8.0A (20030515) – May '03 ( See Release Notes )

• The toolbar requires resetting in this release
• A summarize View has been added\
• A toolbar button has been added to enable and disable a Filter attached to a View
• A Sort toolbar button has been added
• Columns that make up the Sort Order are now highlighted with a color at the top of the column title
• A Refresh toolbar button has been added. The View can also be refreshed by pressing either F5 or F9
• "Tile Vertical" has been added as a Window option
• Beginmonth(), Beginweek(), Beginyear(), FiscalStart(), are available Date functions for defining formulas and filters with "floating" date ranges
• QUERYDATE("prompt"), QUERYNUMBER("prompt"), QUERYSTRING("prompt") are available to ask the user a question and have the result stored or used in a View
• Calculated columns can be used in Filters
• Calculated columns can be used in later defined calculated columns
• Lines beginning "//" are treated as comments in filters and formulas
• You can now save a View without any data
• Columns may be "Frozen" in position to allow easy scrolling of data
• Added dictionaries for ACCPAC Plus Accounts Receivable V7.0A, General Ledger V7.0A and Inventory Control V7.0A
• Highlighting a previously used file on the File menu displays the full path of the file on the status bar. Submenus have been added for Recent Workspaces and Recent Files
• ExcelDirect functionality has been improved in speed and formatting. Transfers can now be aborted by pressing the Escape key
• Sorting a large number of rows is now significantly faster
• The arguments and returned values from the string functions Find(), Mid(), Replace() and Choose() have been made consistent
• Data elements that contained a "\" character did not display properly. This has been fixed
• Sometimes the calculated value displayed on a right button click from a selection of entries would be incorrect. This has been fixed
• The install and workstation install now check to be sure the Windows user has administrator rights to the local machine
• The install now checks for Adagio programs in use by other workstations on a network

6.8A (20021015) – Oct '02

• Improved method of creating and modifying Filters and Calculated Columns. Views are automatically converted when they are first accessed. converted Views can not be opened by previous versions of GridView
• Filter definitions may use Calculated Columns
• Calculated Columns may be used when Linking Views
• Added Excel Direct to Export To menu and to the File Menu bar
• Help has been modified to reflect the improved method of defining Filters and Calculated Columns

6.8A (20020910) – Sept '02

• GridView stopped working 60 days after its initial use, even if you had registered and licensed the product
• In some cases, the Criteria was not saved and therefore the result was incorrect
• Some context Help links have been corrected
• When you defined a link and browsed for the View to link to, the listed files also included the workspace files (*.GVS). If you chose a workspace file, an error resulted. Only View files (*.GV) are shown now
• In rare cases, the link on some fields did not return the correct information

6.8A (20020726) – Jul '02

• Initial release of Adagio GridView.