360Works Scribe Changelog

What's new in 360Works Scribe 1.44

May 13, 2015
  • FileMaker 14 compatibility release
  • Updates to usage with PSOS and server scheduled scripts
  • Updates to install plugin and auto-update
  • Excel fix for oddly numbered sheets, or sheets which contain charts.

New in 360Works Scribe 1.43 (Dec 16, 2014)

  • Full support for Perform Script on Server (PSOS), FileMaker Server 13 feature
  • 64-bit support for all plugin deployments
  • Support for Windows Server 2012
  • Various fixes and improvements

New in 360Works Scribe 1.41 (Dec 16, 2014)

  • Improved index reading for unicode characters
  • Fixed trailing characters/words in index file
  • Added support for checkboxes in PDF files

New in 360Works Scribe 1.402 (Apr 25, 2014)

  • Fix for ScribeDocLoad when using a URL
  • Fix for ScribeDocSubstitute with carriage returns in Word documents

New in 360Works Scribe 1.401 (Mar 14, 2014)

  • 64-bit plugin now included for use with Custom Web Publishing in FMS 12
  • New error reporting features in plugin
  • Compatible with Java 7 update 25
  • Fixed support for cells in Excel formatted as 'percentage' using ScribeDocReadValue

New in 360Works Scribe 1.31 (Jul 12, 2012)

  • Fixed packaging issue introduced in Scribe 1.3. This affected ScribeDocSaveFile() function

New in 360Works Scribe 1.3 (Jul 12, 2012)

  • Added support for inserting carriage returns into Word documents
  • added support in ScribeFileAsText function for Pages and Keynote ('08, '09)

New in 360Works Scribe 1.271 (Jul 12, 2012)

  • corrected issue introduced in version 1.27; an incorrect release date prevented some of the portfolio licenses from registering Scribe 1

New in 360Works Scribe 1.27 (Jul 12, 2012)

  • FileMaker Pro and Server 12 compatibility release.
  • If replaceText is null when calling ScribeDocSubstitute, use an empty string instead of generating an error (searchText is still required)
  • Fixed ability to replace a placeholder with an empty string using ScribeDocReplace
  • Fixed text boxes being kept in tact
  • Fixed ability to pull symbols in using ScribeFileAsText with .docx files
  • Fixed a bug with incompatible characters in filename
  • ScribeDocReplace now replaces "simple field" types in Word Documents (these are merge fields created by some versions of Word)
  • Now extracts the name of attached files out Outlook .msg files
  • Fixed problem extracting from filenames with Japanese characters

New in 360Works Scribe 1.262 (Jul 12, 2012)

  • Fixed corrupt files being produced on Windows after multiple documents use ScribeDocSubstitute

New in 360Works Scribe 1.26 (Jul 12, 2012)

  • Fixed loss of formatting with .xlsx files with ScribeDocWriteValue
  • Fixed loss of formatting with .docs files with ScribeDocSubstitute
  • Fixed loss of formatting with .docx files with Content Control Fields and ScribeDocWriteValue
  • Fixed "flatten" flag to work on ScribeDocSaveContainer
  • Added ability to retrieve PDF metadata: author, creation date, mod date, creator, producer, subject. Functionality is available in ScribeDocReadValue function.

New in 360Works Scribe 1.25 (Jul 12, 2012)

  • Fixed two bugs introduced in 1.23:
  • When doing a find and replace on a PDF file, you get a NullPointerException when saving the changes if you don't specify a 'flatten' parameter.
  • ScribeHighlight function doesn't appear to work, because the default highlight color was plain black text

New in 360Works Scribe 1.23 (Jul 12, 2012)

  • Added support for an additional parameter named flags which controls how regular expressions are processed in the ScribePatternMatchAll, ScribePatternReplaceAll and ScribeHighlight functions.
  • Fixed potential error message when saving Excel worksheets: com.prosc.scribe.WorkbookModel cannot be cast to com.prosc.scribe.PdfModel

New in 360Works Scribe 1.221 (Jul 12, 2012)

  • Correctly reads values with superscripts, newlines and other formatting from Word documents.
  • Loads more variants of .xlsx files
  • Date format is preserved when writing dates to a pdf.
  • Reading a non-existent Excel cell returns an empty string instead of an error.
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes.

New in 360Works Scribe 1.2 (Jul 12, 2012)

  • Added ScribeDocInsertCustomXml function for advanced users to write XML text directly into the Microsoft Office XML format.
  • You can now remove a formula in Excel by overwriting it
  • In Excel, newly created cells pick up the style of the row in which they are created.
  • Fixed a bug where ScribeDocSaveFile failed on Windows when writing to a path supplied by a FileMaker get function, like Get(DesktopPath) or Get (TemporaryPath)
  • Added an optional parameter to ScribeFileAsText to skip unrecognized files. Without this parameter, unrecognized files have their entire contents returned.
  • Now supports tab stops when replacing text in Word .docx files.
  • Fixed a problem in Excel when overwriting numeric cells with text values
  • Reading numeric values from Excel no longer applies formatting such as percentages, just returns the number value back to FileMaker.
  • Numbers and dates are written to Excel as Number/Date objects, not text.

New in 360Works Scribe 1.12 (Jan 21, 2011)

  • Issue was resolved that was only allowing one plug-in at a time to load on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Logging is now consolidated to a single log file for all 360Works plug-ins. This should make it easier to report issues to 360Works, and will also significantly reduce the amount of disk space used when running multiple 360Works plug-ins on FileMaker Server.
  • Scribe can now write images stored in container fields or SuperContainer into PDF forms
  • Scribe can now extract text from Outlook .msg files
  • Now supports reading .xlsx and .xls documents from a network URL
  • Fixed a bug where documents read from a network URL were being cached instead of reloaded
  • Better, more user-friendly error reporting
  • Now supports tabs when extracting text, no longer double-spaces new paragraphs
  • Numerous other bug fixes

New in 360Works Scribe 1.02 (Sep 18, 2010)

  • ScribeDocValue now works with Content Controls inside table cells
  • ScribeDocSubstitute now works on text inside Content Controls and table cells.