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ass17

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Premium. We're using v11.5.7 Gold

 

Which feature do you use that doesn’t come with the free version?

 

I can feed all this back to our exams officer.

 

Thanks

smarties11

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Which feature do you use that doesn’t come with the free version?

 

I can feed all this back to our exams officer.

 

Thanks

 

To be honest I'm not 100% sure. I was only involved with the technical requirements side of the purchase. It was our SENCO that arranged the purchase.

ass17

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@ass17

Hi Andy,

 

No, sorry. We only have one monitor on the exams computers. I want to be able to move EWP so that it occupies only either the left half of the screen, or the right half of the screen. In Win7 and Win10 you can do this with other apps by dragging the app to the far left or right edge of the screen. But we can't do this with EWP because it doesn't have a header bar at the top, so it's either full screen or minimised by using the button you added on the toolbar.

 

Example attached using Word instead of EWP....

 

[ATTACH=CONFIG]51080[/ATTACH]

 

 

Is this any good (image below/attached)? I'm testing on a 1680 width screen so anything higher would be no problem. I've had to re-label the menu items with shorter text and smaller font size to fit for this split screen feature only. If you think it will be OK can I send you over a private beta version to run at your end?

 

SplitScreen.png

smarties11

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Wowsers, that was quick! That is exactly what we are after, thank you so much - more than happy to beta test this for you! Do you want to send me a PM with a link?

 

EDIT: @ass17 - if you are able to get it across to me by around 1pm, I've spoken to our exams team and they would be happy to use it next week during our mocks. No worries if you can't, we'll continue to use Word and beta test this separately. (We are seeing the students at 1.30pm to explain the process for next week so whatever we tell them then has to remain set it stone as they are all SEN students and won't cope well with any change!)

 

Thanks!

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pamplemousse123

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I'm sorry but I've not been paying much attention since July, but it's exam-laptop-update-time!

 

We're still on version 2.1.4.5 and I have downloaded 2.1.8.5 but I can't see the full changelog that I thought was in the documentation-example folder in the zip file.

 

We've also been told that a student wants to use a laptop for a written French exam. Is there a best way to get accented characters?

 

Many thanks.

ass17

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I'm sorry but I've not been paying much attention since July, but it's exam-laptop-update-time!

 

We're still on version 2.1.4.5 and I have downloaded 2.1.8.5 but I can't see the full changelog that I thought was in the documentation-example folder in the zip file.

 

We've also been told that a student wants to use a laptop for a written French exam. Is there a best way to get accented characters?

 

Many thanks.

 

If you subscribe to this thread it’s where I post all the changelogs

 

http:// https://www.edugeek.net/showthread.php?t=196294

ass17

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I'm sorry but I've not been paying much attention since July, but it's exam-laptop-update-time!

 

We're still on version 2.1.4.5 and I have downloaded 2.1.8.5 but I can't see the full changelog that I thought was in the documentation-example folder in the zip file.

 

We've also been told that a student wants to use a laptop for a written French exam. Is there a best way to get accented characters?

 

Many thanks.

 

In the latest version the Character Map will offer you a basic accent map or the windows character map [emoji1303]

pamplemousse123

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We spoke about this back on 25th June and you'd said that you'd put a concatenated changelog into the zip distribution so that we could see all the changes in one place. Then if there's anyone else like me who doesn't keep up to date, we'll be able to see in one place what's changed between where we are and where we'll be.

Many thanks.

ass17

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We spoke about this back on 25th June and you'd said that you'd put a concatenated changelog into the zip distribution so that we could see all the changes in one place. Then if there's anyone else like me who doesn't keep up to date, we'll be able to see in one place what's changed between where we are and where we'll be.

Many thanks.

 

Difficult to keep track of the 4 threads I’ve got open for EWP but nevertheless I will put in a full change log on the next build coming soon, version 2.2 [emoji1303]

smarties11

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Just wanted to publicly thank @ass17 for accommodating our split-screen change request so quickly! We've tried the beta today and it is just awesome! Works beautifully, exam officer is happy, I'm happy, and most importantly the kids are happy.

 

Top guy, thanks for all you do for us with EWP.

ass17

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Download Link

 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1P5aeKEgGU4aPRMTdjbZBME493W7RMrTJ

 

Change Log (Now included within the documentation folder is a FULL change log)

 

2.2.0.0 (Current)

FEATURE: ‘Split Screen’ for those that require it. If you have a monitor that is 1680 wide or higher then you will have a new option on the ‘Screen’ dropdown menu called ‘Activate Split screen’. This will automatically snap the EWP window to the right hand side allowing the left hand side to be used to display, for example, a PDF copy of the exam paper. In addition to this, if you have the option to show the candidate information window on launch, you are given a one-time only checkbox to also activate split screen mode.

 

2.1.9.9 - 2.1.9.5 Build Skipped

 

2.1.9.4

FIXED: When typing in an Exam Board on the Candidate Information window the error message never disappears if you accidently clicked OK/Print having generated the error from the button click.

 

2.1.9.3

CHANGED: Housekeeping on back end code redundant functions/procedures.

 

2.1.9.2

CHANGED: Some Menu buttons have had their text label shortened to allow for more button in future builds. For example “Formatting Options” has now become “Formatting” and “Screen Options” has now become “Screen”.

 

2.1.9.1

FIXED: When using the Splash Screen on start-up you could bypass start-up checks if clicking on Open File then cancelling the open file dialog window. This bypass has now been closed off and the start-up splash screen will reappear if you try to bypass in future.

 

2.1.9.0

CHANGED: The decision has been made to separate the printing of the coversheet and document text into two separate processes. This is because a number of users have experienced issues where thecoversheet failed to print. So from now on, there are two buttons on the candidate information screen: “Print Document” and “Print Coversheet”. So please remember this for future :-)

 

2.1.8.9

FIXED: The current save path would not appear until after the auto-save timer had elapsed, when used with the config option ‘SavePromptAfterCandidateInfoScreenOnLaunch’. It now appears immediately after save.

 

2.1.8.8

ADDED: New ‘AppLocker’ variables have been added for use within the Save, Open and Backup paths. Which allows EWP to pick up the first USB Removable drive that is writeable to the user with at least 1MB free space also. These are variables are: %REMOVABLE% and %HOT%

 

2.1.8.7

FIXED: Open file path is now shown immediately on the status bar, it would have only shown after 60 seconds on previous versions of EWP.

 

2.1.8.6

CHANGED: Spell Check is now turned on by default without having to click the ‘Spell Check’ button to turn it on and highlight words etc...

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Cthulhu

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After testing, the cover sheet was still not printing.

 

I think the issue is due to the fact we've edited the list of exam boards. Will do some further testing tomorrow to confirm, for now it's home time.

ass17

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Yes it won’t print if you have edited it, as the list to check in the code is hard coded to that of the default list. If you change the list or add your own the software will not know which coversheet to print.
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Ben_Stanton

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This is great. Demoing it with exams lady today - thank you.

 

However, we also require split-screen for Read&Write Gold. But...our monitors cannot go to that resolution. Can it be done on 1280/1024? If not, can't use it which is a real shame. Will never get the go ahead to swap out all the monitors in that room for new and bigger.

 

Ta

 

Ben

ass17

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Let me take a look on this resolution and if it works I will put an override in the config to allow for lower resolutions.

 

I will Report back soon

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MkII

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I got locked out of a machine today stuck at a print error box. I couldn't clear the message to get back to the program to quit. I couldn't get to task manager to force quit it. Powered down with the power button and forced shutdown of the user in the end.
ass17

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I’d need to see a screenshot of the error so I know where to start looking to see if there is an issue.

 

Any chance you can replicate it know exactly what it says?

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