What's new in DataBoss 2.4.1
Apr 24, 2019
- Search: improved the "no results found" message. Now if a custom date range was entered, it prompts the user to check the dates (perhaps the date filter was just too restrictive.)
- Interface: the catalog sorting instructions re-phrased
- Forever Legacy: Title Credits updated
New in DataBoss 2.4 (Apr 22, 2019)
- New Search feature: Search terms limited by dates. Simply enter Start/End dates (many ways to input your dates are recognized, see DataBoss Help Tips for details) to filter the results by your preferred time frame. Local cultures and time systems supported! For example, in the US, the Months precedes the Date, but in other countries the Date precedes the Month. Depending on your local OS installation, DataBoss will correctly understand your input. You can even enter the month in your localized OS' language, such as Juni for German vs June for English!
- New Search feature: get EVERYTHING, but filtered by your dates. To do so, just enter the Start/End Dates, then type -all- (just like that, with the dashes surrounding the word all. You will get every record within your dates! This si neat and very useful if you don't recall any keywords, but at least vaguely remember when the backup OR the files were created.
- New Search feature: excluded words can now also be forced to "exact-match", so "-tree" will Not exclude "sTREEt" for example.
- Search for plurals will also return the singular results (find what you didn't even think you had!) This actually is done in a very intelligent way (not just adding a letter "s" at the end of the word to make it plural. Woman-women, man-men, bus-buses, and all other declensions are done correctly.
- Search: an apostrophe is now a part of it. Ex.: st patrick's, ol' days, O'Rourke etc. This helps making the DataBoss search more precise.
- Catalog View improvement: the Search Box now always comes into focus automatically, saving user an extra click. This allows to enter any search terms right after opening the program.
- Catalog View improvement: the Search Box' text color becomes contrasty as soon as the user starts typing in it (before this version, a click was required.)
- Catalog View Improvement: global dates support! Backup Dates now adhere to the ISO-8601 standard, plus the Month Name spelled out. No more confusion whether 04-03 means April 3rd or the 4th of March, depending on your country's way to record dates. Makes it very easy to see when the particular backup was made. The Timestamp is always underneath the date now, again for the ease of viewing.
- Description View: default window position has changed to Top-Left of the screen so it is separate from the underlying Backup View; also, so that the Backup Progress is clearly displayed.
- Description View: clicking on the "Backup is finished but you can continue" box would make the text barely readable. Fixed. Also, added the "speaker off" mnemonics to reinforce the notion this click also cuts off the backup beeping sound.
- Pop-up Custom Dialog box: the horizontal element in it was visually blending with the form background underneath. Fixed.
- Pop-up Custom Dialog box: in Backup View, a better explanation is given on why does the user have to Refresh the drive list.
- Audio confirmations (beeps) improvement: made consistent with the program operations, such as Quit or open another view. This makes it easy for the user to get a positive confirmation of the intended operation.
- Some UI element location adjustments
- Bug: the apostrophe in the Search terms could lead to the incorrect search results. Fixed.
- Bug: some Dates were recorded in non-ISO8601-compliant format. This affected the newly-introduced Search By Date Range feature (above.) Your existing data is safe: even if you were affected, it will be converted to the proper format on the first load of DataBoss v2.4 automatically and quickly. Fixed.
- Bug: on opening the Catalog View, the cursor was not always pre-focused on the Search input box. Fixed.
- Bug: after opening the Backup View and then returning to the Catalog View, the position of the animated Wait cursor was a bit off. Fixed.
- Bug: the animated Wait cursor's background could become opaque under certain conditions. Fixed.
- Bug: the Scroll Back to The Selection button's visibility in the Catalog View was not in sync with other UI elements when the program was in process of being closed. Fixed.
- Bug: in two different places, the same variable was declared differently. (Did not affect any data or main operations.) Fixed.
New in DataBoss 2.3.1 (Apr 1, 2019)
- Inconsistent display of Licensee's Name between the Backup and Catalog Views: fixed
- Bug: in some cases, Version number display was cut off - fixed
- Bug: animated "wait" indicator was not centered in all cases - fixed
- Application icon in the installation folder (not normally visible) was blurry - fixed
- Improvement: the width of the Status column (only shows OK or nothing) is now shortened, freeing the space for other important information to be displayed
- Improvement: DataBoss version number will now show even if the license has not been entered yet. This will help the user identify which license belongs to this particular DataBoss version.
- Improvement: if there are no records yet (the Catalog is new) then Search is not even attempted. Rather, the user is notified that the catalog is empty.
- UI: certain elements' positioning has been adjusted for better user experience.
- Bug: the color of the Info field text in the Backup view used to change to the non-palette choice after blinking - fixed.
- Bug: in Catalog View, the "home" button was not responding to the mouse-over event by changing its color as it should - fixed
- Bug: in Catalog View, the "search icon" button was not responding to the mouse-over event by changing its color as it should - fixed
- Bug: after the DPI-corrected form scaling (needed for the visual clarity), the positioning of the animated Wait Cursor was off. Fixed by making cardinal changes in the underlying programming, which will allow deployment of future versions of the overlay UI elements without a problem.
New in DataBoss 2.3 (Apr 1, 2019)
- Brand-new Installer, standard to Windows and not raising any false red flags anymore
- NEW Search Feature! Now the matching results are intelligently highlighted in color, which adapts to whether the record has been selected by the user or not. This is a major improvement.
- NEW feature! The Back To Selection button added. Now if you have selected the record (for example, clicking on it to view your data) but then scrolled the list far away from it... and you have perhaps cataloged some thousands of records... it is still very easy to get back now. Just click a single "home" button, and you are right back at the selected record.
- NEW feature! Universal Image Thumbnails viewer link - fixes the problem with the Windows OS not recognizing a number of (especially RAW) image formats.
- NEW feature: links in the pop-up dialog box are now automatically resolved to be clickable - together with the cursor change to show the user they are!
- An Improvement: crystal-clear interface now. The program scaling is now done true to the Windows DPI settings on the particular screen. Ensures perfect sharpness and true size as intended on any screen now.
- A better mechanism for saving/retrieving the user Settings.
- An improved explanation of the user choices in the Catalog Upgrade message box.
- Improved handling of the Catalog database upgrades
- An improvement: Are You Sure confirmation dialog when switching to the Backup View: now you can control whether that confirmation is displayed, or whether DataBoss just goes straight to the Backup View on one button click.
- All the Catalog View checkboxes have been reimagined - our original design! Now much more aesthetically pleasing with rounded green "checkmarks" matching the newly developed DataBoss palette.
- Backup View: new, better palette; clearer Source selection color-matched to the Catalog View.
- Improved Description panel: better icons, color palette, layout, more aesthetic border.
- Improved Fonts throughout the Catalog and Backup Views
- Improved color palette; UX elements unified with it.
- For clarity, the checkbox "Content editor" has been renamed to the "Description editor" in the Catalog View.
- For clarity, the software name now displays together with the version in both Catalog and Backup views.
- Improved How-To Tips - when you hover over [?] signs or the buttons and get an instant contextual help pop-up.
- Customized Top Banner! Put your name (or whatever you want) in it! This is the first step to customizing the appearance of your DataBoss.
New in DataBoss 2.2.1 (Apr 1, 2019)
- Bug fixed: under certain conditions, License/Registration code would not be accepted by the program. Fixed.
- Branding: unified the software name spelling as DataBoss (without a whitespace between the words) throughout.
New in DataBoss 2.2 (Apr 1, 2019)
- Clicking on the top DataBoss logo no longer brings up our web site. This feature proved to be prone to accidental clicks which resulted in the annoying openings of the web browser. Link removed.
- DataBoss URLs have been corrected throughout the program.
New in DataBoss 2.1.2 (Apr 1, 2019)
- Interface: some message misspellings Fixed.
- Operations: one of the flags was set in the non-optimal place. Changed to the optimal place.
- Bug fix: under certain conditions in Backup View, DEMO COPY message would pop-up, preventing actual backup procedure from continuing. Fixed.