OSPInSight View 7.0 Release History
 

DESIGN CHANGES FROM 6.0 TO 7.0

  1. "Frames" are now called Termination Points
  2. "Enclosures" are now called Splice Points
  3. Pole Lines are new objects that simply represent distance between poles
  4. Route Details can be opened separately from the Termination panel, from the dataview right-click menu

OSPInSight View 7.0.23 Release Notes
29/Nov/07

NEW FEATURES

  1. In the Display Options->Misc, you now have the option to display or hide 5 buttons in the dataview: label, more, edit, map and relations
  2. A route detail report can be run but right clicking a cable span, selecting More, then selecting route detail
  3. In Options->Display Option->Data View, there is now an option to display the category object counts, which is enabled by default
  4. When running a route detail from a cable span, the span is marked with a green triangle, and the route end points are marked with either red or orange triangles, depending on which direction they are in relation to the original cable span
  5. In Display Options->Dataview you can now order your Dataview categories, and put the most frequently used ones at the top
  6. You can copy the contents of the Details window on the startup screen by selecting it and hitting Ctrl+c

TIPS

  1. In the relations window, related videos show up under the 'Documents' category, rather than their own Video category.
  2. The following has recently been added to the Terms of Service Agreement for the free version of Google Earth:
  3. "For a business entity user, the Software may be used by you and your employees for internal use..."

KNOWN ISSUES

  1. Schematics are still not completed
  2. Splitter information is not converted from 6.0 to 7.0. If you have splitters in your network, you might want to hold off on converting.
  3. Some defaults still need to be finalized, such as 'use last input', or form size and location
  4. OSPInSight usually crashes upon exit. We are working on this issue
  5. Conversions for now will be handled by Advance Fiber. Integrity issues must be corrected by the company responsible for maintaining the database
  6. Performing a find fault where the fault ends up on a patch cord will not show the map marker
  7. Some times editors or other forms disappear behind the main OSPInSight window
  8. Re-ordering a list by a foreign key column causes an error
    Workaround: Re-open the list to get rid of the error
  9. Some forms may open mostly transparent.
    Workaround: Increase the opacity with Ctrl+p, then press Ctrl+s to save it

FEATURE STATUS

Stable Features

  1. Custom Object Editor
  2. Custom Toolbars
  3. Dataview/Lists
  4. Google Map View/Find Address feature
  5. Hardware Materials report, with saved filters
  6. Labeling options
  7. MapPoint Find Address feature
  8. Oracle compatibility
  9. Rooms/Racks
  10. Saved filters/queries
  11. Setup: MapPoint/Workspace background
  12. Taper report
  13. Taper->Route Detail tab
  14. Termination Assignments report
  15. Termination Panel: Find route, fault, panel layout, route details
  16. Visio viewer

Forthcoming/In Progress Features
The following features do not have complete functionality or stability in the current release, and will be completed in future updates.

  1. Duct Bank Taper
  2. Lit Fiber report
  3. Route/Endpoint schematics
  4. Saved Routes
  5. Some thematic maps
  6. 'Tab It' and 'Dock It' tools
  7. 'Open OSP Geoset' with a network loaded

OSPInSight View 7.0.10 Unreleased

NEW FEATURES

  1. Visio viewer for viewing Visio documents related to OSPInSight objects
  2. Integrated Google Maps viewer with a Find Address function
  3. Saved Filters/Queries for lists and reports
  4. Find Address button on the toolbar that uses the MapPoint or Google maps
  5. Route detail now uses a Tree grid for collapsible sub-routs (splitters)

  6. The network-MapInfo layers now have attribute data synchronized with the .ntk, allowing more labeling
  7. Labeling Options- expanded to allow auto labeling on network layers without saving them to a workspace
  8. Multiple geoset or background files can be specified in the setup, and in the setup you can select which to load
  9. Users can change geosets without closing and reloading the network
  10. Tabbed windows and forms

  11. Re-sort columns in the Data View and lists by clicking the column header
  12. Variable opacity/transparency of forms. Change with Ctrl+O or Ctrl+P
  13. Saved XML tool for saving a snapshot of a list
  14. Customizable toolbars
  15. The Get Info tool will highlight the selected item in the appropriate list (if it's open) as well as the Data View

  16. In the Dataview you can highlight and copy values from the item list and the more info section
  17. In the Dataview you can right-click in the relations section and the tree view category section and select Print to get an html file of the contents of the window
  18. Double-click options in Display options, allowing you to specify an action when you double click an item in the treeview

IMPROVEMENTS

  1. Right-click on form titlebars, or left-click the top left icon in order to: save the form layout, change opacity, make the form dockable or add it to a tab group
  2. Click the Unselect button to hide the red cross used for mapping, as well as the route indicator triangles and route highlight
  3. Dataview now shows an ID column as well as the fields specified in the display options
  4. The Dataview and lists can now be re-ordered by clicking a column header without the confirmation appearing
  5. Multiple Objects selected window now provides more information
  6. The Work Order (Summary) Report has been redesigned

TIPS

  1. The attribute data stored in the MapInfo layers about your network objects is based on a snapshot of the data. When you modify the attribute data for single objects, the map layer's snapshot of that data will also be updated. However when you modify data in the lists or for hardware type that will ripple through the layer, you have the option to not update immediately. If that's the case you can manually synchronize the data in the database with the snapshot of the data on the maps through the Data Linker
  2. The Terminations list has been replaced by the Terminations Assignment report and the Ports list. The Terminations Assignment report take a while to generate, much longer than the 6.x Terminations list. Changing Groups can be done in the Ports list.

 

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