ChemProject Feature History

Version 4.0 SP5  (February 8, 2010)

  • Application launch time now is reduced by a factor of 2.

Version 4.0 & Service Packs (starting from January 8, 2008)

  • All Version 4 Beta features (see below), plus ..
  • Licensing system: Introduced new & flexible software protection/licensing system via licensing file.

Version 4.0 Beta (October 27, 2007)

  • Document store: (Documents tab). Allows the embedded storage of documents on the synthesis-, branch- and step-level, where they further can be arranged in groups . Such groups can easily be created and modified by the user. All documents can be annotated and synchronized with their originals. The documents are compressed and stored within the project file, resulting in one single portable file. More ...

  • The number of runs per step functionality (Step Analysis tab -> Runs Per Step button) allows the determination of the production runs per step, based on the required and the actually available unit operation volumes. More ...

     
  • Batch Print/Export: This functionality supports the printing and/or exporting of multiple reports by the click of one button. More ...

  • Default Operating Costs per Hour: If the yearly overall costs of a production unit is known, average operating costs per hour can be derived and used as a basis for calculations. This allows, simple, yet quite accurate assessments of operating costs, without the need to know technical details.  More ...

  • Price List Change Highlighting: Introduced change highlighting, which allows highlighting current changes, additions and stored changes within the price lists. This not only supports the workflow of price list administrators, but also helps to make changes transparent to the user community.

  • Temporary Price Lists: Introduced the temporary price lists category, which allows price lists administrators to work with isolated price lists (draft workspace) and to store them while still containing any number of missing or erroneous data. More...

  • Ubiquitous Help File Links: All major application functionalities now contain a help file link, leading directly to the corresponding page in the help file documentation.
  • New, compressed file format: In order to allow efficient document embedding, a new, compressed file format has been implemented. Thus, without embedded documents the same project file now is ca. 15 times smaller than before. ChemProject still can read the previous file format but will store such files in the new format. To make the files available to pervious application versions, they can be converted to the legacy format.

Version 3.1 (March 9, 2007)

  • Extended material search functionality: The wildcard "*" character can be used as the first character in the type-ahead functionality (in material popup and price list). Thus, typing *brom returns all materials containing "brom" anywhere in their name.
  • Each first step of a side branch now can be assigned an arbitrary step number; i.e. it does not need to start with number 1 any more.
  • Project materials list: An alphabetically ordered list of all materials used in the synthesis now is available for material location analysis.
  • Add new branch/step/unit operation: These actions now can be undone while the specification of their first unit operation material still is incomplete (before, it needed to be completed first, before the added element could be deleted).
  • Volume handling: Now all materials of a unit operation can be defined as transfer volumes at once, or reset back to non-transferred at once.
  • Reports: The synthesis, branch and step summary reports now can be displayed either ordered by material name or by by costs.
  • Previous application version user settings now are transferred into the new version when upgrading.
  • The DELETE key now can be used for deleting materials from the materials table.
  • 3D-analysis section: A branch selection popup now is available.
  • The material location analysis settings (selected branch and material) now are independent from the other 3D-analysis settings.
  • When inserting a unit operation into an existing volume transfer chain, the transfer chain is broken as before, but the transfer materials of the previous unit operation now are transferred into the inserted unit operation (their transfer attribute was reset in earlier versions).
  • When a new price list is opened, the user is not asked any more for confirmation of opening it next time the program starts - it will do so automatically

Version 3.0 (final) incl. latest service packs

  • Introduced button for disconnecting additional price list.
  • Equivalents now allowed as unit for imported materials.
  • Introduced branch/step navigator on top of synthesis tree
  • The operation source report now contains the MW of the last branch product
  • Progress window during first initialization of reports introduced

Version 3.0 (beta)

  • Interface: Updated, Windows XP style controls.
  • Volume handling: Transfer- and exchange volumes introduced.
  • Convergent syntheses: Now exports of a branch final product to multiple destinations within a synthesis possible.
  • Price list popup: Now contains three data sources instead of one: Main price list entries, additional price list entries, current project material entries
  • Materials entries can be annotated, e.g. about availability, price assumptions, etc.
  • Price lists: Now can be merged physically or in memory only (additional price list). The latter allows combinations of admin-controlled and custom user price lists. Updating via Excel worksheets now is possible. Conversion of Excel worksheets to ChemProject price lists. Admin controlled price lists now contain user-accessible admin and deputy contact info.
  • Reports: Redesigned interface with direct access to export options. New "Project Summary" report. Preview now scrollable by mouse wheel.
  • Analyses: Two new analyses introduced. "Yield impact" simulates the influence of a 20% yield increase of each step on the final product costs. The "Effective Volume" analysis reflects the volumes taking into account transfer- and exchange volumes. Every analysis type now contains a description of what it is doing.
  • Enhanced unit operations dialog.
  • Recalculations for observed volumes much faster than before.
  • Source table: Price list popup also for materials catalogNr available (if no name present). Direct transfer of a material to an available current price list via toolbar. Material cost reductions now marked with red background color for better visibility.
  • User interface links to help file locations (first steps, branch connections, volume handling, material unit reference).
  • And many more detail and performance improvements.