolbar, and in the view bar, by deactivating these tables in the 'Database Setup' window.
• Download from Internet: Download now automatically stops if five consecutive errors occurred.
• Memo: Now possible to link to a folder from memo fields.
• Book View: Show Sections in Contents View: Will now show the sections on all selected books (not just the current book).
• Book View: Show Sections in Contents View command is now faster.
• Rearranged menu items on the Tools menu.
• Import: Text: RTF formatting codes automatically removed when importing text into memo fields.
• Import: Image: If drive/folder is not specified, the program now automatically looks for the image file in the same folder as the import file.
• Updated the "Working with reports" section in help file.
• FIXED: Problem with search if the field value contained an ampersand ("&") character when searching via the Sites menu.
• FIXED: Image field: "Stream Read Error" if external image file was missing.
• FIXED: Image: Image filename for image #2-9 incorrect in browse list, reports, etc.
• FIXED: Export HTML: Error when grouping on the Title field.
• FIXED: Import Excel: "Access Violation" error when trying to import from file open in Excel.
• FIXED: Import Excel: Help button opened incorrect help page.
• FIXED: Views setup: "List item not found" error when editing Book View setups.
• FIXED: Save database template: Loan View customization not saved.
• FIXED: Setup: Export HTML: Old .hed files not renamed to .exp_html.
• Various other fixes and enhancements.

10.01 - July 22, 2011

• Fixed problem trying to activate registration key if registration email was copied from Opera.
• Now much faster to open the Book Edit window if the Genere field contains many genres.
• BookCAT now automatically checks for the availability of a new internet dll file before downloading data from the main window.
• Download from Internet: Added an option to automatically open the Book Edit window after new books have been transferred to the database (in the Download window, click the Options button, then check the 'Open Book Edit window' box).
• Download from Internet: Update: Cover art not downloaded when 'Overwrite existing data' was selected if cover art field already contained an image .
• Import: Text: Now automatically detects the byte order mark (BOM) and encodes the text correctly.
• Import: Text: Select File window now shows both .csv and .txt files by default.
• Import: Text/Excel: Main Author field now available for import.
• Import: Text/Excel: File Link and Web Link fields now available for import.
• Explorer: Lookup View Series: Now also links to "Original Series".
• FIXED: Error when using the Tools=>Regenerate Reference No function.
• FIXED: New genre added by right-clicking and choosing Add not visible in genre list before the Book Edit window was reopened.
• FIXED: Loan: Check out: When checking out a single book, new records were added to the Borrower table for each character you typed in the Borrower field. To remove these (unused) records, open the Borrower Lookup View, select Show Unused Records, press Ctrl+A to select all records in the list, then press Ctrl+D to delete.
• FIXED: Import: Text/Excel: Multiple authors not split up.
• FIXED: Import: Text: Help button did not work.
• FIXED: Import: Text/Excel: Internal AuthorSort field not always updated.
• FIXED: Export HTML: Problem with top menu in index based exports.
• FIXED: Extract images: Problem with auto-generated filename if Author field was empty.
• FIXED: Download from Internet: Update: If cover art stored externally, last selected image folder not remembered.
• FIXED: Buttons below Rating Image field in the Edit Personal Rating window did not use the button size setting as specified in Options.
• Various other fixes and enhancements.

10.00.01 - July 6, 2011

• FIXED: Not possible to download data if database contained more than 40 books.
• FIXED: Sometimes black background in Book View if "status color coding" was enabled.

10.00 - July 6, 2011

• BookCAT v10 released. Click here for more information about the new version.