Version 5.00 - April 15 2023

Chronolator Reviewer's Tool Version 5.00 was published alongside a new version of Chronolator Data Entry and the first version of the Chronolator Define tool. All were given the version number 5.00 for consistency with Chronolator for Word Version 5.0, which was released on February 4 2023. 

Major changes

Author Notes

A chronology can be annotated with Author Notes. To create one, add an event whose Source of Information begins with one of the characters  # ^ ¬ ~ . 

Author Notes bypass all event validations except Date and Time.

Each 'author' gets its own track on the Timeline - by Source presentation.

Licensing

  • A licence acceptance screen is displayed when the application starts.
  • The licence display includes a Trace button to help determine which of several possible licences is active.
  • The currently active licensee is displayed on the  Ribbon.

Minor changes

The Source of Information tracks on the Timeline - basic and the sources displayed when you press Highlighting > Source are in alphabetical order.

Bug fixes

The following bugs were fixed:

  • Some invalid dates, such as 01jan2f, passed validation.

Version 3.12 - April 9 2022

Major changes

None

Minor changes

  • Added Chronolator favicon to browser page title.
  • Colour coded the Source Prefix legend on the Timeline - by Source  presentation as per the sources.
  • Added diagnostic information to message c9m100 when reading a chronology with an invalid Document Descriptor.

Bug fixes

The following bugs were fixed:

  • Some times were increased by an hour when formatting dates on the day that Daylight Savings was introduced.
  • Message c9m6000 was issued when opening a file with zero events.

Version 3.11 - February 23 2022

Major changes

None

Minor changes

Searches are normalised so that search terms that include multiple spaces match events that include them. For example, a search for Xaviera             Mary       Yarrup  will be matched by events that contain the text Xaviera   Mary             Yarrup.

Bug fixes

The following bugs were fixed:

  • Some searches gave spurious results: for example, a search for glossary item PA would also return events that contained simple text like particularly .
  • Some search matches were not highlighted.
  • It was not possible to edit an event that had no text after the final > in its source prefix.

Version 3.10 - May 27 2021

Major changes

None

Bug fixes

The following bugs were fixed:

  • When using the Export function to export search results, matches were highlighted in the Timeline presentations and those results replaced the chronology on Resume.
  • Using the keyboard to scroll though the lists of Colour Schemes and highlighting Scopes did not update the display.

Version 3.00 - April 28 2021

Major changes

Improved Range selectors

The buttons in the Home > Range group have been improved:

  • The date pickers have been updated to make them more reliable (for example, sometimes typing into one had no effect). At the same time, they have been made more flexible, and also support French, Spanish, and German languages.
  • In a Timeline presentation, the Next and Previous buttons now scroll by event if an event has been selected (previously, they simply scrolled the timeline backwards or forwards).

See Using the Range Controls for more details.

Search enhancements

  • Search results can be exported to a new JSON file that can then be worked on individually in the Reviewer's Tool. Like any JSON file, exported files can be converted to Word documents using the Chronolator Conversion Tool.
  • Search terms are highlighted in the chronology presentation.

See Searching and filtering events for more details.

Bug fixes

The following bugs were fixed:

  • The Copy button above the Table presentation copied some characters incorrectly (e.g. > would be copied as >).
  • The Start Time (if present) was ignored when placing events on a timeline, all events apparently starting at midnight.
  • In some languages, certain valid dates including an alphabetic month were flagged as invalid.
  • Formatting invalid dates and times resulted in them being replaced by the text 'Invalid Date' or a blank respectively, thus losing the original information and making it harder to correct.

Version 2.00 - March 21 2021

Major changes

Adding, changing, and deleting events

Buttons have been added to the Table presentation that allow events to be added, changed, and deleted.

These functions can also be invoked by right-clicking on an event in the table to display a Context Menu.

Most significantly for reviewers, being able to edit events means you can add tags to them - for example #dv - that can be used in conjunction with the Extended Search feature to review the chronology.

See Using tags to review a chronology for more details.

Minor changes

  • Message c9m9045, which is displayed when first using an updated version, includes a hyperlink to this What's New topic.
  • Scrolling is improved when making calendar choices.

Bug fixes

The following bugs were fixed:

  • The selections on the Colour Scheme dropdown button were not updated per-presentation.
  • The Date Picker on the Table presentation displayed an incorrect date when dates were formatted with the day of the week.
  • Cleared highlights were not retained when pressing Resume, nor were they copied to the other presentations when pressing the Sync button.

Version 1.00 - January 27 2021 (first public release)

This Help was updated.

The Sample file File > Samples > Sample 01 was updated to include examples for the Extended Search feature.

Version 0.6

Extended Search

The Extended Search feature was added.

Version 0.3

Customer Portal

Customers can now report and track problems on the portal at support.chronolator.com.

There is a link to the portal on the Help button.

Version 0.2

Abbreviations

Abbreviations defined in the chronology can be viewed, and permitted ones can be changed. New abbreviations can be added. See Using Abbreviations for more details.

Internet Explorer

Support for Internet Explorer was removed.

Version 0.1

First release, to a selected audience.