Calendar Browser – latest revision history and current file versions

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• Support for multiple Calendar Browser installations and folder grouping.
• Works without a home page in the root Calendar Browser Outlook folder. This means that Calendar Browser now supports Office 365.
• Better possibility to add any Outlook calendar to Calendar Browser.
• Faster loading of the Calendar Browser addin in Outlook
•  Comma (,) and semicolon (;) are now accepted in Project names.

• CBFOLDERSETTINGS.xml is located in the Calendar Browser network folder and contains information about the Outlook folder of that installation.
• CBGLOBALSETTINGS.xml is located in the OS application folder of each client machine and contains information about all Calendar Browser group folders added in Outlook.
  Path for Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\[UserName]\Application Data\kalmstrom.com\CB
  Path for Windows Vista and 7: C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Roaming\kalmstrom.com\CB

• Some users had problems adding more than one direct booking calendar to Calendar Browser.
• Double booking and appointment copy was not working in Direct booking mailbox calendars.
•  The default value of Place settings was not saved until after restart of Outlook.
• When Project Mandatory was enabled and a user tried to book supplies without setting a Project there was a runtime error. Now Calendar Browser will give a prompt to set Project instead.
• Dialogs for client tool installation and load example data appeared at the same time.
• If the option "Create copy of new appointments in personal calendar" was enabled some time Calendar Browser installations created multiple appointments in the personal calendar.
•  When the Calendar Browser Manage exe was saved it disappeared but continued to run in the background. If the user then closed Outlook before the exe had stopped running it gave an error. Now the Calendar Browser Manage exe will not disappear until the settings are saved.

• Finnish version updated with the latest phrases.
• The Calendar Browser Example data will not work if Calendar Browser calendars are already present. That way there is no risk that someone overwrites real Calendar Browser calendars by mistake.
• The dependency on Office Web Components is removed from the Calendar Browser Example data, so now OWC are only needed for the statistics tool.
• In case the Calendar Browser folder has been changed or was not selected during the installation the client had to select it at the first time start of Outlook after the client tool installation. Now Outlook will start without problem and show the option “Go to CB” in the Outlook calendar view if necessary. Most users will never have to do this, and the prompt will be hidden from them.
• The Calendar Browser Overview loads faster. Earlier it was loading all appointments in all calendars. but now it loads them one month from current date by default. Users can select a date range to load. 
• The option “Load only future appointments” is removed from the Calendar Browser Admin Settings. Instead a date range for appointments is given in the Overview
• Appointments are loaded faster in the Calendar Browser overview.

• When multiple Outlook profiles were installed on the same pc, Calendar Browser was giving an error "not able to load folder".
• The Calendar Browser Overview was not showing recurring appointments in a proper format and sometimes also in wrong date range.
• In Outlook 2010 it happened that Calendar Browser did not show its toolbar to select project and booking for appointments.

• On direct mailbox booking calendar, a new booking (made from the New button in the homepage) had 1899 as the year in both the Start and End date.
• On direct mailbox booking calendar, clicking the info button (next to the New booking button) in the homepage displayed an error message, and the resource/room description dialog form was empty with the caption "form1".
• If the decimal format under 'regional and language settings' under Control Panel had a non-dot (default) character, CB might not work, especially, if you entered a decimal value in the Rate of the calendar room, or the supplies in CB Admin. You might also get a freezing/unresponsive Booking Supplies dialog box when running from the appointment. You might also get an error report when running CB Admin. If you also run CB Overview, it might just show up for a second, and then shutdown automatically.
• Delay in loading of resource description dialog box when the info button was clicked.
• When 'Prevent double-booking option' was enabled, and if you tried to drag or change the start/end time of an existing appointment such that it lead to a double-booking on the resource/calendar, you got the double-booking not allowed warning message, which is correct, but that particular appointment was removed from the resource, instead of discarded (so that it retained the old timing).

• Full support of Unicode characters everywhere. This means that Calendar Browser now supports every language (Roman, Nordic, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Chinese etc)
• In Calendar Browser Admin Settings, Calendars tab, a new button is added, 'Clear Image', to clear the current Overview image specified for the current resource.
• In CB Admin > Calendars tab, clicking the 'Set Image' button opens a 'Open file' dialog to select an image file. Now it is set to 'All Image files' filter by default, such that the user will be able to see all the supported files in the file folder.
• Modified CB Archive to display those resources (calendars) with Unicode characters. Previously, these resources might display as ???? for the Unicode characters. Further, when the archiving is done, before the confirmation summary about the archiving is shown, the progress bar is made hidden.
• In CB Admin > Calendars tab, the text boxes for rate I, II and seats are modified to only accept numeric values and additional decimal character for rates.

• Calendar Browser might not work if you have Unicode characters in resource description, title, supplies etc. You might not be able to delete or rename existing resources (calendars) with Unicode characters from CB Admin. If the resource description have Unicode characters and you click the resource info button from homepage, it might not display the description and you might get a script error.
• In CB Admin > Calendars tab, if you have defined an image for the resource, the image does not fit within the small preview container, making it difficult to have an overall view.
• In CB Admin > Place Settings tab, the default place setting always display the first item, even if you have selected other (not first) value.
• In CB Overview, when you click a booking with no supplies, the preview portion at the bottom of the Overview window shows the information of the last clicked booking.
• In CB Overview, if you click a booking, the supplies detail is shown at the bottom of the window. You will notice that the resource rate I and II items show the rates of different resource (For example, if A, B and C are calendars, then rates of B is displayed in appointment details of calendar A, rates of C are displayed in appointment details of B and rates of C are displayed empty).
• In CB Overview, the Supplies detail box at the bottom of the window, might not show a vertical scrollbar, and that prevents the user to view the hidden items below.
• You might get an error in CB Overview if user doesn't have permissions over the direct mailbox booking calendar. In this fix, it is fixed by showing a friendly message about inadequate permission over the mailbox calendar.
• The License button is shown in the CB Admin even if it is registered. This is now hidden if it is registered.
• In CB Admin > Calendars tab, the existing resource description might be wiped out if you toggle between the HTML and WYSIWYG mode.

• When the Calendar Browser Overview is started, it is more visible that Calendar Browser is working. The progress bar is now placed in the center, and all other controls are hidden at that period until the loading is completed. The Overview is also loaded quicker than before.
• The Booking Supplies application is redesigned (by removing the DevExpress Grid, and instead use the default .NET data grid) to get higher loading speed.
• The Calendar Browser shortcut is removed from the add-ins ribbon tab when opening an appointment in Outlook 2007
• On Outlook 2007 and above, when a project is changed (added, removed or edited) in Calendar Browser Admin's project tab, and saving the settings, Calendar Browser would not immediately update the project drop downs in the ribbon of the appointment window. The user needs to restart Outlook to have that effect in the ribbon. Now Calendar Browser displays a friendly reminder message to users with Outlook 2007 or above that the changes would take effect when Outlook is restarted.
• New improved OLAP Reporting Tool included, that supports all Unicode characters.

• We want to adapt to and take advantage of changes in the Microsoft software we build on.



• When we receive reports about bugs we fix them as soon as possible.



• Of course we also try to add new features that Members ask for.