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Entries from November 2011

New version released

November 29th, 2011 · No Comments · Museum software

A new version of the Museum Archive software premium edition is now available on the web site. Registered users have been notified by email. This new version (2.0) adds a more powerful QBE (Query by example) tool to the main archive browse window, it adds some new reports, and incorporates functions that used to reside [...]

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New QBE tool

November 29th, 2011 · No Comments · Museum software

Version 2 of the Museum Archive software project’s premium edition contains a new Query By Example (QBE) tool on the main archive browse window. Click here to see a video that shows you how you can use it to help you locate Objects in the database. Unlike the query procedure in the previous version, this [...]

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Thanks for the suggestions

November 6th, 2011 · No Comments · Museum software

I’m preparing a new release of the premium edition; it should be ready in the next two weeks. Quite a few changes and improvements - I’d like to thank everyone for their input and suggestions. Watch for the announcement in your inbox!

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Windows 7 and Musarch

November 6th, 2011 · No Comments · Museum software

I just learned that the Windows 7 internal messaging system can make it appear as though the Museum Archive software is ‘hung up’ when you press the Alt key all by itself. Musarch loses the focus. I’ll be addressing this programmatically in the next release, but for now, you can simply press Alt-Esc to regain [...]

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