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This latest version of ENCORE!
is now available for sale. As we have been doing for the last 20 years, we let customer feedback drive the bulk
of the development effort for this new version. We also use the product ourselves to build models and systems for
customers to make sure the software does what it needs to do. Having to solve real world problems can sometimes
be humbling, but it sure helps focus the development effort on what's most important.
New documentation with great indexes:
- ENCORE! User's Guide
- Exec User's Guide
- ENCORE! Reference Manual
Exec programming language
- The biggest improvements were made to the Exec programming language. It is now
a mature tool for putting together automated planning and analysis systems, and for creating applications that
non-developers may run. Besides handling the menus and screen display, Exec is especially strong at parsing and
organizing data coming in from multiple sources.
Exec improvements include:
- Compound variables (similar to arrays in other programming languages)
- New CSVWORD function for parsing CSV (comma separated values) strings.
- New DRILLDOWN command for row analysis.
- Enhancements to EDITBOXDIALOG command.
- New GETCOLDATA and GETROWDATA commands copy values from all cells
in a column or row into compound variables; PUTCOLDATA and PUTROWDATA copy values from compound variables
into a column or row.
· New GETCOLNUM function converts a column name to a column number.
- New SETMATRIXMODIFIED command sets or resets the "matrix has been
modified" flag for a matrix.
- New GETMATRIXERROR function retrieves the ENCORE! error code for a matrix.
- New INFOBOX command displays text data in a scrolling, modal dialog box.
- Enhancements to LISTBOXDIALOG command, including a feature that restricts
displayed row names to rows belonging to specified row classes.
- New PRINTSETUPDIALOG runs a standard Windows Print Setup dialog.
- New GETFOCUSCELL function obtains the coordinates of the focus cell of
an open custom-menu input form.
Graphics
- Integration with the Graphics Server from Pinnacle WebWork provides high quality, flexible graphics
- Drilldown piechart lets you pick on a piece and look at the detail
- Toolbar option allows user to change graph characteristics on the fly
Report Generator
- Graphics are now integrated with reports. Barcharts, line graphs, and
piecharts can be put on the same page as the rest of the report.
- Rownames can be put in the middle of the page with the RowNamesAfter command.
- Columns and cells can now be shaded based on user-defined criteria.
- Multiple rows can now be printed by specifying a range of row names. (e.g.
'Sales' - 'Net Income')
Other improvements
- Undo feature in text editor.
- Include statement in input forms manager.
- RVSeed in logic allows setting a seed for the random number generator.
- UOPDepr function in logic allows calculation of "unit of production"
depreciation.
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