Welcome to Alexsys Team 98.5.1 !

Announcing Alexsys Team-SQL!

Team-SQL now serves your enterprise needs with SQL Server support for just a fraction of the cost of other products. Just set up a new database and account on your SQL server and Team will upload your current database. From then on, Team runs with your tables from your SQL server. Team-SQL supports Microsoft SQL server 6.5, and will support Oracle 8 server by the end of the year.

Team-SQL takes Team to a new level with:

• Faster performance
• Rock solid reliability
• Support for large databases
• Support for more users
• Support for Wide Area Networks
• Compatibility with your existing databases and tools

New Features

Enhancements

Fixes

Points of Interest

New Feature in Team 98.5.1 and Team-SQL 98.5.1

New Features in Team 98.5 and Team-SQL 98.5

Alexsys Team-SQL

Team-SQL is the client/server version of Team that allows you to use Alexsys Team with Microsoft SQL Server. Team has been optimized using native SQL to achieve maximum performance with minimal network traffic. This makes it much faster at database sorts and filtering while maintaining our easy to use interface. Other than the performance boost, the features and feel of Team are unchanged.

Our database utility has been updated with a new interface and an 'SQL Setup' option for simple upgrades. The process is as follows:

• Install Microsoft SQL Server *
• Create a Database for Team to use
• Run the Team Database Utility and fill in the database and login information
• Press the Connect and Upload buttons to copy your database to the server

Team 98.5, even when registered, can run the trial version of Team-SQL, so there is nothing new to download. If you have Microsoft SQL Server, you have everything you need to try Team-SQL today.

* Version 6.5 is required. Other versions have not been validated.

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New Features

New in 98.5.1

Quick Find

You can find Work Requests easily using the new Find button and Tools|Find menu located in the TeamView and List windows. Find searches all fields simultaneously, then displays the results in a new List window. Finding information in Team has never been this easy.

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New in 98.5

Customizable Work Request

In addition to the existing customization of field names and other rules, you can customize the Work Request form by

• moving fields in the form,
• removing fields from the form,
• assigning existing text fields to lookup tables, and
• assigning more than one text field to a single lookup table.

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Custom Fields

Team's flexibility has been tremendously increased with the addition of 30 new custom fields. Existing lookup fields have been increased from 16 to 20 characters each.

The new custom fields added include:

• 10 text fields
• 8 numeric fields
• 4 date fields (with a popup calendar button included)
• 8 markers (displayed as checkboxes)

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Custom Lookup Tables

To complement the addition of 10 new text fields, 10 new custom lookup tables have been added so that each text field is capable of having its own private lookup table. A new Table Properties dialog has been added to allow you to set the Lookup Table Display Name, Field Display Name, and User Access Level required to edit the table.

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Automatic Install

Team updates have gotten easier. Team now has an automatic upgrade system. Administrators can update the server and run Team once, completing the upgrade process in few minutes. After that, each Team user will be automatically updated when they next run Team. Team examines your system, performs the proper upgrade, and continues to run Team with no questions asked.

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Enhancements in 98.5

• Team display refresh is faster and uses less network traffic
• Users cannot edit a closed request unless they are the closer or have System or Admin level access.
• The Database Utility user interface has been redesigned for ease of use and SQL support has been added.
• The Lookup Table Properties dialog and menu items have been simplifield by referring to the actual name of the lookup table.
• Table Properties buttons have been added to the Lookup Table Setup and the Rules forms.
• All lookup fields have been increased to 20 characters with the exception of the Priority lookup field.
• An "Admin/Customize Work Request" menu had been added to the Work Request to design the layout of the Work Request form.

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Fixes in 98.5.1

• The Priority Table be edited using the Admin/Priority menus. Version 98.5 removed visibility alter these tables. This fix corrects the problem.

Fixes in 98.5

• System level users can change passwords for any user.
• Confirmation of current password is not required to change your own password.
• If you delete the first tab in the TeamView, you will no longer get an error.
• Saving a Rules Report as an HTML document will now display the correct Report Columns.
• Temporary tables created while processing Crosstabs or Charts are now deleted.
• Applying Quick Filters works correctly with complex filters.
• The Tab Settings column in a People Table report can now be removed from the report.
• The Next Action field spin-arrows are disabled for those users who do not have edit permission.
• Saved People Table reports no longer require that UserName is the first column in the report in order to open the report.
• Can no longer create more than one parent for a request using the Project Tree.
• Work Request Description and Resolution memo fields are no longer accessible by using the expansion windows for users who do not have edit permission.

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Points of Interest in 98.5

• Version 98.5 uses more disk space than previous versions because of the addition of custom fields. The database has been upgraded and all tables are copied into a new common 'Database' directory. Your old tables are not deleted, so you must have approximately 2.5 times the space used for your old 'Log' and 'Lookups' on your server to successfully upgrade. After you are comfortable with this release, you can delete the old 'Log' and 'Lookups' directories.
• The upgraded database uses a new field naming convention, so you may have to alter reports written with third-party reporting tools.
• The new Database directory that is created in v98.5 must allow users to create, delete, read, and write to this directory.
• Once v98.5 is installed, you cannot run earlier versions of Team.
• Field Setup menus have changed to "TableName" Table.

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