Welcome to Alexsys Team 98.9.3 and Team-Web 1.6 !

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Alexsys Team 98.9.3 and Team-Web 1.6 (April 5, 2001)

Fixes in Team 98.9.3 and Team-Web 1.6

- SQL databases no longer have upgrade problems when upgrading the Rules, Log, or Revision Tables.
- Support for "day-first" date formats will no longer cause invalid date errors.
- Remove the generic "12:00 AM" timestamp from custom date fields and include time portion in date fields only when a real timestamp has been included.
- Printing reports in Windows 95 now works correctly.

Alexsys Team 98.9.2, Team-Web 1.5.2, and WebEntry 1.9 (April 2, 2001)

Features in Team 98.9.2 and Team-Web 1.5.2

Multiple Work Request Delete | Team-Web: Delete Work Request
Support for Year- First Date Formats | Team-Web: Automatic Login

Enhancements in Team 98.9.2 and Team-Web 1.5.2

Fixes in Team 98.9.2, Team-Web 1.5.2, and WebEntry 1.9

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Features in Team 98.9.2, Team-Web 1.5.2, and WebEntry 1.9

Multiple Work Request Delete

System level users can now delete multiple requests using a TeamView tab or List to generate the list of requests to delete and selecting "File | Delete All".

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Support for Year-First Date Formats

Date formats using yyyy/mm/dd or yy/mm/dd are now supported in Team using "/" and "-" date separators. Team-Web will only support "/" separators. If using a 2 digit year format, Team and Team-Web will convert this to a 4 digit year format.

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Team-Web: Delete Work Request

System level users can delete requests from within the Work Request Edit form in Team-Web by selecting the "Delete" button.

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Team-Web: Automatic Login

When cookies enabled in your Internet Browser, Automatic Login can now be used in Team-Web.

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Enhancements in Team 98.9.2 and Team-Web 1.5.2

- SQL: Increase performance when using Time Fields in filters.
- Allow dates and date variables in Target field filters.
- Allow multiple copies of a general report, Crosstab, Chart, or List to be printed.
- Allow selected pages of a general report to be printed.
- Allow collating when printing.
- Added general report and printing support for legal and A4 paper sizes.
- Increase possible work time for a single time record from 24 hours to 60 hours.
- Improved the way the Project Tree shows descendants.
- Filtering on Act Effort and Est Effort now use numeric compares instead of string compares.
- Printing Work Request Details will now default to Portrait.
- Team-Web: Team-Web: Improve performance saving changes to records.
- Team-Web: Guest users no longer have access to Change History information.

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Fixes in Team 98.9.2, Team-Web 1.5.2, and WebEntry 1.9

- Request and Status columns are in sync when scrolling in the Project Tree.
- Crosstab Reports now maintain the sorts that were applied in the original Crosstab.
- Change History log will now support local regional settings from the user's PC and display the correct dates.
- General Report printouts match the report display on the screen.
- Work Request memo expansion windows now support the printer selection of Portrait and Landscape orientation.
- Export of Crosstab and Chart data with Work Time Total to CSV or HTML files now displays correct date format.
- SQL: no longer have intermittent failures when using Time Fields in filters.
- SQL: Revision Table correctly uploaded to reflect the correct database level of the database.
- SQL: Data from Crosstabs and Charts that are using any Time Field is now being saved correctly when saving to a CSV file when using.
- SQL: General reports correctly displaying Time Fields.
- SQL: Scrolling in TeamView lists using the scrollbar arrows will refresh the data correctly in the TeamView and not clear the data in calculated fields.
- SQL for Oracle only - no longer receive an error when printing a report with more than 254 pages.
- SQL for Oracle only: no longer receive error when adding a flag note in Team-Web after adding multiple general notes.
- SQL for Oracle only: no longer receive error when searching marker fields using Find in the Work Request form.
- Allow "blank" as valid value for Work Date and Work Person filters.
- Conditional Rules now work correctly for Time Fields when using both Lists and Ranges for the requirement condition.
- No longer get an error when selecting "Show Inactive" while trying to enter a new value in a Lookup Table.
- Optimized Work Request searching to allow searching for what is new for dates after 1900.
- Crosstab reports no longer show Work Time values as Dates.
- Chart legends display correct information when using Work Time as the row field.
- Report columns will resize to accommodate data from a calculated field when the data is wider than the column heading.
- Report Preview now displays the same number of rows as the printed report.
- Include Yes/No values in dropdown list for Find dialog in the Work Request form when searching marker fields.
- The Report Preview screen is now refreshed to reflect any changes made in the printer dialog for page orientation and paper size.
- Deleting a time record from a request will now display the current date in the change record in the Change History log.
- No longer get an error when printing a TeamView list when the Data Properties dialog is still open.
- General reports now display all names in the Flag Names column.
- Allow "blank" as a valid value for Date filters.
- Team-Web: Filter date variables work properly when spanning into the previous year.
- Team-Web for Oracle: Change History no longer includes the memo fields in every change record.
- Team-Web: No longer get an error when attaching files, relating requests or adding time records when using Time Fields in Conditional Rules.
- WebEntry: Supports Revision Table updates to reflect the correct database level of the database.

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Products Available for Team 98

- Alexsys Team-Web for Internet/Intranet access to Team

- Alexsys Team-SQL for Microsoft SQL and Oracle Databases

- Alexsys Team WebEntry for non-Team users to enter work requests from a web page.

Please consult the Installation Instructions for additional information on installing the update.

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Alexsys Team-Web

Alexsys Team-Web is a web- based version of Team that permits you to access Team via an Internet, Intranet, or dialup. Team-Web is an add-on product to Team that works in conjunction with Alexsys Team or Alexsys Team-SQL. A fully functional Trial version of Team-Web is included in the standard install package. Team-Web setup instructions are found in the Team-Web subdirectory of Team located on your server (e.g. C:\Alexsys\Team\TeamWeb\install.txt).

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Alexsys Team-SQL

Team-SQL is the client/server version of Team that allows you to use Alexsys Team with Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle Server. Team has been optimized using native SQL to achieve maximum performance with minimal network traffic. This makes it much faster at database sorts and filtering while maintaining our easy to use interface. Other than the performance boost, the features and feel of Team are unchanged.

Team-SQL takes Team to a new level with:

- Faster performance
- Rock solid reliability
- Support for large databases
- Support for more users
- Support for Wide Area Networks
- Database security
- Compatibility with your existing databases and tools

Our database utility has been updated with a new interface and an 'SQL Setup' option for simple upgrades. The process is as follows:

- Install Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle Server
- Create a Database for Team to use
- Run the Team Database Utility and fill in the database and login information
- Press the Connect and Upload buttons to copy your database to the server

Standard Team 98, even when registered, can run the trial version of Team-SQL, so there is nothing new to download. For additional information on setting up a Team-SQL see the "Setting Up Your Team-SQL Database" topic in the on-line help file.

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Alexsys Team WebEntry

WebEntry is an add-on product to Alexsys Team 98 that lets you add a web page to your web site to enter work requests. Employees or customers can enter support calls or questions and the information is automatically stored in your existing Team database (just like we do with our support page).

Web users cannot view the Team database so your database is fully secure.

To run WebEntry, you need:

- Alexsys Team 98 installed and functioning,
- a Web Server or Web Service Provider,
- a UNIX, Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), or Netscape Web Server
- the ability to run PERL scripts on your server*,
- the sendmail program*,
- a POP account used exclusively for and by WebEntry,
- a PC capable of reading e-mail*, and
- an SMTP mail server for notifications and error messages.

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Installation Instructions

- Installing a new Team Installation
- Updating an Existing Team installation

Installing A New Team Installation
1.) Download the full installation at:
http://www.alexcorp.com/download/tsetup.exe
2.) Run the tsetup.exe program on your network server and follow the instructions.
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Updating An Existing Team Installation
1.) Download the update at:
http://www.alexcorp.com/download/teamupd.exe
2.) If you are running WebEntry or Team-Web, stop the "World Wide Web Publishing" services before installing the update.
3.) Before running the update, make sure all users are logged off of Team and that Team is shutdown to prevent users from logging in while you are updating:
a.) Run the TeamAdm.exe program from your Team installation directory on your server.
b.) Select the Shutdown Tab.
c.) Select Manual Shutdown and select Apply.
d.) Wait 2 minutes for active copies of Team to be terminated or until Team tells you that there are no connections to the database.
4.) Once Team is shutdown, run the update on the server and install it in the Team installation directory. (The update is called Teamupd.exe.)
5.) Once the server is updated, there is no need to install anything on the clients. The clients will be updated automatically the next time they run Team.
6.) Restart your "World Wide Web Publishing" Services on your server.
7.) Re-enable Team so users can log in:
a.) Run the TeamAdm.exe program from your Team installation directory on your server.
b.) Select the Shutdown Tab.
c.) Deselect Manual Shutdown and select Apply.
** Team is now updated and ready for users to log in.

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More Installation Notes

- If you are using a Windows NT server, run this install directly from the NT server.
- Teamupd.exe is a server update installation and should not be installed on client PCs. Clients are automatically updated the next time they run Team after the server has been updated, so there is nothing to manually install on a client PC.
- Installing this build requires 30% more space than versions v98.6.1 or earlier. Before installing, be sure that your server or SQL server has at least twice the amount of database space free as currently in use.
- Please refer to "Important Information" for more information about recent changes to Team.
- Team-Web: Make sure you are running with the latest Internet Explorer 5 update to the Java Virtual Machine to avoid/fix date problems that occurred after the Year 2000.

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Important Information

- When exporting Crosstab and Chart data with Work Time Total to CSV files, if using Excel to display the csv file, you have to format your column cells as [hh]:mm to get the values to display properly as elapsed times.
- Team and Team-Web only support 4 digit year date formats. If you use a date format that uses a 2 digit year format, Team and Team-Web will convert that format to a 4 digit year.
- The Find feature in the TeamView has been changed to an advanced search for work requests and knowledge base articles.
- Team does not support large attachments with Oracle 8.05 due to a problem with the Borland Database Engine (BDE). You must "copy and link" or "link" any attachments using Team-SQL for Oracle 8.05.
- The Work Request customize attachments has been changed from "Customize Memos" to "Customize Tabs" to support the new Time Tab for Time Recording.
- Print and Detailed Report templates have been changed to support custom memo fields. Any changes you have made to the original Default templates that Team supplies will be lost unless you Backup your files when updating to the latest version. Default1.htm and Default1.rtf are no longer supported and will be removed from the Template directory.
- Team-SQL setup instructions are located in the help file. Use the index to search for "SQL" topics exist for Microsoft and Oracle databases. Additional information is provided on our web site www.alexcorp.com in the "FAQ's" section.
- Team-Web setup instructions are found in the TeamWeb subdirectory of Team located on your server (e.g. C:\Alexsys\Team\TeamWeb\install.txt).
- WebEntry setup instructions are found in the WebEntry\Server subdirectory of Team located on your server (e.g. C:\Alexsys\Team\WebEntry\Server\Install.txt)
- The Customer Lookup Table has been renamed to Company in v98.8.1.
- The "File | View All Detail" feature has been moved to "Tools | Detail Report" for all applicable windows in v98.8.1.
- If you are running a version of Team prior to v98.8 and you have a Contact field in your Work Request form, when Team is updated to v98.8.5, your Contact field will be preserved and the new Contact field supplied in Team will be renamed to "Contact (1)". If you see "Contact (1)" in your Field Rules (Admin | Rules) this means that Team has detected an existing field in your with database with "Contact" somewhere in the field label.

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