Release Notes

TDS Server

Features

• Autofocuses username field on login screen.
• Updated home page layout.
• Add a warning to the home page when URL is pointing to localhost or 127.0.0.1 in tds-server.json.
• TDS Server version is now visible in the upper right corner.
• Device-Manager: display software version of RSWA units.
  • Currently only shows the version at the time of registration.
• When logging in with a user without admin/reporter privileges, a new message is displayed:
  • “Access denied! Contact your administrator for access.”
• Config updates:
  • client_hide_login_user_list: setting this to true will activate open logins on TDS/RSWA.
  • Updating TDS will have the installer update the config file with the new configuration options.

API Updates

• /parts: allows displaying all welds/bonds: /parts?with_locations=yes
• /search includes search results’ parents.
  • Allows displaying the group of a part, the part of a weld, etc.
• /hot_spots allows bulk upload.

Bug Fixes

• Deleting a category or preset will remove it from all associated welds and bonds.
• Updating a part’s name, user name or route name will update accordingly for previous inspections.
• Fixed toggling images in inspection reports.
• Deleting a revision removes it from server.
• Deleting presets or categories updates those welds and bonds.
• Improved reordering images in Desktop Tools.
• Improved moving weld locations in duplicate parts.
• Updates to installer.
• Updates to deleting users.

Desktop Tools

Features

• Check storage space before writing revision to USB.
• Export revisions to V3 to include user passwords is now possible.
• Can search for entities with less than 3 characters.
  • Only performed when manually pressing enter.
• Open login dialog.
  • Only activated if the TDS Server has client_hide_login_user_list enabled.
• Route creation:
  • Select all hotspots / invert selection in list side bar.
  • Selection of hotspots is maintained across different images/routes.
• Routes in part overview are sorted alphabetically.
• Images / Routes: highlights the image thumbnail containing the selected hotspot.
• Search displays a part’s group, a weld’s part, etc.

Bug Fixes

• Improvements for reordering part images.
  • Click and hold the image thumbnail for more than 400ms.
• Bug fixes for moving hotspots on duplicated parts.
• Deleted revisions will no longer be recreated (files removed manually).
  • An error message shows when trying to upload a deleted revision, or when trying to load a deleted revision to USB.

Array Explorer

• Inspections are read only for everyone except the creator.
  • Toggleable in app settings.
• Open login dialog.
  • Only activated if a revision from TDS Server with client_hide_login_user_list enabled is active.
• App settings grouped in sections.
• Routes are ordered alphabetically.

V3 -> V4 Importer

• Import v3 user passwords.
  • Initially, only available on DT/TDS.
  • Once logged in once, available on RSWA.
  • Login name derived from v3 user name / alt user name.
  • Only available with TDS Server 4.5.0 and newer.
• Dry run support.
  • Show the imports without actually performing them.

Array Explorer

Features

• Additional App Settings:
  • Toggle “Default to 3T mode”: Choose the preferred inspection mode with 3-plate joints (“3T” or “2T/both sides”).
  • Toggle “Keep Zoom Level when changing Images”: Option to keep the image zoom during an image change within the inspection route.
• New “Overview” button allows quick navigation to the overview page in Template Mode Inspection / Restricted Mode Inspection menu.
• Spotwelds belonging to the part but not the current route are marked with a gray X on the image.

Bug Fixes

• The display settings in the RSWA persist across reboots.
• UI issue fixed regarding the stack thickness display in the a-scan panel.
• Stability improvements during the forced revision activation.
• XML Parse error/Couldn't delete revision bugs fixed during revision activation.
• Step size of the “Manual Size Adjustment” slider in the algorithm settings updated to 0.1mm increments.

V3 -> V4 Importer

Features

• Adding the option to import gun information together with the robot info.

Desktop Tools

Features

• When editing a route:
  • Dragging a spotweld with the mouse from image to route, will add it; and
  • Hitting the DEL key will remove the selected spotweld from the route.
• Software-side restrictions to stack max thicknesses has been raised.

Bug Fixes

• Stability improvements in case of a TDS Server restart.

TDS Server

Features

• Performance optimization for the creation of large revisions.
• Logs are now also writting to the Windows Event Log.
• Tool for a-scan migration for databases that have been created by TDS Server versions pre-v4.0.0:
  • Older TDS databases contain full a-scan data and can get very large.
  • tds-server.exe tools migrate-ascans moves all a-scan data from the template database to the measurement database.
  • Reduce general TDS database sizes.
  • Optimizes TDS Server startup times.

Array Explorer

• Spotweld constraints are shown in the header bar during inspection.
  • min./target diameter.
  • min./max. indentation.
  • min./max. remaining wall thickness.
• New application toggles in the settings:
  • Show relative indentation in percent with respect to the front plate thickness instead of absolute indentation.
  • Allow/disallow entering custom reasons during inspection.
  • During inspection, sort reasons by creation order (as in Desktop Tools) or alphabetically.
  • Allow/disallow insertion of spots into current route by tapping them on the image - more below.
• Insert spots into current route by tapping them on the image.
  • Must be enabled in the application settings.
  • Tapping on a hotspot that is not part of the current route adds it to this inspection.
  • It can be inserted after the active spot or appended to the end of the inspection.
  • The inserted spot will be selected for inspection.
• Sorting of completed inspections by part.
• Updated user permissions:
  • Users with advanced privileges can edit the inspection settings during inspection.
• Revision notifications.
  • Upon receiving a new inspection a popup opens.
  • This popup allows to activate the revision immediately.
• OpenSSL update to 1.0.2u.
• Bugfixes:
  • Sensitivity slider for bond inspections updated in range and increments.
  • Fixed occasional runtime error when switching to grid view.

Desktop Tools

• Updated user privileges:
  • users with editor privileges can now update algorithm presets, reasons and categories.
• Route editing:
  • clicking on a spot in the list opens the associated image.
• Bugfix: image editing - double clicking on a spot that already exists on the image will not cause an error anymore.
• Revision creation:
  • name prompt changed from “revision xx” to “YYYYMMDD HHMM <user>”
  • “YYYYMMDD HHMM” is the revision’s timestamp.
  • "<user>" is the name of the current active user.
• HTTPS requests now use TLS 1.2.

TDS Server

• Windows Event Logs are used for warnings and errors.
• Parts statistics in TDS Server now link to the respective inspections.
  • Clicking on a measurement in the part statistics chart leads to the inspection report containing that inspection.
• Allowing force activation of revisions.
  • In the device manager, setting the checkmark during revision download will have the device activate the revision upon receival.
  • When activating the revision, the active user is logged out and active inspections are paused.

Array Explorer and Desktop Tools

• Updated plate thickness and stack thickness indicators in A-scan area
• Correlation Export support for the coming Correlator App
• Streamlined user permissions
• Manually set middle plate thicknesses up to 5mm
• Stack changes during inspections are highlighted more visibly
• Various bugfixes, including various bugs with the RSWA installer
• System stability improvements

TDS Server

• Better application logging engine.
• Allow multiple TDS Server instances running on the same machine via CLI.
• Device Manager displays the active revision on each device.
• Updated size limit for robot and schedule to 50 characters.
• Various bugfixes.
• System stability improvements.