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Version 2.3 Release Notes
Released 21-Nov-2003

Required Maintenance Date: 01-Nov-2003

This major update contains the following new features and fixes:

1. Windows 2003 is now fully supported. Previously, job attributes like paper size, colour and duplex were sometimes not detected.

2. The Administration program has been updated to:

   1. Run on all Windows operating systems 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003. Features not supported by 95/98/Me are disabled.

   2. A Program Access table has been added to the browse menu and toolbar allowing you to limit access to the GAIA Print Charger Administration. This made the Payment Manager application redundant so it has been removed.

   3. Add a Limit List filter to the department net transactions list.

   4. Add an "Apply Now" button to scheduled adjustments to allow the adjustment to be manually applied.

   5. Changed the "Purge Users" option to allow selection of users by group or those not in the domain database. This allows you to delete users who have already been removed from the domain in NT4 or Active Directory.

   6. Add Graph buttons to the Printers, Copiers and Net History browse lists.

   7. Save the window sizes and locations between runs.

   8. Fix the Global Wizard that was not always setting correct group initial balances.

   9. Fix the Purge Department Transactions option that was not deleting all transactions prior to the selected date.

   10. Add an option to set the time between low net balance notifications.

3. The Payment Manager has been removed. Now you can setup Program Access controls for the full Administration program instead.

4. The Print Client now prompts for confirmation before closing to stop users accidentally closing it and then being unable to print.

5. The Web Administration and PIN change procedures now use template html files like the web inquiry to format the pages for display to users, allowing you to customize them for your site.

6. Previously the maximum size of a customized web page was 4KB. There is now no limit.

7. The following problems were fixed:

   1. Only the last scheduled balance adjustment was being applied.

   2. The print monitor service sometimes stopped for EMF jobs containing an unusual combination of attributes.

   3. User authentication failed for copy charging in the User/Dept code format when a PIN length of zero was set.

   4. In some circumstances the Net Charging service could use the wrong path for Proxy 2 web logs.

   5. Messages boxes in the Administration and Print Client programs now display correctly on Windows XP.

   6. N-up printing was not being detected for some Lexmark postscript drivers.

8. Many sections of the on-line help file have been rewritten and updated.

Version 2.3 Updates

These updated modules fix problems reported in the V2.3 release. You are advised to download and install them only if you have the problem described or if requested to do so by GAIA Support. Otherwise you should wait for the next full release of the product. To install an update, copy the module to the folder where you installed the product and replace the original file. If you downloaded the full product since 23-Apr-2004, you already have all these updates.

GAIA Print Charger Client V2.3.3 (Released 21-Apr-2004) [1.11MB]

1. Fixed a problem where for the second and subsequent jobs, users could enter a valid department code that was not in their restricted list.
2. Fixed a similar problem where users could type in a valid department code that was not in their group restricted list.
3. When hiding the department list, codes had to be typed in uppercase.

GAIA Print Charger Administration V2.3.5 (Released 15-Mar-2004) [2.33MB]

1. Program access security was denying access for all groups when both groups and users were defined.
2. The service account name that was limited to 20 characters.
3. The extract print jobs option sometimes failed to extract all jobs for all printers in the range.
4. The manual internet charging option was not charging for start dates when the day was less than 10 and the data base path contained spaces.
5. The user internet summary by group report was using the print balance instead of the internet balance to select users to report.
6. Added /multi command line switch to allow multiple instances for terminal services.

GAIA Print Monitor V2.3.5 (Released 26-Mar-2004) [860KB]

1. Fixed a problem where jobs were charged but remained in the queue when using the monitored/output monitoring method.
2. Fixed page size and colour detection for some PCL5 drivers.
3. Fixed charging for the the monitored/output monitoring method under Windows 2003.
4. Fixed handling of n-up printing for EMF spooling when the n-up was set in printer properties instead of the application.
5. Fixed a problem where new users were always added to the database regardless of the "Auto Add" option. You must restart the Gaia Print Monitor service after changing the "Auto Add" option.

GAIA Payment Manager V2.2.0 [1.66MB]

A few customers, especially university departments, who don't have administrator rights to their network, have found it difficult to setup and use the program access features in V2.3 Gaia Administration. If you are affected, you might like to download this Payment Manager module from the previous version. It does not give you access to as many options as the current version but may be easier to setup in your situation.