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WHAT IS NEW IN Redatam+SP?

Note: You can keep your system up-to-date by downloading and installing the latest UpGrade in the most recent R+SP version. Periodically, new UpGrades will be issued (indicated by the Revision number, Rev xx); as these are cumulative, you need only to download and install the latest UpGrade if you did not install earlier ones.

Cumulative List of Changes (most recent UpGrade and Version first)

R+SPV5Rev01 (compared with the last version R+SPV5Rev00)

General

  1. New display format for panels and Windows of the R+SP Process and R+SP Create modules.

  2. Satisfactory checking of performance of REDATAM+SP in the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. The only exceptions are the help files (.hlp) which Vista doesn't support. All previous Redatam+SP versions and R+SP xPlan applications should work normally.
  3. More facilities in the R+SP Create y R+SP VisualDDF modules foreseeing the coming 2010 Population and Housing census round.
  4. Optimization of methods, improvements and corrections according to results of the tests preformed to the system.

Documentation

  1. Auto help functions for the R+SP Process and R+SP Create modules in the four languages (English, French, Portuguese and Spanish).

  2. Update of the examples provided en the Redatam database creation process.
  3. Update and standardization of the New Miranda R+SP xPlan and R+SP WebServer applications in the fur languages.
  4. This document in French.
  5. New error messages, warnings and tips (Tips&Tricks) in the four languages supported by the system.

Process

  1. Automatic opening of a dictionary (*.dic) and/or a statistical processing command (*.spc) using the explorer in Windows. To do this the extension must be associated to the program Process.exe.

  2. Save the dictionary without virtual entities.
  3. More functions added to the COUNT of the command language of the Statistical Process: new options to sort and to limit the number of cases to display.
  4. New functions in the command language of the Statistical Process:
    1. Sort Area lists descendent or ascendant.
    2. Limit the number of cases to display in the output area list, in the table with absolute values as well as in the table with percentages.
  5. Command editor: comments supported with "//" at the end of a line.
  6. Possibility to choose different colors for the main menu in the Preferences window.
  7. Output panels available through the vertical right scroll bar of the window.

Create

  1. Conversion of a CSPro database dictionary to a Chillan format dictionary (R+SP DDF) and vice versa.

  2. Automatic opening of a wip file (*.wip) with the new structure of a Redatam database and/or a lsd file (*lsd) with the scheme of a new Redatam database using the Windows explorer To do this the extension must be associated to the program Create.exe.
  3. Direct execution from a batch file (.bat) using the name of the LSD file as parameter.
  4. Direct execution of a Redatam database generation process using the name of the LSD files as parameter only.
  5. Select and deselect all variables to include in a new database without having to switch from one entity to another.
  6. Verify maximun/minmun values of all variables from a selected entity.
  7. Verify maximun/minmun values from the data source definition.
  8. Possibility to choose different colors for the main menu in the Preferences window.
  9. Output panels available through the vertical right scroll bar of the window.

xPlan

  1. More compatibility and standardization between R+SP xPlan and R+SP WebServer.

  2. Some nodes from R+SP xPlan version now compatible with R+SP WebServer (such as nodes like PAGETYPE).
  3. New Node (NODETYPE=DisplayHtml) for the support of Web pages.
  4. Now the type and name of the section of the active node appears in the status bar.
  5. Optimization of the Selections, Universes and Databases information display.
  6. Adding the general parameter OMITTOTALS in the PREFERENCES section.
  7. Node PlanCount: Supports the expansion factor (WEIGTH o WGT).
  8. Node PlanFraction: The height (HEIGHT) for the numerator (NUM) and denominator (DENUM) can be defined separately.

WebServer

  1. More compatibility and standardization between R+SP xPlan and R+SP WebServer.

  2. Adding the general parameter OMITTOTALS in the PREFERENCES section.
  3. New support and compatibility for the percentages options from the R+SP Process (PCR, PCC, PCT) besides the (ROW, COLUMN, TOTAL).
  4. Node QTS: execution with all the categories selected.

VisualDDF

  1. Exportation of the Chillan format dictionary (R+SP DDF) to CsPro.

  2. Importation of the CSPro dictionary to a Chillan format dictionary (R+SP DDF).

Cumulative List of Changes: UpGrade and Version of Redatam+SP

Cumulative List of Changes: UpGrade and Version of Redatam+G4


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