v1.8.4 Final

Likely the final release for this project as it was last touched over 7 years ago. I may consider building a customizable version with GUI.

V1.8 1/7/2015

• New function! ‘usage’ or ‘monthly’ provides a powder usage history for the current month
  o User enters ‘usage’ at the main menu and usage is automatically calculated and exported as a report, similar to ‘lot history’
  o Currently only works for the current, cannot be done for a month in the past
• Changed the ‘recent’ function to only clear if 500 entries are made
• Added functionality: editing a group of materials in ‘find’ will now add them to ‘recent’
• Added functionality: listing results in ‘find’ also gives the total weight without having to write a report every time
• Added functionality: searching for materials in ‘find’ will automatically search for partial matches if no complete matches are found
  o Partial matches are only searched for during new searches
  o Refining a search will not seek partial matches
  o A partial match is one where the user input is found as fragment of the actual term, or vice versa.
  o Eg. Searching for ‘steel’ would return partial matches for ‘stainless_steel’ ‘maraging_steel’ and ‘chrome_steel’
  o Eg. Searching for ‘nickel_iron’ would return partial matches for ‘nickel’ and ‘iron,’ but NOT ‘nickel_steel’ or ‘nickel_chrome’
  o One of the terms must appear COMPLETELY in the other to return match
• Updated help menu
• Updated menu heading
• Re-enabled hidden experimental function, used for debugging only
  o Accessed via command ‘beta’
• Bug fixes:
  o Whenever a date is entered by the user, the program will thoroughly check to be sure it is a valid date in the proper format
  o The program will not incorrectly add a material to ‘recent’ if the edit never went through
  V1.8.1 2/6/2015
• ‘search’ now displays its results in a neater table format
• Fixed a bug where inventorying a new item and using it in the same month would report no usage
  V1.8.2 2/17/2015
• Updated menu heading
• Added functionality: ‘monthly usage’ now prints out the report on the screen as well as writing it to the file
• Added functionality: ‘recent’ now gives a preview of the total weight, instead of having the print the report to see it
• Added functionality: ‘monthly usage’ now tallies up power gained and powder lost in the monthly report, instead of giving just net usage
• Added functionality: whenever a number is entered for a weight, the program checks to ensure it is an actual number before continuing, preventing commands or nonsensical entries accidentally being entered as weights
• Writing any report now puts the written text report in a folder called ‘reports,’ instead of putting them directly in the program’s files
  V1.8.3 3/4/2015
• Added functionality: ‘search’ now also adds up the total weight of the powder containers being scanned
  o Now only prompts the user to enter a barcode once at the start, instead of each time.
• Updated menu heading

V1.8.4 4/16/2015

• When a contained of powder is edited for weight (meaning the weight has changed) the program will now also automatically mark it as being opened
• Added a hidden command at the main menu “fix_all”
  o Runs through the list of powder in inventory
  o Any entry with more than 1 instance of history (i.e the weight has ever changed) will be set to ‘1’ or be marked as opened
  o Displays the number of entries changed
• Updated menu heading

v1.7

V1.7 12/3/2014

• New function! ‘lot history’ or ‘lots’ provides a weight history for an entire lot of powder
  o User enters either the barcode of a member of a lot or the lot# directly to generate the report
  o Lot histories are not saved and are rebuilt each time one is desired
• Added functionality: ‘lot history’ can also generate a full report of all lots in memory with a hidden command ‘report_all’
• Added functionality: ‘find’ can now edit a group of materials after the desired list has been generated
  o Essentially allows for a ‘mass edit’ feature
• Updated menu heading

v1.6

V1.6 11/12/2014

• Added functionality: ‘find’ can now generate a report of the results after searching
• Added functionality: ‘find’ can now refine search results or start a brand new search and exit directly to main menu while in the middle of a search
• Updated history under ‘reports’ to provide clearer, more usable reports
  o Now gives the material name, manufacturer and owner, in addition to the barcode and weight/date history
• Updated menu heading
• Bug fixes:
  o ‘find’ did not have the option to search by weight correctly
  o Updated ‘search’ to use ‘kg’ instead of displaying ‘lbs’

v1.5

V1.5 8/28/2014

• ‘report’ doesn’t ask for a yes or no answer anymore before giving the option to generate a report
• The main menu now gives a list of commands before the user is prompted to enter one
• Updated ‘help’ menu
• Update menu heading
• All functions have been removed from ‘command_center’ and now have their own proper separate function names titled ‘cc_’
  o Ex. Instead of create a loop when ‘edit’ is entered, command center now calls a function called ‘cc_edit’ and passes the list of materials to it.
  o No functional changes otherwise
  o In the future, will allow these functions to talk to each other directly
• New function!
  o ‘jobs’
  o User has the choice to either create a new job or view existing ones
  o In a new job, the job’s starting date is entered, as well as a list of the associated materials. A preview of the weight and list of materials is shown during entry.
  o When viewing or editing an existing job, user has a choice to either finish the job, add more materials or simply view the info for the job
  o Adding more materials continues the job from where it was started, finishing it marks the end date and calculates the ending weight based on the amount of material removed
• Bug fixes
  o ‘find’ now properly resets after each search, before it accumulated all the previous search results as well
  o When typing in ‘back’ during a new material addition in ‘add,’ the new material addition is properly canceled
• Functional change: whenever a date is asked for, entering ‘today’ will put in the current date

v1.4

V1.4 8/18/2014

• New function!
  o ‘report’
  o Asks the user if he or she would like to generate a report and of what
  o Writes that data to a .txt file and opens it in Microsoft Office Word for printing
• Functional change: when the properties of one material are copied to another, weight will not be included
  o ‘Add  (is this material like any other?) yes’ will now prompt the user to input the correct weight right away
  o ‘Edit  clone’ will now prompt the user to enter the correct weight
• Update ‘recent’ function
  o ‘recent’ is back!
  o Changed functionality: recent now only shows recently changed materials
   Only materials edited in ‘add’ or ‘edit’ will be added
• Updated menu heading
• Slight performance improvements to:
  o ‘edit’
  o ‘recent’
• Program now writes ‘data.qcml’ to intelligently include spaces for proper formatting
  o Easier to create a report
• Bug fixes:
  o Removed false history that is created when a new material is added and copied
  o ‘Add  (is this material like any other?)’ will now only proceed if an answer is given as ‘y’, ‘yes’, ‘n’, or ‘no’

v1.3

V1.3 8/1/2014

• Bug fixes:
  o Fixed ‘add’ to correctly initialize the history for new entries
  o Fixed a bug where the program would add extra entry at the end when reading in history data
  o Fixed a bug where current weight of all previously cloned materials would also be added to the history of a new material being added and cloned
• Updated menu heading
• Changed units to ‘kg’ instead of ‘lbs’
• Known bugs:
  o When a new material is added and it is copied from another, the weight is copied as well, creating a single entry of a false history

v1.2

V1.2 7/25/2014

• Updated menu heading
• Updated help menu
• New functionality!
  o The program now keeps a history of all the past weights for a material, as well as the date they were changed
• New function!
  o ‘history’
  o Enter the barcode of the material whose history you would like
• New function!
  o ‘edit’  ‘clone’
  o Asks for the barcode of the material to be edited, then the barcode of another material
  o Copies all the properties (except barcode) from the 2nd material to the 1st
• New function!
  o ‘find’
  o Prints out a list of all the materials matching a single criteria
• Updated ‘search’ function
  o Prevented possible usage bugs
  o Improved performance
• Update ‘edit’ function
  o Will now show you the current value of the field you are about to change

v1.1

V1.1 7/23/2014

• Program automatically reads and writes data upon starting and exiting
• No longer requires user input unless there is a problem
• Update menu heading
• Adjusted ‘size’ field to accommodate 10 characters, instead of 5
• Adjusted ‘print’ header to accommodate new ‘size’ length
• Known bugs:
  o Program will still default to writing to ‘data.qcml’ using ‘save’ even if user specified a different source file during program start up
• Bug fixes:
  o ‘add’ and ‘edit’ will now appropriately check to make sure a barcode is or isn’t being used
  o ‘recent’ has been temporarily disabled to prevent program crashing
  o Fixed potential bugs that could have resulted in runtime errors

Initial Release

A command-line inventory system, built for the Quad City Manufacturing Laboratory in C++