Entrypoint Version 3 Features
The design of Entrypoint Version 3 indicates a major departure from the architecture of previous versions of the product. While earlier versions relied on file-server architecture to implement networking in a LAN environment, Version 3 is based on a client-server design that communicates over TCP/IP. A relational (SQL) database, accessed via ODBC, provides data storage. Because of the separation of client, server, and database, Entrypoint 3 can be installed in several different ways, depending on the hardware available and company requirements.
3.1 Features
Entrypoint Version 3.1 includes the following new features:- Groups and subgroups: Entrypoint administrators can categorize users first by an upper-level group such as company, division, region or sector, and then by subgroups such as project, site, investigator or trial. Users see applications deployed to their group, and only batches created by users in the group will appear to group members. In addition, you can customize group and subgroup labels to match your choices.
- New Logic functions: these functions change date formats of values from date fields; there are over 30 formats to choose from.
- New monitoring utilities: the Entrypoint Data Entry Server now includes message, performance, optimization and threading monitors in diagnostic mode.
3.0 Features
This version of Entrypoint incorporates many new features; below are few examples:
- Remote data entry
- Context-sensitive help to the dialog box level
- Greatly enhanced, fine-grained security
- Format attribute that prevents data from being included in the batch (for menus, worksheets, etc.)
- Field-level manual duplication with user-definable dup key
- Further field-level access control as a result of duplication
- Dynamic control of attributes of the fraction fill field attribute through Logic routines
- Dynamic attribute control of the export field attribute via Logic routines
- Access-level field attribute with exposure to Logic to allow dynamic attribute control
- Showhelp Logic function that displays user-defined Help screens
- Enhancements to registers:
- Limit increased from 256 to 2,147,483,647
- Dynamic register manipulation via new Logic functions
- Available persistence of registers
