Billing - Release Notes

Billing Release 02.20 (2011-11-21)

Corrected bug in ABSD User data, caused Users to be blocked when not blocked.

ABSD

There has been three releases of the ABSD software under main release 02.20 and these are described below:

Release version: 02:10 X2016.02.24

Errors Corrected

Fault in search for B number in Fee table. Used invalid sql statement substr(text, index, len) where index can range from 1..max, however we used 0 as first index entry and this failed when evaluating the search in the Fee table and we always ended up using the default trunk values.

Functional Changes / Enhancements

Release version: 02:09 X2012.04.27

Errors Corrected

Corrected bug in User data test. Tested user.status, should have tested other_user.status. Added new fsm_job_201() to handle this. Error caused users to be blocked when not blocked.

Functional Changes / Enhancements

Release version: 02:08 X2011.02.23

Functional Changes / Enhancements

Removed "extension" parameter verification in SPEECH_START to make the transfer feature possible within a reasonable time. To fix "burning" issue at Larvik Fengsel.

Web Interface

Errors Corrected

Corrected bug in Fee Setup page: Import from .csv failed with javascript error in IE.
Corrected a bug in User update script where th "Allow this User's UPC to Access User Call on other Extensions" flag was reset when User Group membership was changed to 'None'
Corrected bug in Import Extension set AllowDirectTrunkCall=0, which effectively blocs the extension as long as TrunkAccessGroup != 'All'
Corrected a bug in upgrading process.

Functional Changes / Enhancements

Implemented 'Scheduled Export' of call log.

Billing Release 02.10 (2010-11-16)

Removed PTR as option, added support for two-stage dialing for digital trunk.
Implemented an 'Export to .csv' function to export call log data to .csv file

ABSD

Release version: 02:03 X2010.07.20

Functional Changes / Enhancements

Removed PTR as option. Added support for two-stage dialing for digital trunk.

Web Interface

Release version: 2.10 (2010-11-16)

Errors Corrected

Fee Setup: Import from.csv fails in Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer would fail and report a javascript error when using the Import from .csv function. Corrected.

Functional Changes / Enhancements

• Removed PTR as option.
• The 'Call Log Maintenance' page now have the new function 'Export to .csv', which generates a .csv file that can be saved or opened directly in Excel. The .csv file contains raw call log data according to the selected options (Date from/to, Call Type etc.)
• In 'General Setup' there is a new setting to control which field separator character should be used. Available options are ',' (comma) and ';' (semicolon). This setting also affects the 'Import from .csv' function on the 'Fee Setup' page.

Billing Release 02.00 (2010-04-21)

Updated according to the new functional requirements for Vingtor ACM Billing v2, dated March 2009

Referenced documents:

• Requirement Specifications: ACM functionality expansion, v0.3, 2009.03.02
  
• Target Specification: Vingtor ACM Billing v2, 2009.03.30
  
• Study Report: Vingtor ACM Billing v2, 2009.03.11
  

ABSD

Functional Changes / Enhancements

Updated to suit the new functional requirements for Vingtor ACM Billing v2.

Billing Release 01.30 (2010-02-16)

ABSD

Functional Changes / Enhancements

Added Digital Trunk type for use with digital gateways such as GSM or ISDN.
Uses the "ESTABLISHED" event to start charging as opposed to analog trunks which uses the "SPEECH_START" event.

Web Interface

Functional Changes / Enhancements

• Added an option to set a Trunk Type to be either Analog or Digital. Default setting is Analog.

Billing Release 01.22 (X2009-09-01)

ABSD

Functional Changes / Enhancements

Added protective and defensive coding regarding internal FSM message sending to prevent possible endless while loop.

Billing Release 01.20 (2009-04-24)

This is the first non X release.

ABSD

Errors Corrected

BZ 190: Users delete time

Corrected.

Billing Release 01.18 (X2009-04-20)

ABSD

Errors Corrected

BZ 167: Empty B number search string

Corrected.

BZ 180: SQL statement for Call Logs fails

Corrected.

BZ 181: Dialing Billing trunk from station w. no Dirno

Corrected.

Web Interface

Errors Corrected

Error in Extension Page

The Extension page did not remember the content of the 'Entries Per Page' field when using update/cancel on an Extension

BZ 177: Web interface checks against existing Trunks defined in the system just once

Corrected.

Functional Changes / Enhancements

BZ 112: Wakeup

Wakeup is implemented in the Extension->Wake Up menu. The Wake Up function in the AlphaCom is used for this function.

Billing Release 01.10 (X2009-03-06)

ABSD Functional Changes / Enhancements

Start of Speech detection

The ABSD now awaits the "SPEECH_START" event from the AMC/SIPD to start charging (start search for match between dialed number and Dialed Number in the Fee table). In all previous versions a 5 sec. timeout after last dialed digit in B number used to trigger start of charging.

Web Interface Functional Changes / Enhancements

ICP and PABX breakout codes

• ICP (International Call Prefix) is the code used to dial out of a country. To be able to charge international calls, the ICP code must be included in the dialed number in the Fee Setup. The ICP code itself is enabled and defined in the General Setup window. When enabled, it can be included with a checkbox in each dialed number in Fee Setup and Barring Setup.

• PABX breakout code is the code used to call through a PABX and to a public network. The breakout code is defined for each Trunk in the Trunk Setup window.

Search Dialed Number in Fee Setup

The Fee Setup window now have a search box where the displayed list can be limited to only the dialed numbers starting with the content of the search box.