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1 Release Notes Product: Sage Abra Alerts Version: 5.1 Overview Upgrade Information Sage Abra Alerts is designed and licensed exclusively for use with the Sage Abra HRMS database. Sage requires that Sage Abra Alerts be installed by a Sage certified Business Partner. Refer to System Requirements section in the Sage Abra Alerts Installation and Setup Guide for a complete list of hardware and software. Before you begin Please read the following before you begin! Back up your current Processes and Templates folders. If you are upgrading from version 4.x, do not uninstall Sage Abra Alerts prior to the installation of Sage Abra Alerts 5.1. The installation process will uninstall the previous version 4.1 or earlier. You must have full administrative rights to install Sage Abra Alerts. Confirm you have the hardware and software necessary to install Sage Abra Alerts. Refer to the System Requirements section in the Sage Abra Alerts Installation and Setup Guide for details. Read the Release Notes to learn about enhancements and modifications included in version 5.1. The Release Notes are included on the Sage Abra Alerts DVD or you can access them after the installation from the Start menu by selecting All Programs > Sage Software > Abra Alerts > Release Notes. Sage Abra Alerts will be installed to the Sage Software programs group. Support and Documentation Sage strives to provide you with the very best support in the industry. If you have a question, we provide the following methods for you to get your answer as soon as possible.

2 Refer to the online Help for assistance. To access online Help, select Contents from the Sage Abra SQL HRMS Help menu and use the Table of Contents, Index, and Search function to find what you need. You can also click to open Help for the function you are currently using. Visit the Technical Forum and Solution Center on Abra SupportPlus Online at: Documentation is available on the Sage Abra SQL HRMS Product Documentation web site at: Send an (include your Customer ID number) to: Call Sage Abra Customer Support, Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET at Please have your Customer ID number available. Abra Alerts 5.1

3 Table of Contents Overview... 1 Upgrade Information...1 Before you begin... 1 Support and Documentation... 1 Changes to Sage Abra Alerts Changes to Build Changes to Sage Abra Alerts Process Summary...1 Process Summary Custom Fields...1 Query Builder Custom Fields...1 HTML Editing...2 Dual Format s...2 Table Wizard...2 Changes to Build Changes to Build Changes to Sage Abra Alerts Process Manager Enhanced...3 ODBC and OLE DB Query Builders Enhanced...3 Agent Enhanced...3 OLE DB Data Monitor Enhanced...4 Enable User Defined Sorting...4 Enable Pre Validation for Unique Values...4 Custom/Global Fields...4 Technical Notes... 5 Microsoft Jet...5 Custom Field Replacement in Word RTF documents...5 Creating Data Monitor Snapshots...5 Release Notes i

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5 Changes to Sage Abra Alerts 5.1 Changes to Sage Abra Alerts 5.1 Sage Abra Alerts has been updated to be compatible with Microsoft Vista and later operating systems. Added ability to set specific user at the process level to override the user the service is configured to use. This option is only available when the service is configured to use the Local System Account. Added ability for processes to interact with desktop. This feature should be used only when you are automating Excel or debugging hung processes. This feature can also be useful in cases where processes built against FoxPro databases seem to hang. Added password encryption for data connections. Changes to Build 5058 Added checks to make sure process files are not saved with empty data. Changed processes handling to always make a backup of process files before saving with new data. Changes to Sage Abra Alerts 5.0 Process Summary The Process Manager has been enhanced to show a Process Summary of a selected process. The Process Summary will show the selected process in a report format, including Step Descriptions, Scheduling Options, and Step Conditions. This new feature will give users a single view of the entire process without having to drill down into the steps to gain understanding of what a process is designed to do. Process Summary Custom Fields The Custom Field function has been enhanced to allow easier access to the editing of the custom field. An option has been added to the Custom Field definition to allow editing of the field from the new Process Summary screen. This gives users the ability to quickly change a custom field value within a process without having to drill into the query definition of a monitor. Query Builder Custom Fields The Query Builder has been enhanced to allow insertion of Custom Fields. Release Notes 1

6 Changes to Build 5052 HTML Editing The E mail Agent has been enhanced to provide simple HTML editing capabilities in a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) format. Dual Format s The E mail Agent has been enhanced to allow saving of HTML and Plain Text versions of an e mail. Table Wizard The existing Table Wizard has been changed to allow easier access to the text and fields contained within the table. Changes to Build 5052 Fixed problem with Global Fields not being processed during snapshot creation when using User Defined Sorting in the Monitor an OLEDB Datasource. Query builder updated to not hang when querying tables that contain spaces. Fixed problem with parenthesis being dropped when editing queries with complex Custom Columns in the Query Builder. Fixed problem with the Preview button being disabled when {fn type ODBC fields are used in the Query Builder. Added Interpret Carriage Returns as Line Breaks functionality for easier HTML editing in the E mail Agent. 2 Abra Alerts 5.1

7 Changes to Build 5050 Changes to Build 5050 Fixed problem with the Advanced SMTP settings not being saved. Fixed problem with an extra <Table> tag being added in HTML e mail. Fixed problem with the Command Timeout not being honored in Monitor an OLE DB Database. Changes to Sage Abra Alerts 4.1 Process Manager Enhanced The Process Manager has been enhanced with a more graphic user interface. Within the new interface, users can now: Directly edit steps without having to navigate through the process wizard. Copy, paste, or move steps to any process node that supports sub steps. View all the steps within a process at a glance. Upgrade process data fields to new database field formats. ODBC and OLE DB Query Builders Enhanced The Query Agent has been enhanced to make Group By queries easier to compose. Agent Enhanced The e mail agent has been enhanced to allow for HTML formatted messages to be sent when using SMTP protocol. HTML e mail includes a Table Wizard to automatically insert a table made up of user defined fields into the detail section of the e mail. A Preview button allows the user to see what the HTML e mail may look like when sent. The user interface can now be resized and the individual message sections can be resized for easier editing of e mail messages. Release Notes 3

8 Changes to Sage Abra Alerts 4.1 OLE DB Data Monitor Enhanced The OLE DB Data Monitor will now store old data values for query fields selected by the user. Two new options have been added to the Advanced Configuration settings. Enable User Defined Sorting With Providex data sources, there were situations were the snapshot would never complete, even though the Preview Now feature in the Query Builder completed in a reasonable amount of time. This is happening because the snapshot was adding an Order By clause containing the selected Unique Fields after the query for the purpose of finding duplicate records. Checking this option will exclude this Order By clause from the query and allow you to define your own sorting within the Query Builder. Enable Pre-Validation for Unique Values Selecting this option will force the Snapshot routines to check for duplicate values before creating the Snapshot value. Use this option during development of a process if the Snapshot process takes a long time to complete. Custom/Global Fields Formulas for custom and global fields no longer have a size limitation of 256 characters. 4 Abra Alerts 5.1

9 Technical Notes Technical Notes Microsoft Jet To install Sage Abra Alerts on a server with MDAC 2.6 installed as the first and only version of MDAC, you can first install the OLE DB Provider for Jet 4.0 from the installation CD (\MDAC\jet40sp3_comp.exe) and then install Sage Abra Alerts. Custom Field Replacement in Word RTF documents Word assumes that anything with an ʺ@ʺ symbol is an e mail address and makes it a hyperlink. This causes a problem with custom fields embedded in the document. To work around this, after inserting the custom field, right click on it in the document and select hyperlink, then remove the hyperlink. Creating Data Monitor Snapshots If you encounter problems when creating a snapshot where it states ʹPrimary Keys are not uniqueʹ, we recommendation that you: 1. Check your query; if you are using a join, include fields from all tables in the join to make the record unique. 2. Check your database configuration and the data using preview. Some fields may be null which may cause duplicate keys. 3. Some databases will report this if it needs to be re indexed. Release Notes 5

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