What's in the Retriever 13 Patch?

Note: Retriever is built on top of the Simulator Product Line.  As a result, changes made to Simulator will affect Retriever as well.  For a list of changes made to Simulator 13 see the Simulator 13 patch description.  The changes listed below are of particular important to Retriever.

PowerWorld Retriever 13 Patch addresses any problems found in Retriever 13 following its official release in October 2007.  New features are also added in the patch as appropriate.  

The patch website for Retriever was first created on October 5, 2007.

The Retriever patch was last updated July 2, 2008.

Click here to go to the patch download page.

New Features/Minor Improvements:

• (December 12, 2007) Added a new script command LoadAXD("AXDfilename", "onelinefilename", CreateIfNotFound)
• (May 15, 2008) When exporting a oneline as an image using the Retriever Image Exporter, the contour color key is now included if visible.
• (May 15, 2008) When exporting any oneline as an image, the Retriever Time Stamp is now included if visible.
• (May 22, 2008) Changed the Retriever Control Panel to show in the Windows task bar when open. This makes it a lot easier to find the window when it gets hidden behind the main window.

Bug Fixes:

• (February 14, 2007) If a keyboard shortcut is executed to open a oneline embedded within the currently active oneline and a oneline isn't currently active, now Simulator will chose to embed in the last active oneline.
• (March 12, 2007) Fixed potential problem when setting the oneline diagram to Display Only. Retriever was sometimes trying to perform a power flow solution even though it was in Real Time Mode.
• (April 16, 2008) Small zero-byte files were sometimes created when starting Retriever. This has been eliminated.
• (April 16, 2008) Fixed error when contouring a Calculated Field when in Real-Time mode. The contour was always showing all values as zero.
• (April 25, 2008) On the aliases wild-card search form, the drop-down showing the list of datasources was not working properly. This has been fixed.
• (May 15, 2008) Fixed a bug where alias expressions weren't getting initialized properly after having been created using the dialog.
• (June 13, 2008) Fixed error in SolveConsolidatedPowerFlow to allow line flows of a reclosed line to be updated based on the consolidated solution.
• (June 23, 2008) Fixed problem on the Alias Subscription when using Expressions. The dialog would not always refresh correctly when choosing aliases from the drop-downs to define the expression variables.