A new System Setting option has been added to control the output of a 0kb reject file if there are no rejects generated from a Mailmark sort. System Settings: Sort > General Options > Mailmark Options > Block Empty Reject File. By default, it will be set to FALSE to conform with the current behaviour. (SS-918)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
2.0.1.972
5.0.228.68
5th November 2024
USER ACTIONS
Download XSL241105 to get the latest reports.
Download SEEDS241105 to get the new TDG seeds.
Secured Mail has been updated to The Delivery Group (TDG).
Secured Mail project definitions will no longer run in this version of SwiftSort and will have to be rebuilt via the UI due to their change to a National/Zonal split sort model.
Please contact The Delivery Group directly if you do not have a Zonal account as one will be required to use Mailmark.
When uploading to Dockethub, the '_DocketHub_SMBagInfo.bag' file must be used. You should no longer be using the '_DocketHub.LineListing.csv' file or any other files to upload to Dockethub.
Previously saved SCID information will not be carried over to The Delivery Group due to their change to a National/Zonal split sort model.
NEW FEATURES
The Secured Mail sort has now been updated to The Delivery Group with their new National Zonal split sort. (SS-868)
A new default option has been added to control the 'Batch Reference' on the Mailmark Optional Details form. Default Options: Sort > Carrier Name > Mailmark > BatchRefOrigin_Default. (SS-899)
BUG FIXES
Output files are now generated for the 'Tray Criteria Not Met' error if the settings 'Output Invalid Sort' and 'Copy To Mailing House Regardless' are set to 'True'. (SS-334)
Improvements have been made to the 'Input File Name as File Root' default setting. It will not longer overwrite your file root when using a project definition. (SS-907)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.18.11.965
5.0.193.62
5th August 2024
BUG FIXES
Records given a default postcode, XY991AA, had it truncated to XY991 in the Gemma files. This has now been resolved. (SS-910)
Catalogue Large Letter Mailmark Bag and Tray product codes were transposed. This has now been resolved. (UK-269)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.18.10.964
5.0.178.59
15th July 2024
BUG FIXES
Setting the default mail provider to anything other than Royal Mail resulted in errors when launching SwiftSort 1.18.9. This has now been fixed. (SS-908)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.18.9.961
5.0.178.59
1st July 2024
USER ACTIONS
Download BIN240701 to get the latest Royal Mail sort prices and sort resources.
Download XSL240701 to get the latest reports.
Sorts that were discontinued as of April 1st and July 1st 2024 will no longer run via the UI or command line. Please update your project definitions by opening them via the UI.
NEW FEATURES
Advertising Mail Catalogue Manual Low Sort Letter and Large Letters has been added for Royal Mail, Whistl, Citipost and UK Mail. (SS-891)
Advertising Mail Catalogue Mailmark Letter and Large Letters has been added for Whistl and Citipost. (SS-903)
Large Letter General Mailmark has been added for Whistl, Citipost and UK Mail. (SS-900)
Large Letter General Manual Mailmark has been added for Whistl, Citipost and UK Mail. (SS-900)
Parcel Manual Mailmark has been added for Whistl and Citipost. (SS-900)
Default Postcodes now get applied, where applicable, for Mailmark National sorts. (SS-886)
CHANGES
All High/1400, OCR and Low/Access 70 Mechanised sorts have been removed. (SS-887)
All settings relating to High/1400, OCR and Low/Access 70 Mechanised sorts have been removed. (SS-901)
Removal of Royal Mail Low sort Manual Partially Addressed Mail. (SS-905)
The 'Try Alternative' sort function has been removed. (SS-897)
BUG FIXES
Royal Mail Unsorted reports now display the delivery speed. (SS-896)
Royal Mail Unsorted incorrectly allowed the use of bags and bundles. Trays are now the only option. (SS-904)
The resource updater form would not expand after clicking 'Hide/Show Completed'. This has now been fixed. (SS-858)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.18.7.921
5.0.123.54
9th April 2024
BUG FIXES
It was found that the settings under 'TrayAverageSelectionSize' were set to 0. This meant the Average Tray Fill requirement check was effectively turned off, which could potentially lead to surcharges. This has now been fixed so the setting is forced to 25 or 100 depending upon if it is for a Letter or Large Letter, if the mentioned setting was previously set to 0. (SS-894)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.18.6.920
5.0.123.54
28th March 2024
NEW FEATURES
Double clicking on the Mailing House Directory now opens up a folder browser. (SS-875)
BUG FIXES
Improvements made to Offline Activation for LimeLM licensing. (SS-878)
Citipost sorts were not running via command line. This has now been resolved. (SS-888)
Under some circumstances the Unicode Rejects file was being incorrectly deleted. This has now been resolved. (SS-889)
The UKMailBagLabels.bag file was not being outputted for UK Mail Mailmark Unsorted. (SS-890)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.18.1.910
5.0.123.54
13th February 2024
USER ACTIONS
Download BIN240213 to get the latest Royal Mail sort prices.
NEW FEATURES
Lime LM licensing has had a new feature enabled called 'Auto Reactivate' to help those who run VMs in the cloud. (SS-851)
Retail Low Sort Manual has been added. (SS-870)
New command line switch has been added to accommodate retail Low Sort Manual. /Service=LowManual (SS-870)
Full List of added services;
ROYAL MAIL SUBSCRIPTION MAIL
SUBSCRIPTION MAIL MANUAL 1C
SUBSCRIPTION MAIL MANUAL 2C
ROYAL MAIL ADVERTISING MAIL
ADV MAIL MANUAL LOW SORT 1C
ADV MAIL MANUAL LOW SORT 2C
ADV MAIL MANUAL LOW SORT ECONOMY
PART ADDRESS MANUAL LOW SORT 1C
PART ADDRESS MANUAL LOW SORT 2C
PART ADDRESS MANUAL LOW SORT ECONOMY
ROYAL MAIL PUBLISHING MAIL
PUB MAIL MANUAL LOW SORT 1C
PUB MAIL MANUAL LOW SORT 2C
ROYAL MAIL BUSINESS MAIL
BUS MAIL MANUAL LOW SORT 1C
BUS MAIL MANUAL LOW SORT 2C
BUS MAIL MANUAL LOW SORT ECONOMY
CHANGES
For Citipost there is now a setting to include rejects in the .tnt Upload files. This setting is in the System Settings: Sort > General Options > DSA Options > Citipost Exclude Rejects. The default upon upgrading is FALSE. (SS-848)
BUG FIXES
Running the seeds update when using 'Local' resource updates caused a 'path cannot be empty' error. This has now been resolved. (SS-852)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.17.10.889
5.0.94.49
21st September 2023
BUG FIXES
The <tnt-upload> element was the same for the National and Zonal .gemma files during a N/Z split mailmark sort for Citipost. This resulted in GeMMA generating incorrect .bag and .tnt files for the Zonal upload. This has now been resolved. (UK-195)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.17.3.874
5.0.88.44
12th September 2023
USER ACTIONS
Download XSL230912 to get the latest reports.
The sort engine used by Citipost has been updated to use U.S.E. (Universal Sort Engine). We are confident in the output, however, it is possible naming conventions may have changed slightly for some output files, .gemma files for example, so please test your setup(s) thoroughly for any automation systems that pickup files produced by SwiftSort.
NEW FEATURES
MySQL has been added to the ODBC connection wizard. (SS-840)
CHANGES
Isle of Man and Jersey can now go via Trays. (UK-101/UK-102)
Citipost have requested that SwiftSort generates a new bag break down file, which also requires National and Zonal UCID. This will be generated using the Whistl account numbers and the mailing house. (SS-843)
BUG FIXES
A Bronze licence required PAF resources to run. This is no longer the case. (SS-835)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.16.6.863
2.0.37.33
3rd April 2023
USER ACTIONS
As of the 3rd of April 2023 Parcels have been discontinued by Royal Mail Retail. DSA's have decided to keep Mailmark Parcel available until January 2024, however, as these services were not available in SwiftSort, this has meant that all Parcel services have been removed. All parcel sorts run via command line will no longer run through and when opening parcel project definitions via the UI, the user will be prompted to select an alternative item format. Please update any project definitions using Parcels.
CHANGES
All Parcel services have been removed. (SS-833)
When running a Parcel job via command line, you will receive the below message:
[Message]: Parcel is no longer a valid Item Format
Error code -151 returned
When opening a Parcel job via the UI, you will see the below message:
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.16.5.860
2.0.37.33
27th February 2023
BUG FIXES
The 'Could Not Find A1' error that was fixed in 1.16.4 did not apply to unsorted sorts. This has now been fixed. (SS-821)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.16.4.858
2.0.37.33
13th February 2023
USER ACTIONS
Download BIN230213 to get the latest Royal Mail sort prices.
Download XSL230213 to get the latest reports.
The system fields sft_CBC , sft_DPSChecksum and sftTNT_E2E have been removed as they are no longer supported fields. Going forward, they will always appear blank.
Please also read changes for 1.16.3.
CHANGES
In January 2021 the system fields sft_CBC , sft_DPSChecksum and sftTNT_E2E were removed, however, if these fields were detected, the processing job would be stopped until these fields were removed for the output. This behaviour has now been changed. The user is now warned that these fields are no longer supported via a message in the log file, but the job will still process with the fields output as blank. (SS-822)
ASOG fields now appear on sort reports. (SS-827)
Mixed Weight reports have been improved. (SS-829)
Checks for protected field names have been put in place when 'Field Mapping' is being used. These are A1-A9. (SS-826)
BUG FIXES
ASOG fields were missing from the .gemma files. This has now been fixed. (UK-116)
Spare field were missing from the .gemma files. This has now been fixed. (UK-117)
.gemma files were not being outputted for Royal Mail Mailmark unsorted jobs. This has now been fixed. (SS-824)
Royal Mail prices were not displaying correctly. This has been fixed with updated resources. (SS-818)
A 'Could Not Find A1' error was reported and has now been fixed. (SS-821)
Supplying a empty DPS field and not mapping it when using 'Field Mapping' caused a temp file error. This has now been fixed. (SS-823)
The 'Help' button on the 'File Format Wizard' was opening the old help file. This has now been fixed. (SS-829)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.16.3.835
2.0.16.30
11th January 2023
USER ACTIONS
Download BIN230109 to get the latest Royal Mail sort prices.
Download XSL230111 to get the latest reports.
Download SEEDS221110 to get the updated seeds list for Whistl.
The sort engine used by Royal Mail and Whistl has been updated to use U.S.E. (Universal Sort Engine). We are confident in the output, however, it is possible naming conventions may have changed slightly for some output files, .gemma files for example, so please test your setup(s) thoroughly for any automation systems that pickup files produced by SwiftSort.
NEW FEATURES
The concept of item thickness has been introduced for Tray fill management. The UI form has equivalent controls for thickness as it does for weights. The up/down increments are in tenths of mm. The USE engine will still use the weight to control, but also this new thickness as an additional control – either one of which will trigger the end of a tray. Note that this new feature is turned OFF initially and will need to be switched ON by users. The setting is ‘Use Item Thickness to Control Tray Fill’. The ‘Tray Wiggle Room’ settings is now used on thickness rather than weight. Finally, note that this feature will have no effect on either Citipost or Secured Mail at this time. Note that there is a common line argument of /ITEMTHICKNESS= (Ref SS-766)
Secured Mail has the option to adjust average tray fill due to client feedback. It is defaulted to an average tray fill of 75 across all trays, however, please check with Secured Mail and adjust it accordingly in the default options. (Ref SS-738)
Manual Mailmark introduced for Whistl – Large Letter – General and Whist – Parcel – Business. Only National allowed. (Ref SS-798)
You can now change the DPS Strict Matching setting via command line using the switch, /STRICTDPSMATCH= TRUE or FALSE (Ref SS-814)
CHANGES
The cheapest option for Royal Mail has been removed. (Ref SS-788)
The bag smoothing option has been removed as the sort engine has been adjusted to always apply bag smoothing. (Ref SS-778)
Citipost and Whistl Large Letter 1400 Mech are invalid selections yet was allowed. These selections have been blocked. (Ref SS-803)
For Whistl there is now a setting to include rejects in the Upload files. This setting is in the System Settings: Sort > General Options > DSA Options > TNT Exclude Rejects. The default upon upgrading is FALSE. (Ref SS-802)
The 'Minimum Volume' section within the SystemSettings has been removed as it caused confusion that the minimum volumes for carriers could be changed. (Ref SS-807)
The SwiftSort application has been code signed due to changes in Windows 11. (Ref SS-800)
Logging has been added for the DPS 'StrictMatching' setting. '[Message]: DPS Strict Matching = False/True' will now appear in the running log if DPS generation is required. This setting can be found via navigating to System Settings > System > DPS Generation > Strict Matching. (Ref SS-813)
BUG FIXES
Whistl rejects are now being handled correctly in both the bag and upload (.tnt) files. (Ref UK-35)
An incorrect ‘machinable’ code was being output for Whistl 999 records. Now fixed! (Ref UK-93)
Entering a field name of 'AS' caused an error due to it being a protected SQL name. A check has been put in place to stop this field name being used when defining an input file. (Ref SS-781)
The setting ‘LockPAM1400UndersizedContainersAsSTL’ was globally setting undersized containers as STL to TRUE, rather than only being applied for PAM 1400 sorts. This has now been fixed. (Ref SS-795)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.15.40.783
1.0.942.377
13th July 2022
CHANGES
Bundles are now available for Whistl Subscription Mail. (Ref SS-782)
BUG FIXES
Improvements made to the file delimiter analysis after it was found that when a .csv file was being analysed as having * for delimiters due to one record containing 12 * within a field. (Ref SS-776)
Files which were using a custom delimiter, not a pipe, comma or tab. The sort was failing with 'Structure of Input File does not match project definition'. This has now been fixed. (Ref SS-790)
Improvement made to the 'Output Files' report page to list a Mailmark directory for the .gemma file(s). (Ref SS-792)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.15.36.738
1.0.942.377
21st April 2022
CHANGES
Added a new format for UK Mail account numbers. AANNNNN is now accepted as a valid account number format (Ref SS-775)
BUG FIXES
When using Citipost seeds, it was only outputting the Zonal seed and not the National seed. This has now been fixed. (Ref SS-767)
Loading a mixed weight project definition was causing errors to appear on opening. This has now been fixed. (Ref SS-768)
A3 Parcels have now been removed from the UI since this service was discontinued on the 4th of April. (Ref SS-772)
Improvements made to the project definition file. (Ref SS-774)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.15.33.729
1.0.942.377
29th March 2022
BUG FIXES
Improvements made to Unicode handling. If 'Process Unicode' is set to 'True', then the unicode records will be removed from the sorted output. (Ref SS-695)
Low record count input files could cause 'Structure of input file does not match project definition' error. This has now been improved. (Ref SS-760)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.15.32.726
1.0.942.377
14th March 2022
USER ACTIONS
On the 4th of April 2022 A3 Parcels/Packets will be withdrawn. Any Sorts created on or after this time will not allow any A3 Parcel sorts. Moreover, any existing sorts featuring this combination will be automatically changed (upon opening or running) to force ‘Parcel’.Note that there will be no warning message displayed.
It is recommended that users update their project definitions/processes to no longer use A3 Parcels for any carrier.
In the System Settings, there is a temporary section called 'A3 Parcel Removal Date', which has individual settings for each carrier. It may be that certain carriers wish to block A3 Parcels earlier than Royal Mail’s official date of the 4th of April. Note that the format for these dates are dd/mm/yyyy.
CHANGES
From the 4th of April 2022, A3 Parcels will no longer be available. Controls have been embedded in this release to force the change from A3 Parcels to Parcels after this date. Please read the User Actions above. (Ref SS-763)
BUG FIXES
Outputting to Fixed Width with system field sft_InSeq or sft_BagID, depending upon the carrier, will cause an error. This has now been fixed. (Ref SS-762)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.15.30.721
1.0.942.377
7th February 2022
CHANGES
When using Pipe or Tab delimited output file formats for Royal Mail, Citipost, Whistl and Secured Mail, the rejects output file was being given a .csv file extension by mistake. This has been resolved so it gets the correct .txt file extension. (Ref SS-761)
BUG FIXES
Having a full stop '.' in the file output file name prevented the barcode system fields to be populated when running a mailmark sort. This has now been fixed. (Ref SS-757)
Selecting 'Drop Blank Addresses' caused a record count error. This has now been fixed. (Ref SS-578)
Low record count input files could cause 'Structure of input file does not match project definition' error. This has now been improved. (Ref SS-760)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.15.20.703
1.0.942.377
19th January 2022
NEW FEATURES
New command line switches have been added for JIC /JICOptOut= /JICRef= /MailCellRef= (Ref SS-754)
/JICOptOut= True or False
/JICRef= Free text but has a 25 character limit
/MailCellRef= Free text but has a 25 character limit
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.15.19.700
1.0.942.377
12th January 2022
BUG FIXES
The regenerate report button was broken in version 1.15.18.699. This has now been resolved.
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.15.18.699
1.0.942.377
11th January 2022
USER ACTIONS
Download RZ220110 to get the latest Royal Mail High sort prices.
CHANGES
Royal Mail High sort price algorithm changes introduced. (Ref SS-753)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.15.12.23
1.0.918.355
13th December 2021
USER ACTIONS
1. On 4th January 2022 Responsible Mail will be withdrawn. Any Sorts created on or after this time will allow neither ‘Entry’ nor ‘Intermediate’ level as an option. Moreover, any existing sorts using Responsible Mail will be automatically changed (upon opening or running) to force ‘Standard’. Note that there will be no warning message displayed.
In the System Settings, there is a temporary section called 'Responsible Mail Removal Date', which has individual settings for each carrier. It may be that certain carriers wish to block responsible mail earlier than Royal Mail’s official date. At the time of writing, Citipost and UK Mail have specified an earlier date. Citipost have specified 15th December 2021 and UK Mail have specified 30th December 2021. This is reflected in the default settings as supplied in this release. Note that the format for these dates is dd/mm/yyyy.
2. On 30th December 2021 UK Mail will stop supporting A3 Parcels/Packets. Any Sorts created on or after this time will not allow any UK Mail A3 Parcel sorts. Moreover, any existing sorts featuring this combination will be automatically changed (upon opening or running) to force ‘Parcel’.Note that there will be no warning message displayed.
It is recommended that users update their project definitions/processes to no longer use ‘Entry’ nor ‘Intermediate’ level for any carrier and to no longer use A3 Parcels for UK Mail.
CHANGES
From 4th January 2022, Responsible Mail will no longer be available. Controls have been embedded in this release to force the change. Please read the User Actions above. (Ref CK-21)
From 30th December 2021, UK mail will cease to support A3 Parcels. Controls have been embedded in this release to force the change from A3 Parcels to Parcels. Please read the User Actions above. (Ref CK-23)
BUG FIXES
Citipost options were not displaying correctly on the Mailing tab.
Improvements made to the licence status logging. (Ref SS-735)
Offline activation and deactivation file name improvements. (Ref SS-745)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.15.8.673
1.0.918.355
17th November 2021
USER ACTIONS
Please stop using the new 'Max Items' command line switch as this has been removed in this version due to feedback received from clients.
CHANGES
Due to feedback on the new /MaxItems feature, it has been disabled/removed from this version as it was not behaving as expected in certain automated scenarios and therefore causing more problems than solving. We may revisit the implementation of the Maximum Container Items feature in the future. (Ref SS-744)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.15.6.668
1.0.918.355
11th November 2021
NEW FEATURES
A new command line switch has been added to set the Maximum Items per container. /MaxItems= (Ref SS-737)
CHANGES
Colons : and semicolons ; have been added to the list of possible file delimiters. (Ref SS-741)
BUG FIXES
Older project definitions didn't run in SwiftSort version 1.15.3.662 due to missing 'Max Items' parameter within the project definition. This has now been resolved. (Ref SS-739)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.15.3.662
1.0.918.355
10th November 2021
USER ACTIONS
Download XSL211110 from the resource updater to see the Whistl report improvements.
NEW FEATURES
A new command line switch has been added to change the Seed UCID. /SeedUCID= (Ref SS-628)
A new ‘Return to Sender’ tick box has been added by the 'Return Postcode' field, which means you can now run Mailmark sorts without having to enter a 'Return Postcode'. (Ref SS-469)
A 'Max Items' box has been added to the 'Maximum Content Weight' which allows users to set the maximum number of items per container without having to adjust the 'Maximum Content Weight'. (Ref SS-590)
Subscription Mail Access 70 has been made available for Citipost, Whistl and UK Mail. (Ref SS-619)
A 'Bag Smoothing' tick box has been added to the 'Other Mailing Information' tab for all DSA carriers, except for UK Mail as it is done automatically by the sort engine. (Ref SS-734)
CHANGES
When an input file does not match the file structure in the project definition, the sort will stop running and a message will be displayed in the log file. (SS-483)
Mailmark sorts can now be run without entering a return postcode. (Ref SS-469)
BUG FIXES
Bundles are now available to be selected for A3 Parcel and Parcel. (Ref SS-664)
The Royal Mail 'Cheapest' service option now runs. (Ref SS-79)
The Selection Range default setting now works when selecting between 86 and 48 way sort. (Ref SS-575)
For Whistl sorts it was possible to get negative numbers appearing in the .TNT file if the Minimum Selection Size was set too high. Checks have been put in place to warn the user and prevent this from happening. (Ref SS-661)
'Data length different from record length error' has been fixed. This occurred because client field names were are longer than 10 characters with seed injection enabled. (SS-658)
Error writing to outputs with message Unexpected Result -3 from DataMatrixEncoding has been fixed. This was caused by lowercase characters in the postcode field. (SS-647)
Royal Mail Large Letter Mailmark Economy sorts were producing a 'Issues with Parameter File' error in the previous version. This has now been fixed. (Ref SS-655)
Incorrect Format codes appearing within Secured Mail Bag files for subscription mail. This has now been fixed. (Ref ADM-71)
PAM was incorrectly available for Citipost Access 70 and Access 70 OCR. This has now been resolved. (Ref SS-673)
Bundles are now available to be selected for Parcels. (Ref SS-387)
Improved error handling when empty files are imported in to SwiftSort. (Ref SS-636)
Improvements made to Unicode handling. If 'Process Unicode' is set to 'True', then the unicode records will be removed from the sorted output. (Ref SS-695)
Whistl reports have been improved to list Overseas, Undersized bags and BFPO records more clearly. (Ref SS-399)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.14.20.646
1.0.769.319
29th June 2021
BUG FIXES
Secured Mail DocketHub output improvements. All reject bags, UK & Overseas have a 999 SSC Code in all DocketHub files.
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.14.19.644
1.0.769.319
17th June 2021
BUG FIXES
Royal Mail Large Letter Mailmark Economy sorts were producing a 'Issues with Parameter File' error in the previous version. This has now been fixed. (Ref SS-637)
The 'AllowSelectionWithdrawalToIncreaseTrayAverage' setting was causing odd output results for Royal Mail tray sort when channel island records were present. This has now been fixed. (Ref SS-639)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.14.17.641
1.0.767.317
1st June 2021
BUG FIXES
Bag files fixed for UK Mail Unsorted sorts.
A Unhandled exception error after using the Field Mapping technique has been fixed.
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.14.16.640
1.0.763.316
19th May 2021
USER ACTIONS
To use the new Mailmark Economy service for Secured Mail, please download the latest RZ and SM repositories.
NEW FEATURES
Mailmark Economy has been added for Secured Mail. (Ref SS-625)
CHANGES
UK Mail Unsorted reports now show more information.
BUG FIXES
48-way sort is now outputted on to the report if 48-way sort has been selected.
An I/O 6 error was being produced when running under volume Mailmark sorts for Citipost and Whistl when the Volume Override setting was turned off. This has now been fixed.
Unsorted was incorrectly available so UK Mail 1400 PAM, UK Mail Mailmark PAM and UK Mail Mailmark Economy. This has now been fixed. (Ref SS-630)
Spare 9 bug fixes for the U.S.E engine. (Ref SS-631, SS-632, SS-633, SS-634)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.14.14.627
1.0.749.306
28th April 2021
CHANGES
New system fields have been added for Secured Mail. sft_SMHub, sft_SMHubBreak, sft_SMRoute and sft_SMRouteBreak. (Ref SS-623)
BUG FIXES
UK Mail mailmark sorts were ignoring the /MailmarkXMLDir= switch when running via command line. This has now been fixed. (Ref SS-626)
Both types of UK Mail bag file will now be outputted when the setting, 'UKMailSimpleBagLabelsFileRequired', is set to True. (Ref SS-627)
Fix to UK Mail service codes where some stl codes were coming out as underscores _ for Mailmark Economy.
TNT elements were missing from .gemma files if the sort was under volume for Citipost and Whistl mailmark sorts.
UK Mail report improvements.
.gemma file names produced for UK Mail are now in the same format as the other carriers.
UK Mail sorts which were using Trays and had 'Treat Undersized bags as STL' set to 'True' was causing an 'Error writing to output' error, which has now been fixed.
UK Mail sorts using trays with 'Treat Undersized bags as STL' set to 'True' was causing the sort to fail. This has now been fixed.
UK Mail unsorted .gemma files had the carrier in the incorrect format. This has now been fixed <carrier-name>UK Mail</carrier-name> .
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.14.12.612
1.0.707.281
30th March 2021
NEW FEATURES
Subscription Mail Manual is now available for Citipost, Whistl and UK Mail. (Ref SS-619)
BUG FIXES
Unsorted as incorrectly selectable for Royal Mail High PAM sorts as well as Royal Mail Mailmark PAM sorts. (Ref SS-622)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.14.10.608
1.0.707.281
24th March 2021
NEW FEATURES
1400 PAM is now available for Citipost, Whistl and UK Mail (Ref SS-598, SS-599, SS-600)
Mailmark Economy is now available for Citipost, Whistl and UK Mail (Ref SS-602, SS-603, SS-608)
CHANGES
The April 5th barcode changes have been implemented (Ref SS-621)
New setting added to increase DPS accuracy assignment. Default is set to loose to help achieve mailing discounts. (Ref SS-812)
BUG FIXES
Improved error log file messages when a lock file cannot be created. (Ref SS-614)
Improvements to the Report.xml output file for UK Mail sorts.
When running non mailmark sorts via command line for Citipost it was requesting a Zonal SCID to be supplied. This has now been fixed.
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.14.03.567
1.0.563.213
1st February 2021
BUG FIXES
Using the Field Mapping technique when importing a file was causing an 'Invalid floating point' error when running sorts. (Ref SS-610)
Using a project definition with a file using a different structure causes a 'Error writing to outputs with message Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.' error. (Ref SS-611)
The system fields sft_DPS, sft_TNTZonalCode and sft_ZonalCode were not outputting correctly in version 1.14.01.560. (Ref SS-612)
UK Mail unsorted jobs were not running in version 1.14.01.560. (Ref SS-613)
SwiftSort Version
U.S.E Version
Release Date
1.14.01.560
1.0.535.198
20th January 2021
USER ACTIONS
The system fields sft_CBC , sft_DPSChecksum and sftTNT_E2E have been removed as they are no longer supported fields. Please remove them from any existing project definitions.
NEW FEATURES
Seed injection has been added for Royal Mail and all of the DSA's. This can be controlled within the System Settings (Ref SS-78)
UK Mail Zonal Optimisation has been added (Ref SS-579)
A new Command Line switch has been added to control the output field delimiter. /FIELDDELIMITER= (Ref SS-527)
A new Command Line switch has been added to cater for the different sort types. /SORTED= (Ref SS-547)
A new Command Line switch has been added to cater for the Zonal SCID. /ZonalSCID= (Ref SS-562)
To follow the Partially Addressed Mail guidelines, a new 'PAM Approved' tick box has been added to the UI. A command line switch has also been added. /PAMSanction= (Ref SS-563)
BUG FIXES
The Sort Type in the 'All Options' window was not in sync with the Sort Type dropdown on the mail form as it was showing an "Unsorted" option for Whistl. This has now been fixed. (Ref SS-523)
Citipost Zonal SCID has been added to the UI as it was a missing feature. (Ref SS-562)
/CollectionDate= switch has been opened up to all carriers. (Ref SS-579)
Defining an input file after importing multiple files caused an 'Unhandled exception' error. This has now been fixed. (Ref SS-566)
Default options have been added for each carrier to allow the handling of illegal characters in the customer section of the 2D barcode. Default Options > Sort > *carrier of choice* > Mailmark > TwoD_Extra (Ref SS-552)
Local help file removed and is now online only. (Ref SS-556)
Contact details on the 'About' form have been updated. (Ref SS-589)
The system fields sft_CBC , sft_DPSChecksum and sftTNT_E2E have been removed as they are no longer supported fields. (Ref SS-587)
A new system field has been added, sft_MailmarkSeq. (Ref SS-587)
Whistl depot list updated to; Bolton, Bristol, Bedford and Glasgow. (Ref SS-607)
Secured Mail mailings are now sorted into ‘Hub’ order.
The Bag ID (sft_BagID) structure has changed for UK Mail due to a change in specification. It used to be 00001 , however, it now looks like F2VQh02WTgVGjQj00001. If you wish to only have the 5 digits, then please switch to using the sft_BagNo field for UK Mail.
Command line response code list has been updated.
The /Zonal= command line switch now has the option to use 'Split' to enable National/Zonal split for UK Mail.
Version
Release Date
1.13.53
2nd October 2019
BUG FIXES
UK Mail zonal product codes were not being output. This has now been fixed. (Ref SS-525)
CHANGES
Non C40 characters can now be added in to the customer section of Mailmark 2D barcodes using the new option 'Allow illegal characters'. (Ref SS-535)
Version
Release Date
1.13.50
29th July 2019
BUG FIXES
The Sort Type in the 'All Options' window was not in sync with the Sort Type dropdown on the mail form as it was showing an "Unsorted" option for Whistl. This has now been fixed (Ref SS-523)
The Whistl Bag label file has been amended to output the correct Format Code value for Subscription Mail. (Ref SS-508)
CHANGES
Optional Mailmark fields, known as Auto Sales Order Generation (ASOG), have been added to the Mailmark Optional Details form for Royal Mail sorts only (example below). These new fields will be output to the gemma file for upload to Royal Mail (eMHS). If you wish to use ASOG please contact the Royal Mail Mailmark team as individual SCID's will need to be ASOG enabled. (Ref SS-507)
Version
Release Date
1.13.46
13th June 2019
BUG FIXES
The Collection Date option has now been made available for Secured Mail. (Ref SS-503)
CHANGES
The Mail Cell Description can now be updated via Command Line. (Ref SS-504)
Version
Release Date
1.13.45
16th April 2019
BUG FIXES
Publishing Mail has been re-enabled for Royal Mail Large Letter after being disabled when Subscription Mail was added. (Ref SS-501)
Version
Release Date
1.13.44
2nd April 2019
NEW FEATURES
Spare 10 can now be populated with the Container ID. (Ref SS-498)
Version
Release Date
1.13.43
27th March 2019
USER ACTIONS
Download the latest Royal Mail Repository (RZ190325z.zip) via Resource Updater. The internal structure of the Royal Mail Repository has changed to cater for Partially Addressed Mail, Subscription Mail and PollSort Mail (coming soon) and as a result is not compatible with previous versions of SwiftSort. RZ190125.zip will be the last Royal Mail Repository made available to previous versions, please upgrade SwiftSort to receive the latest Royal Mail Repositories.
NEW FEATURES
Partially Addressed Mail has now been added. (Ref SS-494)
Subscription Mail has now been added. (Ref SS-495)
CHANGES
PostalSort.dll has been updated to handle new RZ tables (Ref SS-496)
BUG FIXES
Truncation of data occurred via command line if the input data field lengths did not match the project definition file. (Ref SS-499)
Version
Release Date
1.13.42
14th March 2019
CHANGES
Resource Updater was using http when checking for updates. This has now been changed to https. (Ref SS-497)
Version
Release Date
1.13.41
11th March 2019
NEW FEATURES
New CMD switch added to allow FixedWidth output fields to be amended (/FixedOutWidth=<List Output Fields>). (Ref SS-493)
BUG FIXES
Importing Fixed Width data caused an Unhandled Exception. This has now been resolved. (Ref SS-491)
Exporting Fixed Width data with a header record caused duplication. This has now been resolved. (Ref SS-492)
Version
Release Date
1.13.39
3rd January 2019
NEW FEATURES
New CMD switch added to allow Container Weight to be amended (\ContainerWeight=<value in grams>). (Ref SS-471)
CHANGES
Duplicated existing TNT CMD Switches for Whistl to keep naming conventions consistent (/WhistlService=, /WhistAccount=, /WhistlMailingHouse=, /WhistlDepot= and /WhistlPO=). (Ref SS-275)
DSA Reference text box on the Mailing tab now has a maximum of 20 characters. The CMD switch, /DSARef=, will now be truncated if more than 20 characters are supplied. (Ref SS-425)
Version
Release Date
1.13.38
28th December 2018
NEW FEATURES
New Whistl CMD switch (WhistlSubmitUnderSizeBags=true or false). (Ref SS-487)
CHANGES
Spelling mistake amended in End-User Licence agreement step during Install. (Ref SS-484)
Version
Release Date
1.13.37
3rd December 2018
CHANGES
Added padding to reports. New report schemas available (XSL181130) via Resource Updater. (Ref SS-466)
Installer has been improved; User Dialogue no longer inherits the systems default user account. Installer executable is now CodeSigned. Permission for App Data folder is now set to Everyone. (Ref SS-467, SS-472 & SS-476)
New SwiftSort Icons are now in place to match other Swift Products. (Ref SS-480)
Licence Activation form has been improved . (Ref SS-478)
BUG FIXES
When a license expires we now allow a 7 day grace period as we do in the User Interface. (Ref SS-479)
Version
Release Date
1.13.36
10th July 2018
CHANGES
Added 3 additional options to Mail Info Type ID for Mailmark sorts (Lasered Barcodes, Ink Jetted Barcodes and Unwrapped). (Ref SS-462, SS-463 & SS-459)
JIC Opt-out for Whistl Business sorts has been tweaked an no longer outputs "OUT" to the TNT upload file. (Ref SS-462 & SS-461)
A Mailmark Promotion/Incentive option has been removed (Scheme for Growth) and has been replaced with a new option (Advertising Content Growth). (Ref SS-462 & SS-464)
The Media Agency, Mail Info Type ID and Promotions options for Mailmark sorts are now also output for Business mail sorts. (Ref SS-465)
Version
Release Date
1.13.35
3rd July 2018
CHANGES
Licensing has been completely overhauled allowing for Online or Offline Activation options and a Floating Licensing option . See Licensing topic for more info. (Ref SS-391 & 392)
Version
Release Date
1.13.34
17th May 2018
NEW FEATURES
New DSA Generic CMD switch (Zonal=true or false) which allows the enabling/disabling of Zonal sorts. (Ref SS-458)
Version
Release Date
1.13.33
16th May 2018
BUG FIXES
The Selection Range state was being misconfigured if a user selected the Input tab and returned to the Mailing tab. (Ref SS-454)
Version
Release Date
1.13.32
10th May 2018
CHANGES
The Dummy eManfest ID option has been removed from Whistl and Citipost at the request of Whistl. (Ref SS-455)
Whistl output files are now prefixed with the Mail Cell Ref value when the Bag Labels DOS Filename option is used. (Ref SS-457)
Version
Release Date
1.13.31
26th April 2018
NEW FEATURES
A new combo box, called Selection Range, has been added to the Other Mailing Information area on the Mailing tab. There are two options; Standard 86 way-sort or 48 way-sort. Letters and Low/Access70 sorts will be able to select the 48 way-sort option which will sort the data to 48 Selections rather than the traditional 86 Selections and should reduce the amount of containers needed. (Ref SS-447)
CHANGES
Joint Industry Committee (JIC) was originally added for Mailmark Advertising sorts only, this has now been moved to the Other Mailing Information area on the Mailing tab and can now be used for all Advertising Mail sorts. (Ref SS-451)
USER ACTIONS
Download the latest Royal Mail Repository (RZ180326_48way.zip) via Resource updater to cater for 48 way-sorts.
Version
Release Date
1.13.30
4th April 2018
NEW FEATURES
New CMD switch which allows the enabling/disabling of Mailmark Volume Override control for a sort. (Ref SS-445)
Version
Release Date
1.13.28
28th February 2018
BUG FIXES
Unsorted (Natural Order) now produces a GeMMA Manifest for Mailmark sorts. (Ref SS-444)
Version
Release Date
1.13.27
29th January 2018
NEW FEATURES
Joint Industry Committee (JIC) options have been added for Mailmark Advertising sorts. The specific options can be found in the Mailmark section under Other Options on the Mailing tab. (Ref SS-439)
Two Unsorted options have been added to UKMail Mailmark sorts. (Ref SS-388)
CHANGES
Royal Mail Low Sort Barcode and Access 70 CBC sorts have been removed. The User Interface will display a warning message if a job definition is opened which contains a Low Sort Barcode or Access 70 CBC sort. (Ref SS-440)
Whistl's Warrington and Leeds depots are no longer in use and have been replaced with the Bolton depot. The User Interface will display a warning message if a job definition is opened which contains depots that are no longer in use and will automatically change the form to use the correct depot. If running via command line the depot will be changed in the sort silently. Users can update their Job Definitions to the correct depot to avoid warning messages. (Ref SS-441)
BUG FIXES
The Supply Chain ID was not being output to the raw Mailmark Barcode string for the first record if the first record was the only record in an SSC. (Ref SS-437)
USER ACTIONS
Download latest Whistl Repository via Resource updater to cater for depot changes.
Download latest UKMail Repository via Resource updater to cater for new Unsorted options.
Version
Release Date
1.13.26
15th November 2017
CHANGES
The Whistl Account Numbers that are set for mailings going via Whistl or Citipost can now contain alpha characters. The length is still set to four but can now contain a-z, A-Z or 0-9. (Ref SS-435)
Version
Release Date
1.13.25
8th November 2017
CHANGES
Mailmark 2D Barcode Encoding has now been introduced. A new field has been added to Output called 'sft_2D_EncodedFields' and when selected the appropriate encoding of the 'sft_2D' field will take place, a number of fields will be output depending on the Format of Mailmark Barcode selected from within the 2D Barcode Extra Definition form. Note that specialised fonts need to be used with the encoded fields to be able to produce a printable Mailmark barcode. The fonts can be found in the application folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\SoftwareBureau\Swift\Sort\Data Matrix Fonts). (Ref SS-433)
The Mailmark 2D Barcode Extra Definition form incorrectly advised users that an underscore (_) was a valid character that could be used in the barcode via a warning message. This message has been changed to show the correct legal characters that can be used i.e. Uppercase A-Z, Numerics 0-9 or a space. (Ref SS-434)
Version
Release Date
1.13.24
21st August 2017
CHANGES
PAF Engine has be updated to 2.2.0.78 . (Ref SS-431)
The Whistl/TNT option to switch off minimum volume checking has now been applied to Mailmark sorts. (Ref SS-430)
Version
Release Date
1.13.23
1st August 2017
CHANGES
PAF Engine has be amended to improve DPS Appending match rates . (Ref SS-428)
Version
Release Date
1.13.22
17th July 2017
CHANGES
The Mailmark Campaign and Department values are now output to the GeMMA eManifest. (Ref SS-426)
The detection and rejection of suspected Unicode input data has been improved as a number of false positives where highlighted by users. (Ref SS-427)
Version
Release Date
1.13.20
28th June 2017
NEW FEATURES
PAF Lite engine has been replaced with a new PAF Full engine for DPS appending. The PAF Full engine is still only used to append DPS's but this change over has allowed us to multi-thread this process resulting in improved performance for large sorts along with higher DPS match rates. See Actions below. (Ref SS-422)
Citipost now has the option to apply a Mailmark Dummy eManifest ID. (Ref SS-424)
CHANGES
Overall DPS matching progress for all worker threads is displayed in the Processing Status Display. (Ref SS-338)
Resource Updater form has been tweaked to allow more rows to display before a scroll bar is shown. (Ref SS-423)
Secured Mail now has the Zonal option. (Ref SS-416)
Mixed Weight has been introduced for Whistl where applicable (Large Letter and Packet Sorts). (Ref S-411)
CHANGES
Whistl depots have been consolidated to match Whistl specifications. If a previous definition contains a depot that no longer exists, a warning will be displayed and the depot will be converted appropriately. (Ref SS-414)
Citipost has been rewritten in line with Citipost and Dockethub specifications. Three new Citipost Specific CMD switches have been made available. (Ref SS-419)
The Field Mapping event handler was causing a 'zero maps defined' error. (Ref SS-412)
Version
Release Date
1.13.17
20th April 2017
NEW FEATURES
A new setting has been added to system settings (Process Unicode) which allows data to be imported that contains unicode characters and omit the affected records from a sort. (Ref SS-402)
DPS Generation has been improved to generate DPS's when multiple files have been imported where some files are a mix of Client supplied DPS and no DPS. (Ref SS-410)
Version
Release Date
1.13.16
23rd March 2017
BUG FIXES
Royal Mail mixed weight sorts failed with a Division by zero error message. (Ref SS-407)
Minimum Selection Sizes are now forced to their respective default values for the Format and Carrier defined either in the project definition or overridden by the relevant switches (/Format and/or /Carrier) at run time via Command Line Processing. (Ref SS-403)
Version
Release Date
1.13.12
8th November 2016
NEW FEATURES
A new setting has been added to allow the items in Under Volume Containers to be treated as Standard Tariff items. (Ref SS-389 & SS-390)
CHANGES
Resource Updater, Application Upgrades and the Online Changes Log are now set to use https protocol. (Ref SS-395)
Version
Release Date
1.13.11
9th August 2016
NEW FEATURES
Whistl Dummy eManifest can now be defined via CLP. (Ref SS-384)
Whistl PO (Purchase Order) can now be defined via CLP. (Ref SS-385)
Version
Release Date
1.13.10
18th July 2016
NEW FEATURES
Client Name, Project Name and Project ID can now be defined via CLP. (Ref SS-382)
CHANGES
Large Letter Mailmark via Wholesale is now forced to be mechanised. (Ref SS-383)
Version
Release Date
1.13.9
9th June 2016
NEW FEATURES
Added a new option to give users the ability to control what is output to the Mailmark Batch Reference and also validate that the contents won't exceed the Royal Mail maximum length of 30 characters. By default the Batch Reference value is assigned using the Project ID and File Root, other options are to use Project ID and Mail Cell Ref or free text. The Batch Reference can also be overridden with free text when running via CMD (/MailmarkBatchRef=). A truncation control setting has also been added to System Settings which allows users to specify which action to take should the Batch Reference be greater than 30 characters. (Ref SS-378)
BUG FIXES
A Whistl sort run via CMD using /TNTService= was incorrectly failing validation and reporting a Return Code of -136. (Ref SS-380)
Version
Release Date
1.13.8
5th May 2016
NEW FEATURES
BUG FIXES
The Mailmark 2D Barcode Extra Definition parameters were incorrectly using the field header lengths as part of the maximum field length analysis which caused an offset issue if the field headers length was longer than the actual data's maximum field length. (Ref SS-374)
CHANGES
Copyright updated on the Help > About form. (Ref SS-377)
Wording changed on the Mailing Wizard start page. (Ref SS-371)
Version
Release Date
1.13.7
4th May 2016
NEW FEATURES
The Mailmark XML output path can now be changed when a sort is run via CMD (/MailmarkXMLDir=). (Ref SS-364)
A new setting has been added to Mailmark 2D Barcode Extra Definition allowing a user to control the behavior of a sort when possible truncation has been detected. The new setting can be configured to cancel a sort should truncation occur. (Ref SS-369)
A Docket Hub compatible bag file is now output for Secured Mail. N.B. Secured Mail Tables need to be updated via Resource Updater. (Ref Cygnus -16)
BUG FIXES
The Mailmark 2D Barcode Extra Definition parameters were not cleared when a New Project was started. (Ref SS-367)
An address block presented in reverse order (A9,A8..A2,A1) caused a low DPS match rate. (Ref SS-366)
Mailmark parameters are now displayed on the Planning Analysis. N.B. Latest Report Stylesheets need to be updated via Resource Updater. (Ref SS-307)
The Mailmark Return Postcode is now forced uppercase. (Ref SS-368)
Version
Release Date
1.13.5
3rd March 2016
NEW FEATURES
Mailmark has 3 new ‘spare’ fields added for use. These are ‘Spare-4’, ‘Spare-6’ and ‘Spare-10’ and should only be used if instructed by Royal Mail or the Market Reach team. Note that to GeMMA version 3.5.3 or later needs to be used for submitting manifest that contain spare fields. (Ref SS-357 & SS-362)
Two new command line options have been added for Mailmark which allows the SCID (/SCID=) and Return Postcode (/ReturnPostcode=) to be amended. (Ref SS-346)
The File Root name can now be automatically populated using the Input File name on projects with a single input file. This option can be enabled in Default Options. (Ref SS-361)
Source Field Names are now retained in an output when Field Mapping option is used. (Ref SS-360)
BUG FIXES
An inconsistency on adding SCID to the Mailmark SCID lookup (Mailmark.ini) has been fixed. (Ref SS-347)
CHANGES
The Qualifier option on the Output tab is now disabled when Fixed Width Format is selected. (Ref SS-363)
Version
Release Date
1.13.4
4th February 2016
NEW FEATURES
Advertising Catalogue option has been added for Royal Mail and DSA's where applicable. Please update resources after upgrading to receive the latest Royal Mail prices. (Ref SS-354)
The Mailmark option to disable Volume Checking was not working. This has been fixed. (Ref SS-306)
CHANGES
Whistl End to End has been removed. (Ref SS-351)
A warning is now displayed in the UI when the selected Mailmark Originator field contains data over the max limit of 30 characters. A new System Setting has also been added which allows control over what action to take in the event of data being over the max limit of 30 characters; Warn, Allow and Block (Warn being the default option). (Ref SS-353)
Version
Release Date
1.12.3
24th November 2015
NEW FEATURES
No New Features
CHANGES
The UK Mail Bag-Item-Link field output to both the bag file, and manifest for Mailmark has been improved and now includes mixed cased characters. (Ref SS-345)
BUG FIXES
No Bug Fixes
1.12.2 (28-09-15)
1. New PostalSort.dll (3.3.5.1) which outputs a unique Bag-Item link for UK Mail Mailmark sorts. The Bag-Item link is output to both the UK Mail Bag file and GeMMA Manifest and is used by UK Mail to link the items in the manifest to the Bag. These amended outputs should only be used with GeMMA 3.5.0 (or later) which now has the facility to submit Mailmark manifests directly to UK Mail. (Ref SS-342)
1.12.1 (09-07-15)
1. It was found that ineligible records (International and UK Rejects) were being included in the Mailmark eManifest. This caused an issue when Royal Mail consolidated volumes. This has been fixed by creating a second output file containing the ineligible records and excluding them from the Mailmark eManifest. (Ref SS-337)
1.12.0 (11-06-15)
1. Added the ability to set custom system field names (System Field Aliases) via a new System Setting. (Ref SS-259)
2. It was found that the Zone element for the first item in the Mailmark output for GeMMA could be output as a null character which is a restricted character for XML. This only occured in rare cases where the first item was a single item in a Mailsort Standard Selection Code. This has now been fixed. (Ref SS-333)
1.11.6 (08-06-15)
1. Resource Updater - Added a Critical Update column which displays an image should a critical update be available. (Ref SS-262)
2. Resource Updater - The state of the Hide Completed button is now saved. (Ref SS-261)
3. Resource Updater - Fixed an exception caused by clicking main Update button when an update is already in progress via the individual update buttons (Ref SS-324)
4. An improvement has been made to how a postcode is located in the source fields. (Ref SS-331)
1.11.5 (07-05-15)
1. Resource Updater - Main form title renamed to SwiftSort Resource Updates . (Ref SS-320)
2. Resource Updater - Replaced the Percent column with a Downloaded column containing progress bars for each row. (Ref SS-319)
3. Resource Updater - Added a mouse over event to the Info (main form) and Browse to Location (new Paths form) images. (Ref SS-318)
4. Resource Updater - Main form size is now dynamic and is set by the size of the Updates Table. (Ref SS-317)
5. Resource Updater - A check is now made to ensure a sort is not processing when applying updates. (Ref SS-316)
6. Resource Updater - If a resource path is not defined the relevant update will not download. (Ref SS-315)
7. Resource Updater - Added various decompression methods other than the currently used zip (deflate). In the near future resources will be presented as rar compressed resource files which offer greater compression ratios and therefore faster download times. (Ref SS-314)
8. Resource Updater - The server can now be switched to Maintenance Mode. When switched Resource Updater will notify users that the service is currently unavailable if an update is attempted. (Ref SS-313)
9. Resource Updater - The Resource Path display area has been removed from the main form. A new Path button has been added which now displays the Resource Paths. (Ref SS-312)
1.11.4 (29-04-15)
1. Small change to the Licence area on the About form which now displays the licence band name (Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum). (Ref SS-311)
1.11.3 (19-03-15)
1. It was found that a non-breaking space (hex A0) used as a seperator between the Outward and Inward part of a Postcode caused the effected records not to match against PAF Lite and therefore no DPS was appended. This has now been fixed. (Ref SS-304)
2. A small change to the Whist Sector output file has been made in line with the latest Whistl File Specification. (Ref SS-305)
1.11.2 (18-03-15)
1. It was found that pound signs (£) were being incorrectly translated to question marks (?). This has now been fixed. (Ref SS-303)
2. The Mail Types available for Large Letter via DSA's have been modified in the Mailing Wizard. (Ref SS-300)
3. Access 70 Mailmark was incorrectly available as a service for A3 and A3 Parcels via DSA's. This has now been fixed. (Ref SS-289)
4. Packets has been renamed to Parcels within the Mailing Wizard. (Ref SS-299)
5. End to End (E2E) can now be selected for Mailmark sorts via Whistl. (Ref SS-301)
6. The Sort Validation code has been updated to show Whistl instead of TNT validation issues. (Ref SS-302)
CRITICAL CHANGES
We strongly advise that you upgrade as soon as possible to due to the risk of a translation error as mentioned in point 1. above.
1.11.1 (04-03-15)
1. The Combo and Text boxes have been tweaked on the Mailing tab to make the UI more uniformed. (Ref SS-292)
2. Field names that share their name with SQL (SELECT, GROUP, LIMIT etc) casued an issue when the DPS append engine was used. (Ref SS-284)
3. Mailmark needed to be enabled in the settings. This setting has been removed and therefore Mailmark is enabled by default. (Ref SS-294)
4. Changes to the licence were not reflected on the About form until a restart. Changes are now shown immediatley. (Ref SS-264)
1.11.0 (23-02-15)
1. Unsorted has now been added for Royal Mail. Unsorted can be selected within the Generic Options area of the Mailing tab using the Sort Type combo box. Unsorted can also be applied via CMD. See critical changes below. (Ref SS-289)
2. The ability to add a dummy eManifest ID (4 digits) for Whistl Mailmark sorts. The dummy eManifest ID will then be output to the Whitsl upload file. (Ref SS-290)
CRITICAL CHANGES
When introducing Unsorted it was necessary to change the internal structure of the RZ repositories to cater for new prices and mininum volumes. Therefore Resources Updates (namely RZ150209.zip) should be applied immediatly after applying the Application Upgrade to avoid issues.
1.10.25 (12-02-15)
1. Added a Clear History warning in Resource Updater. (Ref SS-260)
2. It wasn't clear to a user that there is an invalid character control set on the Text box field within the Mailmark 2D Barcode Extra Definition form. If an invalid character is now typed a dialogue will be displayed stating which characters are allowed. (Ref SS-288)
3. The Maximum Tray Weights for all Carriers have been set to 9kg in accordance with Royal Mail guidelines. (Ref SS-287)
4. Resource Updater now has the option to operate locally rather than over the internet. By choosing Local the update files will need to be downloaded manually and placed in a designated folder. (Ref SS-286)
1.10.23 and 1.10.24 (27-01-15)
1. The endpoints for Application Upgrades and Resource Updates have changed to our new higher bandwidth Web Server. Therefore the IP (54.77.236.248) and URL (http://updates.thesoftwarebureau.com) has changed. (Ref SS-277)
2. The changes web page displayed pre and post Application Upgrade has been dropped and replaced by an online version which is interactive (http://help.thesoftwarebureau.com/swiftsort/help/help_version_and_changes.htm). The online version of Help can also be accessed from the About form (http://help.thesoftwarebureau.com/swiftsort/help/swift_sort_overview.htm). (Ref SS-277 and 244)
3. The Machinable checkbox for 1400/High sorts was not picking up the default set in the default options. (Ref SS-280)
4.
The Received column has been removed from the Resource Updater. (Ref SS-279)
5.
To test the above endpoint changes a further Application Upgrade (1.10.24) will become available post the 1.10.23 upgrade allowing a site to setup required access and/or proxy changes. This upgrade is delivered using the new endpoint. (Ref SS-279)
CRITICAL CHANGES
As the endpoints have changed it may be necessary to allow access and/or amend any automation scripts which point to the old endpoint for Application Upgrades via Command Line.
1.10.22 (15-01-15)
1. The Future Tables option on the mailing tab and a Command Line Processing have been tweaked to allow a user to choose to sort using a table that isn't effective until a set date in the future. Royal Mail have specified that a new Customer Final Label table (CFL Version 2013 Release 2) must be used from the 19th January 2015. Therefore a new table is available via Resource Updater (RZ150119.zip) and methods for manually selecting this future table have been introduced. Please see Future Table topic for further info. (Ref SS-274)
1.10.21 (07-01-15)
1. The recent changes to the CBC output field caused an issue where the CBC field would be missing in the output file for records with a blank CBC . This has now been rectified. (Ref SS-271)
CRITICAL CHANGES
This update contains a critical change as detailed in the above log (1.). It is recommended that you apply this upgrade immediately if you are currently on version 1.10.19 or above.
1.10.20 (06-01-15)
1. An issue was introduced to non-CBC sorts in previous release 1.10.19. This has now been rectified. (Ref SS-271)
2. New PostalSort.dll (3.1.3) included which now outputs new UKMail Service Codes and Bag to Item Link for Mailmark products in line with UKMail documentation (v1.8). Note that a new UKMail repository is needed. (Ref SS-272)
3. Tweaked new versioning controls for updates in Resource Updater. (Ref SS-249)
CRITICAL CHANGES
Resource Updater should be used to update your UKMail repository (UKM141217).
1.10.19 (05-01-15)
1. The CBC output field has been amended as it was found that incomplete CBC's were being output where no DPS existed.
1.10.18 (10-12-14)
1. During the re-branding of TNT to Whistl the CMD switch /Carrier=TNT was changed to /Carrier=Whistl. We now cater for both Carrier name variants allowing for backwards compatibility.
1.10.17 (09-12-14)
1. Improvements have been made to the PAF Lite (DPS Append) engine, note that a change to the indexes was necessary. See Critical Changes below.
2. A Zonal option has been added for UK Mail which will now add Zonal counts to the UK Mail output file. Note that Overseas and BFPO records should be removed prior to bringing the data into SwiftSort as these records aren't compliant with Zonal specifications and any London records that would fall into zone Z will be re-allocated to Zone D as per the instructions in the Access user guide.
3. The Permit Truncation feature has been improved. If used and truncation occurs a warning and count is displayed on the Generate tab as well as in the Data report.
CRITICAL CHANGES
This upgrade contains changes to the PAF Lite engine and requires that you update your PAF Lite Resources via the Resource Updater (PAFLite1411). To avoid issues this should be done immediately after applying this application upgrade.
1.10.13 and 1.10.14 (25-11-14)
1. Fixed width files now allow fields over 255 bytes with a new maximum of 9,999 bytes.
2. The Fixed Postcodes option adds a single byte to Address Lines defined to be fixed to avoid truncation. There is now an new option that will permit truncation allowing the structure to remain the same as supplied.
3. Resource Updater has been amended to allow us to further control what updates are presented to a user via the users installed version.
4. TNT has been re-branded to Whistl.
5. Unicode files are now no longer permitted to be imported.
1.10.12 (05-11-14)
1. The code page used throughout SwiftSort has now been made consistent by forcing the output text files to use the same code page (1252 ANSI).
1.10.11 (24-10-14)
1. Improvements have been made to the PAF Lite (DPS Append) engine, note that a change to the indexes was necessary. See Critical Changes below.
2. The Available and Selected Fields Display on the Output tab have been amended to allow for longer field names.
3. An option to disable the output of double quotes as a field qualifier has been added to the Output tab.
4. The option to output tab delimited files didn't output tabs correctly. This has now been fixed.
5. System Fields on the Output tab are now highlighted for ease of selection depending on the mailing parameters selected.
6. Licences can now be amended during the term of a licence via the About form.
7. Resource Updater now has an option to close on completion of updates.
8. Resource Updater no longer allows a user to apply an updates if a sort is in progress.
9. Each update in Resource Updater now has a More Info button allowing a user to see what the update contains.
10. A default timeout of 20 seconds has been added to Resource Updater.
11. The Resource Updater now sorts new updates to the top of the data grid.
12. The Address Name Method can now be overridden via the File Format Wizard.
13. Single record files caused an exception. This has now been fixed.7
14. New PostalSort.dll (3.1.0.7) included which fixes an issue with the Whistle (TNT) E2E output field and also allows E2E selections to be identified in the reports.
CRITICAL CHANGES
This upgrade contains changes to the PAF Lite engine and requires that you update your PAF Lite Resources via the Resource Updater (PAFLite1410). To avoid issues this should be done immediately after applying this application upgrade.
1.10.10 (03-10-14)
1. The Mailmark output file for GeMMA has been amended. The DPS element now outputs a blank rather than a 0. This change was made to coincide with a change that RM forced upon us at the weekend.
2. The Mailmark Barcode fields and output file have been amended for DSA Sorts. The Class has now been set to 9 (standard).
3. Project Automation has been expanded to include an API. Please read the Developers Toolkit topic for more information.
1.10.9 (23-09-14)
1. Added three new optional fields for use with Mailmark. These fields can be used to better track and report on a mailing via the RM Portal. Note that these new fields are only utilised in GeMMA 3.1.0. The new fields are:-
Originator - A common field can be selected to be output to the GeMMA compatible xml file which in turn is uploaded to RM's eMHS server. The Originator is at item level, so this field could be used to store an account number or other URN that could be linked back to the mailing data's source.
Campaign - This is a free text field that can be used to tag a mailing with a Campaign name.
Department - This is a free text field that can be used to tag a mailing with a Department name.
A new setting has been added to allow Application Upgrades and Resource Updates through a HTTP Proxy.
To test the above changes a further Application Upgrade (1.10.8) will become available post the 1.10.7 upgrade. This upgrade is delivered using the new HTTPS protocol.
CRITICAL CHANGES
Special attention should be made to the above two changes as it may be necessary to amend your proxy access settings, whitelist and if Application Upgrades are applied via CMD the -updatepath switch will need to be amended.
1.10.6 (Released 08-08-14)
Small enhancement in the creation of CBC Barcodes (PostalSort.dll 3.0.8.6).
The Resource Updater now fails cleanly when a resource being updated is already in use. For example, A Help update is detected and requested but the user has the Help system open, therefore the Help file cannot be overwritten.
1.10.3 (Released 16-07-14)
A new Mail Type for Large Letters via DSA's has been added called General. This is to facilitate the new restrictions on the Mail Type Business Mail. Contact Carriers for more information.
Fixed a malformed error for Local Application Updates when a path was used that contained either spaces or an allowed character outside of the alphabet.
The End to End (E2E) option for TNT now has a Default Option and behaves dependent on its Default Option and the Mailing Options selected. Note that E2E is now disabled for Mailmark.
Fixed an issue with the UKMail Reject Tariff always defaulting to Business Class regardless of selection.
Full technical documentation is now available for the production of Project Definition files via XML Schema Definitions (XSD).
CRITICAL CHANGES
Resource Updates should be applied immediately after this upgrade as UKMail Product Codes have changed in relation with the new restrictions on the Mail Type 'Business' and the addition of the new Mail Type 'General' as mentioned in point 1. above.
No changes have been made to the Project Definition.
1.10.2 (Released 24-06-14)
The change log within the application is basic text not allowing us to draw a users attention to critical updates. Therefore a web based change log has been implemented. Note that an interactive change log has always been available via the in application Help system.
About form has a link to open both the interactive Help system and the new web based change log.
When checking for Resource Updates on startup a loading image is displayed within the Update Status Area to show the user that Check For Resource Updates is running.
8. TNT E2E (End to End) has now been added. However the reports need adjusting and a switch for use via CMD needs to be added in the near future.
CRITICAL CHANGES
This upgrade contains changes to the PAF Lite engine and requires that you update your PAF Lite Resources via the Resource Updater. To avoid issues this should be done immediately after applying this application upgrade.
No changes have been made to the Project Definition.
1.9.10 (Released 22-05-14)
Various features have been added to improve Project Automation:-
Returns Codes have been expanded allowing users to define a more considered decision of how to progress.
Application Updates can now be applied via command line.
Resource Updates can now be applied via command line.
1.9.9 (Released 15-05-2014)
Project Automation has been expanded allowing the user to define the input path and file name of the input data.
Fixed width files can now have their length defined manually for each field within the File Format Wizard.
Improved the Stop Processing at Field Analysis Stage. Now stops cleanly.
The Progress, Processing and Audit Information now shows a one thousand (,) separator.
Can now browse and select a Mailing House Directory directly on the Mailing tab.
1.9.8 (Released 07-05-14)
Version Control has been added to the Resource Updater to allow us to hide updates not applicable to the current version as certain resource updates are not compatible.
Various improvements have been made to the Resource Updater:-
Disabling of buttons depending on various criteria.
Warning message when closing if updates in progress.
Temporary zip files now deleted when updates are rerun.
1.9.7 (Released 30-04-14)
The TNT Segment Code control is now created and maintained via the sort engine. This change was implemented to bring both sort products into line and therefore eliminate the risk of a site with both products producing duplicate Segment Codes. A site can now point each product to the same central resource, if not possible the Segment Code allotment has also be divided between both products:-
Cygnus - 01 through HH
Swift Sort - I1 through ZH
This allows each product 323 unique Segment Codes which reduces the risk of duplication across products. Of course if a site has multiple installs of a single product then they should also centralise this resource.
Removed TNT Segment Control Database
New PostalSort.dll (3.0.5.0)
Amends to [Run Params]
1.9.6 (28-04-14)
Added the ability to add user defined data (Text and/or Fields) to a 2D Mailmark Barcode.
1.9.5
1. Output Client, Job Description and Job ID to [Run Params] for GeMMA.
