----------------------------------------------------------- Principia Products Readme Notes for Remark Office OMR 6.0.1 Update January 2006 ----------------------------------------------------------- (C) 2006 Copyright Principia Products, a division of Gravic, Inc. Thank you for using Remark Office OMR 6. The Remark Office OMR 6.0.1 update adds some new enhancements and corrects a few minor problems since the original 6.0 release. To install the update, double click the Roo601up.exe file to launch the update and then follow the on-screen instructions. The following enhancements were made: ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2578. DEFAULT FLAG BLANKS PREFERENCE ADDED You may now set a Flag Blanks preference for Grid regions (a default setting). ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2603. PROMPT TO ADD ALL SCANNED PAGES FOR MULTI-PAGE FORM If inserting a page in the Template Editor and more than one page is scanned, a prompt was added to insert all scanned pages. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2604. COMPARATIVE ITEM REPORT ENHANCEMENT The Comparative Item Report was updated to include a property to display question text. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2605. CLOSE ALL DATA GRIDS OPTION ADDED An option was added to close all open data grids in the Data Center (without having to close the entire program). ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2674. AUTOMATION WIZARD UPDATED TO INCLUDE REMARK QUICK STATS 6 Support for Remark Quick Stats 6 was added to the automation wizard for: 1) Easy Grade, Easy Survey, Grade Wizard, Survey Wizard 2) Generating Reports 3) Exporting Reports 4) Printing Reports 5) Saving RQS Files 6) Exporting Gradebooks 7) Exporting Data and Results An updated Remark Office OMR Automation Wizard User's Guide can be found under Start|Programs|Remark Office OMR 6|Documentation once you install the update. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2769. DB2 SUPPORT ADDED TO ODBC The ability to save data to DB2 databases via ODBC was added. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2851. MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 2005 SUPPORT ADDED TO ODBC The ability to save data to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 databases via ODBC was added. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2862. ALLOW MULTIPLE STUDENTS PER PAGE ON STUDENT GRADE REPORT An option to remove page breaks between students on the Student Grade Report was added. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2882. SORT STUDENT GRADE REPORT AND STUDENT STATITICS REPORT The ability to sort the Student Grade Reports and Student Statistics Report was added. ------------------------------------------------------------- The following fixes were made: ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2508. OPEN TOOLS MENU WITH SERVER MODE AND REVIEW EXCEPTIONS FIXED: If using server mode and review exception and the Tools menu is selected (dropped-down) when an exception case is processed, the menu would not disappear until focus is lost from the application (i.e. ALT+TAB). Also the tools menu will not be accessible again until review exceptions is completed. The tools menu should now close automatically when review exceptions is triggered. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2525. RESETTING FORM TEMPLATE IMAGES When you placed more pages in the scanner than there are form template pages,and then use the Reset Images Utility, the software would scan all pages and choose the last one scanned as the final image (you could not toggle through the images). There will now be a warning prompt and you can select which image(s) to keep. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2574. SUBSCRIPT OUT OF RANGE ERROR ON LINKED REGION FIXED: If the largest region on a page was a subsequent part of a linked region and it was also the last region on the page, a subscript out of range error would occur when recognizing that region. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2575. RIGHT CLICKING WHILE CREATING REGION IN TEMPLATE EDITOR FIXED: You could right click in the image area of the Template Editor as you were creating a region. If you chose Append Linked Region from the subsequent menu, an Error #9000 occurred. Right clicking as regions are being created was disabled. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2576. CANCEL PAGE WHILE SCANNING FIXED: With certain scanners, cancelling a scan session before it completed would cause the software to hang. Cancelling a scan session should now end the scan session gracefully. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2577. UNLINKING MULTIPLE REGIONS VIA IMAGE AREA FIXED: Disabled the ability to highlight and unlink multiple regions via the image area of the Template Editor. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2581. BOOLEAN PREFERENCES NOT SAVED CORRECTLY ON INTERNATIONAL OS FIXED: If international Visual Basic language files are installed, Remark Office OMR6 did not save and load Boolean preferences correctly since the Boolean values for True and False were translated into the corresponding language. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2576. SOFTWARE FREEZES WHEN CANCELLING SCANNING FIXED: With some scanners, the software would freeze when scanning a page was cancelled. This problem could occur using the Read Wizard, Easy Scan or in the Unrecognized Images window. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2587. ERROR #9000 WHEN CLOSING TEMPLATE EDITOR FIXED: An Error #9000 occurred if you started to create a region by clicking Insert Region, but then closed the software by clicking the X in the upper right corner of the window. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2588. PATTERN BOX DISABLED IN TEMPLATE EDITOR FIXED: When changing the size of a Grid OMR region where you have already entered labels, the Pattern box became disabled. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2589. FIND/REPLACE IN DATA GRID FIXED: When using Find Next within a group of highlighted cells, clicking Replace would not replace the value in the initial cell that was highlighted. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2591. MENUS DISABLED IN SERVER MODE If using Server Mode with IDs and selecting to review on unrecognized images, when you cancelled in the Unrecognized Images Utility, only the Tools menu would be enabled. All menus are now re-enabled. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2592. UNRECOGNIZED IMAGES FOR REGIONS USING DATABASE LOOKUP FIXED: Respondent IDs with Database Lookup were placed into the Unrecognized Images queue when the Database verification information was not successful. The Respondent information was understood correctly, but the corresponding information was not found in the linked database. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2593. ERROR #9000 SAVING BOOLEAN REGIONS TO ACCESS When saving data that has boolean regions set to the words True and False, an Error #9000 would occur. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2609. CUSTOM REPLACE BLANKS WITH ENTRY FIXED: If the value of Replace Blanks With in a previously created OMR region was changed to user-defined text, but no other changes were made to the OMR region, it did not hold the change. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2620. CHANGING DEFAULT FILL VALUE DOES NOT WORK FIXED: If the default fill property was adjusted for an image region, but no other changes to the region were made, the change would not occur. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2626. ERROR #9000 SAVING REPORT PREFERENCES An Error #9000 occurred when changing the Exclude Missing Values option in Remark Quick Stats. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2633. DATABASE LOOKUP AND REPLACE WITH ODBC In the template editor when you tried to perform Database Lookup and Replace using an ODBC database, two problems occurred for a DSN based database: 1) The two checkboxes for DSN/Directory were not mutually exclusive. 2) When you selected the DSN checkbox, the Connect to Database button did not enable. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2673. MENUS DISABLED USING SERVER MODE FIXED: When reading a multipage image in Server Mode and clicking the Cancel button, all menus were disabled except for Tools. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2688. SPELL CHECK ERROR FIXED: When using spell check to replace a word in the data grid, if the word appeared in a cell with other text as well, the entire cell contents were replaced with the revised word. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2689. OVERWRITING FORM TEMPLATE PAGES WITH IMAGE FILES If overwriting a grid row using an image file, and setting the begin with template page to something besides page 1, the first template page was overwritten. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2698. CONVERTING VERSION 5 TEMPLATES AND REGION NAMES FIXED: When you convert a Remark Office OMR 5 template, Remark Office OMR 6 put the old Field Name in repeatedly under Region Names. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2699. DELETING QUESTION NAMES ONLY DOES NOT WORK FIXED: If you deleted question names under Question Text and Names in the Region Properties window, it did not remove the names. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2701. SAVING DATA TO ASCII FORMATS WITH IMAGE NAMES When saving data to the ASCII & Spreadsheet formats, image names were included in the data by default. When data was saved, the path to the images was included in the data file when not requested. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2754. CLASS FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION REPORT UPDATED When using a custom Grade Scale that caused the 103 - Class Frequency Distribution to exceed one page it would not display the subsequent pages. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2756. STUDENT GRADE REPORT IMAGES UPDATED The Student Grade Report displayed the incorrect image when the images were loaded from a multiple page image file. The image displayed was from the prior record for image pages 2 and up. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2776. GRADE SCALE DECIMAL PRECISION UPDATED "Incorrect" grades could be reported since the comparison between the actual grade and the grade scale used differing precisions. For example, if the grade scale said that 92.67 and above is an "A" and the student scored 92.666666667, then the student would receive a "B". ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2806. UNLINKED REGIONS DO DISPLAY BLANK FLAG CHANGES FIXED: When changes to the Blank Flags option are made to a group of linked regions by double clicking on the region in the tree view, these change are not reflected in all of the regions after they are un-linked. The only region that reflects the changes is the first region in the linked set. The Blank Flags option is now disabled when viewing properties of a region that is part of a linked set of regions. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2846. CLICKING REPORT PROPERTIES BEFORE REPORTS INDEXED FIXED: When running an analysis operation, several tools were available in Remark Quick Stats before initialization had completed. Remark Quick Stats is now disabled until after initialization completes. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2889. MISSING VALUES ON THE CONDENSED ITEM ANALYSIS REPORT FIXED: Missing values were sometimes misreported on the Condensed Item Analysis report. Missing values should now be accurately represented. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2892. SERVER MODE MENUS FIXED: When server mode starts, all menus are disabled except for Tools->End Server Mode. If Review Exceptions comes up and the user clicks Finish, all menus are re-enabled. They now return to the server mode menu state. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2901. TEXT WRAPPING IN THE RESPONSE REPORT BY ITEM FIXED: Response Report by Item would not correctly wrap long text when the respondent identifier was not being displayed. Long text should now display correctly with or without the respondent identifier being displayed. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2910. GRADE SCALES AND THE AUTOMATION WIZARD FIXED: When specifying an answer key file from the command line that uses custom grade scales, the custom grade scales are not actually used. Remark Quick Stats uses the default grade scales for both the overall test and the learning objectives instead. The appropriate grade scales should now be used when running from the command line (Automation Wizard). ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2911. LIST OF REPORTS AND THE AUTOMATION WIZARD FIXED: If analyzing data from the command line, the specified reports will generate; however, the list of available reports is never built so the user cannot run additional reports manually. The list of reports is not generated when running from the command line. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2912. AUTO SEARCH COMBO WHILE REVIEWING EXCEPTIONS FIXED: If typing into the review exceptions drop-down combo while the list is dropped down, its possible for an "Invalid procedure call or argument" error to occur. It also selects the last item in the list. The correct item is now auto selected when typing into the drop-down combo and the error no longer occurs. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2919. DISABLE PDF SUPPORT ON WINDOWS 98SE FIXED: Support for PDF based image files was incorrectly enabled for the Windows 98SE operating system. PDF support should now be disabled on Windows 98SE. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2929. MUTLIPLE KEYS AND POINTS OF INCORRECT RESPONSES FIXED: An error occurs when clicking the Get Key button in the multiple keys section of the Grade wizard and one or more questions have incorrect answer points or no answer points set to non-default values. Non-default values no longer trigger an error when using multiple keys. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2937. ERROR WHEN DOUBLE-CLICKING A REPORT LINK FIXED: An error may occur when double clicking on a report link listed in the display report section of Remark Quick Stats. Subsequent clicks will no longer trigger report generation (until the first execution completes). ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2940. EMPTY REPORT LIST IN ANALYSIS PREFERENCES FIXED: When viewing the Analysis Preferences dialog (accessed from the Tools menu in Data Center), the drop-down Report selection boxes on the Default Reports panel do not display any reports. The report lists are now auto-generated when displaying the analysis preferences from the Data Center. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q2941. RESPONDENT DETECTION ERROR FIXED: When not displaying Form tracker fields, the respondent detection on the DB return fields does not always use the correct grid column index. Respondent detection should now use the correct index. ------------------------------------------------------------- If you discover what you think is a potential problem in the Remark Office OMR software please let us know. You can reach technical support by email at support@principiaproducts.com, fax at +1.610.647.8771, or phone at +1.610.647.8595. And don't forget to visit the Support section of our web site at www.principiaproducts.com/support.html where you will find a wealth of valuable information and solutions to some of the more common problems.