FF! 8+ Development Notes

Build 385 is available in both Full and Partial installs.

Only a few major fixes in here due to some bad data.

1. More fixes on indexing that hopefully have now cleared up. (Thanks Mike for the reports)

2. Fix on the Export that was caused when exporting requests that were not in their own folder.

3. Fix for the Join Tree not showing up properly in preferences with a large number of relationships.


FF! 8.0 Development Blog
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Full Install (Recommended)
Partial Install

Quite a bit of plumbing changes in this release, including cosmetic terminology changes. Here's a quick summary:

Request Manager. A variety of fixes for exporting and importing, including the ability to import and export the request folder between users.

Data Item Picker. Label editor has been fixed so it supports spacing and custom fields much better. When you create a new data item, it automatically sorts the list correctly.

Filter Tab. When you're modifying a filter value directly in the work bench, we've now turned on the Confirmation setting so users have to hit Enter to move to the next field. This should help resolve a number of confusing editing behaviors that have been reported.

Sort/Group. We no longer allow sorting by Memo fields, primarily to make it easier to work with.

And a variety of changes in the Preference Editor and overall functionality reducing crashes and making it easier to report problems.

As always, please shoot over bugs and issues directly to support@micromegasystems.com.

Thanks
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Build 383 is now available for full download and the refresh download.

There were some changes in the help files and sample data items so if you want to check those out, please download them.

On the help side, F1 help should be working for more of the screens however the content is NOT entirely there yet. This should be cleaned up later this week.

Other updates of note:

1. When you remove a grouped data item from the Sort/Group list, it will unhide it in the Data Items.

2. The Report Preview toolbar will "remember" its last position and go there when being viewewd.

3. The Label Editor now prompts for new lines.

4. The Expression Builder supports spaces and custom text better.

5. Changes to making items left-aligned are now saved

6. When running cross-tabs with multiple strips, you can use the < > buttons to move back and forth between strips.

7. Various fixes when exporting requests.

8. The Enter Subheading at Runtime dialog now shows the OK and Cancel buttons properly.

9. When filtering on Other Data Items, it only shows data items that have a similar data type.

10. The Email list in the Send Output screen can now be expanded using F2.

And various others including some fixes with rebuilding of indices, etc.

As with previous builds, please report problems using the built-in reporter (under the Help menu) or send me an email at support@micromegasystems.com.

Thanks.
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Foxfire! Query and Report Writer 8.0 - Build 381 is now available for download:

Full Install
App Only

Lots of fixes in this one:

Labels. We've done a lot of work on the Label Editor so it works a lot smoother now. When you drop a number of data items onto the label, highlight a selected item and click New Line and all of the items below it also go onto the next line. You can also now right-click and edit text items directly in the Workbench (previously, you would have to remove it and then add it back in)

Sample Data Typos. For those eagle eye users, there were a few typos in the sample data as well as duplicate hot keys (thanks Bill Anderson for catching those at the LA demo!!). To get the full benefit, be sure to grab the full install.

Cross Tabs. We're not going to let you fill in partial cross-tabs anymore. If you try to save a request without specifying at least one data item in regular requests and two in cross-tabs, you'll be told otherwise. This ensures your data won't go wacky on you.

Relationship Finder. The relationship finder (found under System Admin) has been rebuilt and is very cool. I'm going to be posting a video on how you can use it to build your relationship tree up quickly and easily in the next few days.

Building New Expressions. The Duplicate Expression dialog used to come up when you were tabbed out of a new expression that was close to an existing one. Now, it only does it if they really are duplicates. Note - there is STILL a problem with creating new data items that we are working on for build 382.

Integration. If you were attempting to call Foxfire! 8.0 from within an existing application, Foxfire! would remove all of your SET PROC statements. This was due to a weird call in one of the libraries.

Various. Lots of other little crashes and errors (thanks to all of you who have reported them) have been cleaned up.

Keep reporting issues via the built-in Bug reporter (just pull down the Help menu and select Submit a Bug/Request a Feature) or through the blog.

We really appreciate everyone's efforts as we move to getting Foxfire! 8.0 out to you.

If you are having ANY issues integrating or converting Foxfire! 8.0, please send us details at support@micromegasystems.com or call me (Andrew) directly at 613-851-4496. I'll likely ask you to send your existing FF! preference sets and folders so we can try it out - but if you're in a clinch, give me a call and we'll see what we can do.

Thanks!
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I hate to say it but anyone who submitted a report since about 10am today, they likely didn't get there.

We had a problem with the mail reporting server and any emails sent via Foxfire! via the submit a bug/report feature from about 10 or 11 am today (EST) til (9pm EST) , may need to resubmit.

And no, that's not just an evil plan to make you reproduce any problems. (what a novel idea - hmmm.....)
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