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SkyWin
®
17.4
17.4.1 — Aug 17, 2017
New features / enhancements
A new list that shows every jumper or group that has been jumping today, the list is automatically refreshed and shows current account balance. Access it from the
View
menu.
Payment lists contains the reason for payment/withdrawal, and in the case of jump payments a new markup with parenthesis is used if a payment has been done for another jumper.
Bug fixes
The alternative menu in the manifest list has been fixed to only pop up when relevant, it sometimes was shown when a user clicked instead of dragging a jumper.
The
Checkin
menu item is now available all times, regardless of the selected day in the manifest view.
Jump type
is always set and if no jump type can be derived from user input the standard "O" is used, and the user will be notified.
If
Manifest times (xxx)
in the settings has a value of "0" it will be treated as it would have been set to "1".
Double-clicking on a
Passenger
in the list will always check if user has the correct permission.
The automatic added weight for tandem equipment will be correct if a tandem jumper is being copied from another load.
Removed functionality
The support for IBM DB2 has been removed. SkyWin will still work but no more updates delivered. If you are using IBM DB2 for your SkyWin data, please contact SkyWinner to get help with migration.
17.4.0 — May 30, 2017
New features / enhancements
The manifestor can mark a jumper as having deployed the reserve parachute.
Passenger
, and the printed health statement, has new attributes
health_pressure
,
health_serious_injury
and
health_sober
.
A credit check is performed for
Group/Team
, if the jumpers in it have
Team accounts
.
SkyWin web services: POST to tandem/passenger has new attributes
health_pressure
,
health_serious_injury
and
health_sober
.
Bug fixes
EOF/BOF error after transferring money to a group has been removed.
Possible to show
Jump types
even if some attributes contains
NULL
.
Manifest filter could not be completely emptied, when restarting
SkyWin
the filter was never empty.
Remove requirement of valid license when changing the "Debit" account/person for a jump (if settings for license validity is turned off).
SkyWin web services: Take account for the header
Content-Type
to perform decoding of encoded POSTs.
Removed functionality
The ability to store and print user-defined rows on the load sheet has been removed due to many printer errors.
SkyWin
®
17.3
17.3.2 — Apr 16, 2017
New features / enhancements
Delete internal messages (intended for
SkyView
), same permission as creating and updating messages.
Bug fixes
Showed license
in
Check in
had a line wrap making the label unreadable.
17.3.1 — Apr 16, 2017
New features / enhancements
When moving jumpers back from a
Load
to the
Manifest sheet
, the jumpers will be grouped accordingly in the
Manifest sheet
.
Warning message is issued (if selected in
Options
) when a jumper is added to the
Manifest sheet
if the
Balance
on their
Account
is close to zero.
New setting for controlling whether automatic validation of licenses should be performed, the default value is
Yes
.
Bug fixes
Boogie registration
crash has been fixed by always using jump type "O" as the default.
SkyWish
could manifest jumpers by mistake, permissions have been revoked.
17.3.0 — Apr 13, 2017
New features / enhancements
Validation for
Social Security Number
has been added for Finnish individuals - based on selected
Nationality
.
When moving jumpers from the
Manifest sheet
to a
Load
, the whole group will automatically be selected and moved.
Report
Jump day report
has been extended and is now showing jump statistics for jumpers that were on a load but did not jump.
Bug fixes
Input validation corrected for attributes
Altitude
and
Comment
, in all jump-related dialogues.
Check-in
functionality has been updated regarding validation and functionality to remove minor flaws.
Minor text adjustments to clarify the meaning of attributes and error messages.
SkyWin
®
17.2
17.2.1 — Mar 6, 2017
Bug fixes
Fixed date/time formatting for non Swedish users with Finnish date/time settings.
17.2.0 — Jan 29, 2017
New features / enhancements
Swedish education plan, SFU, is added when initializing SkyWin
Support for automatic statistics upload to national association, format is defined for the Swedish SFF.
Enabled manual update of payment types to restrict which of them can be used in SkyWin (requires a separate update-SQL file).
Bug fixes
Removed unwanted date formatting for non Swedish users.
Fixed enabled/disabled settings for the attribute "Withdraw from account" when entering payments.
SkyWin
®
16.1
16.1.2 — Aug 6, 2016
New features / enhancements
New setting for showing the altitude in
SkyView
.
Bug fixes
Fix the DOCTYPE statement in HTML emails, could result in strange characters when using the built in email client in phones.
16.1.1 — Jun 7, 2016
New features / enhancements
New setting for controlling how many loads for each aircraft will be shown in
SkyView
.
New setting for extra weight to be added for all Tandem jumps, can be used to automatically add weight for heavy tandem rigs.
Remove
Weight
for jumpers in
SkyWish
.
Add
Weight
for passengers in
SkyView
.
Fix error with spaces when posting data to SkyWin Web Services (install WS 2.2).
Only show passengers from current year as default, with possibility to show them all.
Keep the tandem pax edit window open, after reporting errors that must be fixed.
Bug fixes
Fix search for members if the current selected tree is "Skydiving".
Date error when creating new licenses has been fixed.
16.1.0 — Mar 20, 2016
New features / enhancements
Search members
is updated and uses the standard search functionality within SkyWin. Try it out by hitting
Ctrl+F
in the main program.
When showing payments, all types will always be visible (previous behavior removed payments for jumps).
Function for checking in jumpers shows the last 25 transactions (increased from 20).
Register | Payments
shows the last 25 transactions (increased from 20) if
Show all
is unmarked.
Show
Weight
for jumpers in the
Manifest sheet
.
If
External license
is entered for jumper when checking in, all other fields for license are cleared.
Bug fixes
Set average
Weight
for Passengers.
SkyWin
®
14.3
14.3.6 — Sep 9, 2015
New features / enhancements
Zip code
without spaces is valid even if the format requires spaces - example
NB121BY
is now valid for
UK
.
14.3.5 — Jun 14, 2015
New features / enhancements
Load sheet
now shows the name of a group, instead of only showing
Group leader
.
Bug fixes
Payment view had some issues with enabling and disabling attributes.
14.3.4 — May 30, 2015
Bug fixes
Report
jump day statement
crashed with SQL error.
Archive database
could not be run if a
Boogie
was about to be archived.
14.3.3 — Apr 24, 2015
New features / enhancements
Repack date
for the reserve can be stated when checking in jumpers.
14.3.2 — Aug 31, 2014
Bug fixes
Jumpers could occasionally get marked as students when they were not.
14.3.1 — Jul 30, 2014
New features / enhancements
The order of fields for
Payment
has been changed to better support the most common usage.
Bug fixes
Pressing the
Esc
key when registering a
Payment
should mean the same as pressing the
Cancel
button.
14.3.0 — Jul 20, 2014
New features / enhancements
New setting for controlling which persons, based on their member type, that can receive payments. Set in SkyWin under "Register management -> Type of members".New setting for controlling which persons, based on their member type, that can receive payments. Set in SkyWin under "Register management -> Type of members".
New setting for controlling if empty loads should appear on SkyView or not. Set in SkyWin under "Settings -> SkyView".
Sorting of "Members" and "Groups" on their "Balance" has been fixed - did not work under certain circumstances.
New setting for controlling if jumpers always must state the "Altitude". Set in SkyWin under "Settings -> Manifest".
License information for member is shown when registering payments.
Possible to save education jump with number "0" (zero).
Bug fixes
Copy aircraft details out of order - is now working again.
Search result is filtered from duplicates, could occur if a "Member" has the same "internal number" as "member number".
Refresh of the manifest list is enhanced in cases when a load is created.
"Overflow error" (and SkyWin stopping) when entering very, very high altitudes. Altitudes has been restricted to contain a maximum of 6 digits.
SkyWin
®
14.2
14.2.0 — Apr 20, 2014
New features / enhancements
"SkyView" shows the full name of jumpers according to settings (previously no nick name where shown).
New settings for controlling the time when colors are set in the "SkyView timer". Set them in SkyWin under "Settings -> SkyView".
Support for
MS SQL Server 2012/2014 (OLEDB 11 driver)
added.
Bug fixes
"SkyView" messages can be saved for users with
MS SQLServer
.
SkyWin
®
14.1
14.1.1 — Mar 11, 2014
New features / enhancements
Discontinuation
: Windows versions
95/98/Me
,
2000
, and
NT
are no longer supported. Please upgrade to at least
Windows XP
before installing this update of SkyWin.
SkyWin options
can be saved to file instead of to the
Windows Registry
, by passing the parameter "
-properties
" to SkyWin at startup.
SkyWin options
will also be saved to file if running on
Windows 8
.
Clarification by renaming
Weight
to
Exit weight
.
Bug fixes
Version handling of the database reported error on computers with a "." as decimal point (in the
Control Panel - Regional settings
), when trying to upgrade.
Error text added when trying to remove a
Boogie
with registered
Payments
.
Tandem passengers are hidden when registering payments. This change was introduced on purpose in version
14.1.0
by mistake, now passengers can be shown again, also when making payments.
14.1.0 — Feb 16, 2014
New features / enhancements
A new permission "Transfer - overdraft" can be used to execute a transfer between two accounts even if the transfer results in a negative balance.
Tandem passengers are hidden when registering payments.
Removed the column
Receipt
from all lists of payments, increasing performance when fetching a long list of payments.
SkyView will include loads from yesterday together with loads from today and tomorrow.
Bug fixes
Payments returned "Key is not unique in collection" if a receipt was registered twice for the same payment. This could happen for payment types
MEMBER
and
DISCOUNT
.
SkyCalls crashed with reference to a missing resource with identifier
2005
.
SkyWin
®
13.4
13.4.3 — Jan 5, 2014
Bug fixes
Version handling of the database reported error on computers with a "." as decimal point (in the
Control Panel - Regional settings
).
13.4.2 — Dec 31, 2013
New features / enhancements
Report
Account report
has been enhanced to work as accounting statement leading to better control of your finances in SkyWin
®
.
An organizational belonging has to be stated when checking in new jumpers.
It is now possible to re-print a
Receipt
for any (old) transaction. Open
Register | Payments
and search for a
Member
, mark a row in the list of transactions and press
Ctrl+P
.
Function for checking in jumpers only shows the last 20 transactions.
Register | Payments
only shows the last 20 transactions if
Show all
is unmarked.
Database connection can test for connectivity, and optionally re-open automatically. This has effect if SkyWin is running for a long time and the database gets unreachable for a (short) time during that.
Bug fixes
The report
Air plane statistics
has been corrected to exclude jumpers that was in the load but never jumped.
Function for checking in jumpers could leave error message when trying to save a
Member
.
13.4.2 — Dec 31, 2013
New features / enhancements
Report
Account report
has been enhanced to work as accounting statement leading to better control of your finances in SkyWin
®
.
An organizational belonging has to be stated when checking in new jumpers.
It is now possible to re-print a
Receipt
for any (old) transaction. Open
Register | Payments
and search for a
Member
, mark a row in the list of transactions and press
Ctrl+P
.
Function for checking in jumpers only shows the last 20 transactions.
Register | Payments
only shows the last 20 transactions if
Show all
is unmarked.
Database connection can test for connectivity, and optionally re-open automatically. This has effect if SkyWin is running for a long time and the database gets unreachable for a (short) time during that.
Bug fixes
The report
Air plane statistics
has been corrected to exclude jumpers that was in the load but never jumped.
Function for checking in jumpers could leave error message when trying to save a
Member
.
13.4.1 — Oct 20, 2013
New features / enhancements
Manifesting a group is now possible with more jump types than before.
Previously these three jump types were allowed;
D(isplay)
,
C(ompetition)
,
O(ther)
.
Now all jump types that have one of these three as statistics type are allowed. If you create your own jump type, make sure you use one of these as statistics type if you would like to use the new jump type for a group.
Bug fixes
Table name for
Selections
misspelled affecting those running MySQL with case sensitive installation.
When upgrading old databases to 13.3 there was a problem with the definition of a new database table resulting in incomplete database upgrade.
Payment reasons could be set to an unknown value, resulting in errors when showing a Member's payments.
SkyView mixes jumpers in loads if they are planned for current date and for tomorrow.
13.4.0 — Aug 24, 2013
New features / enhancements
Function for checking in jumpers is enhanced with more attributes, this function can be reached with the key
F8
. The function can be used to either checkin new members, complete information for current members and/or renew license information.
The previous function for renewal of jumpers has been replaced with the updated checkin/renewal function.
The order of reports is enhanced, with the most common lists/reports at the top. Some older lists have been hidden by removing permissions, they can easily be shown again by entering (in the SkyWin menu)
Register | Access groups... | Open
- and then enable one of the following functions: "Print - labels", "Print - new students", "Print - renewals" or "Print - subsidy form".
A new permission "Groups - view archived" is needed to show archived groups.
Tandem passenger enhancements:
Extended the validation
Added jump type for tandem pilot
Functionality for grouping passengers together
Smartened the "Tandem report"
If the jump is being removed from a
Load
or the
Manifest sheet
, the status will be changed to reflect that the passenger hasn't jumped
Setup/installation of SkyWin:
Included VisualBasic runtime files
Included MDAC files
Included demo database in the installation — it can be found under
program_files/SkyWinner/SkyWin/demo
The same setup can be used for either a clean installation or an upgrade of SkyWin
Bug fixes
A rare bug creating errors in the database has been fixed, very important to upgrade to this release to avoid data loss
Report
Activity ranking
- only include Members (removed
PAX
).
Report
Jump type report
- always show name of the passenger if jump type is
Tandem
or
Photo/Video
.
Removed error
Duplicate entry
that sometimes was triggered when saving
Member
or
Club
.
SkyWin
®
13.3
13.3.1 — Jun 30, 2013
Bug fixes
Some error messages related to database table names have been removed. Known messages that has been fixed:
Table xxxx.intSystemFuncs doesn't exist
Table xxxx.TypePaymentReason doesn't exist
Table xxxx.LoadjumpRequest doesn't exist
13.3.0 — Jun 22, 2013
New features / enhancements
Opened up for the possibility to create jump plans without requirering them to be for students.
Added a new setting for guest members, to be relieved from
guest fee
when manifesting.
Bug fixes
Removed the tag "</group>" from
skyview.xml
when showing empty loads.
Fixed "runtime error" when trying to manifest non-student for a student jump.
SkyWin
®
13.2
13.2.3 — Jun 8, 2013
New features / enhancements
Adapted for MySQL ODBC/Connector version 5.2.
Bug fixes
Could not drag jumper(s) from
Manifest sheet
to a specific Load.
13.2.2 — Jun 4, 2013
Bug fixes
Skyview.xml
contained illegal character "&".
Manifest sheet
returned "Key is not unique in collection" if a jumper was on the wishlist twice with the same time stamp.
Error when opening Member if the length of internal key (
InternalNo
) was shorter then 6 digits.
13.2.1 — Jun 2, 2013
New features / enhancements
Mark a jump in the
Manifest sheet
as a free jump.
Report
Jumpday report
has been revised and enhanced.
Bug fixes
Error when printing
Jump account report
.
Error when sorting lists (by clicking the heading).
Error when showing the Student jumps for an Education if Price is missing.
Guest fee can not be debited for Tandem passengers.
13.2.0 — May 28, 2013
New features / enhancements
SkyWin
®
can run in read-only mode, without a valid software license.
Student jumps can specify rent and wage.
Bug fixes
Unable to search for Tandem Passengers in some situations.
SkyWin
®
13.1
13.1.3 — May 15, 2013
New features / enhancements
Separate member type (PAX) for
Passengers
.
Bug fixes
Removed requirement to add info about contact person for
Passengers
.
13.1.2 — May 5, 2013
New features / enhancements
Select date when printing (via right click) from a
Member
.
Discontinuation:
Files (containing email addresses) that was created during print of Member list has been removed
13.1.1 — Apr 27, 2013
New features / enhancements
Right click on
Member
to get directly to
Payments
for selected member.
Bug fixes
SkyWish got "Type mismatch" occasionally.
13.1.0 — Apr 22, 2013
New features / enhancements
Register
Tandem passengers
with health declaration.
Fee debit
with specified
Payment type
.
Setting to control whether every payment should be checked for consistency.
Discontinuation:
Report
Members in debt
("
Hoppstoppslista
").
Discontinuation:
Report
Payments
("
Betalningar
").
Name of report
Financial jump report
("
Ekonomisk hopprapport
") changed to
Jump type report
("
Hopptypsrapport
").
Mark
Clubs
as not
In use
, makes them unselectable for
Members
.
Report
Account report
("
Hoppkontorapport
") changed, all jumps are considered to belong to the year they were performed.
Register
Home DZ
for
Members
.
Remember the setting
Show all
in
Payments
.
Renewal of
Members
reads previous
Club
from
Member
and presents it correctly.
Enabled sending SMTP mail for some reports and via
Export member
.
Bug fixes
Create Boogie
sometimes reported date error, corrected.
Student jumps gets the correct prices, even if the student hasn't a valid
Education
registered.
Made it impossible to drag jumper(s) from the
Manifest sheet
if a group is being registered, and the group is not marked as complete.
Correction to the
Load sheet
where some
Tandem jumps
were missing.
Correction to the
Load sheet
where some jumpers were shown as
Load master
, even if that was from a previous year.
Correction to the report
Account list
, some amounts showed incorrectly if the list was antedated.
The local database will be backed-up before upgrading SkyWin
®
to a newer version.
Take the nationality from
Settings
for new
Members
.
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®
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some release notes as PDF
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