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What improvements are there in Principalm 7.2?

Feature Additions

  • Support for Conduct - you can search all conduct incidents and outcomes in a school, view conduct for a single student or staff
    member, view details for a single conduct incident or outcome.
  • The Learn Faces game has returned in an improved form.
  • A new Medical Tab now shows Conditions and History for students and staff.
  • A new Notes Tab shows notes and alerts for students, staff, and more.
  • Support for SmartPhone 2005 and later (e.g. Motorola Q)
  • Full support for one-handed navigation using a joystick
  • Support for resizing and reorienting the screen on all devices that support it.
  • Screen layouts make better use of space - we now support smaller screens like that of the Motorola Q.
  • Support for dialing phone numbers on Windows Mobile (already exists on Palm).
  • Support for extended dialer settings on all devices.
  • Support for composing emails on devices that support email.
  • Parking Permit, Bus In, Bus Out and State ID searches added.
  • Searches that have no data no longer show in the list of available searches.
  • Sortable Medical, Conduct, and Note status columns for students and staff.
  • Contacts sort by relationship, so moving from the Emergency contact from one student to the next will show the Emergency contact
    for that student.
  • Grade comments are shown when a comment code is tapped.
  • Students and staff can be scrolled with their full size photo visible.
  • Hardware buttons can now be assigned program functions in Button Setup on all devices.
  • Context-sensitive help is available on all devices from the Help menu.
  • Windows Mobile lockout time is now adjustable in Preferences.
  • Added filters for Conduct, Medical and Notes to Connect.
  • Added command line support to Connect, for scripting import and card creation.
  • Photos can be independently filtered for staff and students in Connect.

Bug Fixes

7.2.3

  • Vastly increased capacity on Palm, we have tested with up to 100 schools containing 800 students each.  This already worked on Windows Mobile.
  • Principalm, Learn Faces, and installer no longer show “unknown program” message when first run on Windows Mobile.
  • When Connect contains multiple school configurations, it no longer shows the same SIS bridge update message for each school that uses a given SIS.
  • Palm no longer locks up after an invalid password entry when security is disabled.
  • Learn Faces no longer stops loading photos after an extended period of play.
  • Learn Faces no longer lets Palm fall asleep when only hard keys are used for responses.
  • Principalm now displays multiple notes for a single student correctly.
  • Connect no longer warns for every student missing a photo.
  • Connect now scrambles medical information when generating diagnostic files.
  • Fixed a set of related crashes on Principalm Schedule tab, which also sometimes caused the date selection control to show out of context.
  • Fixed an error condition in Connect when a JPEG photo contains no image data.
  • Fixed some errors that caused Windows Error Reporter to claim that GWES.exe had crashed.
  • Fixed an issue where some older Pocket PC’s would not respond to hardware buttons on the Button Setup screen.
  • Added a #column command to the import syntax to add constant values to imported tables.
  • Connect no longer crashes when importing Conduct Outcome notes using NoteCndOutRef.
  • FullName fields now properly overwrite blank LastName fields in Connect.
  • Diagnostic file generator no longer duplicates header operators when they are specified using #alias in Connect.
  • Import now allows for blank entries in Tumbles.  This fixes an issue with attendance import for some SASIxp installations.
  • Connect import now ignores control characters in the input data, rather than treating them like carriage returns.
  • Fixed an issue where preferences were not saved on Principalm for Pocket PC when the program was closed by removing the card.

7.2.2

  • Scanning a student ID will now display the correct student in Principalm.
  • Learn Faces is now playable when import data does not specify the sex of students.
  • Writing to log files no longer produces a “can’t find log file” message in Connect.
  • Connect’s import of user defined fields has been made more efficient.
  • Photo ID’s that contain invalid file characters no longer crash Connect.
  • Custom conduct fields now display correctly in Principalm.
  • Using StdLicensePlate in combination with StaffKey no longer crashes Connect.
  • Unusable menus no longer appear in dialog windows on Pocket PC.
  • Password entry now accepts ‘&’ and other special characters on Pocket PC.
  • Principalm no longer crashes on the grades tab when showing bins containing hidden grade columns.
  • Win Connect error reporter now includes an option to save the report to disk.
  • Keyboard is now available from password screen on Tungsten E3.
  • Connect no longer crashes when running an import on Windows 2003 server.
  • Principalm no longer displays an incorrect student when moving from Classes to Students view while Medical, Conduct, or Note is selected as the student search.

7.2.1

  • Search screen now responds to Palm keyboard dialog.
  • Palm no longer sleeps while using hardware buttons for navigation.
  • Using the Home button on a SmartPhone no longer leaves Principalm open (which caused a crash when running Learn Faces).
  • Pocket PC grids now refresh properly when using hardware buttons for navigation.
  • All note fields are now scrambled by the diagnostic file generator.
  • Connect no longer prompts about updates to itself when update notification is turned off.
  • Palm system dialogs no longer prevent sleep/wake from requiring a login in Principalm.
  • Improved information supplied by Connect crash reports.
  • Improved Connect diagnostic information.
  • Viewing calendars containing different periods no longer crashes Principalm.
  • Connect no longer crashes on startup when a user does not have permission to access HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
  • Card updates that don’t require an import no longer crash when generating log messages.
  • Palm menus can now be navigated with joystick.
  • Class roster on Classes Students Page now shows the correct students.

7.2

  • Grades sort is saved when switching bins.
  • Flicker when tapping ID area has been removed.
  • Ejecting a card with a dialog visible no longer crashes the Palm.
  • Principalm no longer crashes when a Treo awakes with a phone call.
  • Palm scroll bar now updates the list while scrolling.
  • Scrolling through records with joystick no longer misses records.
  • Principalm no longer starts up when the Pocket PC wakes if it was not already running.
  • Back button now restores correct selection in grids.
  • Improved display of authorization information in Connect License dialog.
  • Changing sort no longer changes grid selection in Search Classes tab.
  • Palm login screen now closes if card is ejected.
  • Removing card while a dialog is showing no longer crashes the Palm.
  • “Sorting X...” message no longer remains after completion.
  • Pocket PC now handles onscreen keyboard correctly.
  • Joystick now works consistently in all cases.
  • The look of program icons has been improved.
  • Double-tapping records no longer jumps two screens.
  • School popup list now redraws correctly.
  • Term popup list now redraws correctly.
  • “Not allowed to pick up student” now draws in red.
  • Fixed a crash caused by specific data on the Mac.
  • Removing the ACG RFID scanner no longer forces a login in Principalm.
  • Palm T5 no longer crashes after repeated card insertion/removals.
  • Clicking Yes for the update notifications in Connect now works as expected.
  • Incorrect header text in Medical and Legal Alert dialogs has been fixed.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented most function on Palm OS 4.
  • Popup status messages on Pocket PC no longer force login in Principalm.
  • Fixed some crashes in Connect with unusual datasets.
  • #pragma reppersarebins now associates term codes with bins.
  • Bins now sort by date if no sort is specified.
  • File names that are followed by tabs in the import are now read correctly.
  • Fixed fatal error when Palm goes to sleep with photo showing.
  • Fixed a crash on the Grades tab when a database with grades contains students with no grades.
  • Support for viewing large period and room names in main search screen.
  • Prevented crashes that resulted from import of extremely large calendars.
  • Files included in PDE with #safeinclude are now added to progress total.

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