Scoop Edit v3 Software Update Information

You can get the latest software updates as well as Technical Support by visiting the P Squared Website at http://www.psquared.net/support/ or the P Squared Forum at http://forum.psquared.net/

v3.0.39

Important: Windows 7 Support: This version that has initial support for Windows 7 but should only be used if advised by P Squared
 
v3.0.38

Important: Windows Vista Support: Due to compatibilty problems, support for Windows Vista has been withdrawn from Scoop v3.0.  This version will not work or install on Windows Vista.
 
v3.0.37

P Squared Contacts and Users Directory Changes:
•	The Directory History window now has a pane at the bottom that shows you the full details of the selected item.
•	The Directory no longer automatically creates backups once a day. The default settings are now to prompt users once a week when they login to create a backup. Backups are now kept for 28 days instead of 7 days. This behaviour can be altered via the Backup tab on the Directory Settings window.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	If you click "Cancel" when logging into Scoop, scoop would continue to load and you could not exit from it.

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v3.0.36

Windows Vista Support: This version has been designed to also run on Windows Vista, but testing is still being carried out. For more information about Vista Compatibilty please visit http://support.psquared.net/softsupport.htm

You can now import mp3, mp2, Ogg and WMA files as well as WAV files directly into a cart

When Scoop Edit is minimised, the floating Story Ticker now 'snaps' to the edge of the screen when moved around.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	On very large databases, clicking OK on the Scoop Database Settings window would take a very long time to save the Scoop Database Settings.

v3.0.35

The following issues have been fixed:
•	If you tried to export a Cart from the AudioBrowser that contained certain characters in the descriptions it would fail - such as : , ? * \ /
•	If you tried to publish a Bulletin to an XML file, any badly formatted HTML code from Wire Feed Sources would be rejected by the XML Processor. All XML files are now stripped of all tags to prevent this happening.
•	The Copy and Paste icons were the wrong way around on the Story window.

v3.0.34

The following issues have been fixed:
•	You could not edit the Cart Ranges that Scoop will manage automatically in the Database Settings Windows on the Audio Tab.

v3.0.33

If you drop a file with the correct filename into the audiowall folder, the Audio Browser will now detect it and import the file - i.e. save a file called myr01234.wav into the Audiowall folder, andwhen you browse to cart 1234, Scoop will automatically detect the new audio file and add it's details to the AudioWall.

When you "Copy" a story, it now appears at the top of the Story List as the most recently created story.

There is a new option on the Bulletin Window to Show/Hide the List of Stories on the right hand side of the Bulletin window.

v3.0.32

No changes to the software, this build is to synchronise version numbers with Scoop Capture Easy

v3.0.31

The following issues have been fixed:
•	The accuracy of the Incorrect Lengths Cart Report was not linked to the information being stored by SmoothEdit and external editors resulting in carts being shown erroneously in the report. The accuracy is now set to 1ms.
•	In SmoothEdit, if you were playing audio and then clicked the Save button, it did not save any changes to the audio 

v3.0.29

Scoop now has the P Squared Contacts and Users Directory Import utility that allows you to easily import users from Myriad v2 and also Contacts from Microsoft Outlook.

Scoop Edit now has a "Login as a different user" option on the file menu allowing you to easily alter which user is using Scoop. This is particularly usefull if you have configured Scoop to Automatically login using the current windows user name, but now can't access the Settings menu (due to permissions) to turn this option back off again!

The following issues have been fixed:
•	When editing a cart using the External Editor menu option added in v3.0.28, if you extended the audio with the extro previously set at the end of the cart, the extro was not being updated to reflect the new length.

v3.0.28

Important: This version of Scoop (both Edit and Capture) adds new Index information to the Scoop Database to significantly improve the speed that Scoop updates it's display. The very first time you run this version of either Edit or Capture it will attempt to update the database structure. So Scoop can do this, we strongly recommend that you close Scoop and Scoop Capture down on all other computers. You only need to do this once and then the structure will be updated.

Scoop edit has 1 new feature:
•	Audio Browser - there is now a right click option that allows you to jump straight to editing the cart with an External Editor rather than going via SmoothEdit each time. This is as well as the existing option in Customise that allows you to delay opening the audio in SmoothEdit until you need to.

When you use the built in Compact/Repair Database tool, it now informs you of any problems compacting the database

The update speed of the Story Ticker has been optimised to reduce loading on the database

v3.0.27

Scoop edit has 2 new features:
•	Bulletin Manager - this displays 2,3,4,6,8 or 9 bulletins simultaneously (use the Settings window to say how many to show) and allows you to easily prepare or review multiple bulletins at the same time
•	Statistics window - this lets you see a snapshot of the system and which cart ranges and story categories are filling up. This feature is also available in Scoop Capture

The Bulletin view has been updated with the Title text box replaced by a Drop down list. This allows you to quickly load a different bulletin rather than having to use the load button.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Rearranging items in a bulletin would not enable the Save button to save the new arrangement.

v3.0.26

Internal changes to match updates to Scoop Capture.

v3.0.25

The Story List and Cart Browser now refresh much more often - previously they only refreshed once a minute, this has now changed to every 10 seconds

When recording new audio, the Cart Browser and popup Cart Browser are now refreshed to show the freshly created cart.

v3.0.24

The following issues have been fixed:
•	On a cart with multiple audio cuts, editing any other than the first one would cause the edited item to overwrite the first one in the list.

v3.0.23

The following issues have been fixed:
•	The spell checker would sometimes replace the entire story with the "corrected" spelling of a mis-spelt word.
•	Changed the number key handling slightly to help workaround situations where they sometimes stop working.
•	Pasting audio into a new audio file and then clicking to close the window would not save the audio if you had not put a description into the cart already.

v3.0.22

The default option for whether scoop stamps story titles onto it's audio carts has been changed so by default it doesn't. You can change the setting from inside the Scoop Database Settings window on the Stories-Audio tab.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	When clicking the "Super-Maximise" button in Scoop Edit and then closing SmoothEdit, any other windows you had open would be moved to fill the entire screen area rather than being left where you had left them

v3.0.21

You can now use the Customise Scoop option to set the cart that Scoop will display when you first start the program

Scoop allows more time for audio recording/playback when updating the Story list - this is to help reduce audio glitching on slower computers.

There is a new Scoop Program option that forces users to use the File>Exit option to quit from Scoop. This is usefull for users who often accidentally click the main Windows 'X' instead of the smaller inner 'x'

The way you change the order of items on a bulletin was different to rearranging carts when editing the stories. The bulletin viewer has been changed to match the main story window's logic instead.

When 'reading' a bulletin the audio attached to a given story can be forced to play out of a certain cart player by setting the Out words to ### followed by the cart player number - i.e. ###4 will force the audio for that story to play out of player 4. This is very usefull where you use a story to play a bed that you need to come out of the same player each time so you can alter the level on an audio mixer.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	The cart browser was not remebering the last cart you had selected when going back into it.
•	If you have previously minimised the Cart Browser, clicking the toolbar button on the main window now 'restores' the browser to normal size
•	You couldn't remove a Pause from a pad run, and double clicking on it would display a Cannot Edit this cart message.
•	Exporting a pad to a cart would prompt you to delete that cart even if it was empty. After export, it would take a while before the new cart was visible in the Cart Browsers.
•	You were still warned that carts were in the Scoop Capture range when you closed a story window even if you had turned the warning message off.

v3.0.19

When opening a bulletin 'maximised' for use in a News Playout environment, the "Open Windows" pane at the bottom of the window is now hidden to further increase display space.

When the left hand tabs on the main Scoop Edit window are hidden, Scoop now doesn't try to periodically update them.

You can now configure what time the Clock will change to yellow and red warning you of the approaching bulletin. This setting is per workstation and can be found on the Scoop Program Settings Window.

There is a new 'Super Maximise' button on SmoothEdit that maxmises the audioeditor to fill the window in a similar way to the way the Bulletin is displayed. The same button is also now available on the bulletin window.

v3.0.18

When editing a cart, if the current position in the audio window is at the end of the file, clicking Play will now play from the start of the file

There is a new option on the Database Settings window to enable/disable warning users when opening a story that has audio in the Scoop Capture range.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	You could click on the Quick Record cart player button twice in succession.
•	Emails with a large number of recipients could cause Scoop Capture to exit when capturing them.
•	When in "Maximised" bulletin mode and with certain combinations of audiowall settings, using the QuickRecord button would produce a Run Time Error 5 (Invalid Procedure Call) between the cart title prompt and the "Do you want to use level trigger?" message. 
•	Recording while using the bulletin in 'Maximised" mode could cause scoop to exit.

v3.0.17

There is a new option on the Scoop Program Settings window - "Use Scoop v2 keyboard shortcuts to control bulletins" does exactly that. The main change is that the Space bar can then be used to set audio playing.

The Print button on the main toolbar can now be used to print the highlighted item in the story list.

In the Scoop Database window, you can now colour code each category. An option in Customise allows you to then have the Stories and Categorys in the Story List to be colour coded to match.

The setting to maximise the amount of display space when displaying a Bulletin has been renamed to "When displaying a bulletin, optimise Scoop for Studio Playout" as it is now used to optimise keyboard handling as well as other internal procedures.

Scoop now uses a new type of database Locking called Record Level Locking when accessing the P Squared Directory and the Scoop Stories Database. This mode allows more computers to access the same areas of the Database at the same time without showing messages about Locked Records. More information about this mode can be found by searching the P Squared Forums (http://forum.psquared.net) for "Database Record Locking Modes".  To start using this mode, you must first quit from Scoop Edit and Capture on all computers and then restart the software as normal. As the first computer opens the database it will automatically enable the new mode which will then be used by all other computers automatically.

There is a new box at the bottom of the front tab of the Scoop Database Settings window that shows which Record Locking mode the Database is being accessed with.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	If you minimised the main window without a database then Scoop would exit when you restored the window.
•	Several problems with captured audio have been fixed where the extros were not being updated when new audio was being pasted in in SmoothEdit
•	If you add a cart to a story and then remove it, Scoop would exit when you saved the story.

v3.0.16

When you first open Scoop, the Audio Browser and the Audio Tab are now set to display your personal edit areas rather than the start of the Audiowall.

When saving a copy of a bulletin, you could previously enter the same name as an existing bulletin - this could lead to confusion as you would have 2 bulletins with the same name. You can therefore only now overwrite the existing bulletin with the one you are saving.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	The Square brackets, page up and down and delete keys could not be used when editing Stories in the Bulletin Window
•	Moving items around in the Bulletin Builder could cause stories to end up with the wrong titles.
•	Certain combinations of empty lines and carriage returns could cause Scoop to exit when saving a story or an edited story in a bulletin

v3.0.15

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Sometimes pressing F5 (Play Cart in Player 1) would cause a STOP message to be displayed.

v3.0.12

Because Scoop Capture can now automatically capture Faxes from a local fax server, Scoop edit has new Support for handling these captured faxes.

There is a new 'Customise' option that allows you to choose whether to Sort the Story Categories Treeviews and drop down selection boxes alphabetically. By default this option is off to make understanding the category order easier.

When using the 'Maximise the amount of display space when displaying a bulletin' option, the Bulletin window is now maximised and the top toolbar removed. This helps to increase the amount of space of screen for the bulletins.

On the right click menu on the Stories List,  Stories that have audio attached to them now have 2 new menu options - 'Jump to' and 'Play'. These allow you to quickly view or hear the audio that is associated with a story - particularly usefull with services that feed stories with audio attached already such as IRN NetNewsroom.

There is also another new menu option on the Stories List right click menu that allows you to search for all stories by the author of the selected story. For example, this makes it easy to see a list of all the emails from one email address.

You can now attach additional files to stories. If you attach a file that Scoop can display internally, it displays it on the new Attach Tab on the Story display - if not, you are presented with a clickable option to open the item. Scoop can currently display files ending with BMP, GIF, JPG, TIF, TXT, LOG, HTM.

To make way for the new Attachments Tab, the Stories History has been moved to the Notes Tab.

The Cart Browser menu option has been renamed to "Audio Browser" to bring it in line with other products

SmoothEdit now displays more suitable X and Y scales - minutes and percentages rather than samples and sample values. 

If you have already successfully configured Scoop, but when you load it up it cannot find the Database Location you had used, Scoop now walks you through a much simplified procedure to re-locate your scoop databases. 

Emails that have been captured are now shown slightly differently from normal stories so you can more easily understand the source. You can also now 'reply' to the sender of an email. This causes your normal email program to load and start a new story to their email address.

The Categories Treeviews for the Stories, Contacts and Websites has been reduced in height to increase the number of items visible in their respective lists.

The default speed that Bulletin Items automatically scroll at has been reduced, and there is now a delay of 2 seconds before the story starts scrolling. 

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Double clicking on the same story in the Story List twice in quick succession could cause Scoop to exit.
•	Previous versions of Scoop would sometimes stop working with the Keyboard in Bulletin mode until you clicked with the mouse on screen.

v3.0.11

Information: Scoop can now automatically capture emails and import them as Stories - it can even import attached WAV files directly onto the Audiowall. For more information please see the Scoop Capture Update Information file.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Scoop would exit if you right clicked in the Stories list whilst using a database with only 1 story priority setup.

v3.0.9

Scoop now includes the new P Squared Contacts and Users Directory History. This can be found on the Tools menu.

v3.0.8

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Scoop would exit when going into 'edit' a cart with half filled copyright details
•	If you chose to export a section of one cart to another but then cancelled out, the progress bar remained on screen. Also, clicking the close box on the cart browser would sometimes still export the section to the last selected cart anyway.

v3.0.7

The Audio File Settings option has been removed becuase it is now available from the Audio Locations window.

The Update Information window has a new look

The following issues have been fixed:
•	On computers with a single soundcard, the Last Player Audio setting was not defaulting to "Last Player"
•	The spell checker would display a message about being an Evaluation Version

v3.0.6

This release contains support for the latest version of the P Squared Directory.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	Updated license engine to fix problems with the license not being able to be read when starting Scoop
•	Choosing the Customise menu option could cause Scoop to hang.

v3.0.5

The following issues have been fixed in this version:
•	Fixed a problem with Logging in to the Directory.

v3.0.4

The following issues have been fixed in this version:
•	When relicensing after the Scoop Capture license has expired, it was not unlocking the stories that had been locked during capture.
•	The keyboard shortcut for closing the current recording (Shift+F12 or Shift+Ctrl+F12) did not work

v3.0.3

There is now a 'Release License' option on the License wizard which allows you to release the license so you can use it on another computer - this only works a limited number of times however, and you must be connected to the internet before you can use this feature.

The following issues have been fixed in this version:
•	You could not change your P Squared Directory Password at login correctly.

v3.0.2

There is a new option on the Settings menu - Audiowall File Settings. This allows you to determine the number of carts on your audiowall as well as several other settings that apply to all computers that use that Audiowall.

The Select Bulletin window has been enlarged to make reading the columns easier.

There is now a Save As tool button on the Bulleting window to allow you to easily create a copy of the current Bulletin.

The following issues have been fixed in this version:
•	You could not drag a contact from one category to another in the Directory - Scoop was erroneously creating a copy of that contact's details in the category.
•	When first loading Scoop, The cart browser on the main window was not displaying the correct initial cart from the users preferences.
•	Removed Story Priorities would remain on the right click menu for the Story list until Scoop was restarted.
•	The Colours for the 3rd Priority and on were not being used in the Story Grid and were not always being displayed in the Story window background.
•	SmoothEdit was ignoring the sound device specified for it's playback.
•	Pressing the Cart 'Function' Keys would sometimes not correctly control the cart players due to focus issues.
•	Pressing F5 (or Player 1 Play) whilst looking at a Bulletin would cause the current story to vanish.
•	The Recently Captured Audio panel was being displayed in the Playout Only mode - clicking on this panel could lead to the Stories list being displayed and there was no way to then hide this to see the bulletin correctly.
•	The Story Ticker was being displayed in the Playout Only mode - it should not be displayed in this mode.
•	When closing Scoop, it would sometimes cause a windows error message to be displayed about the program not closing correctly.

v3.0.1

The P Squared Directory has been overhauled to make it easier to initially setup and administer and the following changes have been implemented:
•	Security Group configuration has been considerably simplified by reducing the number of windows used to setup each Group
•	By default, new users now have Edit (or "Write") permissions to the entire Audiowall. Once you have started creating new users you should consider limiting the ranges of carts that the users can edit.
•	Scoop now automatically creates a new user account for the currently logged in user when you initially create the P Squared Directory.

The "Prompt Users to Login" setting in Scoop Program Settings has been replaced with the more accurate "Attempt to Login to the 'Directory' with the Windows(TM) Login Name". This option (which is on by default) will attempt to log into the Directory using the Login name that you are logged into Windows with. If it can't, then it will either automatically create a User account for you, or prompt you for a different Login name and password depending on the Directory's settings.

You can now have up to 64 Categories, and the default Categories created when you first install Scoop have been updated to reflect the latest information from IRN and other news providers.

When you open or save a story, Scoop now warns you if any attached audio carts are in the area that Scoop Capture is using to auto-capture audio into. This is becuase Scoop Capture may delete that audio clip if it runs out of available carts. You are now prompted to see if you would like the audio moved to your personal edit area.

After editing a story Scoop now redraws the cart list to display any changes that have been made to Cart Titles.

The state of the buttons that tell Scoop whether to search cart notes and copyright information are now stored in the Directory and therefore follow you from terminal to terminal

There is now a 'Release License' option on the License wizard which allows you to release the license so you can use it on another computer - this only works a limited number of times however, and you must be connected to the internet before you can use this feature.

Scoop Edit has a new Icon.

The following issues have been fixed:
•	The HTML Print and Web Publishing Template files were not being installed correctly and had to be manually copied into the appropriate location
•	If you had maximised one of the internal windows and then hid or displayed the left hand panel then Scoop would exit.
•	Scoop would exit if you maximised the main window while it was still loading
•	When you first licensed Scoop, some users had to License twice becuase of a message regarding the license not being valid for the computer.

v3.0.0

If you are evaluating Scoop v3 you will see that the Story Ticker at the top of the screen shows a clickable hyperlink to the P Squared website so you can easily find contact details for the P Squared Sales Team.

New features since Scoop v2:

When you want to add a cart to a story you can open the story, switch the main panel to Audio and then drag the cart onto the story. If you haven't switched to the Audio tab on the story, you can simply wave the dragged cart over the Audio tab and the display will switch to show the audio tab.

Several new features are available in Scoop v3 that are work differently to the way that previous versions operated. These must be considered carefully when starting to use this new version of Scoop.

•	When you move or delete audio files, stories that use the carts are updated with the change - i.e. the cart number is changed, or the cart is removed from the story.
•	Scoop has an "Alter Cart Range" that replaces the old overall Edit range. This is used with several new options such as automatically deleting audio files in this range when the matching story is deleted, as well as whether the title and body should be written onto the audiowall on the first cart on a story.
•	When Stories are expired from the Scoop Database, the matching audio can be optionally deleted as well.
•	If Scoop Capture is set to attempt to automatically associate carts it imports with matching stories then a user must move that audio manually out of the Scoop Capture range as soon as possible. This is becuase Scoop Capture is traditionally only given a small range to use and may delete that cart if it runs out of empty carts to use. These stories are displayed in the story list with a yellow cart number background to show that the audio should be moved.
•	Scoop uses an algorithm called "SoundEx" when searching for stories. This helps finding stories when either the search word or the word in the story itself has been misspelt. It also helps when you don't know how a word is spelt - such as surnames - Berk and Burk look the same to a SoundEx search. The same searching is applied when searching the audiowall.
•	When Scoop v3 imports stories from a Scoop v2 database the stories may be imported into the wrong category. This is because Scoop v3 comes with a different set of default categories than Scoop v2. You can easily move stories into the correct categories by simple drag and drop. Also, if you have set your "Normal Story Font" for your Scoop v3 Database to have Bold, Italic, Underline or StrikeThrough styles turned on then the imported stories will lose any styles that you have already applied. This is becuase the new styles must be applied to the entire of the story overwriting any styles you have applied previously.