New Features
The new features of INM VizionDB 4.1 are tied closely to INM Impressario 3. They involve the ability to search across multiple PDF documents, using an INM VizionDB database, and the ability to print database content by creating an INM Impressario PDF template and inserting text and images at runtime.

Searchable Library:
The new Searchable Library feature combines the power of INM VizionDB 4.1 and INM Impressario 3.0 to index the contents of an entire folder of PDF documents and enable quick and powerful searching for text within the PDF documents, as well as metadata (PDF document properties). New functions for the Searchable Library support boolean logic, wildcards, and proximity and return relevancy information.

Once the list of matching PDFs is retrieved, it can be opened by INM Impressario and search terms are highlighted.

Download the Searchable Library Toolkit separately. It contains an instruction manual, castlib of tools and samples to get you started.

New INM SnapGUI™:
A new INM SnapGUI Behavior, "Print Recordset Using PDF Template" lets you print the contents of an INM VizionDB Recordset to a PDF document using a template PDF that conforms to the rules of INM Impressario 3.0 PDF Creation from templates.

The sample Printing from a Database demonstrates how a PDF template can be constructed, containing a REPEATREGION and placeholder fields. This sample uses INM Impressario methods to print the contents of a Recordset as a formatted PDF.

Bug Fixes

• You can now limit the number of records returned from an SQL query by using the following syntax:
  SELECT SKIP 20 FIRST 10 * FROM myTable -- select 10 records starting at the 21st record
• There was an issue copy/pasting German (and probably other character sets) in the INM VizionDB Editor. [fixed] See the note below regarding Unicode character support
• Not able to include the apostrophe character in SQL search criteria. [fixed] For example, to search for O'Malley, you just need to place a backslash character before the apostrophe, as follows:
  SQLSelect("SELECT * FROM Employees WHERE LastName LIKE 'O\'Malley'")
  If you are testing this kind of query from the INM VizionDB Editor Query Designer, you will need to insert the backslash character manually in the SQL tab of that window.
• The Search_EXACT function of the Searchable Library was working the same as Search_ALL. It is now fixed so that only PDF documents containing the exact phrase are retrieved
• When creating a Searchable Library of PDFs with custom metadata that contains spaces in the metadata name, the spaces are converted to underscore characters in the Searchable_ Library table
• VizionDB databases can be created on either Mac or Windows and you can now retrieve data as well as modify the database structure on either platform.

Known Issues

• In the Query Designer of the INM VizionDB Editor, you cannot specify a query containing more than two related tables. You will not get the correct result. You can, however, specify a SELECT query with more than two related tables in Director, inside the Recordset member properties dialog or using the SQLSelect() method
• In the INM VizionDB Editor on Mac, using Filter with Criteria or specifying a query in the Query Designer window, the Searchable Library operators used with the <TEXT> field will crash the application. We hope to resolve this issue shortly. The same operations work correctly on Windows
• When using the Searchable Library feature with PDFs that contains accented characters, the text of the metadata is converted to remove the accents

Additional Notes

• The Desktop version of INM VizionDB does not support Shockwave (web) delivery or database access over a LAN. This version is for single-user database access, from CD-ROM, Kiosk, or applications installed to the user's hard drive
• Note that Unicode characters are not supported in this version of VizionDB, due to Director's inability to support Unicode characters
• When using the INM VizionDB Behaviors (INM SnapGUI™) with Flash-based components, you will get better performance if you use the Macromedia Flash 8 Asset Xtra, released in March 2006

Previous Versions

• Version 4.0 and 4.0.1

INM VizionDB is the next generation of INM V12 Database, which has been available for Macromedia Director since 1996. If you are still using INM V12 Database, we encourage you to try out this new product. View archived Release History for INM V12 Database.