Predator Tracker
Release Notes
March 22nd 2023 – Predator Tracker v11.0.96
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Improves FLM style licensing to eliminate rapid license check-ins and checkouts
- Fixes a bug with installation of Predator Tracker APIs
February 13th 2023 – Predator Tracker v11.0.95
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Adds secure browser integration to launch Predator Tracker via a HTML tag
- Adds secure browser integration customization via Predator Tracker standard command line arguments
- Adds new language resources
- Improves existing international language resources
- Improves installation to support secure browser integration
August 9th 2022 – Predator Tracker v11.0.94
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Improves yellow background color warning for specific fields
- Rolls back the Microsoft SQL Server Timeout processing change made in v11.0.93
- Fixes a bug with Microsoft Access support introduced with Predator Tracker v11.0.93
August 4th, 2022 – Predator Tracker v11.0.93
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Improves component selection and filter dialogs
- Improves Microsoft SQL Server timeout processing
March 11th, 2022 – Predator Tracker v11.0.92
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Adds 2022 End User License Agreement to the installation
- Adds installation details within the Windows Registry during the installation
- Improves Copyright date within PTRACKER.exe
- Improves Unicode support
- Improves a number of component reports
- Improves Edit Cutter Insert Quantity wizard
- Improves View Kit window
- Improves a number of component wizards when loading a large number of records is required
- Removed the database activity indicator (it was causing more issues than it addressed)
- Fixes a bug when searching within the online help
- Fixes a bug with exiting the application within the middle of an action
- Fixes a bug with Oracle editions with database queries that utilized the UNION function
January 21st, 2022 – Predator Tracker v11.0.91 is re-released
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Fixes a bug with the installation, affecting the Save as HTML option within the report viewer
- Fixes a bug introduced with v11.0.89 to support Unicode strings within several reports and wizards
January 7th, 2022 – Predator Tracker v11.0.91
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Adds additional international language resources
- Fixes a bug introduced with v11.0.89 to support Unicode strings within several reports and wizards
December 26th 2021 – Predator Tracker v11.0.89
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Adds Dutch language support
- Adds additional international language resources
- Adds support for any style double quote character within international resources
- Improves selection SQL queries to support Unicode strings
- Improves where used SQL queries to support Unicode strings
- Improves Predator Tracker APIs to support Unicode strings with Microsoft SQL Server
- Improves processing and troubleshooting of international resources
- Improves the default drive letter selection during installation
- Improves Microsoft SQL Server connections to be more flexible with preference given to the more secure options
- Improves international language support within twelve components
- Improves numerous SQL queries to support the single quote character within data
- Improves -language command line support for Chinese
- Improves -language command line support for Japanese
- Improves -trace command line troubleshooting option
- Fixes a bug with the Japanese resource file
- Fixes a bug with the Chinese resource file
November 7th 2021 – Predator Tracker v11.0.88
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Fixes a bug with creating new machine types
October 11th 2021 – Predator Tracker v11.0.87
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Adds real-time database connection status within the statusbar
- Adds integrated security for Microsoft SQL Server
- Adds impersonation option for Microsoft SQL Server
- Adds integrated security for Microsoft SQL Server within the Tracker APIs
- Adds impersonation option for Microsoft SQL Server within the Tracker APIs
- Improves trace log output
- Improves the database logon tab
- Improves the PImportWorksheet.xls
- Improves Online Help
- Includes Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server v18.6 improvements
- Fixes a bug with the View Kit button within the Check-Out window
July 16th 2021 – Predator Tracker v11.0.86
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Adds new CRefObj within the Predator Tracker API to support part and material references
- Improves all vbs style APIs to improve their reliability and simplify future support efforts
- Improves CPErrorObj with trace error handling
- Improves CLogonObj with additional trace error handling
- Improves creating crib locations within the Microsoft SQL Server edition
- Improves creating jobs within the Microsoft SQL Server edition
- Improves creating tools within the Microsoft SQL Server edition
- Improves cutter number APIs to support up to 6 vs. 4 decimal places for all geometric definitions
- Improves insert number APIs to support up to 6 vs. 4 decimal places for all geometric definitions
- Improves kit number APIs to support up to 6 vs. 4 decimal places for all geometric definitions
- Improves tool number APIs to support up to 6 vs. 4 decimal places for all geometric definitions
- Improves AppendComponentToKitNumber API function to automatically increment component quantities
- Improves creating cutter numbers with the Tracker API
- Improves creating crib locations with the Tracker API
- Fixes a bug with deleting the last component while viewing components
June 17th 2021 – Predator Tracker v11.0.85
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Improves disassembling kits to only show default crib locations and crib locations with available or targeted quantities
- Improves selecting and filtering multiple parent and child fields within several wizards and windows
- Improves installation to support additional registry keys within HKLM to document installation details
- Fixes a bug with disassembling kits when partially scrapping a quantity of inserts or cutters
- Fixes a bug with duplicate Tool Consumption Report menus introduced with v11.0.84
June 7th 2021 – Predator Tracker v11.0.84
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Adds Quantities per Crib Location Report for Gages
- Adds Quantities per Crib Location Report for Kits
- Adds Quantities per Crib Location Report for Tools
- Adds Groove style insert shape within the New and Edit Insert Number wizards
- Adds Octagon style insert shape within the New and Edit Insert Number wizards
- Adds Parallelogram style insert shape within the New and Edit Insert Number wizards
- Adds Rectangle style insert shape within the New and Edit Insert Number wizards
- Adds Thread style insert shape within the New and Edit Insert Number wizards
- Adds Trigon style insert shape within the New and Edit Insert Number wizards
- Adds importing insert numbers with Groove style insert shapes
- Adds importing insert numbers with Octagon style insert shapes
- Adds importing insert numbers with Parallelogram style insert shapes
- Adds importing insert numbers with Rectangle style insert shapes
- Adds importing insert numbers with Thread style insert shapes
- Adds importing insert numbers with Trigon style insert shapes
- Improves the default within the Logon dialog’s database tab to PC style
- Improves assigning default crib locations to cutter numbers and insert numbers
- Improves Hexagon style insert shape angles within the New and Edit Insert Number wizards
- Improves Pentagon style insert shape angles within the New and Edit Insert Number wizards
- Improves Radius style insert shape data entry within the New and Edit Insert Number wizards
- Improves Square style insert shape angles within the New and Edit Insert Number wizards
- Improves Triangle style insert shape angles within the New and Edit Insert Number wizards
- Improves importing insert numbers with Hexagon style insert shapes
- Improves importing insert numbers with Pentagon style insert shapes
- Improves importing insert numbers with Radius style insert shapes
- Improves importing insert numbers with Square style insert shapes
- Improves importing insert numbers with Triangle style insert shapes
- Fixes a bug introduced with v11.0.83 which removed the View Kit button within Check In and Check Out dialogs
- Fixes a bug with two Not Used report permissions
- Fixes a bug with the Checked Out Report when kit number filtering is used
May 26th 2021 – Predator Tracker v11.0.83
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Adds Existing Gage Wizard to the View Gages window
- Adds filter for Located At to the Inventory By Type report
- Adds filter for Inactive Tools to the Inventory By Type report
- Adds Cutter Number option for creating new crib locations within the Current Inventory wizard
- Adds Cutter Number option for unused crib locations within the Current Inventory wizard
- Adds Cutter Number option for filtering crib locations within the Current Inventory wizard
- Adds Insert Number option for creating new crib locations within the Current Inventory wizard
- Adds Insert Number option for unused crib locations within the Current Inventory wizard
- Adds Insert Number option for filtering crib locations within the Current Inventory wizard
- Adds viewing of kit notes within View Kit
- Adds Material Type or Tool Type filters within the Tool Material Reference wizards
- Adds Material Type or Cutter Type filters within the Cutter Material Reference wizards
- Adds Material Type or Insert Type filters within the Insert Material Reference wizards
- Adds Part Type or Tool Type filters within the Tool Part Reference wizards
- Adds Part Type or Cutter Type filters within the Cutter Part Reference wizards
- Adds Part Type or Insert Type filters within the Insert Part Reference wizards
- Adds Part Type or Gage Type filters within the Gage Part Reference wizards
- Improves Current Inventory wizards to only display crib locations that have actual quantities or assigned targets
- Improves View Kits to refresh automatically after assembling or disassembling kits
- Improves 50+ online help topics
- Fixes a bug introduced with v11.0.82 when assembling or disassembling kits within the View Kit window
- Fixes a bug with the Gage List Report to use the correct resource
May 3rd 2021 – Predator Tracker v11.0.82
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Adds View Kit within the Check In dialog when Kit Number(s) are selected
- Adds View Kit within the Check Out dialog when Kit Number(s) are selected
- Adds Part Type, Part, Material type and Material reference filters to View Tool Numbers
- Adds Part Type, Part, Material type and Material reference filters to View Cutter Numbers
- Adds Part Type, Part, Material type and Material reference filters to View Insert Numbers
- Adds Part Type, Part, Material type and Material reference filters to View Kit Numbers
- Adds Part Type, Part, Material type and Material reference filters to View Gage Numbers
- Adds Check Out Date to the header within the Check Out Receipt
- Improves New and Edit Cutter number wizards when the Custom tool shape pulldown is selected
- Improves View Tool Numbers filter step to display the number of remaining rows
- Improves View Cutter Numbers filter step to display the number of remaining rows
- Improves View Insert Numbers filter step to display the number of remaining rows
- Improves View Kit Numbers filter step to display the number of remaining rows
- Improves View Gage Numbers filter step to display the number of remaining rows
February 17th 2021 – Predator Tracker v11.0.81
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Adds support for up to 9 custom menus
- Adds the 2021 version of the Predator End User License Agreement to the installation
- Improves New and Edit Custom Menu wizards to be consistent with increasing the limit from 4 to 9
- Improves Online Help with new content, improved grammar and spelling fixes
October 21st 2020 – Predator Tracker v11.0.79
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Adds automatic blank line removal when importing all major components
- Adds C++ redistributable to improve Microsoft Access support
- Improves Online Help
- Improves New Purchase Request wizard
- Includes Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server v18.4 improvements
- Fixes a bug with Microsoft Access editions reporting “Operation must use an updateable query”
April 3rd 2020 – Predator Tracker v11.0.77
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Improves the Database tab within the Logon dialog
- Improves Online Help
March 18th 2020 – Predator Tracker v11.0.76
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Adds new Predator Tracker icon
- Adds Prompt to optionally repeat an import
- Adds Automatic sorting of importing components
- Adds Importing of Gage Calibration Dimensions
- Adds Importing of Tool Rework Dimensions
- Adds Database selection within the Logon dialog in the Microsoft SQL Server edition
- Improves Online help
- Improves International language resources
- Improves pimportworksheet.xls
- Improves Database connection messages in the Microsoft SQL Server edition
- Fixes a bug with error messaging when importing component attachments
- Fixes a bug when a user logs in without any user or user group permissions
February 20th 2020 – Predator Tracker v11.0.75
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Adds TLS 1.2 support to Predator Tracker for SQL Server
- Adds TLS 1.2 support to the Predator Tracker API
- Adds preference for 32bit and 64bit Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server to Predator Tracker
- Adds preference for 32bit and 64bit Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server to the Predator Tracker API
- Adds 64bit v18.3 of Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server to the install
- Adds new Predator Tracker icon to the download package
- Adds configurable Tracker API user via the Predator Tracker Administrator
- Adds new Tracker API method udtLogon.LogOnAPIUser
- Improves International language support
- Improves secure download dialog within the download package
- Improves the re-install process
- Fixes a bug sorting work centers within the Edit wizard
November 2nd 2019 – Predator Tracker v11.0.74
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Adds * style automatic formatting to kit, tool, gage, insert and cutter numbers
- Adds * style automatic formatting to kit, tool and gage serial numbers
- Adds * style automatic formatting to job, part, material and purchase request numbers
- Adds * style automatic formatting to part and operation revisions
- Adds * style automatic formatting to tool and gage IRR numbers
- Adds View > Kits menu to simplify viewing kit serial numbers
- Adds View > Tools menu to simplify viewing tool serial numbers
- Adds View > Gages menu to simplify viewing gage serial numbers
- Adds Add Existing Tool right mouse menu within View Tools
- Adds kit number and kit serial number columns when viewing gage serial numbers
- Adds kit number and kit serial number columns when viewing tool serial numbers
- Improves the Receive Purchase Request wizard to validate formating of tool and gage serial numbers
- Improves International language support
- Improves the performance of automatic formating
- Improves the ability to change format strings
October 17th 2019 – Predator Tracker v11.0.73
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Adds Automatic sorting by kit number within the View Kit from Tool Dialog
- Adds optional sorting by any column within the View Kit from Tool Dialog
- Adds International language support to the View Kit from Tool Dialog
- Fixes a bug with New Purchase Request when adding items after deleting all items
July 13th 2019 – Predator Tracker v11.0.72
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Adds New Department button to Check In and Check Out dialogs
- Adds New Location button to Check In and Check Out dialogs
- Adds New Group button to Check In and Check Out dialogs
- Adds New Machine button to Check In and Check Out dialogs
- Adds New Job button to Check In and Check Out dialogs
- Adds New Part Type button to Check In and Check Out dialogs
- Adds New Part button to Check In and Check Out dialogs
- Adds New Operation button to Check In and Check Out dialogs
- Adds Part type and part number selection with new job number creation
- Adds Part type and part number selection after job number selection
- Fixes a bug with Report > Checked Out > By Operation resource
May 3rd 2019 – Predator Tracker v11.0.68
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Improves International resources
- Improves Installation processes when updating an existing installation
- Improves Copyright to 2019
- Fixes a bug with the Gage List report
- Fixes a bug with importing tool, cutter and insert material references
December 29th 2018 – Predator Tracker v11.0.67
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Adds support for up to 99,999 part quantities in the Job Report
- Improves deleting components via APIs
- Improves “User Group” label width in the Assign Permissions dialog
- Includes v11.0.5 of the Tracker API
- Fixes a bug viewing insert and cutter material type attachments
- Fixes a bug importing insert and cutter material type attachments
- Fixes a bug within the database login tab when switching Oracle hostnames
October 14th 2018 – Predator Tracker v11.0.66
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Adds warnings to licensing when UAC is enabled
- Improves International resources
- Improves trace output for complex troubleshooting
- Removes parameterized Oracle queries
- Fixes a bug importing component type attachments
- Fixes a bug importing report types
- Fixes a bug with the user and user group reports – Oracle only
July 26th 2018 – Predator Tracker v11.0.65
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Adds Operation History report
- Adds External Edited Component report via Predator PDM
- Adds Editing Kit Number details within View Kit Number
- Improves Editing Kit Number details after kits have been assembled
- Improves Online Help
- Fixes a bug when creating a kit with numeric only tool & gage numbers
May 1st, 2018 – Predator Tracker v11.0.62
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Adds Editing Kit Number details after kits have been assembled
- Adds Single quote characters within filenames for reference attachments
- Improves Tab order in some wizards
- Improves Multiple line addresses in Purchase Request Report
- Improves Multiple line addresses in Quote Request Report
- Improves View Components with Release Vault Item Shortcuts
- Improves Online Help
May 1st, 2018 – Predator Tracker v11.0.62
Predator Tracker v11.0.62 has been released.
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Adds importing Operations and Operation Attachments
- Improves International Resources
- Improved Online Help
- Improves Install to make .Net Runtime optional
- Improves Install to make Sentinel Protection Driver optional
January 31st 2018 – Predator Tracker v11.0.61
Predator Tracker v11.0.61 has been released.
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Adds overwrite prompting during install
- Adds automatic critical file backup during install
- Improves deleting a machine
- Fixes a bug with build 59 with initial user password creation
October 25th, 2017 – Predator Tracker v11.0.58
Predator Tracker v11.0.58 has been released.
This minor release makes the following improvements:
- Fixes a search bug within view components.
September 1st, 2017 – Predator Tracker v11.0.57
Predator Tracker v11.0.57 has been released. This minor release adds a few features while fixing a couple of bugs:
Refer to the following:
- Adds Copy text to clipboard for any cell within all view components
- Adds material reference APIs for Cutters, Inserts, Tools & Kits
- Improves PgUp & PgDn keyboard support within all view components
- Improves row selection in View Cutters, Inserts, Tools, Gages & Kits
- Fixes a SQL bug with Set Default Crib Location in View Cutters
- Fixes a SQL bug with Set Default Crib Location in View Inserts
July 16th 2017 – Predator Tracker v11.0.55
Predator Tracker v11.0.55 has been released. This minor release adds FIPS compatibility while making several improvements.
Refer to the following:
- Improves FIPS compatibility with Predator FLM v11.0.0.2
- Adds import updating to material references per kit and tool
- Adds import updating to material references per cutter and insert
- Adds 4 new APIs for material references per kit, tool, cutter and insert
- Adds 1 new material API
- Improves Check-In/Out to Departments, Locations and Groups
- Fixes a bug with running reports from View Components
- Fixes a bug with editing tool rework operation definitions
- Fixes a bug with viewing tool rework types with Microsoft SQL Server
May 12th, 2017 – Predator Tracker v11.0.52
Predator Tracker v11.0.52 has been released. This minor release adds several new features as requested by our end users.
Refer to the following improvements:
- Adds Importing Users with Windows Authentication support
- Adds Windows Authentication as a global password option
- Adds New Users with Windows Authentication support
- Adds Edit Users with Windows Authentication support
- Simplified initial database creation
- Improves international language resources
- Improves Set Default Crib Location wizards
- Improves Importing crib location history
- Improves Assign crib location wizard
- Improves View Kit titlebar and default display
- Improves New Events Touch refresh when switching machines
- Improves New Events Touch default font color
- Improves -viewkitfromtoolno dialog is now centered.
- Improves switching back to Predator passwords
- Improves Online Help
- Improves Password recovery mode
- Improves language resource file loading
- Fixes a bug with FLM licensing on Windows 10, 2012 Server and 2016 Server
October 30th, 2016 – Predator Tracker v11.0.38
This major new version includes the following improvements:
- Adds View Kit Window
- Adds Assembled Kits Report
- Adds Quote Request Report
- Adds Importing Default Crib Locations
- Adds Balluff RFID support
- Adds Complex Predator Passwords
- Adds Importing of 29 component attachments
- Adds Microsoft SQL Server 2014 support
- Adds Oracle 12c support
- Adds Windows 2012 Server support
- Adds Windows 10 support
- Adds Active Directory support
- Adds new command line arguments
- Improves Check-In and Check-Out Windows
- Improves Purchase Requests
- Improves View Cutters and Inserts
- Improves View Tools, Gages, and Kits
- Improves Kit Components Details Report
- Improves Format Strings
- Improves Charts
- Improves Current Inventory Quantities History
- Improves Importing
- Improves Select Criteria
- Improves Edit Inventory Quantities
- Improves Tracker APIs
- Improves international languages
- Improves password and login dialogs
- Improves View Components
- Improves User Report
- Improves Splash screen
- Improves Online Help
- New Install