Tuesday, December 5, 2023

DBDOC 11.4 is available now!

DBDOC 11.4 features important new capabilities, particularly in terms of system support.  We see the first support for ABB SPE 2.4, as well as the first implementation of AC 800M support (alone, or in a mixed INFI 90 / AC 800M system).  In addition, there are significant improvements to support for 800xA and PGP graphics, as well as numerous bug fixes and improvements to Hyperview and the rest of the applications. 

Download DBDOC 11.4 Here

Powerful new support for SPE 2.4 systems. 

  • DBDOC now supports S+ Engineering 2.4 systems. 

Initial support for AC 800M systems. 

  • DBDOC now supports mixed INFI 90 / AC 800M and exclusively AC 800M systems. 
  • Full navigational and search support is implemented. 
  • Click to see all uses of a function block, and double-click to go to its location in the configuration.
  • Multipage sequence diagrams are automatically merged for easy visualization and navigation. 

Improved support for 800xA graphics 

  • BBA folders as well as ASSYST folders now searched by the build system. 
  • Improvements to hotspot generation, placement, and sizing. 
  • Improvements to dynamic bar support, and identification of more horizontal dynamic bars. 
  • Text handling improved to make search more correct and complete. 

Improved support for SPlus graphics 

  • Improved handling of SPO 3.3 .mimic & .bin files 
  • Many improvements to hotspot, link, and text generation and placement. 

Multi-user BuildPlus buildroots 

  • BuildPlus should now automatically and seamlessly handle multiple users, even of different privilege levels, seeing the same buildroots. 

Hyperview in a Web Browser 

  • Various and sundry bug fixes and improvements to functionality and usability.
  • More browsing and navigation idioms supported, such as browse and synch to table of contents. 
  • All dbdoc file “documents” can be accessed transparently via a regular web browser url. 

Search 

  • Recall search results with “R” key 
  • The database of a search result is now displayed in database search results. 
  • Title searches are now retained after restart, for convenience. 

Hyperview miscellaneous 

  • Due to popular demand, Treeview Table of Contents has been fully reinstated. 
  • Double click on a signal line on CAD/CLD goes to block source. 

Live data 

  • Blue “EXTERNAL” is no longer  shown for unfetchable live data on graphics. 
  • Stop fetching data for a block if Destination Node Offline error is received.