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15 September 2010, v. 3.3

Major projects

  • Cross referencing between reviews - see Project C
    The Review Citation Wizard can be used to identify other reviews it may be relevant to cite, and to export the citation for any reviews chosen.
    Two new possible subscriptions: 'A review cites a review where <name> is the Contact Person' and 'Significant change to a review cited by a review where <name> is the Contact Person'.
  • Replacement for Parent database - see Project 4
    Review Version search is an Advanced Search for specific published review versions. It allows specification of detailed search criteria relating to the content of the searched document versions, and it enables exporting of specific data from the hits, such as the number of included studies, or the Authors’ conclusions section.
    Currrently only available to Super Users, and defaults to only search a single CRG's reviews. Please note that searches that are very wide in scope can be extremely resource intensive, which can affect server responsiveness for all users.

General

  • Export table to Excel
    A button on the standard table component (eg used to show the contents of a Resources folder) that produces an .xls version of the table.
  • Improved export interface
  • All windows are now resizable
  • Wildcard characters in search
    Use * for several characters and ? for a single.
  • Menu items that user does not have permission to use are now disabled

Workflows

  • Templates for task emails
    Task emails can now be based on pre-specified templates. Emails can now also be for information only, ie without a  a ticket link.    
  • Improved performance of Workflow Status Report
  • Repeated overdue notifications
  • Disabled individual task notifications for users who are already subscribed in general
  • Selecting multiple persons for workflow role sets
  • Allow attaching more than three local files to a ticket email
  • Add 'Tasks for Selected Workflows' and 'Workflows for Selected Tasks' search terms
  • Add 'Workflow Version' and 'Is Template Customised' to Workflow search terms
  • Marking ticketing emails as urgent
  • Special icon for inactivated workflows
  • Grey out the checkbox in the Tasks tab for not Started workflows for people who have permission to view the workflow details

Documents

  • Reviews Without Topics report for CRGs
  • In the Publication wizard validation check, reviews not linked to a topic now treated as Error
  • Recording of 'replaced by' relationship between reviews
  • Topics are copied from original when splitting or merging reviews
  • Functions  to  browse changes in Compare documents 
  • User preference for format when viewing reviews
  • Review title shown in check-in report
  • Watermarks on PDFs
  • Better support for Review Number
    • Review number can be edited in Archie
    • Check for review number uniqueness
    • User preference for showing review numbers in PDF header
  • Separate numbers for reviews currently out of date and those that will become out of date

Persons

  • Link between Active status for roles and persons
  • 'Pending Registration' option for Is User searches
  • Show primary entity for people in resource view
  • Mark messages as read/unread
  • RevMan login shown seperately
  • Publisher and Monitor added to start page options under User Preferences
  • New Zealand address style

Bug fixes:

  • Notes created by a person are deleted when the person's record is deleted
  • Broken workflow links after deletion of person
  • Some fields in review versions are exported incorrectly
  • Address label reverts to 'Work' when an address is opened for editing
  • Resize document picker window in IE
  • Missing footnotes on forest plots
  • Workflow documents with a plus in the file name cannot be downloaded
  • Script error when exporting without selection
  • Tasks not always ordered by due date in Organizer
  • Address text fields must have a limit of 256 chars
  • Workflow end date should move when start date is changed
  • Related permissions not deleted when deleting an entity

Fixed in Archie 3.3.1 (15 September 2010):

  • Summary publication report excludes new reviews instead of unchanged reviews
  • Searching never seems to stop if user is not authorised to view any of the results
  • Missing icons for Microsoft Office docx, pptx and xlsx documents

Fixed in Archie 3.3.2 (16 September 2010):

  • Person records were set to inactive when any change was made
  • Document search for Version is New did not work

Fixed in Archie 3.3.3 (24 September 2010):

  • In the Review Contact Details Wizard, it should not be possible to Republish a review if the Author document roles have changed since the last published version
  • When several Role search terms were combined with OR, the search timed out after 5 minutes

Fixed in Archie 3.3.4 (30 September 2010):

  • A New version was generated although the Review No had not changed
  • Review numbers edited in Archie were not transferred to review files

Fixed in Archie 3.3.5 (10 October 2010):

  • Toolbar buttons in module editor were too big

Fixed in Archie 3.3.6 (15 October 2010):

  • Workflow template tasks could become assigned to other persons than indicated by the role
  • Missing permission check for unselecting topics
  • Remove [PERFORM TASK LINK] when switching to information email
  • Problems with review citation search when review had an apostrophe in the title
  • Remove Resend button from Task Properties Email tab

Fixed in Archie 3.3.7 (19 October 2010):

  • Creating/editing an Organizer event is no longer dependent on the time zone selected under Preferences
  • It was not possible to select individual Review citation notifications
  • Review citation notifications could not be sent

Fixed in Archie 3.3.8 (22 October 2010):

  • Time zone issues
  • Various cross browser compatibility issues
  • Cut-lines option for labels

 Fixed in Archie 3.3.9 (30 October 2010):

  • Browser's time zone is used if no preference has been set
  • Context menu can no longer extend below bottom of screen
  • Various cross browser compatibility issues

 Fixed in Archie 3.3.10 (5 November 2010):

  • Out-of-date reviews report should use 2 years as cut-off point
  • Show message while review is uploading to Archie
  • When checking in a file, it is possible to upload empty files
  • Default option for Time Zone under Preferences should be 'Not specified' 

 Fixed in Archie 3.3.11 (9 November 2010):

  • Reviews with byline longer than 256 characters cannot be marked for publication
  • Resolved duplicate users lose permission to edit their own record
  • Complex XPath Exist searches cannot be loaded again after saving

 Fixed in Archie 3.3.12 (26 November 2010):

  • Error opening task properties after deleting task email template
  • Link between Document Role 'TSC' and select person screen does not work
  • Some notifications were not delivered

 Fixed in Archie 3.3.13 (10 December 2010):

  • Tasks in progress should not show tasks for Aborted workflows
  • Review with multiple author affilitation cannot be opened after checking out from Archie

 Fixed in Archie 3.3.14 (7 January 2011):

  • To disable the ability to check in a review through RevMan 5.1

12 July 2010, v. 3.2.1

  • Bug fixes:
    • Complimentary subscriptions could not be donated
    • Saved searches for decision tasks could be loaded again
    • Email addresses with apostrophe were not accepted
    • Exporting Wizard timed out in Firefox

2 June 2010, v. 3.2

  • Split and merge wizard for reviews
    This wizard assists in splitting a review into two or more reviews or merging two or more reviews into one. The user has the choice between using a forked and a branched split/merge.
  • Browser restrictions removed
    It is now possible to access Archie using any browser, including Safari, Chrome and Opera. Note that we're still mainly testing using Internet Explorer or Firefox, and if you use one of the other browsers, it is more likely that there will be minor inconsistencies in the user interface.
  • Published View for new review types
    The Published View for Diagnostic Test Accuracy reviews has been improved, and a Published View for Overviews of Reviews has been added.
  • Grouping of search fields
    The pull-down lists of search fields for advanced searches are now organised in logical groups.
  • Search in relation to selection set
    First run a Document search and select some reviews. Then run a People search and choose 'Contact Person for Review'. You will end up with a list of contact persons for the selected reviews.
    Also available: People search: Author of Review (relative to document selection set), Document search: Review with Contact Person, Review with Author (relative to person selection set), Entity search: Entity for Document (relative to document selection set), Entity for Person (relative to person selection set).
  • Review Numbers in RevMan view and PDF header
    The Review Number (if any) for a review is now shown after the title in the RevMan View and also in the page header when a PDF is generated. Note that this change is in Archie only - RevMan is still not showing the Review Number.
  • Enter Review Number in the Review Wizard
    It is now possible to enter the Review Number at the same time a review title is created in Archie.
  • Create new person record from Select Person window
    It is now possible to bring up the Person Wizard directly from the Select Person window.
  • Verification dialog when user clicks 'Verify' on Person Properties
    You will now have to confirm the action before marking the contact details as verified.
  • Link to Archie's privacy policy in 'Verify Contact Details' mail
    The message to an individual to verify his/her contact details now contains a link to Archie's privacy policy
  • Totals and subtotals in All Published Reviews Report
    You can now see the total number of reviews for all groups and the total for each group.
  • Record a reason for aborting workflows
    When a workflow is aborted you can now provide the reason, e.g. Updated to new template, and write a note with additional details.
  • Shorter ticket links
    The long links were causing problems for some email clients.
  • Bug fixes:
    • Not possible to assign multiple workflow roles together
    • Incomplete Topics List Reports for topics lists containing symbol characters
    • Exported byline is blank if user does not have permission to see the latest version of a document
    • Broken links after deletion of people involved in workflows
    • A Super User can link another entity's topics to any review
    • Icon buttons in Viewer not displayed properly Chrome and Safari
    • Support for non-English characters in module byline (Firefox only)

30 April 2010, v. 3.1.2

  • Bug fixes:
    • Group AND and Group OR search terms did not work together with some search terms
    • Some search terms could only be used once in a search
    • Export limit on persons should not apply to all resource types

13 April 2010, v. 3.1.1

  • Bug fix:
    • Some workflow messages appeared to be sent from an arbitrary user

9 April 2010, v. 3.1

  • Improvements to the Publication Report
    • Report opens much faster
    • RM4 heading no longer appears in publication reports. Note: The heading may still appear if you look at publications reports prior to issue 1, 2009.
  • Improvements to the Workflow Status Report
    • Option to Show active tasks only
    • Option to Exclude reviews with no task found
    • Option to Include workflows with no milestones
    • Removed option that only shows workflows for reviews in the editorial phase
  • Task numbers in history
    Workflow history includes task numbers in the Task column for new entries.
  • Using AND and OR in the same search
    AND and OR can now be used together in advanced searches without having to use the selection set as 'clipboard'. Use the 'Group AND', 'Group OR' and 'Group END' search terms at the end of the pick list. Search terms inside an AND Group are combined with AND and vice verse. 'Group END' is used to end both types of groups.
  • Specifiction of version number to update when files are checked in
    When checking in generic files, you can choose between updating the primary or the secondary version number.
  • Email address validation
    Email addresses are validated for obvious errors when changes are made. Email addresses included in exports, e.g. email string, are also validated.
  • 'Verified by' in Person Properties
    The person who has verified the record is shown in Person Properties.
  • Verified date shown in Resolve Duplicates Wizard
    The date a record was verified is shown in the Resolve Duplicates Wizard and is used to highlight the most recent record.
  • Recording of splitting and merging of reviews
    It is now possible, at the Advanced tab of the review Properties screen, to record if a review is split into multiple reviews or multiple reviews are merged (or lumped) into one review. In the long term, this information is going to be used in The Cochrane Library to be able to jump between related reviews, but recording of the information in Archie may start now.
  • Support for verification of contact details
    It is now possible to send a message via Archie to an individual - user or non-user - that asks the person to verify the contact details on a web form, so that edits can be transferred automatically to the system. Until further noticed, this functionality should only be used by a limited numbers of pilot entities in agreement with the IMS Team.
  • Bug fixes
    • Unable to save workflow status report

4 March 2010, v. 3.0.9

  • Bug fixes:
    • Cannot change person assigned to Author document role if review has workflow
    • Error messages when linking Topics to Reviews
    • Tasks assigned from customised workflow template become unassigned when workflow is started

18 February 2010, v. 3.0.8

  • Bug fixes:
    • Publishers are not receiving metadata for resurrected protocols
    • Users getting logged out unexpectedly

16 February 2010, v. 3.0.7

  • Bug fixes:
    • Incorrect overdue notifications. If the task due date had changed as the workflow progressed, the overdue notification might still be sent based on the original due date.
    • Reverting to a previous review version should update document roles
    • Contact person not displayed under Resources
    • Resurrected protocol shows Inactive publication status
    • Edit Document XML function in Admin interface: textarea not updated

04 February 2010, v. 3.0.6

  • File name check is removed when checking in generic files
  • Bug fixes:
    • Problem with automatic population of TCSs in workflow
    • Withdrawn protocol is not published if it is made inactive right after submission deadline

27 January 2010, v. 3.0.5

  • Bug fixes:
    • Incorrect overdue notifications
    • Error changing module status to Approved when withdrawn protocol is checked out
    • Corrections to Updated Reviews monitor report

21 January 2010, v. 3.0.4

  • Bug fixes:
    • Forest plots for DTA reviews are missing bottom part
    • Task skipping when starting a new workflow sometimes fails
    • Workflows are being aborted when decision tasks are pre-skipped

11 January 2010, v. 3.0.3

  • Bug fixes:
    • Graphs not visible for RevMan 4 review versions
    • Monitor tab shows all review as out-of-date for old issues
    • Topics.xml file is empty when exporting modules for publication

9 January 2010, v. 3.0.2

  • Bug fixes:
    • Checkbox to 'Notify the assignee if task becomes overdue' in task properties doesn't work
    • Problems with task ticket form
    • Publication Wizard always asks for a permission for publication form for diagnostic reviews
    • Out-of-date reviews on Monitor tab should not include withdrawn reviews

19 December 2009, v. 3.0.1

  • Bug fixes:
    • Some groups could not Edit Workflow Templates
    • 'Export to plain HTML table' icon should not move when table is horizontally scrolled

13 December 2009, v. 3.0

Interface and resources

  • User favourites
    New Favourites menu where each user can have easy access to frequently accessed Persons and Documents. To add an item, right-click the record and choose Add to Favourites.
  • List of recently accessed resources
    Under Recent in the File menu.
  • Submit reviews for editorial approval from Archie
    New 'Submit for editorial approval' option when checking in reviews using Archie's interface. Should only be used in case authors have problems connecting from RevMan. Does not allow including comments, and does not show validation report, but it will reject reviews with errors.
  • Skype name and status
    Field for entering a person’s Skype name. Will also show Skype status if the person has configured their Skype to show this online. New privacy option: Hide Skype name.
  • Ability to copy content from tables
    A button on the standard table component (eg used to show the contents of a Resources folder) that produces a plain HTML version of the table. The plain format table can be copied and pasted in to other applications.
  • RevMan code used for rendering forest plots
    Forest plots viewed in Archie are now identical to how they appear in RevMan.
  • Preferences: default sharing for Notes
    You can now specify the default sharing level used when creating new notes.
  • Clarification of Group Author option in New Person Wizard
    Now clearer that this is an alternative to a regular person record.

Messages

  • Save message as note
    All messages can be converted to notes on the document or person that the message relates to. Use ‘Move to notes’ to create a note and delete the message, while ‘Copy to notes’ lets you keep the message.
  • Adjustable pane size in Messages window
    Drag the divider between the list of messages and the viewing pane.
  • Notifications window uses standard table
    The notification options are now listed in a standard table with sortable columns.
  • Clarified text in messages about reviews submitted for approval
    The message to Super Users when reviews are submitted for editorial approval is now “The document has now entered the editorial phase, during which it cannot be modified by authors”.

Search and Export

  • Search for people in developing countries
    New ‘From Developing Country’ search option. Finds people with an address in a ‘low income’ or ‘lower-middle income’ country.
  • Search for people by Skype name
  • Search for empty fields
    To search for records where the specified field is empty, choose "Equals" in the second column and leave the search term completely blank. To search for records where the field is NOT empty, choose "Does not contain" instead.
  • Export Contact Editor and Copy Editor roles
    The export options for reviews now include the Contact Editor and Copy Editor document roles.

Reports

  • Save settings in reports
    Some reports include multiple options. You can now save the settings for each report type.
  • Publication statuses added to Review Group Report
    Shows the number of reviews that are new, updated, changed etc.
  • Improvements to the time-to-event statistics reports
    Many adjustments to this report. For example: Using weeks as timescale, and the graph width is now 300 weeks. Shows median and inter-quartile range. Median is only calculated if 50% have had the event.

Workflows

Principal change
  • Remaining time is no longer transferred to the next task
    When a task is completed before it is due, all later tasks will be moved forward in time. Previously, the extra time was given to the next task.
Template editing
  • Customised role-to-task assignment
    You can now specify which workflow role each task should be assigned to.
  • Multiple 'Editorial Base' roles
    To allow assigning specific tasks to specific team members.
  • Default person for workflow roles
    You can specify a person that should always be the the default for each workflow role. Not available for non-unique roles (such as External Referee).
  • View previous customized templates The Edit Workflow Templates window by default only shows active templates. The 'Show previous customised entity templates' options lets you see earlier changes.
Interface
  • Grouping options for Workflows folder
    You can can customize the Workflows view under Preferences
  • Icon shows if workflows are overdue
  • New columns in Workflows folder view
    Graphical representation of 'Last Milestone Reached' and a 'Next Due Date' column.
  • Workflows column in Reviews folder view
  • Workflows tab on Review Properties
  • Added 'Select' and 'Deselect' options to workflow and task context menus
Notifications
  • Link to Task Properties sheet in notification email
  • Notification email for Workflow Managers about overdue tasks
  • Confirmation emails when tasks are completed through a ticket
Workflow Properties
  • Milestones presented graphically in General tab
  • Easy selection of multiple persons for workflow roles
  • Simplified workflow history
  • History records reason for repeating a task
  • Gantt charts
    Tab on Workflow Properties and new export format for tasks
Tasks and tickets
  • Skip multiple tasks in running workflow
    The 'Skip to' option in the right-click menu for tasks allows skipping multiple tasks after a workflow is started. Works like the 'Skip tasks until:' option available when starting a workflow.
  • Right-click menu for tasks In Progress in Organizer
  • Undo Skip
    For pre-skipped tasks. In task right-click menu.
  • User status shown in Advanced tab
    To help decide if person should be given access via ticket.
  • Support for auto-completion of 'Identify Sign-off Editor' task
    If somebody other than the workflow manager is assigned. Will not take effect until an updated template is deployed.
  • Multiple recipients of ticket emails
    You can CC a ticket email to multiple persons.
Reports
  • 'Next Due Date' in Workflow report
  • Option to filter Workflow Status report by Workflow Manager
  • Inclusion of Notes and Roles in Workflow Status report

Older versions

For older versions see the What's New in Archie "archives"

14 October 2009, v. 2.8.3

  • Workflow roles in the Roles tab are listed in order of appearance
  • Export Wizard for workflow and tasks now include all fields
  • Bug fixes:
    • Durations on Edit Workflow Templates were not editable in Internet Explorer
    • Remaining time was not transferred to next task when context menu was used to complete task
    • Remaining time was not always transferred to next task
    • Refreshing Workflow Properties (F5) no longer re-runs action
    • History of new workflow is now always be empty
    • Script error when starting a new workflow fixed
    • CRG changed to Managing Editor in the [Newtitles] email

10 October 2009, v. 2.8.2

  • Bug fixes:
    • Table header did not scroll in Internet Explorer

9 October 2009, v. 2.8.1

  • Bug fixes:
    • Registration page not working
    • Password resetting page not working
    • Missing figures when viewing review

8 October 2009, v. 2.8

  • Added new workflow templates
    The Review Update, Review Amendment and Protocol Amendment templates.
  • Allowed task completion/skipping from task list
  • Added ability to reactivate Aborted workflows
  • Ordered tasks in Progress list in Organizer tab by due date
  • Allowed skipping and pre-skipping of decision tasks
  • Used local time in workflow/task history
  • Editor document role used for populating CRG Advisor workflow role
  • Moved template picklist outside of Workflow Properties General tab
  • Used person icon for person picker on Workflow Properties
  • Rearranged the 'Skip tasks until:' option
    [checkbox] [Skip task until]:[task name]
    [Check this box and press start to skip tasks until the selected task becomes in progress]
  • Renamed Workflow Properties window
    [Template name]:[Name of a review]
  • Renamed the Roles tab to People in Workflow Properties
  • Refined Workflow Properties People tab
    Using a plain list for workflow roles instead of a table. Renamed 'Add' and 'Remove' buttons to 'New' and 'Delete' and moved them to the right of the list. CRG Advisors and External Referees now plural.
  • Introduced special icon for decision task
    Decision task icon: Image
  • Displayed end date for Milestones
  • History table of Workflows properties now sortable
  • Added context menu for tasks in Search Results
  • Advanced Search for Workflows and Tasks uses four rows by default
  • Search for tasks by workflow status
  • Task search is pre-populated with 'Workflow Status is In Progress'
  • Search for workflows by milestone progress
  • Search for workflows by status
  • Introduced pick list for task name searches
  • Added option to search for Skipped tasks
  • Added 'Entity' column to workflow search results
  • Removed 'begins with' and 'does not contain' conditions for History in Workflows and Tasks Searches
  • Reordered general tab of task properties
  • Added link to Workflows Properties from review properties
  • Added Workflow Status report to context menu for Workflows folder
  • Remaining time left for tasks showed on Workflow Properties
    When a task is overdue, the number of days are shown with minus sign, e.g. -5.
  • Added option to filter workflows by milestone reached in Workflow Status report
  • Added ability to close task window on completion
    New OK button will apply and close
  • Showed review title on the ticket web page
  • Workflow roles assigned to tasks from the beginning
  • Bug fixes:
    • Some documents could not be checked out or in
    • Tasks and milestones were not properly sorted in Tools>Edit Workflow Templates ...
    • Workflow and task history searches returned unpredictable results
    • Task search could not exclude results from aborted workflows
    • Check-in failed if record for Author or Contact Person was marked as duplicate
    • Some tasks reverted to one day durations when workflow wss started or changes were applied
    • New citation flags were not shown for withdrawn reviews

8 September 2009, v. 2.7.9

  • Bug fixes:
    • Allow notes to be made for aborted workflows and tasks

2 September 2009, v. 2.7.8

  • Bug fixes:
    • Not possible for Fields to links topics to reviews
    • Tasks in aborted workflows could be reactivated

28 August 2009, v. 2.7.7

  • Bug fixes:
    • Review title in Archie included text deleted using track changes in RevMan
    • Inconsistent I-squared values reported for meta-analyses with only one study
    • 'Page not found or unknown error' displayed when uploading a file bigger than 5 Mb to an Entity's File folder, instead of message stating that file couldn't be uploaded because of its size
    • No access to reviews and topics after deleting review linked to topic
    • The automatic scrolling to 'In progress' in tasks list didn't work in IE
    • Skipping tasks transferred their total duration to the first active task
    • Pre-skipped tasks should have zero duration
    • Aborting of workflow was not recorded in History
    • Tasks could still be completed in aborted workflows

23 August 2009, v. 2.7.6

  • Limit number of permitted failed login attempts
    After five failed login attempts you have to wait 10 minutes before you can try again.
  • Bug fixes:
    • Problem deleting user who had created document roles

4 August 2009, v. 2.7.5

  • Bug fixes:
    • Not possible to mark a reinstated, updated, conclusions changed review for publication
    • 'Issue protocol first published' should be editable for published reviews where Archie does not know about the protocol

31 July 2009, v. 2.7.4

  • Bug fixes:
    • RevMan check-in error messages are inaccurate
    • Reassignment of document role creates broken permission link

28 July 2009, v. 2.7.3

  • Bug fixes:
    • Author entity roles could not be deleted

26 July 2009, v. 2.7.2

  • Bug fixes:
    • 'Forgot your password' function is not working

25 July 2009, v. 2.7.1

  • Bug fixes:
    • Duplicated calendar events

24 July 2009, v. 2.7

  • Clearer icon for duplicate persons
    Person icon:   New duplicate icon: duplicate icon
  • Withdrawn protocols get inactive after one issue
  • New export fields: Issue Protocol First Published and Issue Review First Published
  • Support for NEAR operator for full text searches
    The entire phrase has to be in double quotes and the NEAR operator has to be in upper case, eg:
    Text | Contains | "antibiotics NEAR bronchitis".
  • Search for a person on a date when an entity role was assigned
  • Notes management tool
    It is possible now to manage all notes you have created. Tools > Notes Management Tool.
  • Option to request a copy of a ticket email
  • Editable subject and text of ticket emails
  • Attachment of local files when sending a ticket email
  • Attachment of local files when using a ticket to complete a task
  • Ticket actions recorded in task history
  • Ticket emails less likely to considered spam
  • Linking of topics to reviews from other CRGs
  • 'By entity role' button in Person Selector
  • Entities can only order a single online complimentary subscription
  • Undo Publish sets review phase to editorial
  • Filter set of people selectable for filling workflow roles
  • Insert Data Wizard has an option to insert updated reviews
  • Optimization of workflow role creation
    A Workflow Manager can make multiple changes to roles without the form being submitted and click 'Apply' button. It will save customization of workflow role assignment.
  • Improvement of review development statistics
    Time-to-event Analysis has been added to reports
  • Bug fixes:
    • Error message if a review's title exceeds 256 characters
    • Person search within 'authors of this review only' from RevMan is note working
    • Long review name and a large number of authors with document roles affect the publication window size
    • Email address for a contact person should be transferred to RevMan irrespective of the privacy settings
    • Notification systems sends a message to an assignee when a task had been skipped before workflow started
    • Export wizard fails for empty dates
    • GMT+ is shown as Irish summer time 
    • Unable to select two separate items in the History for any review on Mac OS
    • Firefox users are not alerted when not authorized to download a document
    • Reviews with many authors (more than 22) cannot be checked in
    • Registration page does not accept Internet Explorer 8
    • Window size restriction in Firefox does not allow person creation
    • Changing due date of task does not change date of overdue notification
    • Move document function fails to move document role permissions to a new entity
    • Zero results in Authors losing subscription report. Report will be disabled.

28 May 2009, v. 2.6.1

  • Bug fixes to do with complimentary subscriptions to The Cochrane Library

15 May 2009, v. 2.6

  • New report for CRGs: Document Roles Report
    For example, to get  a list of all authors and their reviews.
  • Special icon for duplicate persons
    Person icon:   Duplicate icon:
  • New Review Wizard now allows assigning topics
  • Option to omit sending title deregistration message
    When deleting a title.  

  • Contact ID has been removed from person properties
  • Local time for persons
    On Person Properties; Info tab. Only possible for persons with user account. Derived from user's Preferences, which may not have been changed from the default (GMT) .
  • Entity pick list when sharing notes now defaults to your Primary Entity
  • New prefix: 'Col'
  • CD-ROM changed to DVD-ROM on Subscription tab on person and entity properties
  • Bug fixes:
    • Deleting a super user no longer deletes people for which the super user has created user accounts
    • Publication flags no longer swapped between versions when republishing to update contact details
    • Links in user account request messages did not work
    • Review Contact Details Wizard now excludes reviews that are checked out
    • Bottom pixels of document History table were not visible
    • 'Country of Document Role' and 'Reference Centre of Document Role' searches did not work together

16 April 2009, v. 2.5.2

  • Removed ability to delete previously published protocols
    We want Archie to maintain an accurate history record of what has been published of both protocols and review. 
  • Fixed problem with incorrect number of protocols being reported in global reports

6 April 2009, v. 2.5.1

  • Bug fixes

3 April 2009, v. 2.5

  • Reactivated protocols are no longer automatically re-published
    It is now possible to reactivate a protocol and work on as active without having the old, withdrawn version published automatically in the next issue. When the updated protocol is ready, you should run the Publication Wizard in order to publish it.
  • Reactivated protocols can return with New citation: Minor update flag.
  • Bug fixes to the workflow system

16 March 2009, v. 2.4.1

  • Last Published Version First Published search term
    E.g. to find all reviews updated in the last issue use:
    Last Published Version is Updated - Yes
    [and]
    Last Published Version First Published is The Cochrane Library, Issue 2, 2009
  • New shortcut icons
    Indicates the server type (live, test, training).
  • Bug fixes:
    • Special symbols turn into question marks in generated PDF files
    • Menus are not always destroyed when clicking outside menu on the current page
    • Sorting by task in workflow status report orders items alphabetically rather than numerically
    • Apply button not active for 'Customized Permissions' option on Security tab of Folder Properties

16 March 2009, v. 2.4

  • Include email address in check-in notifications
    Of the person who checked in the review.
  • Active links to reviews on Person Report
  • Plain text lists inserted into modules should use breaks, not paragraphs
  • Use publication icons for modules
    Circle, semi-filled circle, filled circle.
  • Search on Country of Document Role
    The country of the person having the role.
  • Message when review title changes
  • Validation check for reviews not linked to topics
  • Include name of person/document in subject of notification messages/emails
  • Warning in publication wizard when author details are marked as private
  • Add information about module status to CRG Publication report
  • Notification to Super Users when Primary Entity is changed to their CRG Resolved
    This is not enabled for all super users per default - you have to do this under Edit Notifications.
  • Show review type in newtitles mails
  • Commented flag in Cochrane Library should only be appear for one issue
    The flag will only appear if What's New in review contains a 'Feedback incorporated' event.
  • Search on Reference Centre of Document Role
    Reference centre for the country of the person having the role.
  • Allow resizing of properties windows
  • Include contact details for entity in message sent to users regarding new password
  • Allow Internet Explorer 8
  • Speed up document quick search
  • Display the state/province field in authors affiliations for authors based in the USA
  • Remove leading and trailing spaces when inserting contact details from Archie into reviews
  • 'Find Me' button on Person Selector
  • Search for documents that are checked out
  • Allow user to modify own user name
  • Search for issue protocol/review first published is 'not defined'
  • Search for attributes on last published version
  • Workflow system
    This list will be available later today.
  • Bug fixes
    • Special symbols turn into question marks in generated PDF files
    • Out-of-date reviews report includes inactive reviews
    • Wrong publication flag generated when republishing to update contact details

18 December 2008, v. 2.3.2

  • Bug fixes:
    • People tab of review properties did not dislpay in IE6 if names had international characters
    • Document viewer section picklist included HTML tags for some headings

13 December 2008, v. 2.3.1

  • Bug fix
    Role specifications could not be modified for Author roles.

10 December 2008, v. 2.3

  • PDF versions of reviews and reports
    The document viewer now includes a Generate PDF button. The right-click menu for reviews now includes an option to Download (PDF).
  • Author Document Roles and Entity Roles now linked
    The Entity Role is now automatically created when you create the Document Role.
  • Other entities than primary can create user accounts
  • Super Users alerted when a user account is created for one of their members
    Using existing subscription 'The record for a member of [entity] is modified'
  • Publication History also in table format
  • Improvements to compared version
  • Bug fixes:
    • Special characters in review titles could disappear or change in Archie
    • Wrong context menu for generic files in Search Results
    • Wrong Reports options in context menu for entities in Search Results
    • Super Users could not delete role types from entity properties
    • Document properties showed stage as Review for published reviews even if stage was set to Protocol
    • Only first initial versions of generic files were indexed for searching
    • Review version stage was sometimes incorrectly changed to match overall review stage
    • First review version of an old RevMan 4 review was not always flagged as a citation version
    • Missing lines in contact details in entity module
    • Author Support role is no longer listed in Publication wizard
    • Publication wizard error if author name contained double quotation marks (")

31 October 2008, v. 2.2

  • Web service for checking the what the current review version is
    Allows RevMan to warn if the version being edited is not the latest version. Requires RevMan 5.0.17 or later.
  • New Review wizard duplicate search
    The quick search run by the New Review wizard was too narrow. The wizard now runs a full text search for all the non-stopwords, using AND
  • Record when person assigned to Document Role is changed
    For example, if you change the person assigned as Contact Person, the Assigned info is now updated.
  • Sortable date format in exports
    The date format in exports structured so the dates are sortable
  • Workflows
    Update to Tasks list: Swapped task name and document title. Added workflow name after task name. Added a Skipped column.
    Tickets and notifications: Can now send a ticket for a user decision task. Added two notifications: 'When task assigned to me is ready' and 'When task assigned to me is overdue'.
    History: Task Notes are now added to Workflow History. Latest events are shown at the top.
    Search: More search options for workflows/tasks. Task search results include duration. Ability to Export task and workflow data.
    Files tab on workflow properties enabled
    Added a Description to task properties
    Option for skipping tasks when starting a workflow
    Added Active Task column to Workflow folder in Resources
    It is now potentially possible to run multiple workflows for a single review
    Progress indicators removed
    Updated workflow definitions for title and protocol development
  • Bug Fixes:
    • Publication wizard now uses the same rules as Wiley for reinstated reviews
    • Fixed problems with messages not being delivered for all notification subscriptions
    • Search for workflows with particular workflow manager was not working
    • Task completion for decision tasks was not working right in Internet Explorer

9 October 2008, v. 2.1.17

  • Bug fixes:
    • Abstract data for cochrane.org could not be extracted.
    • Inactive protocols could not be changed to active.

1 October 2008, v. 2.1.16

  • Bug fixes:
    • Error message when skipping to some workflow tasks.
    • Error message converting some reviews to RevMan 5.

26 September 2008, v. 2.1.15

  • Statistics
    Right click on a CRG and choose Reports > Statistics to see statistics for
    • The time from Registered Title to published Protocol (test version)
    • The time from published Protocol to published Review (test version)
    • The number of protocol and reviews published in each issue of CL (graph)

18 September 2008, v. 2.1.14

  • Bug fixes:
    A number of non-critical problems have been addressed.

6 August 2008, v. 2.1.13

  • New Document and Entity Roles
    Author Support, Statistician and Feedback Editor added as possible Document roles for reviews.
    Editorial Assistant entity role added for CRGs. By default all permissions are set to 'Min'.
  • No publication form for withdrawn reviews
    Archie no longer asks for a signed publication form from authors when publishing withdrawn protocols or reviews.
  • File attachments to notes
    You can now attach files to notes. The note needs to be saved before the Attachment tab is available.
  • Bug Fixes:
    Out-of-date reviews report failed to respect 'No longer being updated'
    Byline was empty for initial review versions

7 July 2008, v. 2.1.12

  • Removed restrictions in module editor
    Line breaks and links are now allowed within formatted text (bold, italics, etc.).
  • Update of embedded RevMan to 5.0.14 beta
    This includes two fixed conversion problems.
  • Bug fixes:
    Published view of withdrawn RevMan 5 reviews should only show published sections.
    Improved comparison of RevMan 5 review versions.
    Downloading of a review should not mark it as modified.

20 June 2008, v. 2.1.11

  • Shared folders
    Folders under Files can be marked as shared (on Folder Properties). This gives all Archie users access to view (but not edit or delete) files in those folders. Note: shared folders should be placed directly under Files or in other shared folders for the sharing to have any effect.
  • Update of embedded RevMan to 5.0.13
    This includes minor changes to validation and a fixed conversion issue.

6 June 2008, v. 2.1.10

  • Changes to login page
    Links added or updated. Includes link to Privacy Policy.
  • Update of embedded RevMan to 5.0.12
    This includes a fixed validation problem.

28 May 2008, v. 2.1.9

  • Update of embedded RevMan to 5.0.12 beta
    This includes a fixed validation problem.
  • Bug fixes:
    Cannot save module after placing a link within bold on FireFox.
    Error message when changing folder permissions.

17 May 2008, v. 2.1.8

  • Bug fixes:
    Errors in metadata to publisher.

16 May 2008, v. 2.1.7

  • Caps Lock detector on login page
    If Caps Lock is on while typing your user name or password, you will be notified.
  • Bug fixes:
    Incorrect bylines for versions marked for publication.
    Delete button was enabled for to-be-published versions.
    Line breaks disappear from validation report in publication wizard after checking update box.

5 May 2008, v. 2.1.6

  • Update of embedded RevMan to 5.0.6
    This includes a fixed conversion problem and a fixed validation problem.
  • Quick search on persons includes middle initials
    You can now search for (and find) 'Monica Y Kjeldstrøm'.

17 April 2008, v. 2.1.5

  • Bug fixes:
    Out-of-date reviews report included other entities than the selected.
    Error when marking reviews for publication.

14 April 2008, v. 2.1.4

  • Warning when checking in review version created in RevMan 5.0.3
    This is because of a bug in RevMan 5.0.3.
  • Bug fixes:
    Add button for roles in Review Wizard disappears.
    Search tab returns to default when switching resource type.

8 April 2008, v. 2.1.3

  • Bug fix:
    Fixed problem where IMS Support got a 'Not authorized' error when trying to check in a Review from Archie for another review group.

3 April 2008, v. 2.1.2

  • Improved error messages when checking in reviews from web interface
    This includes the check-in report you normally see in RevMan.
  • Quick search for documents includes Review ID and CD number
    This makes it easier to find a review if you only know one of these identifiers.
  • Bug fix:
    Fixed problem searching for notes does not contain...

18 March 2008, v. 2.1.1

  • Bug fix:
    Password reminder was not working

14 March 2008, v. 2.1

  • RevMan 5 introduced to all groups
    All groups can now use RevMan 5

20 December 2007, v. 2.0.4

  • Review draft check-in message
    Included name of user
  • Publication report
    Optimised for speed
  • Bug fixes:
    Document Properties > History tab always showed 'No' for 'New citation'
    RevMan 4 reviews could not be marked for publication when a substantive update was required
    Document Properties > History showed illogical values for Publ. flag for inactive reviews (has been disabled)
    Validation report for RevMan 5 reviews showed codes instead of non-English characters
    Validation report for RevMan 5 reviews showed incorrect statistical errors/warnings

14 December 2007, v. 2.0.3

  • Graph view for RevMan 5 reviews (intervention + methodology)
    As for RevMan 4 reviews, this view allows you to see multiple graphs (forest plots) at the same time
  • Review types in Review Wizard
    In the Review Wizard it is made clearer that the RevMan 5 review types are only available to pilot groups
  • Bug fix:
    Fixed error comparing or marking for publication reviews with track changes codes

11 December 2007, v. 2.0.2

  • Improved check in report
    Messages in the check-in report updated to clarify the relevant action to take
  • Messages for RevMan 5 draft check-in
    Messages included in a RevMan 5 check-in are now also sent for draft check-ins (and not only submit)
  • Bug Fix:
    Fixed error that prevented review check-in for CRGs not part of the RevMan 5 Pilot

11 December 2007, v. 2.0.1

  • Bug Fix:
    Fixed error when attempting to create document roles.

10 December 2007, v.2.0

Background: Version 2.0 of Archie has integration with RevMan 5 as the main focus. Some of the changes will be in effect for all users (but may not all be relevant yet), while a number of the features will be restricted to groups that are taking part of the RevMan 5 Pilot. Once RevMan 5 is released, all CRGs will have access to the new features.

A. Changes in effect for all users

 
  • View options for Reviews folder
    The subfolders and grouping used in the Reviews folder can be set as a user preference (Tools > Preferences : Resources tab). The first level of ordering is through choosing the subfolders of the Reviews folder. This can be set to review stage (e.g. protocol or review), review type (e.g. intervention or RM4 reviews), review status (e.g. active or withdrawn) or none. The second level of ordering allows choosing how to group reviews within the list in each folder, where the same options are available.
  • Renamed author document roles
    Two document roles have been rename:
    Contact Author > Contact Person Co-Author > Author RevMan 4 reviews will continue as before with the new labels, so the Contact Person is by definition considered one of the authors. For RevMan 5 reviews, when contact persons are also authors, they should be assigned both document roles. This is the default in conversion.
  • City and Country mandatory fields
    The New Person Wizard now requires that City and Country are filled in when a person is created
  • Create user accounts in bulk
    Once authors start to use RevMan 5, they need to have a user account on Archie. Accounts are usually created by CRG Super User(s). This can now be done by selecting the persons that needs an account and create a user account for all selected persons.
  • Group Authors
    A special type of person record can now be created: Group Author. The option is available as part of the New Person Wizard. Although all groups can do this, only Pilot groups should do so.
  • New Review type column
    A column for Review type has been added to the folder view. Tags can be: RM4, INT (RM5 intervention review), DTA (RM5 diagnostic review), MET (RM5 methodology review), OVR (RM5 overview of reviews).
  • Search using RevMan 5 fields
    Three new options in Person search for searching for group authors. Review type, Assessed as Up-to-date, and Date Searched added as option for Document search.
  • Bug fixes:
    • Removed spaces from file name of RM4 reviews being checked out using Archie (by suing underscore instead). This should help prevent the problems some user have with opening them.
    • Missing labels on graphs with subgroups but no overall totals
    • Editing a person’s entity role did not refresh the Roles tab.
B. Pilot groups only
  • Conversion of RevMan 4 Reviews
    Functionality for automatic conversion of RevMan 4 Reviews. Right-click and choose Convert to RevMan 5. Conversion includes updating the reviews with the current author contact details in Archie.
  • RevMan 5 Review check-in
    RevMan5 Reviews can be checked in and out of Archie.
  • Creating RevMan 5 reviews
    The RevMan 5 review types can be chosen in the New Review Wizard.
  • Publication of RM5 reviews
    The following rules are checked by the publication wizard:
    • First issue a review is withdrawn, it must have a new citation.
    • First issue a review is reinstated (returned from withdrawn), it must have a new citation.
    • Every citation version requires a new Licence for Publication form.
    • It has been decided that protocols for overviews of reviews should not be published.
    • Diagnostic reviews cannot be published yet.
  • Document Properties for RevMan 5 reviews
    The document roles on the People tab are now sorted by byline and the affiliation information is displayed for each role. The History tab has a new review type column. The byline and publication flag is displayed for each version. The Advanced tab shows the two new dates Assessed as Up-to-date and Date of Search.
  • View and compare for RevMan 5 reviews View includes an option to also see Notes. Compare allows comparing with RM4 format version (by comparing to an auto-converted version of the RM4 version). There are a few attributes where compare does not yet detect changes.
  • Revert for RevMan 5 reviews
    When reverting a review that has been converted to RM5 to a version in RM4 format, the new version created will automatically be converted to RM5 (with updated contact details).
  • Issue first published editable
    Issues and year for Protocol First Published and Review First Published are editable in Archie for previously published reviews that are now in RM5 format. Edited on Advanced tab of document Properties; each change will generate a new document version.
  • Validation of RevMan 5 reviews
    Validation checks for the four RM5 review types.
  • Use of Contact Details Wizard
    The comparison of contact details works for RM5 reviews. Republishing a RevMan 5 review (that doesn't have a to-be-published version already) moves all What's new events to History and adds an Amended event with the description 'Contact details updated'. Pilot groups are not able to republish RevMan 4 reviews using the Review Contact Details Wizard
  • New publication report
    The new publication flags (introduced with RevMan 5) have been implemented in the publication report. The report has been re-designed and now allows the user to sort the tables listing reviews by their columns.
  • Subscription report for RevMan 5 reviews
    The Authors Losing Subscriptions report supports RM5 reviews. A valid subscription requires that the date in Last assessed as Up-to-date is within a period of 30 months.

20 August 2007, v.1.16.4

  • Bug fix
    The File menu was not working on the Organizer and Search tabs.

8 August 2007, v.1.16

  • Changes to Resources folder structure
    The Documents folder is replaced by three new folders: Module (which will contain the entity's module text); Website (for access to the enity's Websource document); Files (for other entity files).
  • New CRG report: Out-of-date Reviews This new report (right-click your CRG and choose Reports > Out-of-date Reviews) shows a list of all a CRG's reviews which, on the day you run the report, are out of date or will be out of date in the next four issues of The Cochrane Library. For the purposes of this report, a review is considered out of date if all of the following dates from the RevMan file are more than two years old: last substantive update, new studies sought but not found, and new studies found and included or excluded.
  • New CRG report: Authors losing subscription
    This new report (right-click your CRG and choose Reports > Authors losing subscription) shows a list of the names of your CRG authors who will lose their complimentary subscription to The Cochrane Library within the next four issues because they do not have at least one up-to-date review published.
  • Password reminder
    New 'Forgot your password' added to the login page so that users can reset their password if they have forgotten it. The 'Remember my password' option has been removed from login page.
  • New fields in CRG validation report
    New fields have been added to the validation reports (right-click your CRG and choose Reports > Validate All Reviews or right-click an individual review and choose Reports > Validate) to reflect updated publication policy and guidance.
  • Automatic logout after idle time
    If you have been inactive for 60 minutes, you will automatically be logged out.
  • Bug fixes
    • It was not possible to remove the Contact Author from Vacant Titles.
    • Problems with international characters in the Module editor.
    • Size of the Insert Data wizard in the Module editor has been adjusted to work in IE7.
    • The Organizer tab always displayed a scrollbar in Firefox.
    • Module editor in some instances allowed deletion of fixed headings in IE6
    • The disabling of the Finish button in Wizards after fist click didn't always work.

7 March 2007, v.1.15.1

  • Bug fix
    Publication Wizard was disabled.

28 February 2007, v.1.15

  • Review and version phases
    The labels for Review and version phases have been renamed to Write Phase and Read Phase, respectively. The Read Phases for versions are either "Authoring", "Editorial" or "Shared". With "Shared" replacing "Authoring (Shared)" and "Editorial (Shared)".
  • Linking from topic to review
    Now the Link Review button is only active when a topic you can link from is highlighted.
  • Date recorded in version description when review version is unpublished
    The description field for a review version that has been unpublished now records the date this happened (e.g. ‘Unmarked for publication 23 Feb, 2007').
  • Bug fixes
    • It is now possible to delete the role Contact editor for a review
    • Users can see full list of own document roles on their Person Report
    • Undo publish while module is being approved for publication has been disabled
    • The Publication wizard showed the wrong validation report (Firefox only) if you had chosen to update contact details

6 February 2007, v.1.14.1

  • Bug fix
    Removed 'hephop' popup window in Website builder.

6 February 2007, v.1.14

  • Topics lists for Fields
    Fields now have a Topics list as part of their entity Properties, where they can add links to titles, protocols and reviews in any CRG. Links between reviews and Field topics are shown on the review properties together with the CRG topics. Fields’ Topics lists can be viewed as one of the entity’s Reports, which also allows for the list to be exported as HTML.
  • Assign role from role
    You can now assign a role from the Resources tree – and to more than one person at a time. When you right-click the role name, you have the option to assign the role to:
    • an individual person, which you subsequently pick, or
    • to all the persons in your Selection set.
    There is also an option to remove a role from those who have it.
  • Bug fixes
    • Contact author role could be deleted - Reviews (except Vacant Titles) must now have exactly one Contact author Document role.
    • Enter in Quick Search opened highlighted results (Firefox only) - When using Firefox, pressing Enter to accept the one of the suggestions that appear as you type text in the Quick Search box would open the currently highlighted search result.
    • Duplicate Wizard allowed deleting Contact Authors - Choosing 'Delete duplicate - discard roles' allowed you to delete a person with the Contact Author document role, without being warned about this. The option has now been removed from the Duplicates Wizard.
    • Generic documents could not be checked in again - Using Internet Explorer 7, it was not possible to check a generic document where the file name contained a space or ‘#’ character back in again.
    • Wrong deselection from context menu- Deselecting a person using right-click menu instead deselected the last person to be added to the selection set.
    • System crashes - Comparing a few particular review documents could lead to Archie slowing down and ultimately crashing.
    • Listing all RGCs in a CRG in new titles mail - When a CRG has more than one RGC, all names and emails will now be included in the emails sent when new Titles are registered.

18 December 2006, v.1.13

  • Review reports
    Three new reports are now public: Review group report, All published reviews report and All published reviews by country report. They can be found in the 'Tools' menu.
  • Undo Checkout for reviews
    The Undo Checkout permission ow comes with the Max permission level for reviews (it used to come with the High permission level. For all other documents than reviews, only Super Users can Undo Checkout. All Users will still be able to undo for documents they have checked out themselves.
  • Bug fixes
    • The document reports did not take the users's permissions into account, but simply listed all document roles.
    • 'Begins with' looks in whole field: In free text searches, 'Begins with' didn't only look in the beginning of the field, but found all words beginning with the search string.
      Note that 'Begins with' searches do not work well for Documents as these technically begin with an XML tag, not a content word.
    • The module editor no longer prevents using e.g. the F1 or Shift key when the cursor is in a fixed heading.
    • If a topic was long, a scroll bar appeared on the whole tab instead of on the tree.

8 November 2006, v.1.12.2

  • Review validation
    The review validation check for references to Cochrane reviews updated to match the validation rules in RevMan 4.2.9 and 4.3.

2 November 2006, v.1.12.1

19 October 2006, v.1.12

  • Document search for notes
    You can now use Advanced Search to search for document notes.
  • Event times
    The times listed for events in Organizer are now in a darker colour, making them easier to notice.
  • Clearer Deregistered labels in newtitles emails
    The subject prefix is now "- Deregistered - " to allow readers to more easily discern between registered and deregistered in the overview at the top of the digest email.
    Note: this will only be noticebale to subscribers to titles emails from 1 November when the Review Titles Manager is phased out.
  • Title registration
    Registration of non-standard titles is monitored, currently by the Dutch Cochrane Centre. On the review wizard screen, it is now clear when a non-standard title is registered, and that non-standard titles are monitored centrally.
  • Bug fixes
    • The Publication report is now entirely correct also in the period from the submission deadline till the publishers have finished verifying the data (at which point the issue is marked as submitted for publication).
    • All free text fields are now automatically enclosed in "" by the system (for all matching options), so e.g. searches with City Equals Los Angeles work.
    • Pressing Apply no longer closes the Preferences window entirely.
    • The Duplicate wizard no longer has problems moving entity roles from duplicate to master.
    • You can now use Ctrl-C to copy text from the module editor, even if the text contains headings.
    • Folder properties sometimes displayed an error.
    • In Firefox 1.5.0.7 ‘Cancel’ closed the window but also applied any changes made.
    • Choosing the OR option for Document Quick search now works.

15 August 2006, v.1.11.2

  • Bug fix
    When you used the Compare Contact Details report for a review where the Document role Contact Editor has been assigned, the report included the Contact Editor as a Co-author.

14 August 2006, v.1.11.1

  • Bug fix
    A problem with opening Properties for some person records was fixed.

11 August 2006, v.1.11

  • Updating of contact details in reviews A new wizard that can be run ahead of each submission lists reviews with updated contact details since last published version was created, with an option to automatically rerun the publication wizard on each.
    Note: checking all the reviews in a group can take a long time, and the more reviews, the longer it takes.
  • Compare contact details in review with contact details in Archie
    Right-click review and choose Reports > Compare Contact Details.
  • Review validation
    It is now an error if the Plain language summary is not included in a new or substantively updated full review.
    Note: RevMan doesn't know if the review is new or updated, therefore the check must continue to generate a warning only in RevMan.
    Additional figures without links in the text now produce an error instead of a warning.
  • Notes
    The Sharing tab is now visible also for notes you only have read permission for.
    Public notes can now also be edited by Super Users in the entity that controls the resource.
  • Wording for creating and registering titles
    The following headings are changed in the Review wizard to make the purpose of each clearer:
     ‘Register a vacant title’ = ‘Create a Vacant Title’
     ‘Create a title’ = ‘Create a Registered Title’
    Likewise, in the Advanced tab for the Review Properties, 'Title Registered’ and ‘Title Assigned’ has been modified to reflect the change.
  • Search
    New navigation in Search Results / Selection.
    'Any field' option renamed to 'Common fields'.
    AND and OR to added description of search options.
  • Preferences
    The Preferences window has been redesigned.
    New preference: Default search tab.
    New preference: Start-up folder - choose which entity folder the Resources tree expands by default.
  • Mobile phone field in new person wizard
    The New Person Wizard now includes the Mobile field.
  • Interface
    Refresh option in all context menus (for folders/items that have a context menu), and a Refresh button above the Resources tree.
    The module editor window can now be resized (eg maximized).
    The tabs on Properties sheets now show the number of items (eg Roles) on that tab.
    The Unpublish menu option has been renamed to Undo Publish.
    Icons for picker buttons - the person picker and date picker buttons now have icon instead of '...' .
    Person Reports now include review stage and status in the list of reviews.
    The Entity listed on the General tab of Document properties is now an active link to the entity.
    It is shown on Properties and labels when data are Hidden and not just blank.
    The Finish button in Wizards is disabled after first click to avoid repeting the action.
  • Technical improvements
    A DOI is generated when a review is marked for publication first time.
    All documents start as version 0.0
    Publication wizard check is now logged in the new user action log.
    PNG is now the standard graph format when viewing reviews.
  • Bug fixes
    • New review wizard found no duplicates - When you use the top three options for entering the title, stop words in the fields no longer prevents finding duplicates.
    • When the text in a field is longer than the length of the field's box, there were problems scrolling to the beginning or end.
    • Filenames (and types) were not handled correctly when you download or check out files or reviews from Archie using Firefox.
    • Reviews with '/' in title could not be checked out.
    • The validation report for reviews reported 'Organisation of co-author is empty' when, in fact, the organisation of the Contact author was empty.
    • Person wizard: 'Middle names' has been correted to 'Middle initials'
    • Search for persons with any role in any entity didn't work.
    • You could not delete a person who is subscribed to receive notification when the person's own record is changed.
    • If you enter more than 256 characters in the module citation byline, you now get a meaningful error message.
    • The button (in the lower left of the Messages window) to open the linked resource was 'squished' in FireFox.
    • DOIs are now incremented when a protocol changes to review.

7 June 2006, v. 1.10.4

  • Bug fixes
    • Resolving duplicates for Contact authors now works correctly.
    • DOIs are now updated correctly for substantive review updates.

1 June 2006, v. 1.10.3

  • Bug fixes
    • Deleting the last paragraph in a module document no longer prevents it from being saved.
    • DOIs for documents published for the first time no longer ends with not end with '.pub1'.

10 May 2006, v. 1.10.2

  • Bug fix
    Advanced searches with multiple 'Role in entity type' rows did not work correctly.

3 May 2006, v. 1.10.1

  • Bug fix
    Archie always reported a difference between two sets of contact details unless the active flags were NOT identical.
  • Data update
    A number of persons had the incorrect Country entry 'UNITED KINGDOM'. This has now been set to UK for all.

28 April 2006, v. 1.10

  • Inactive authors
    Persons and individual roles now have an 'Active' status (on by default). The Active status for persons can be set by the Primay entity on the the persons's Info tab, and if a person is marked as inactive, a Reason can be added - e.g. 'Deceased'. Super Users can also mark the individual roles they control as inactive by using Edit for the role. You can include the Active status for persons or roles as criteria in Advanced Searches.
  • Entity role permissions
    The system for assigning permissions based on Entity Roles has been extensively updated. A set of default permissions has been applied for all the main CRG roles.
  • Use whole window
    Archie now expands to use the whole browser window.
  • Selected status visible in Resources
    Resources that currently are selected are shown in bold in the Resources view.
  • Export of topics list to Meerkat format
    There is now a new type of report for CRGs: 'Topics List (MeerKat format)'
  • Title registration email list
    A new email list, newtitles@cochrane.de (/.org), has been set up to handle the dissemination of new titles, in preparation for the transition from Review Titles Manager to Archie.
  • Publication report to match Wiley's
    To make the publication report match Wiley's, 'Updated reviews' has been renamed 'Edited reviews'; Commented & withdrawn reviews are not included under Commented; and Withdrawn reviews where a new version is published are not included under 'Edited reviews'. In addition, the Detailed report now includes Review No and Version.
  • Quick Search for documents only in title A Quick Search for documents now only looks in the title, not the full text.
  • Rename Archie's Check in/out option for reviews
    The options in the right-click menu for reviews have been renamed 'Check Out (XML format)', 'Check In (XML format)' and 'Download (XML format)' to clarify their function.
  • Clicking OK in Address window
    When you open an addresss (with Edit), and close it by clicking OK without having made any changes, this was recorded as an update to the record. Clicking OK without having made changes is now filtered out and does not count as an update.
  • Use Active role status in Entity report
    The Role Summary section in the Entity Report is now split into three columns: Active, Inactive Total, with totals for each at the bottom.
  • Use Active role status in People folder
    The People folder in Resources now lists three numbers for each role: Total, Active role, and Inactive role.
  • DOI link from Document Properties
    Any review that has been published will have a DOI on the Advanced tab. The DOI is now a link that, when clicked, takes you directly to the review in the Cochrane Library.
  • New Withdrawn icons
    Withdrawn protocols/reviews have a new icon that makes them more clearly distinguishable from Inactive ones. NOTE: you most likely need to clear your 'Temporary Internet files' to see the new icons.
  • Renaming review stages
    'Title' is renamed 'Registered Title'. 'Review' is renamed 'Full Review'.
  • Smaller font for printed Reports
    The font size for print versions of reports has been made smaller, significantly reducing the no. of pages in the Detailed Publication report.
  • Search on issue first published
    Advanced Search now lets you search for protocols and reviews by what issue they were first published.
  • Export authors
    'Contact author', and 'Byline' are now possible fields in the export format for reviews.
  • Label button should generate label for displayed address
    The Label button on person properties now generates a label for the address being displayed (instead of always using the contact address).
  • Display review number as a column in resource view
    The review number is the 4 character id controlled by the review group. It is now displayed in a column in the Resources view.
  • Filename extension for review xml files
    The extension of review XML files checked out or downloaded from Archie has been changed from '.xml' to '.r4x'. If you use the latest version of RevMan 4.3, it is easy to check out reviews directly from Archie to RevMan.
  • Ability to display contact author names next to review titles
    The contact author's name is now shown in a column next to a review's title in the Resources view.
  • Bug fixes
    • Ctrl-click in scrolled table selects the wrong row: When you scroll down and Ctrl-click an item in a table (eg a review's History) the wrong row was selected.
    • Module editor breaks fixed headings: It is no longer possible to delete part of fixed headings in the Module editor.
    • Ignore Public notes in Contact details from RevMan: If a new person record is created from a review check-in, and the RevMan record has data in Public Notes, Archie no longer transfers this to the (hidden) Public notes field or creates a note for the person.
    • Editor: Cannot delete text that is immediately before a fixed heading: A message now suggests using Backspace.
    • Editing an entity's address does not update Modified date: The date is now updated.
    • Right-click menus should not drop below screen: Right-click menus can no longer drop below screen.
    • Compare failed for documents with extremely long paragraphs

23 March, 2006, v. 1.9.3

  • Bug fix
    • A script error prevented the menu bar from loading for Chinese users.

13 February, 2006

  • Bug fix
    • The Topics tree could not expand topics where a sub-topic contained quotation marks - eg "Anti-Parkinsonian"
    • Super Users were not allowed to save their edits to Entity/Admin notes created by others.

6 February, 2006

  • Permission to edit entity notes
    Super Users can now edit some of the notes created by others. This includes for a person resource: Entity notes and Administrative notes -and for a document: Administrative notes.
  • Individual CRG resubmission
    If a CRG needs to correct errors in one or more reviews and then resubmit, this can now be handled through Archie.
  • Show overview of reviews divided by stage and status
    A CRG's Reviews folder now show an overview of the number of reviews divided by stage and status.
  • Structural problem regarding inactive records
    Published records now also have an internal 'issue last published' date. Each version's publication history now shows the first and last issue it was published.
  • Problem with reinstated protocols
    When a protocol that has previously been published and then deleted from CLIB, is reinstated from the Inactive stasus, there is now cerated a new, to be published version is created from the latest version. A warning suggests that you manually republish it to ensure it is validated.
  • Publication Wizard cleans version for publication
    The Publication Wizard now removes track changes codes, and red marker from the published version.
  • Bug fixes
    • Editing a person's entity role could mean that the permissions associated with the role was lost.
    • Event start/end time may be incorrectly shown in event properties: User time zone is now being properly registered at login.
    • Editing a source of support failed unless you had read permission for all entities.
    • On the screen to edit entity role type permissions, the option 'May edit all documents' now gives permission to read documents in addition to the permission to write documents. Previously, review check-out could fail.
    • If a review's status was changed to Inactive, it incorrectly disappeared from the previous issue's publication report.
    • You could not compare review versions if one of the versions had co-authors with an empty name field.
    • Using the Download function in the document viewer could give an error.

12 January, 2006

  • List of known bugs
    The Help menu now has a 'Known bugs' link that takes you to a page listing any currently known bugs in Archie.
  • Validate all reviews using versions to be published
    The validation report for a CRG now validates the review versions that will be published, not the latest draft.
  • Publication wizard check for reason for withdrawal
    The publication wizard now reports an error if a withdrawn review is attempted published without a Reason for withdrawal in Notes.
  • New and Withdrawn validation check
    If a review or protocol is both New and Withdrawn it is rejected by the publication wizard.
  • Reinstated and Updated validation check
    The publication wizard checks that a protocol being reinstated has been substantively updated.
  • Module Publication Wizard validation of contact details
    The publishing wizard for modules now validates the entity's contact details.
  • Module status/locking system
    During the submission period, system administrators can now lock access to the publication wizard and topics list editor while modules are being validated for publication. Status can be Pending (no access), Resubmission (access to publish in current issue), or Approved (access to publish in next issue). The Info tab of the entity's Properties shows the status.
  • DOI on review properties
    The Advanced tab now also lists a review's DOI.
  • Notification when review is matched by title during check-in
    If a review is checked in from RevMan 4.3 to Archie, and the review ID has changed (but the title matches), RevMan will report this.
  • Publication Wizard check for other published reviews with the same title
    This prevents two versions of a review with different IDs from being published by mistake.
  • Publication Wizard warning if review is published without protocol published
    The Publication Wizard will warn if a review is being published without a protocol having been published previously.
  • Publication Wizard: View compared to last published version
    The publication wizard now lets you compare the version you are about to publish with the previously published version.
  • Summary publication report
    The summary publication report now also lists the title of new, updated, etc. reviews.
  • Bug fixes
    • Edit entity role no longer allows deletion of last role in primary entity: If a role is the last role in primary entity, a user editing the role was nevertheless allowed to change the role's entity.
    • Could not save search over existing search: Attempting to save a search with a name that already exists now prompts the user to overwrite or cancel.
    • Module Editors could not see Module under Documents: The document role Module Editor now allows you to see the Module, without additional permissions.
    • The Publication wizard no longer includes the Contact author's email address in the review if the address is marked as hidden.
    • The Unpublish function now works for Module documents.

21 December, 2005

  • Bug fixes
    Various bugs have been fixed.

14 October, 2005

  • Calendar
    Every calendar event is now tied to a time zone. Times entered and shown in Event Properties are always relative to the specified time zone. Note that times shown in your calendar in the Organizer tab are always local.

    For example, if you connect to Archie from a computer in London and create an event taking place 3-4pm Melbourne time, the event will appear in your calendar relative to London time, which is 6-7am. If you connect to Archie from a computer in Melbourne, the event will appear in your calendar relative to Melbourne time, 3-4pm.

  • Time zones
    Under User Preferences > Calendar, you can now select the default time zone to be used for the creation of calendar events (see Calendar above).
  • Bug fixes
    Various bugs have been fixed.

26 August, 2005

  • Document Search expanded
    • The document search now searches generic documents in addition to reviews and modules.
    • For documents, Quick Search and Any Field under Advanced Search searches title and full text of documents.
    • Search for a phrase by enclosing the phrase in quotes. E.g. write melatonin prevention "jet lag" to match the words "melatonin", "prevention", and the phrase "jet lag".

18 August, 2005

  • Document phase
    The phase of each review version is now visible on the History tab. A number of issues regarding document phases and access rights have been fixed.
  • Review check-in messages
    The system no longer sends 'Suggest changes' messages when you check in from RevMan and choose not to update the contact database.
  • Check-out inactive protcols
    It is now possible to check out inactive protocols (and reviews) if you, for instance, need to work on a version before it is reinstated.
  • System tray
    A system tray is now displayed on the top right of every section. It contains a clock, a message indicator to notify you if you have unread messages, and a selection set indicator when resources have been selected.
  • Bug fixes
    Various bugs have been fixed.

29 July, 2005

  • Organizer tab
    The Organizer tab has been introduced to provide an overview of calendar events, tasks, and messages (see below).
  • My Tools removed
    The "My Tools" toolbar has been removed. Quick search has moved to the top right of the page and messaging is now accessed from the new Organizer tab (see above).
  • Quick search
    Quick search has been simplified and is now accessible from the top right of every section. By default, Quick search performs a "match all terms" people search when pressing Enter.
    For convenience, the following shortcut keys are now available:
    • CTRL+Q: Move cursor to Quick Search field
    • CTRL+D: Search Documents
    • CTRL+E: Search Entities
  • Calendar
    Events/reminders can now be maintained and shared on Archie. Events are either personal, shared among users affiliated with an entity, or shared Collaboration-wide. Shared events are administrated by entity Super Users or System Administrators, respectively. New events are created using File > New > Event... .
  • Messaging
    Messaging has been improved and is now accessible from the Organizer tab. Messages are now divided into one or more mailboxes. Every user has the default "System" mailbox that contains system messages. In addition, entity Super Users have a mailbox for administrative messages for their entity (e.g. notifications of when the contact details of someone in that entity has changed). Note that messages sent prior to this release are all kept in the "System" mailbox.
    The number to the right of the mailbox shows how many unread messages it contains
    Click on a mailbox to open the message browser.
  • Publication report for back issues
    It is now possible to view publication reports for back issues of The Cochrane Library. You choose the issue within the report.
  • Entity report shows total of people in entity
    The total number of people with one or more roles in the entity is shown on the entity report.
  • User preference: label format
    Under preferences, it is possible to choose the label format used for printing single labels, and used by default for exporting multiple labels.
  • Delimiter for email string
    The export wizard makes it possible to specify the delimiter for email strings.
  • More search options
    It is now possible to search for people with a certain document role, and to search for people with a certain entity role specification.
  • Delete persons with notes
    Persons who have created notes can be deleted. Private notes are deleted. Entity notes are transferred to the contact person of the entity. Public notes are transferred to the contact person for the entity 'owning' the resource (person or document) that the note is about.
  • Submitted for publication status
    In the interval between reviews have been submitted to the publishers and the Cochrane Library is published, the publication status icon turns blue.
  • Review folders show drafts
    A column has been added to the folder view for reviews indicating if later drafts than the latest published version exist.
  • Document folders
    The "Checked out" column now uses an icon to indicate check-out status. A padlock icon means that the document is checked out. This also affects Review folders.
  • Person modified messages
    Messages when persons are modified include a description of the changes.
  • Notifications for super users
    Persons that are super users in more than one entity can choose the entity when editing notifications.
  • Export as table
    All resource types now have an tabular export format called HTML table.
  • Bug fixes
    • Fixed a bug that sometimes allowed fields (email address and mobile phone) marked as private to be seen.
    • Fixed a bug where event messages were sent to event originator.
    • Fixed a bug with the permissions to view different document version.
    • Fixed a bug viewing a large number of graphs.

1 July, 2005

  • Resources view options
    Options have been added to customize the resources view:
    • Show 1) All entities, 2) Affiliated entities (recommended), or 3) Primary entity. This option is available by clicking the icon on top of resource tree, from the View menu, and also from the Preferences dialog (see below).
    • Group by entity type can now be disabled (default). This option is available from the Preferences dialog (see below).
  • User preferences
    Preferences such as start page, resource tree view options, and date formats can now be set in Tools > Preferences.
  • Messages
    • Messages now show who sent them (e.g. suggest changes). Messages triggered by events on the system show who caused the event (e.g. update of contact details).
    • A system event no longer cause a message to be sent to the user who triggered it. E.g. you will no longer be notified if you change your own record.
    • From Person Properties > Settings > Notifications, it is now possible to customize system notifications, and e.g. receive emails instead of system messages
  • Date assigned on document roles
    Document roles now have assignment dates (like for entity roles).
  • Bug fixes
    A bug in the check-in function that sometimes resulted in a person having both contact and co-author roles on a review has been fixed. A number of minor bugs have also been fixed.

10 June, 2005

  • Search by publication status
    It is possible to search for documents by publication status, i.e. 'Not published', 'To be published', 'Published' and 'To be republished'.
  • Review Publication Wizard
    The Review Publication Wizard now makes it optional whether contact details in the published version should be taken from the Contact Database.
  • Publication report
    Byline and date version created are included in the report. Substantively updated reviews are no longer also listed under Updated reviews.
  • Topics Lists
    The topics list is limited to five levels and links to reviews can only be made at the lowest level. The screen for linking reviews is larger and makes it easier to pick the right review.
  • Resolve Duplicates Wizard
    Secondary addresses for the duplicate are transferred to a note when a duplicate is resolved.
  • Document Roles linked to specific address
    A document role can be linked to a specific address, which the publication wizard uses to include in the published version.
  • Renaming of generic documents
    Generic documents can now be renamed.

20 April, 2005

  • Name change
    As decided by the Steering Group, The Cochrane Information Management System (or Archibald One) is now known as Archie.
  • Interface updated
    • Parts of the system interface have been redesigned.
    • The Resource menu is now called the File menu
    • To conserve space, the toolbar now slides in over the content instead of pushing it to the right.

12 April, 2005

  • Person properties
    • Changes to a person's entity roles no longer counts as a modification of that person's record.
    • Suggest Changes button has been replaced by a context menu item. To suggest changes, right-click on the person and select "Suggest Changes..." or highlight the person and select "Suggest Changes..." from the system menu.
    • Entity roles are now listed with information on when they were assigned and by whom.
  • Module editor
    The module editor checks for missing fixed headings.
  • Bug fixes
    • An error that caused spontaneous logouts has been fixed.
    • A number of minor bugs have been fixed.

  • Features only available to IMS Pilot groups:
  • Review check-in
    Contact details are no longer 'updated' if a review is checked in with identical contact details as those in Archie.
  • Publication Wizard
    The Publication Wizard shows the review byline together with the list of author roles so these can be compared.
  • RevMan 4.3
    Notifications in RevMan when you check in a review and the stage is updated, and when you check in a new review.
  • Bug fixes
    • When a new review was checked in, the stage was always set to Title.
    • Home addresses in RevMan (HIREx) export files were tagged incorrectly.

24 March, 2005

  • Review searching
    It is now possible to search by review specific fields, including stage, status, phase, review number and various dates.
  • Review exporting
    Review specific fields can be exported, including stage, status, phase, review number and various dates.

  • Features only available to IMS Pilot groups:
  • Withdrawn versions
    The withdrawn status is now recorded individually for each review version.
  • Publication report
    Various problems have been fixed.

11 March, 2005

  • General documents
    It is now possible to store and share any type of documents under an entity's Documents folder.
  • Address fields no longer mandatory
    The fields City and Address1 are no longer mandatory when creating a person.
  • Nested lists
    Nested lists are supported in the module editor.

  • Features only available to IMS Pilot groups:
  • Editable review titles
    The title of reviews can be edited on the properties page.
  • Publication view
    Reviews can be viewed in a style that emulates Wiley InterScience.
  • Vacant titles
    The Proposed titles section has been renamed to Vacant titles.
  • Publication status
    The publicaton status of reviews has been added as a column to the folder view. A circle means 'To be published' or 'To be republished' and a bullet means 'Published'.
  • Review stage in history table
    The icons in the history table now reflect the stage of review versions, and the publication status is listed in a new column.
  • Review stage in history table
    The icons in the history table now reflect the stage of review versions.
  • Topics list report
    Authors can be included in the topics list report.

8 February, 2005

  • Module documents
    The appearance of module documents now emulates the Wiley InterScience style.
  • Bug fixes
    A bug in the module editor has been fixed.

26 January, 2005

  • Improved search
    In addition to searching for persons you can search for entities and documents.
  • Improved export
    The export wizard can now export entities.
  • Select persons from Resources section
    Persons can now be selected from the Resources section. Right-click on a person and choose Select or Deselect. From the right-click menu on a role folder under People, you can also select/deselect all persons with that role.

21 January, 2005

  • Bug fixes
    An error in the Resolve Duplicates wizard was fixed.

20 January, 2005

  • Names
    The short form of a person's name displayed in search results, the resource view and elsewhere, now contains middle names.
  • Person modified
    Modifying a person's entity roles now counts as modifying the person and is hence reflected in the "Modified" and "Modified by" fields.
  • Shortcut icon
    A shortcut icon has been added to help distinguish the IMS from other bookmarked sites.
  • Bug fixes
    Advanced search now matches non-english characters.

14 January, 2005

  • What's New section
    This section has been added.
  • Various bug fixes
    A number of minor problems have been fixed.

11 January, 2005

  • Suggest changes
    You can now suggest changes to a person record that you don't have permission to change yourself. See Help: Suggesting changes.
  • Mark as duplicate
    A person record can now be marked as a duplicate of another record. See Help: About duplicates.
  • Entity report
    A detailed report can now be generated for each entity (like the person report).
  • Improved tables
    The tables you see around the IMS, the resource view, search results, selection set, etc. now work more like you're used to in Windows. Columns can be resized, rows can be selected using shift/ctrl, etc. See Help: Highlighting records.
  • Notes search
    Advanced Search can now also search in Notes.
  • Various bug fixes
    A number of minor problems have been fixed (such as problems with editing Role Permissions).

For most recent issues: What's New in Archie

8 September 2009, v. 2.7.9

  • Bug fixes:
    • Allow notes to be made for aborted workflows and tasks

2 September 2009, v. 2.7.8

  • Bug fixes:
    • Not possible for Fields to links topics to reviews
    • Tasks in aborted workflows could be reactivated

28 August 2009, v. 2.7.7

  • Bug fixes:
    • Review title in Archie included text deleted using track changes in RevMan
    • Inconsistent I-squared values reported for meta-analyses with only one study
    • 'Page not found or unknown error' displayed when uploading a file bigger than 5 Mb to an Entity's File folder, instead of message stating that file couldn't be uploaded because of its size
    • No access to reviews and topics after deleting review linked to topic
    • The automatic scrolling to 'In progress' in tasks list didn't work in IE
    • Skipping tasks transferred their total duration to the first active task
    • Pre-skipped tasks should have zero duration
    • Aborting of workflow was not recorded in History
    • Tasks could still be completed in aborted workflows

23 August 2009, v. 2.7.6

  • Limit number of permitted failed login attempts
    After five failed login attempts you have to wait 10 minutes before you can try again.
  • Bug fixes:
    • Problem deleting user who had created document roles

4 August 2009, v. 2.7.5

  • Bug fixes:
    • Not possible to mark a reinstated, updated, conclusions changed review for publication
    • 'Issue protocol first published' should be editable for published reviews where Archie does not know about the protocol

31 July 2009, v. 2.7.4

  • Bug fixes:
    • RevMan check-in error messages are inaccurate
    • Reassignment of document role creates broken permission link

28 July 2009, v. 2.7.3

  • Bug fixes:
    • Author entity roles could not be deleted

26 July 2009, v. 2.7.2

  • Bug fixes:
    • 'Forgot your password' function is not working

25 July 2009, v. 2.7.1

  • Bug fixes:
    • Duplicated calendar events

24 July 2009, v. 2.7

  • Clearer icon for duplicate persons
    Person icon:   New duplicate icon: duplicate icon
  • Withdrawn protocols get inactive after one issue
  • New export fields: Issue Protocol First Published and Issue Review First Published
  • Support for NEAR operator for full text searches
    The entire phrase has to be in double quotes and the NEAR operator has to be in upper case, eg:
    Text | Contains | "antibiotics NEAR bronchitis".
  • Search for a person on a date when an entity role was assigned
  • Notes management tool
    It is possible now to manage all notes you have created. Tools > Notes Management Tool.
  • Option to request a copy of a ticket email
  • Editable subject and text of ticket emails
  • Attachment of local files when sending a ticket email
  • Attachment of local files when using a ticket to complete a task
  • Ticket actions recorded in task history
  • Ticket emails less likely to considered spam
  • Linking of topics to reviews from other CRGs
  • 'By entity role' button in Person Selector
  • Entities can only order a single online complimentary subscription
  • Undo Publish sets review phase to editorial
  • Filter set of people selectable for filling workflow roles
  • Insert Data Wizard has an option to insert updated reviews
  • Optimization of workflow role creation
    A Workflow Manager can make multiple changes to roles without the form being submitted and click 'Apply' button. It will save customization of workflow role assignment.
  • Improvement of review development statistics
    Time-to-event Analysis has been added to reports
  • Bug fixes:
    • Error message if a review's title exceeds 256 characters
    • Person search within 'authors of this review only' from RevMan is note working
    • Long review name and a large number of authors with document roles affect the publication window size
    • Email address for a contact person should be transferred to RevMan irrespective of the privacy settings
    • Notification systems sends a message to an assignee when a task had been skipped before workflow started
    • Export wizard fails for empty dates
    • GMT+ is shown as Irish summer time 
    • Unable to select two separate items in the History for any review on Mac OS
    • Firefox users are not alerted when not authorized to download a document
    • Reviews with many authors (more than 22) cannot be checked in
    • Registration page does not accept Internet Explorer 8
    • Window size restriction in Firefox does not allow person creation
    • Changing due date of task does not change date of overdue notification
    • Move document function fails to move document role permissions to a new entity
    • Zero results in Authors losing subscription report. Report will be disabled.

28 May 2009, v. 2.6.1

  • Bug fixes to do with complimentary subscriptions to The Cochrane Library

15 May 2009, v. 2.6

  • New report for CRGs: Document Roles Report
    For example, to get  a list of all authors and their reviews.
  • Special icon for duplicate persons
    Person icon:   Duplicate icon:
  • New Review Wizard now allows assigning topics
  • Option to omit sending title deregistration message
    When deleting a title.  

  • Contact ID has been removed from person properties
  • Local time for persons
    On Person Properties; Info tab. Only possible for persons with user account. Derived from user's Preferences, which may not have been changed from the default (GMT) .
  • Entity pick list when sharing notes now defaults to your Primary Entity
  • New prefix: 'Col'
  • CD-ROM changed to DVD-ROM on Subscription tab on person and entity properties
  • Bug fixes:
    • Deleting a super user no longer deletes people for which the super user has created user accounts
    • Publication flags no longer swapped between versions when republishing to update contact details
    • Links in user account request messages did not work
    • Review Contact Details Wizard now excludes reviews that are checked out
    • Bottom pixels of document History table were not visible
    • 'Country of Document Role' and 'Reference Centre of Document Role' searches did not work together

16 April 2009, v. 2.5.2

  • Removed ability to delete previously published protocols
    We want Archie to maintain an accurate history record of what has been published of both protocols and review. 
  • Fixed problem with incorrect number of protocols being reported in global reports

6 April 2009, v. 2.5.1

  • Bug fixes

3 April 2009, v. 2.5

  • Reactivated protocols are no longer automatically re-published
    It is now possible to reactivate a protocol and work on as active without having the old, withdrawn version published automatically in the next issue. When the updated protocol is ready, you should run the Publication Wizard in order to publish it.
  • Reactivated protocols can return with New citation: Minor update flag.
  • Bug fixes to the workflow system

16 March 2009, v. 2.4.1

  • Last Published Version First Published search term
    E.g. to find all reviews updated in the last issue use:
    Last Published Version is Updated - Yes
    [and]
    Last Published Version First Published is The Cochrane Library, Issue 2, 2009
  • New shortcut icons
    Indicates the server type (live, test, training).
  • Bug fixes:
    • Special symbols turn into question marks in generated PDF files
    • Menus are not always destroyed when clicking outside menu on the current page
    • Sorting by task in workflow status report orders items alphabetically rather than numerically
    • Apply button not active for 'Customized Permissions' option on Security tab of Folder Properties

16 March 2009, v. 2.4

  • Include email address in check-in notifications
    Of the person who checked in the review.
  • Active links to reviews on Person Report
  • Plain text lists inserted into modules should use breaks, not paragraphs
  • Use publication icons for modules
    Circle, semi-filled circle, filled circle.
  • Search on Country of Document Role
    The country of the person having the role.
  • Message when review title changes
  • Validation check for reviews not linked to topics
  • Include name of person/document in subject of notification messages/emails
  • Warning in publication wizard when author details are marked as private
  • Add information about module status to CRG Publication report
  • Notification to Super Users when Primary Entity is changed to their CRG Resolved
    This is not enabled for all super users per default - you have to do this under Edit Notifications.
  • Show review type in newtitles mails
  • Commented flag in Cochrane Library should only be appear for one issue
    The flag will only appear if What's New in review contains a 'Feedback incorporated' event.
  • Search on Reference Centre of Document Role
    Reference centre for the country of the person having the role.
  • Allow resizing of properties windows
  • Include contact details for entity in message sent to users regarding new password
  • Allow Internet Explorer 8
  • Speed up document quick search
  • Display the state/province field in authors affiliations for authors based in the USA
  • Remove leading and trailing spaces when inserting contact details from Archie into reviews
  • 'Find Me' button on Person Selector
  • Search for documents that are checked out
  • Allow user to modify own user name
  • Search for issue protocol/review first published is 'not defined'
  • Search for attributes on last published version
  • Workflow system
    This list will be available later today.
  • Bug fixes
    • Special symbols turn into question marks in generated PDF files
    • Out-of-date reviews report includes inactive reviews
    • Wrong publication flag generated when republishing to update contact details

18 December 2008, v. 2.3.2

  • Bug fixes:
    • People tab of review properties did not dislpay in IE6 if names had international characters
    • Document viewer section picklist included HTML tags for some headings

13 December 2008, v. 2.3.1

  • Bug fix
    Role specifications could not be modified for Author roles.

10 December 2008, v. 2.3

  • PDF versions of reviews and reports
    The document viewer now includes a Generate PDF button. The right-click menu for reviews now includes an option to Download (PDF).
  • Author Document Roles and Entity Roles now linked
    The Entity Role is now automatically created when you create the Document Role.
  • Other entities than primary can create user accounts
  • Super Users alerted when a user account is created for one of their members
    Using existing subscription 'The record for a member of [entity] is modified'
  • Publication History also in table format
  • Improvements to compared version
  • Bug fixes:
    • Special characters in review titles could disappear or change in Archie
    • Wrong context menu for generic files in Search Results
    • Wrong Reports options in context menu for entities in Search Results
    • Super Users could not delete role types from entity properties
    • Document properties showed stage as Review for published reviews even if stage was set to Protocol
    • Only first initial versions of generic files were indexed for searching
    • Review version stage was sometimes incorrectly changed to match overall review stage
    • First review version of an old RevMan 4 review was not always flagged as a citation version
    • Missing lines in contact details in entity module
    • Author Support role is no longer listed in Publication wizard
    • Publication wizard error if author name contained double quotation marks (")

31 October 2008, v. 2.2

  • Web service for checking the what the current review version is
    Allows RevMan to warn if the version being edited is not the latest version. Requires RevMan 5.0.17 or later.
  • New Review wizard duplicate search
    The quick search run by the New Review wizard was too narrow. The wizard now runs a full text search for all the non-stopwords, using AND
  • Record when person assigned to Document Role is changed
    For example, if you change the person assigned as Contact Person, the Assigned info is now updated.
  • Sortable date format in exports
    The date format in exports structured so the dates are sortable
  • Workflows
    Update to Tasks list: Swapped task name and document title. Added workflow name after task name. Added a Skipped column.
    Tickets and notifications: Can now send a ticket for a user decision task. Added two notifications: 'When task assigned to me is ready' and 'When task assigned to me is overdue'.
    History: Task Notes are now added to Workflow History. Latest events are shown at the top.
    Search: More search options for workflows/tasks. Task search results include duration. Ability to Export task and workflow data.
    Files tab on workflow properties enabled
    Added a Description to task properties
    Option for skipping tasks when starting a workflow
    Added Active Task column to Workflow folder in Resources
    It is now potentially possible to run multiple workflows for a single review
    Progress indicators removed
    Updated workflow definitions for title and protocol development
  • Bug Fixes:
    • Publication wizard now uses the same rules as Wiley for reinstated reviews
    • Fixed problems with messages not being delivered for all notification subscriptions
    • Search for workflows with particular workflow manager was not working
    • Task completion for decision tasks was not working right in Internet Explorer

9 October 2008, v. 2.1.17

  • Bug fixes:
    • Abstract data for cochrane.org could not be extracted.
    • Inactive protocols could not be changed to active.

1 October 2008, v. 2.1.16

  • Bug fixes:
    • Error message when skipping to some workflow tasks.
    • Error message converting some reviews to RevMan 5.

26 September 2008, v. 2.1.15

  • Statistics
    Right click on a CRG and choose Reports > Statistics to see statistics for
    • The time from Registered Title to published Protocol (test version)
    • The time from published Protocol to published Review (test version)
    • The number of protocol and reviews published in each issue of CL (graph)

18 September 2008, v. 2.1.14

  • Bug fixes:
    A number of non-critical problems have been addressed.

6 August 2008, v. 2.1.13

  • New Document and Entity Roles
    Author Support, Statistician and Feedback Editor added as possible Document roles for reviews.
    Editorial Assistant entity role added for CRGs. By default all permissions are set to 'Min'.
  • No publication form for withdrawn reviews
    Archie no longer asks for a signed publication form from authors when publishing withdrawn protocols or reviews.
  • File attachments to notes
    You can now attach files to notes. The note needs to be saved before the Attachment tab is available.
  • Bug Fixes:
    Out-of-date reviews report failed to respect 'No longer being updated'
    Byline was empty for initial review versions

7 July 2008, v. 2.1.12

  • Removed restrictions in module editor
    Line breaks and links are now allowed within formatted text (bold, italics, etc.).
  • Update of embedded RevMan to 5.0.14 beta
    This includes two fixed conversion problems.
  • Bug fixes:
    Published view of withdrawn RevMan 5 reviews should only show published sections.
    Improved comparison of RevMan 5 review versions.
    Downloading of a review should not mark it as modified.

20 June 2008, v. 2.1.11

  • Shared folders
    Folders under Files can be marked as shared (on Folder Properties). This gives all Archie users access to view (but not edit or delete) files in those folders. Note: shared folders should be placed directly under Files or in other shared folders for the sharing to have any effect.
  • Update of embedded RevMan to 5.0.13
    This includes minor changes to validation and a fixed conversion issue.

6 June 2008, v. 2.1.10

  • Changes to login page
    Links added or updated. Includes link to Privacy Policy.
  • Update of embedded RevMan to 5.0.12
    This includes a fixed validation problem.

28 May 2008, v. 2.1.9

  • Update of embedded RevMan to 5.0.12 beta
    This includes a fixed validation problem.
  • Bug fixes:
    Cannot save module after placing a link within bold on FireFox.
    Error message when changing folder permissions.

17 May 2008, v. 2.1.8

  • Bug fixes:
    Errors in metadata to publisher.

16 May 2008, v. 2.1.7

  • Caps Lock detector on login page
    If Caps Lock is on while typing your user name or password, you will be notified.
  • Bug fixes:
    Incorrect bylines for versions marked for publication.
    Delete button was enabled for to-be-published versions.
    Line breaks disappear from validation report in publication wizard after checking update box.

5 May 2008, v. 2.1.6

  • Update of embedded RevMan to 5.0.6
    This includes a fixed conversion problem and a fixed validation problem.
  • Quick search on persons includes middle initials
    You can now search for (and find) 'Monica Y Kjeldstrøm'.

17 April 2008, v. 2.1.5

  • Bug fixes:
    Out-of-date reviews report included other entities than the selected.
    Error when marking reviews for publication.

14 April 2008, v. 2.1.4

  • Warning when checking in review version created in RevMan 5.0.3
    This is because of a bug in RevMan 5.0.3.
  • Bug fixes:
    Add button for roles in Review Wizard disappears.
    Search tab returns to default when switching resource type.

8 April 2008, v. 2.1.3

  • Bug fix:
    Fixed problem where IMS Support got a 'Not authorized' error when trying to check in a Review from Archie for another review group.

3 April 2008, v. 2.1.2

  • Improved error messages when checking in reviews from web interface
    This includes the check-in report you normally see in RevMan.
  • Quick search for documents includes Review ID and CD number
    This makes it easier to find a review if you only know one of these identifiers.
  • Bug fix:
    Fixed problem searching for notes does not contain...

18 March 2008, v. 2.1.1

  • Bug fix:
    Password reminder was not working

14 March 2008, v. 2.1

  • RevMan 5 introduced to all groups
    All groups can now use RevMan 5

20 December 2007, v. 2.0.4

  • Review draft check-in message
    Included name of user
  • Publication report
    Optimised for speed
  • Bug fixes:
    Document Properties > History tab always showed 'No' for 'New citation'
    RevMan 4 reviews could not be marked for publication when a substantive update was required
    Document Properties > History showed illogical values for Publ. flag for inactive reviews (has been disabled)
    Validation report for RevMan 5 reviews showed codes instead of non-English characters
    Validation report for RevMan 5 reviews showed incorrect statistical errors/warnings

14 December 2007, v. 2.0.3

  • Graph view for RevMan 5 reviews (intervention + methodology)
    As for RevMan 4 reviews, this view allows you to see multiple graphs (forest plots) at the same time
  • Review types in Review Wizard
    In the Review Wizard it is made clearer that the RevMan 5 review types are only available to pilot groups
  • Bug fix:
    Fixed error comparing or marking for publication reviews with track changes codes

11 December 2007, v. 2.0.2

  • Improved check in report
    Messages in the check-in report updated to clarify the relevant action to take
  • Messages for RevMan 5 draft check-in
    Messages included in a RevMan 5 check-in are now also sent for draft check-ins (and not only submit)
  • Bug Fix:
    Fixed error that prevented review check-in for CRGs not part of the RevMan 5 Pilot

11 December 2007, v. 2.0.1

  • Bug Fix:
    Fixed error when attempting to create document roles.

10 December 2007, v.2.0

Background: Version 2.0 of Archie has integration with RevMan 5 as the main focus. Some of the changes will be in effect for all users (but may not all be relevant yet), while a number of the features will be restricted to groups that are taking part of the RevMan 5 Pilot. Once RevMan 5 is released, all CRGs will have access to the new features.

A. Changes in effect for all users

 
  • View options for Reviews folder
    The subfolders and grouping used in the Reviews folder can be set as a user preference (Tools > Preferences : Resources tab). The first level of ordering is through choosing the subfolders of the Reviews folder. This can be set to review stage (e.g. protocol or review), review type (e.g. intervention or RM4 reviews), review status (e.g. active or withdrawn) or none. The second level of ordering allows choosing how to group reviews within the list in each folder, where the same options are available.
  • Renamed author document roles
    Two document roles have been rename:
    Contact Author > Contact Person Co-Author > Author RevMan 4 reviews will continue as before with the new labels, so the Contact Person is by definition considered one of the authors. For RevMan 5 reviews, when contact persons are also authors, they should be assigned both document roles. This is the default in conversion.
  • City and Country mandatory fields
    The New Person Wizard now requires that City and Country are filled in when a person is created
  • Create user accounts in bulk
    Once authors start to use RevMan 5, they need to have a user account on Archie. Accounts are usually created by CRG Super User(s). This can now be done by selecting the persons that needs an account and create a user account for all selected persons.
  • Group Authors
    A special type of person record can now be created: Group Author. The option is available as part of the New Person Wizard. Although all groups can do this, only Pilot groups should do so.
  • New Review type column
    A column for Review type has been added to the folder view. Tags can be: RM4, INT (RM5 intervention review), DTA (RM5 diagnostic review), MET (RM5 methodology review), OVR (RM5 overview of reviews).
  • Search using RevMan 5 fields
    Three new options in Person search for searching for group authors. Review type, Assessed as Up-to-date, and Date Searched added as option for Document search.
  • Bug fixes:
    • Removed spaces from file name of RM4 reviews being checked out using Archie (by suing underscore instead). This should help prevent the problems some user have with opening them.
    • Missing labels on graphs with subgroups but no overall totals
    • Editing a person’s entity role did not refresh the Roles tab.
B. Pilot groups only
  • Conversion of RevMan 4 Reviews
    Functionality for automatic conversion of RevMan 4 Reviews. Right-click and choose Convert to RevMan 5. Conversion includes updating the reviews with the current author contact details in Archie.
  • RevMan 5 Review check-in
    RevMan5 Reviews can be checked in and out of Archie.
  • Creating RevMan 5 reviews
    The RevMan 5 review types can be chosen in the New Review Wizard.
  • Publication of RM5 reviews
    The following rules are checked by the publication wizard:
    • First issue a review is withdrawn, it must have a new citation.
    • First issue a review is reinstated (returned from withdrawn), it must have a new citation.
    • Every citation version requires a new Licence for Publication form.
    • It has been decided that protocols for overviews of reviews should not be published.
    • Diagnostic reviews cannot be published yet.
  • Document Properties for RevMan 5 reviews
    The document roles on the People tab are now sorted by byline and the affiliation information is displayed for each role. The History tab has a new review type column. The byline and publication flag is displayed for each version. The Advanced tab shows the two new dates Assessed as Up-to-date and Date of Search.
  • View and compare for RevMan 5 reviews View includes an option to also see Notes. Compare allows comparing with RM4 format version (by comparing to an auto-converted version of the RM4 version). There are a few attributes where compare does not yet detect changes.
  • Revert for RevMan 5 reviews
    When reverting a review that has been converted to RM5 to a version in RM4 format, the new version created will automatically be converted to RM5 (with updated contact details).
  • Issue first published editable
    Issues and year for Protocol First Published and Review First Published are editable in Archie for previously published reviews that are now in RM5 format. Edited on Advanced tab of document Properties; each change will generate a new document version.
  • Validation of RevMan 5 reviews
    Validation checks for the four RM5 review types.
  • Use of Contact Details Wizard
    The comparison of contact details works for RM5 reviews. Republishing a RevMan 5 review (that doesn't have a to-be-published version already) moves all What's new events to History and adds an Amended event with the description 'Contact details updated'. Pilot groups are not able to republish RevMan 4 reviews using the Review Contact Details Wizard
  • New publication report
    The new publication flags (introduced with RevMan 5) have been implemented in the publication report. The report has been re-designed and now allows the user to sort the tables listing reviews by their columns.
  • Subscription report for RevMan 5 reviews
    The Authors Losing Subscriptions report supports RM5 reviews. A valid subscription requires that the date in Last assessed as Up-to-date is within a period of 30 months.

20 August 2007, v.1.16.4

  • Bug fix
    The File menu was not working on the Organizer and Search tabs.

8 August 2007, v.1.16

  • Changes to Resources folder structure
    The Documents folder is replaced by three new folders: Module (which will contain the entity's module text); Website (for access to the enity's Websource document); Files (for other entity files).
  • New CRG report: Out-of-date Reviews This new report (right-click your CRG and choose Reports > Out-of-date Reviews) shows a list of all a CRG's reviews which, on the day you run the report, are out of date or will be out of date in the next four issues of The Cochrane Library. For the purposes of this report, a review is considered out of date if all of the following dates from the RevMan file are more than two years old: last substantive update, new studies sought but not found, and new studies found and included or excluded.
  • New CRG report: Authors losing subscription
    This new report (right-click your CRG and choose Reports > Authors losing subscription) shows a list of the names of your CRG authors who will lose their complimentary subscription to The Cochrane Library within the next four issues because they do not have at least one up-to-date review published.
  • Password reminder
    New 'Forgot your password' added to the login page so that users can reset their password if they have forgotten it. The 'Remember my password' option has been removed from login page.
  • New fields in CRG validation report
    New fields have been added to the validation reports (right-click your CRG and choose Reports > Validate All Reviews or right-click an individual review and choose Reports > Validate) to reflect updated publication policy and guidance.
  • Automatic logout after idle time
    If you have been inactive for 60 minutes, you will automatically be logged out.
  • Bug fixes
    • It was not possible to remove the Contact Author from Vacant Titles.
    • Problems with international characters in the Module editor.
    • Size of the Insert Data wizard in the Module editor has been adjusted to work in IE7.
    • The Organizer tab always displayed a scrollbar in Firefox.
    • Module editor in some instances allowed deletion of fixed headings in IE6
    • The disabling of the Finish button in Wizards after fist click didn't always work.

7 March 2007, v.1.15.1

  • Bug fix
    Publication Wizard was disabled.

28 February 2007, v.1.15

  • Review and version phases
    The labels for Review and version phases have been renamed to Write Phase and Read Phase, respectively. The Read Phases for versions are either "Authoring", "Editorial" or "Shared". With "Shared" replacing "Authoring (Shared)" and "Editorial (Shared)".
  • Linking from topic to review
    Now the Link Review button is only active when a topic you can link from is highlighted.
  • Date recorded in version description when review version is unpublished
    The description field for a review version that has been unpublished now records the date this happened (e.g. ‘Unmarked for publication 23 Feb, 2007').
  • Bug fixes
    • It is now possible to delete the role Contact editor for a review
    • Users can see full list of own document roles on their Person Report
    • Undo publish while module is being approved for publication has been disabled
    • The Publication wizard showed the wrong validation report (Firefox only) if you had chosen to update contact details

6 February 2007, v.1.14.1

  • Bug fix
    Removed 'hephop' popup window in Website builder.

6 February 2007, v.1.14

  • Topics lists for Fields
    Fields now have a Topics list as part of their entity Properties, where they can add links to titles, protocols and reviews in any CRG. Links between reviews and Field topics are shown on the review properties together with the CRG topics. Fields’ Topics lists can be viewed as one of the entity’s Reports, which also allows for the list to be exported as HTML.
  • Assign role from role
    You can now assign a role from the Resources tree – and to more than one person at a time. When you right-click the role name, you have the option to assign the role to:
    • an individual person, which you subsequently pick, or
    • to all the persons in your Selection set.
    There is also an option to remove a role from those who have it.
  • Bug fixes
    • Contact author role could be deleted - Reviews (except Vacant Titles) must now have exactly one Contact author Document role.
    • Enter in Quick Search opened highlighted results (Firefox only) - When using Firefox, pressing Enter to accept the one of the suggestions that appear as you type text in the Quick Search box would open the currently highlighted search result.
    • Duplicate Wizard allowed deleting Contact Authors - Choosing 'Delete duplicate - discard roles' allowed you to delete a person with the Contact Author document role, without being warned about this. The option has now been removed from the Duplicates Wizard.
    • Generic documents could not be checked in again - Using Internet Explorer 7, it was not possible to check a generic document where the file name contained a space or ‘#’ character back in again.
    • Wrong deselection from context menu- Deselecting a person using right-click menu instead deselected the last person to be added to the selection set.
    • System crashes - Comparing a few particular review documents could lead to Archie slowing down and ultimately crashing.
    • Listing all RGCs in a CRG in new titles mail - When a CRG has more than one RGC, all names and emails will now be included in the emails sent when new Titles are registered.

18 December 2006, v.1.13

  • Review reports
    Three new reports are now public: Review group report, All published reviews report and All published reviews by country report. They can be found in the 'Tools' menu.
  • Undo Checkout for reviews
    The Undo Checkout permission ow comes with the Max permission level for reviews (it used to come with the High permission level. For all other documents than reviews, only Super Users can Undo Checkout. All Users will still be able to undo for documents they have checked out themselves.
  • Bug fixes
    • The document reports did not take the users's permissions into account, but simply listed all document roles.
    • 'Begins with' looks in whole field: In free text searches, 'Begins with' didn't only look in the beginning of the field, but found all words beginning with the search string.
      Note that 'Begins with' searches do not work well for Documents as these technically begin with an XML tag, not a content word.
    • The module editor no longer prevents using e.g. the F1 or Shift key when the cursor is in a fixed heading.
    • If a topic was long, a scroll bar appeared on the whole tab instead of on the tree.

8 November 2006, v.1.12.2

  • Review validation
    The review validation check for references to Cochrane reviews updated to match the validation rules in RevMan 4.2.9 and 4.3.

2 November 2006, v.1.12.1

19 October 2006, v.1.12

  • Document search for notes
    You can now use Advanced Search to search for document notes.
  • Event times
    The times listed for events in Organizer are now in a darker colour, making them easier to notice.
  • Clearer Deregistered labels in newtitles emails
    The subject prefix is now "- Deregistered - " to allow readers to more easily discern between registered and deregistered in the overview at the top of the digest email.
    Note: this will only be noticebale to subscribers to titles emails from 1 November when the Review Titles Manager is phased out.
  • Title registration
    Registration of non-standard titles is monitored, currently by the Dutch Cochrane Centre. On the review wizard screen, it is now clear when a non-standard title is registered, and that non-standard titles are monitored centrally.
  • Bug fixes
    • The Publication report is now entirely correct also in the period from the submission deadline till the publishers have finished verifying the data (at which point the issue is marked as submitted for publication).
    • All free text fields are now automatically enclosed in "" by the system (for all matching options), so e.g. searches with City Equals Los Angeles work.
    • Pressing Apply no longer closes the Preferences window entirely.
    • The Duplicate wizard no longer has problems moving entity roles from duplicate to master.
    • You can now use Ctrl-C to copy text from the module editor, even if the text contains headings.
    • Folder properties sometimes displayed an error.
    • In Firefox 1.5.0.7 ‘Cancel’ closed the window but also applied any changes made.
    • Choosing the OR option for Document Quick search now works.

15 August 2006, v.1.11.2

  • Bug fix
    When you used the Compare Contact Details report for a review where the Document role Contact Editor has been assigned, the report included the Contact Editor as a Co-author.

14 August 2006, v.1.11.1

  • Bug fix
    A problem with opening Properties for some person records was fixed.

11 August 2006, v.1.11

  • Updating of contact details in reviews A new wizard that can be run ahead of each submission lists reviews with updated contact details since last published version was created, with an option to automatically rerun the publication wizard on each.
    Note: checking all the reviews in a group can take a long time, and the more reviews, the longer it takes.
  • Compare contact details in review with contact details in Archie
    Right-click review and choose Reports > Compare Contact Details.
  • Review validation
    It is now an error if the Plain language summary is not included in a new or substantively updated full review.
    Note: RevMan doesn't know if the review is new or updated, therefore the check must continue to generate a warning only in RevMan.
    Additional figures without links in the text now produce an error instead of a warning.
  • Notes
    The Sharing tab is now visible also for notes you only have read permission for.
    Public notes can now also be edited by Super Users in the entity that controls the resource.
  • Wording for creating and registering titles
    The following headings are changed in the Review wizard to make the purpose of each clearer:
     ‘Register a vacant title’ = ‘Create a Vacant Title’
     ‘Create a title’ = ‘Create a Registered Title’
    Likewise, in the Advanced tab for the Review Properties, 'Title Registered’ and ‘Title Assigned’ has been modified to reflect the change.
  • Search
    New navigation in Search Results / Selection.
    'Any field' option renamed to 'Common fields'.
    AND and OR to added description of search options.
  • Preferences
    The Preferences window has been redesigned.
    New preference: Default search tab.
    New preference: Start-up folder - choose which entity folder the Resources tree expands by default.
  • Mobile phone field in new person wizard
    The New Person Wizard now includes the Mobile field.
  • Interface
    Refresh option in all context menus (for folders/items that have a context menu), and a Refresh button above the Resources tree.
    The module editor window can now be resized (eg maximized).
    The tabs on Properties sheets now show the number of items (eg Roles) on that tab.
    The Unpublish menu option has been renamed to Undo Publish.
    Icons for picker buttons - the person picker and date picker buttons now have icon instead of '...' .
    Person Reports now include review stage and status in the list of reviews.
    The Entity listed on the General tab of Document properties is now an active link to the entity.
    It is shown on Properties and labels when data are Hidden and not just blank.
    The Finish button in Wizards is disabled after first click to avoid repeting the action.
  • Technical improvements
    A DOI is generated when a review is marked for publication first time.
    All documents start as version 0.0
    Publication wizard check is now logged in the new user action log.
    PNG is now the standard graph format when viewing reviews.
  • Bug fixes
    • New review wizard found no duplicates - When you use the top three options for entering the title, stop words in the fields no longer prevents finding duplicates.
    • When the text in a field is longer than the length of the field's box, there were problems scrolling to the beginning or end.
    • Filenames (and types) were not handled correctly when you download or check out files or reviews from Archie using Firefox.
    • Reviews with '/' in title could not be checked out.
    • The validation report for reviews reported 'Organisation of co-author is empty' when, in fact, the organisation of the Contact author was empty.
    • Person wizard: 'Middle names' has been correted to 'Middle initials'
    • Search for persons with any role in any entity didn't work.
    • You could not delete a person who is subscribed to receive notification when the person's own record is changed.
    • If you enter more than 256 characters in the module citation byline, you now get a meaningful error message.
    • The button (in the lower left of the Messages window) to open the linked resource was 'squished' in FireFox.
    • DOIs are now incremented when a protocol changes to review.

7 June 2006, v. 1.10.4

  • Bug fixes
    • Resolving duplicates for Contact authors now works correctly.
    • DOIs are now updated correctly for substantive review updates.

1 June 2006, v. 1.10.3

  • Bug fixes
    • Deleting the last paragraph in a module document no longer prevents it from being saved.
    • DOIs for documents published for the first time no longer ends with not end with '.pub1'.

10 May 2006, v. 1.10.2

  • Bug fix
    Advanced searches with multiple 'Role in entity type' rows did not work correctly.

3 May 2006, v. 1.10.1

  • Bug fix
    Archie always reported a difference between two sets of contact details unless the active flags were NOT identical.
  • Data update
    A number of persons had the incorrect Country entry 'UNITED KINGDOM'. This has now been set to UK for all.

28 April 2006, v. 1.10

  • Inactive authors
    Persons and individual roles now have an 'Active' status (on by default). The Active status for persons can be set by the Primay entity on the the persons's Info tab, and if a person is marked as inactive, a Reason can be added - e.g. 'Deceased'. Super Users can also mark the individual roles they control as inactive by using Edit for the role. You can include the Active status for persons or roles as criteria in Advanced Searches.
  • Entity role permissions
    The system for assigning permissions based on Entity Roles has been extensively updated. A set of default permissions has been applied for all the main CRG roles.
  • Use whole window
    Archie now expands to use the whole browser window.
  • Selected status visible in Resources
    Resources that currently are selected are shown in bold in the Resources view.
  • Export of topics list to Meerkat format
    There is now a new type of report for CRGs: 'Topics List (MeerKat format)'
  • Title registration email list
    A new email list, newtitles@cochrane.de (/.org), has been set up to handle the dissemination of new titles, in preparation for the transition from Review Titles Manager to Archie.
  • Publication report to match Wiley's
    To make the publication report match Wiley's, 'Updated reviews' has been renamed 'Edited reviews'; Commented & withdrawn reviews are not included under Commented; and Withdrawn reviews where a new version is published are not included under 'Edited reviews'. In addition, the Detailed report now includes Review No and Version.
  • Quick Search for documents only in title A Quick Search for documents now only looks in the title, not the full text.
  • Rename Archie's Check in/out option for reviews
    The options in the right-click menu for reviews have been renamed 'Check Out (XML format)', 'Check In (XML format)' and 'Download (XML format)' to clarify their function.
  • Clicking OK in Address window
    When you open an addresss (with Edit), and close it by clicking OK without having made any changes, this was recorded as an update to the record. Clicking OK without having made changes is now filtered out and does not count as an update.
  • Use Active role status in Entity report
    The Role Summary section in the Entity Report is now split into three columns: Active, Inactive Total, with totals for each at the bottom.
  • Use Active role status in People folder
    The People folder in Resources now lists three numbers for each role: Total, Active role, and Inactive role.
  • DOI link from Document Properties
    Any review that has been published will have a DOI on the Advanced tab. The DOI is now a link that, when clicked, takes you directly to the review in the Cochrane Library.
  • New Withdrawn icons
    Withdrawn protocols/reviews have a new icon that makes them more clearly distinguishable from Inactive ones. NOTE: you most likely need to clear your 'Temporary Internet files' to see the new icons.
  • Renaming review stages
    'Title' is renamed 'Registered Title'. 'Review' is renamed 'Full Review'.
  • Smaller font for printed Reports
    The font size for print versions of reports has been made smaller, significantly reducing the no. of pages in the Detailed Publication report.
  • Search on issue first published
    Advanced Search now lets you search for protocols and reviews by what issue they were first published.
  • Export authors
    'Contact author', and 'Byline' are now possible fields in the export format for reviews.
  • Label button should generate label for displayed address
    The Label button on person properties now generates a label for the address being displayed (instead of always using the contact address).
  • Display review number as a column in resource view
    The review number is the 4 character id controlled by the review group. It is now displayed in a column in the Resources view.
  • Filename extension for review xml files
    The extension of review XML files checked out or downloaded from Archie has been changed from '.xml' to '.r4x'. If you use the latest version of RevMan 4.3, it is easy to check out reviews directly from Archie to RevMan.
  • Ability to display contact author names next to review titles
    The contact author's name is now shown in a column next to a review's title in the Resources view.
  • Bug fixes
    • Ctrl-click in scrolled table selects the wrong row: When you scroll down and Ctrl-click an item in a table (eg a review's History) the wrong row was selected.
    • Module editor breaks fixed headings: It is no longer possible to delete part of fixed headings in the Module editor.
    • Ignore Public notes in Contact details from RevMan: If a new person record is created from a review check-in, and the RevMan record has data in Public Notes, Archie no longer transfers this to the (hidden) Public notes field or creates a note for the person.
    • Editor: Cannot delete text that is immediately before a fixed heading: A message now suggests using Backspace.
    • Editing an entity's address does not update Modified date: The date is now updated.
    • Right-click menus should not drop below screen: Right-click menus can no longer drop below screen.
    • Compare failed for documents with extremely long paragraphs

23 March, 2006, v. 1.9.3

  • Bug fix
    • A script error prevented the menu bar from loading for Chinese users.

13 February, 2006

  • Bug fix
    • The Topics tree could not expand topics where a sub-topic contained quotation marks - eg "Anti-Parkinsonian"
    • Super Users were not allowed to save their edits to Entity/Admin notes created by others.

6 February, 2006

  • Permission to edit entity notes
    Super Users can now edit some of the notes created by others. This includes for a person resource: Entity notes and Administrative notes -and for a document: Administrative notes.
  • Individual CRG resubmission
    If a CRG needs to correct errors in one or more reviews and then resubmit, this can now be handled through Archie.
  • Show overview of reviews divided by stage and status
    A CRG's Reviews folder now show an overview of the number of reviews divided by stage and status.
  • Structural problem regarding inactive records
    Published records now also have an internal 'issue last published' date. Each version's publication history now shows the first and last issue it was published.
  • Problem with reinstated protocols
    When a protocol that has previously been published and then deleted from CLIB, is reinstated from the Inactive stasus, there is now cerated a new, to be published version is created from the latest version. A warning suggests that you manually republish it to ensure it is validated.
  • Publication Wizard cleans version for publication
    The Publication Wizard now removes track changes codes, and red marker from the published version.
  • Bug fixes
    • Editing a person's entity role could mean that the permissions associated with the role was lost.
    • Event start/end time may be incorrectly shown in event properties: User time zone is now being properly registered at login.
    • Editing a source of support failed unless you had read permission for all entities.
    • On the screen to edit entity role type permissions, the option 'May edit all documents' now gives permission to read documents in addition to the permission to write documents. Previously, review check-out could fail.
    • If a review's status was changed to Inactive, it incorrectly disappeared from the previous issue's publication report.
    • You could not compare review versions if one of the versions had co-authors with an empty name field.
    • Using the Download function in the document viewer could give an error.

12 January, 2006

  • List of known bugs
    The Help menu now has a 'Known bugs' link that takes you to a page listing any currently known bugs in Archie.
  • Validate all reviews using versions to be published
    The validation report for a CRG now validates the review versions that will be published, not the latest draft.
  • Publication wizard check for reason for withdrawal
    The publication wizard now reports an error if a withdrawn review is attempted published without a Reason for withdrawal in Notes.
  • New and Withdrawn validation check
    If a review or protocol is both New and Withdrawn it is rejected by the publication wizard.
  • Reinstated and Updated validation check
    The publication wizard checks that a protocol being reinstated has been substantively updated.
  • Module Publication Wizard validation of contact details
    The publishing wizard for modules now validates the entity's contact details.
  • Module status/locking system
    During the submission period, system administrators can now lock access to the publication wizard and topics list editor while modules are being validated for publication. Status can be Pending (no access), Resubmission (access to publish in current issue), or Approved (access to publish in next issue). The Info tab of the entity's Properties shows the status.
  • DOI on review properties
    The Advanced tab now also lists a review's DOI.
  • Notification when review is matched by title during check-in
    If a review is checked in from RevMan 4.3 to Archie, and the review ID has changed (but the title matches), RevMan will report this.
  • Publication Wizard check for other published reviews with the same title
    This prevents two versions of a review with different IDs from being published by mistake.
  • Publication Wizard warning if review is published without protocol published
    The Publication Wizard will warn if a review is being published without a protocol having been published previously.
  • Publication Wizard: View compared to last published version
    The publication wizard now lets you compare the version you are about to publish with the previously published version.
  • Summary publication report
    The summary publication report now also lists the title of new, updated, etc. reviews.
  • Bug fixes
    • Edit entity role no longer allows deletion of last role in primary entity: If a role is the last role in primary entity, a user editing the role was nevertheless allowed to change the role's entity.
    • Could not save search over existing search: Attempting to save a search with a name that already exists now prompts the user to overwrite or cancel.
    • Module Editors could not see Module under Documents: The document role Module Editor now allows you to see the Module, without additional permissions.
    • The Publication wizard no longer includes the Contact author's email address in the review if the address is marked as hidden.
    • The Unpublish function now works for Module documents.

21 December, 2005

  • Bug fixes
    Various bugs have been fixed.

14 October, 2005

  • Calendar
    Every calendar event is now tied to a time zone. Times entered and shown in Event Properties are always relative to the specified time zone. Note that times shown in your calendar in the Organizer tab are always local.

    For example, if you connect to Archie from a computer in London and create an event taking place 3-4pm Melbourne time, the event will appear in your calendar relative to London time, which is 6-7am. If you connect to Archie from a computer in Melbourne, the event will appear in your calendar relative to Melbourne time, 3-4pm.

  • Time zones
    Under User Preferences > Calendar, you can now select the default time zone to be used for the creation of calendar events (see Calendar above).
  • Bug fixes
    Various bugs have been fixed.

26 August, 2005

  • Document Search expanded
    • The document search now searches generic documents in addition to reviews and modules.
    • For documents, Quick Search and Any Field under Advanced Search searches title and full text of documents.
    • Search for a phrase by enclosing the phrase in quotes. E.g. write melatonin prevention "jet lag" to match the words "melatonin", "prevention", and the phrase "jet lag".

18 August, 2005

  • Document phase
    The phase of each review version is now visible on the History tab. A number of issues regarding document phases and access rights have been fixed.
  • Review check-in messages
    The system no longer sends 'Suggest changes' messages when you check in from RevMan and choose not to update the contact database.
  • Check-out inactive protcols
    It is now possible to check out inactive protocols (and reviews) if you, for instance, need to work on a version before it is reinstated.
  • System tray
    A system tray is now displayed on the top right of every section. It contains a clock, a message indicator to notify you if you have unread messages, and a selection set indicator when resources have been selected.
  • Bug fixes
    Various bugs have been fixed.

29 July, 2005

  • Organizer tab
    The Organizer tab has been introduced to provide an overview of calendar events, tasks, and messages (see below).
  • My Tools removed
    The "My Tools" toolbar has been removed. Quick search has moved to the top right of the page and messaging is now accessed from the new Organizer tab (see above).
  • Quick search
    Quick search has been simplified and is now accessible from the top right of every section. By default, Quick search performs a "match all terms" people search when pressing Enter.
    For convenience, the following shortcut keys are now available:
    • CTRL+Q: Move cursor to Quick Search field
    • CTRL+D: Search Documents
    • CTRL+E: Search Entities
  • Calendar
    Events/reminders can now be maintained and shared on Archie. Events are either personal, shared among users affiliated with an entity, or shared Collaboration-wide. Shared events are administrated by entity Super Users or System Administrators, respectively. New events are created using File > New > Event... .
  • Messaging
    Messaging has been improved and is now accessible from the Organizer tab. Messages are now divided into one or more mailboxes. Every user has the default "System" mailbox that contains system messages. In addition, entity Super Users have a mailbox for administrative messages for their entity (e.g. notifications of when the contact details of someone in that entity has changed). Note that messages sent prior to this release are all kept in the "System" mailbox.
    The number to the right of the mailbox shows how many unread messages it contains
    Click on a mailbox to open the message browser.
  • Publication report for back issues
    It is now possible to view publication reports for back issues of The Cochrane Library. You choose the issue within the report.
  • Entity report shows total of people in entity
    The total number of people with one or more roles in the entity is shown on the entity report.
  • User preference: label format
    Under preferences, it is possible to choose the label format used for printing single labels, and used by default for exporting multiple labels.
  • Delimiter for email string
    The export wizard makes it possible to specify the delimiter for email strings.
  • More search options
    It is now possible to search for people with a certain document role, and to search for people with a certain entity role specification.
  • Delete persons with notes
    Persons who have created notes can be deleted. Private notes are deleted. Entity notes are transferred to the contact person of the entity. Public notes are transferred to the contact person for the entity 'owning' the resource (person or document) that the note is about.
  • Submitted for publication status
    In the interval between reviews have been submitted to the publishers and the Cochrane Library is published, the publication status icon turns blue.
  • Review folders show drafts
    A column has been added to the folder view for reviews indicating if later drafts than the latest published version exist.
  • Document folders
    The "Checked out" column now uses an icon to indicate check-out status. A padlock icon means that the document is checked out. This also affects Review folders.
  • Person modified messages
    Messages when persons are modified include a description of the changes.
  • Notifications for super users
    Persons that are super users in more than one entity can choose the entity when editing notifications.
  • Export as table
    All resource types now have an tabular export format called HTML table.
  • Bug fixes
    • Fixed a bug that sometimes allowed fields (email address and mobile phone) marked as private to be seen.
    • Fixed a bug where event messages were sent to event originator.
    • Fixed a bug with the permissions to view different document version.
    • Fixed a bug viewing a large number of graphs.

1 July, 2005

  • Resources view options
    Options have been added to customize the resources view:
    • Show 1) All entities, 2) Affiliated entities (recommended), or 3) Primary entity. This option is available by clicking the icon on top of resource tree, from the View menu, and also from the Preferences dialog (see below).
    • Group by entity type can now be disabled (default). This option is available from the Preferences dialog (see below).
  • User preferences
    Preferences such as start page, resource tree view options, and date formats can now be set in Tools > Preferences.
  • Messages
    • Messages now show who sent them (e.g. suggest changes). Messages triggered by events on the system show who caused the event (e.g. update of contact details).
    • A system event no longer cause a message to be sent to the user who triggered it. E.g. you will no longer be notified if you change your own record.
    • From Person Properties > Settings > Notifications, it is now possible to customize system notifications, and e.g. receive emails instead of system messages
  • Date assigned on document roles
    Document roles now have assignment dates (like for entity roles).
  • Bug fixes
    A bug in the check-in function that sometimes resulted in a person having both contact and co-author roles on a review has been fixed. A number of minor bugs have also been fixed.

10 June, 2005

  • Search by publication status
    It is possible to search for documents by publication status, i.e. 'Not published', 'To be published', 'Published' and 'To be republished'.
  • Review Publication Wizard
    The Review Publication Wizard now makes it optional whether contact details in the published version should be taken from the Contact Database.
  • Publication report
    Byline and date version created are included in the report. Substantively updated reviews are no longer also listed under Updated reviews.
  • Topics Lists
    The topics list is limited to five levels and links to reviews can only be made at the lowest level. The screen for linking reviews is larger and makes it easier to pick the right review.
  • Resolve Duplicates Wizard
    Secondary addresses for the duplicate are transferred to a note when a duplicate is resolved.
  • Document Roles linked to specific address
    A document role can be linked to a specific address, which the publication wizard uses to include in the published version.
  • Renaming of generic documents
    Generic documents can now be renamed.

20 April, 2005

  • Name change
    As decided by the Steering Group, The Cochrane Information Management System (or Archibald One) is now known as Archie.
  • Interface updated
    • Parts of the system interface have been redesigned.
    • The Resource menu is now called the File menu
    • To conserve space, the toolbar now slides in over the content instead of pushing it to the right.

12 April, 2005

  • Person properties
    • Changes to a person's entity roles no longer counts as a modification of that person's record.
    • Suggest Changes button has been replaced by a context menu item. To suggest changes, right-click on the person and select "Suggest Changes..." or highlight the person and select "Suggest Changes..." from the system menu.
    • Entity roles are now listed with information on when they were assigned and by whom.
  • Module editor
    The module editor checks for missing fixed headings.
  • Bug fixes
    • An error that caused spontaneous logouts has been fixed.
    • A number of minor bugs have been fixed.

  • Features only available to IMS Pilot groups:
  • Review check-in
    Contact details are no longer 'updated' if a review is checked in with identical contact details as those in Archie.
  • Publication Wizard
    The Publication Wizard shows the review byline together with the list of author roles so these can be compared.
  • RevMan 4.3
    Notifications in RevMan when you check in a review and the stage is updated, and when you check in a new review.
  • Bug fixes
    • When a new review was checked in, the stage was always set to Title.
    • Home addresses in RevMan (HIREx) export files were tagged incorrectly.

24 March, 2005

  • Review searching
    It is now possible to search by review specific fields, including stage, status, phase, review number and various dates.
  • Review exporting
    Review specific fields can be exported, including stage, status, phase, review number and various dates.

  • Features only available to IMS Pilot groups:
  • Withdrawn versions
    The withdrawn status is now recorded individually for each review version.
  • Publication report
    Various problems have been fixed.

11 March, 2005

  • General documents
    It is now possible to store and share any type of documents under an entity's Documents folder.
  • Address fields no longer mandatory
    The fields City and Address1 are no longer mandatory when creating a person.
  • Nested lists
    Nested lists are supported in the module editor.

  • Features only available to IMS Pilot groups:
  • Editable review titles
    The title of reviews can be edited on the properties page.
  • Publication view
    Reviews can be viewed in a style that emulates Wiley InterScience.
  • Vacant titles
    The Proposed titles section has been renamed to Vacant titles.
  • Publication status
    The publicaton status of reviews has been added as a column to the folder view. A circle means 'To be published' or 'To be republished' and a bullet means 'Published'.
  • Review stage in history table
    The icons in the history table now reflect the stage of review versions, and the publication status is listed in a new column.
  • Review stage in history table
    The icons in the history table now reflect the stage of review versions.
  • Topics list report
    Authors can be included in the topics list report.

8 February, 2005

  • Module documents
    The appearance of module documents now emulates the Wiley InterScience style.
  • Bug fixes
    A bug in the module editor has been fixed.

26 January, 2005

  • Improved search
    In addition to searching for persons you can search for entities and documents.
  • Improved export
    The export wizard can now export entities.
  • Select persons from Resources section
    Persons can now be selected from the Resources section. Right-click on a person and choose Select or Deselect. From the right-click menu on a role folder under People, you can also select/deselect all persons with that role.

21 January, 2005

  • Bug fixes
    An error in the Resolve Duplicates wizard was fixed.

20 January, 2005

  • Names
    The short form of a person's name displayed in search results, the resource view and elsewhere, now contains middle names.
  • Person modified
    Modifying a person's entity roles now counts as modifying the person and is hence reflected in the "Modified" and "Modified by" fields.
  • Shortcut icon
    A shortcut icon has been added to help distinguish the IMS from other bookmarked sites.
  • Bug fixes
    Advanced search now matches non-english characters.

14 January, 2005

  • What's New section
    This section has been added.
  • Various bug fixes
    A number of minor problems have been fixed.

11 January, 2005

  • Suggest changes
    You can now suggest changes to a person record that you don't have permission to change yourself. See Help: Suggesting changes.
  • Mark as duplicate
    A person record can now be marked as a duplicate of another record. See Help: About duplicates.
  • Entity report
    A detailed report can now be generated for each entity (like the person report).
  • Improved tables
    The tables you see around the IMS, the resource view, search results, selection set, etc. now work more like you're used to in Windows. Columns can be resized, rows can be selected using shift/ctrl, etc. See Help: Highlighting records.
  • Notes search
    Advanced Search can now also search in Notes.
  • Various bug fixes
    A number of minor problems have been fixed (such as problems with editing Role Permissions).