core v12.1 releasenotes

Software Release Note for core version 12.1

(click here for SRN history)

Author:	Paul Balm [paul.balm@esa.int]
Date:	24-01-2007
Summary:	Database clean-up. Adding of PPD logging facilities.

Dependencies

System name	ID	Version
ISOC Database	DB	7.1

Fixed SPRs:

PHS:

SPR 810

The first time a custom pointings file would be imported on a newly created proposal, the pointings would not actually make it into the database. On a second try it worked. This has now been fixed to work the first time also.

Implemented SCRs:

PHS:

SCR 593

From version 14.0 on, the Proposal Edit screen shows a status panel, indicating which pointings have been scheduled. If in the list of scheduled pointings a gap was found, this would be indicated too. It now also shows the number of gaps found in the sequence of scheduled points.

OSS:

	SCR 575	Already from release 14.0, OSS would indicate with exclamation signs in the Observation Selection screen, that an observation does not use current defaults for one or more parameters or TM allocations. The presentation of this fact (the exclamation signs) has now been changed to be more robust to future code changes, more elegant and much prettier to look at. :-)
	SCR 589	A standard 5x5 switches to an end pattern (for a 5x5 defined to be a 3x3), if it cannot complete a full pattern anymore. The definition of a full pattern used to be the 5x5 pattern back AND forth, and has now been changed to be the 5x5, once. That means that if there is approved time left for at least 25 points, we will not (yet) switch to the end pattern, anymore.

Other changes/comments:

The PHS feature of generating proposal related e-mail messages has been extended. Next to the existing approval and rejection templates, it now offers a generic template without text called 'empty message'. For each proposal in your selection (so, without filtering for a specific status), a skeleton message with the appropriate To: and Cc: addresses is presented. All that's left to do is typing your message text and sending it. If all your proposers are to receive the same message, you can have PHS generate all messages for you. Simply delete all text in the editing window, start with only the text 'insert:' on the first line, followed by your message text and click 'Apply' on the the Settings panel to generate the messages.