Geobank 2024
Core Features
This topic provides a summary of new features and enhancements related to Micromine Geobank core functionality.
Job Scheduler Next Run Time
Tasks in the Job Scheduler which have no Next Run Time will now display a blank value. This is consistent with the Task Scheduler.
Open Nexus
The Open Nexus button has been added to the backstage menu in Micromine Geobank.
Geobank Professional module users are eligible for a free Nexus subscription. The button will open Nexus in the default web browser.
Sync Manager for Professionals
Originally only available to Coal Field Geologist users, the Sync Manager tool is now included with Micromine Geobank Professional.
The Sync Manager is designed to synchronise data between a central Geobank system and a subsidiary system on a field device, with filtering to control subsidiary data. All the metadata defining Sync Operations within the Sync Manager is managed and stored in the central database. Subsidiary databases link to these defined Operations. New versions can be defined and connected to if changes are needed.
Dark Theme Improvements
Improvements have been made to the Dark Theme in Micromine Geobank to improve the contrast and visibility for object and profile names in the Configuration Manager.
Retain Legacy Enter Behavior
The option to retain the legacy behavior of pressing Enter inside a text entry editor has been added to the Data View Enter Behavior options.
If you select the Retain legacy behaviour... option, pressing Enter in text-entry pop up dialogs will add a new line (CLRF character) at the end of the Text String. If the option is not selected, pressing Enter in an editor will close the editor and perform the Enter Behaviour selected from the drop down (i.e. Next Cell, Next Row or First Cell on the Next Row).
Note: You should be aware that selecting the Retain legacy behaviour... option will mean selected cells display only the last line of the text you entered, even if the line is empty. This can result in viewing empty data cells and issues with finding data in a Search, due to the CRLF character/s in the text string.
Coal Field Geologists
The new Micromine Geobank for Coal Field Geologists is now available for subscription.
The Micromine Geobank for Coal Field Geologists offering offers a simple and convenient method for geologists in the field to capture data in CoalLog format to a local database in Micromine Geobank For Field Teams on a device and synchronise the completed logs with the central Micromine Geobank server in the site office using the Logging Manager.
Panorama Status Values
A technical note has been added to the Online Help for defining the status values for Panorama Jobs should diagnostics be necessary.
The defined status codes are as follows:
| Status | Message In Geobank |
| 0 | Not Started |
| 1 | Uploading |
| 2 | Processing |
| 3 | Downloading |
| 4 | Post Processing |
| 5 | Completed |
| 6 | Error |
Geobank 2023:
Core Features
This topic provides a summary of new features and enhancements related to Micromine Geobank core functionality.
Perpetual License Information
Information on the maintenance end date and license expiry for Perpetual licenses has been added to the Backstage Licensing screen.
A new pop up message has also been added, which will appear when less than 30 days are remaining before the expiry of the maintenance date.
License and Maintenance Banners
Banners have been added to Micromine Geobank which will be displayed when a licence is borrowed, when a perpetual licence maintenance is about to expire, or 30 days after expiry.
The Borrowed License banner displays the expiry date for the borrow length and contains an option to Return Borrowed License.
For borrowed licences, the banner will show every time Micromine Geobank is started, until the licence is returned.
The License Warning banner displays the expiry date for the License Maintenance.
The Licensing Warning banner will show every time Micromine Geobank is launched / licence is selected during the expiry period, unless the Close button is clicked on the banner. In this situation, the banner will not be shown again for 5 days.
Russian User Interface
Russian translation of the User Interface, notably the terms in a variety of the Sample Tracker tools has been completed. These now show correctly when the UI language is set to Russian.
Migrate Job Scheduler Configuration
Support has been added for migrating Jobs in the Job Scheduler to run on an updated software version. An Admin-controlled process to migrate Jobs is controlled through a dialog which displays when the Admin opens the Job Scheduler tool (if there are active Jobs to migrate):
The Job Migration | Migrate option has also been added to the Job Scheduler ribbon to allow you to run the migration manually.
After migrating and testing, the Admin can deactivate Jobs which use a previous version; either in the previous version or directly in Windows Task Scheduler.
Skip Job Migration
The Job Scheduler page has been added to the Options dialog. The new page contains the Skip Job Migration option which is used to prevent the dialog for Job Scheduler migration showing after upgrading a database to a new version of Geobank. By default, the option is not selected and the migration dialog is shown.
Flow
This topic provides a summary of new features and enhancements related to the Flow Designer.
New Module: Flow
The Flow Designer, an entirely new simplified forms creator, has been added to Micromine Geobank 23.5 for all licenses.
The Flow Designer provides a design sheet for Micromine Geobank Administrators to build visual user interfaces such as forms and dialogs for users.
A Form is a configurable user-interface object that can be assigned to users, through a profile, to provide a front-end to database tables and views.
The Flow Designer provides advanced users with a more simplified method of creating forms.
Forms in the Form Designer are created using Python. Conversely, Flow Designer projects can be created in C# or Visual Basic; which provides additional user-friendly features such as scripting assistance and auto-complete.
You will be prompted to select the language when you first create the Flow project. Note: The language you select cannot be changed for the project after initialization.
The Flow Designer contains a number of tools, containers and components that can be added to the visual interfaces. These are all accessible from the Toolbox and can be dragged and dropped into the design space and onto forms.
The properties of each control are visible and configurable in the Properties panel.
Note: Flow Designer layout is cached in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\MICROMINE\Geobank with other layouts for Micromine Geobank. If the xml file for the layout is deleted, Flow Designer layout will be reset to default.
Data Explorer
The Data Explorer pane has been added to the Flow Designer. The Data Explorer pane lists the columns available in the data set/s you have configured for the Flow form. Columns can be selected from the pane and controls can be automatically created and added to the form.
The pane can be viewed using View | Data Explorer.
Select Table Tools
The Select Table dialog for Flow contains tools to enable the search and selection of tables in your databases. The display of tables contains context menus and a Find feature for ease of use.
You can collapse and expand the prefix labels for the tables - for example dbo, GB etc.
If you enter search text in the field provided, the tables displayed in the Select Table dialog will be filtered, with your search term highlighted.
The Find button will perform the search again.
GbConnection Control
The GbConnection control has been added to the Flow Designer.
The GbConnection control provides a DataSource connection to the current Geobank database to which Flow Designer is connected. The control properties determine any required data bindings.
Set UseGeobank to True to always use the default Data Source database connection.
Generate Data Controls
The Generate Data Controls option has been added to the Flow toolbar.
The Generate Data Controls option provides an automated method of creating the necessary data controls for a query, stored procedure or table control.
When you use the tool to create a supported data source type, Micromine Geobank will provide selection for the required binding data controls, or allow the automatic creation of new controls for the data source type.
Three key steps are required after generating data components.
- Set the table or SQL queries/procedure.
- Set active to TRUE to validate the data access.
- Select the BindingSource.DataMember from the one or more tables validated and available.
WebView2 Control
The WebView2 Control has been added to the Flow Designer. Replacing the legacy WebBrowser control, the WebView2 embedded web browser provides built in functionality for cookie usage, file download, back, forward and more.
More information on the control is available from WebView2.
Initial Flow Code
In the Flow designer Code pane, a number of initial statements have been added for both VB and C# forms to simplify the referencing of common classes and their methods and properties.
In the Script Editor, standard scripting tools such as auto-complete, syntax-checking, method and property selection lists and other prompts are provided.
Information on the statements added automatically to forms in the Flow Designer is contained in Initial Flow Code. You can learn more about using scripts in the Flow Designer from Working with Scripts.
ObjectButton Control
The ObjectButton Control has been added to the Flow Designer.
The ObjectButton control creates a button that can be used to initiate a Micromine Geobank process - for example, running a data view.
More information on the control is available from ObjectButton.
Query Control
The Query Control has been added to the Flow Designer to enable the entry of custom SQL for reading data from the database. The Query control also provides the ability to define, or in most cases auto-generate, SQL for update, insert and delete.
More information on the control is available from Query.
LookupComboBox
The LookupComboBox Control has been added to the Flow Designer.
The LookupComboBox control provides a simple method of applying lookups. It can be used for columns with lookup validation rules so that a drop-down is automatically set up in the ComboBox, making the correct list of codes available for the user to select from.
The LookupComboBox control can be used for columns with lookup validation rules so that a dropdown is automatically set up in the ComboBox, making the correct list of codes available for the user to select from.
More information is available in LookupComboBox.
Stored Procedure Control
The Stored Procedure (StoredProc) control in the Flow Toolbox generates an SQL Server Stored Procedure and optionally an SQL file containing a query. The Properties for the StoredProc control are used to set the parameters and the SQL properties for the stored procedure.
The StoredProc control is used to create a stored procedure script that can be performed against the storage tier against a document collection.
More information on the Stored Procedure control is contained in StoredProc.
Reset Window Layout
The Reset Window Layout option has been added to a new Window menu in Flow Designer. The option returns Flow Designer to the default layout.
Plan Views
This topic provides a summary of new features and enhancements related to Plan View and Correlation Diagram.
Plan View Search
A Find facility has been added to Plan View to allow you to search for and find the first match of search text in a point on the plan view.
The first Search match is highlighted (selected) to show that it is found. The Next button can be used to navigate to and select the next point.
Sample Tracker
This topic provides a summary of new features and enhancements related to the Sample Tracker.
Receipt Error Information
The Receipt process for Sample Tracker has been improved so that if errors such as unmatched sample IDs prevent a file saved in the assay buffer from being finalised, the progress log now provides detail on each error - these can then be addressed and the step retried.
The following is an example of errors detailed in the progress log:
Finalisation cannot be completed until:
- Invalid or unresolved records have been addressed
- Error: Sample 'BogusSample_4c8684e1707548c1a7c80a137d12f2ec' does not exist.
- Error: Sample 'BogusSample_87c2bdb83f7c4f74a75d7e5f673fc398' does not exist.
- Error: Sample 'BogusSample_80a872caaf1c417fbb616d2809633fd3' does not exist.
- Error: Sample 'BogusSample_7c32a46af16c40dfbb594568aa2608e2' does not exist.
- Error: Sample 'BogusSample_9528a6ecfdd543edb1939a9972c370cd' does not exist.
- Error: Sample 'BogusSample_1402f863cbfc409a81afb959790ae2ff' does not exist.
- Error: Sample 'BogusSample_6baef14e7170478eabd802f5cf2dc09c' does not exist.
Receipts and Excel
The Receipt process for Sample Tracker now correctly handles the situation where a lab file is locked because, for example, it is open in Excel. A message is given to the User.
Drillhole Utilities
This topic provides a summary of new features and enhancements related to Drillhole Utilities.
Unattended Coordinate Transformation
Configured Coordinate Transformation tasks in Drillhole Utilities can now be run as Scheduled Tasks in fully unattended mode. This enables Automation as a routine process.
Forms
This topic provides a summary of new features and enhancements related to Forms.
Python Upgrade
The embeddable Python for Forms has been upgraded to the latest PythonNet version (currently 3.11.2). The upgrade provides a number of changes and improvements.
You can view the full list of changes from the link to the Change Log.
Before upgrading Micromine Geobank:
- Review the Change Log to see if any of your Forms use any of the “niche” features listed with breaking changes.
- In your Test Upgrade, check your forms to confirm they run as expected
- If you use the MRT or Logging Integrator Apps:
- Get the latest App manager (via backstage)
- Obtain the latest App installers from Micromine Support
- Install and test the App upgrades
Geobank 2022
Core Features
This topic provides a summary of new features and enhancements related to Micromine Geobank core functionality.
Dark and Light Themes
The option to select a built-in user interface theme, either Light or Dark, has been added to the General Options. DataView column headers remain the same in both themes, so that any custom configuration is retained.
In Data View, custom coloured columns headers now use a solid fill to optimise readability in both Light and Dark modes.
Improved Interface Themes
Improvements have been made to the available Micromine Geobank themes to enhance visibility and usability of various user interface elements.
Quick Access Menu
The Quick Access menu has been added to Micromine Geobank. Items from the ribbon can be added to the Quick Access menu and the menu can be displayed above or below the ribbon.
Simplified Chinese
The Licence Management screens can now be shown in Simplified Chinese for users who select this Language option.
Improved Profile Layout
In place of the old boxed-headers for Profiles shown on the Home screen, a new simplified and themed layout is used with Task Lists under each Profile shown slightly indented with smaller text and icons.
Micromine Format Import/Export
For the import and export of Micromine-format files, the integration between Micromine's Geobank and Origin & Beyond products has been centralized to ensure compatibility with historic and future file formats.
Improved Support
Micromine's Support Team have transitioned to a more modern platform for managing support cases. This allows support requests to be sent to product-specific emails for faster response. For Micromine Geobank Support use: geobank-support@micromine.com
Language Installers
Standalone Language Pack installers are now provided so that translation updates can be made at a time other than when a new software release is available.
Plan View
This topic provides a summary of new features and enhancements related to Plan View.
Project Layers Resize
The Project Layers panel in the Plan View window can now be resized to better view the information it contains and minimize the need to scroll.
Downhole Imagery with Depth Adjustment
This topic provides a summary of new image and depth adjustment features and enhancements related to Drillhole Utilities, which is part of the Professional Module.
Shortcut Keys
Micromine Geobank Help documentation now has a linked page with a table listing all the shortcut keys available in the Depth Adjust tool. To view the shortcut keys list, see Shortcut Keys.
Shortcut Keys
The following drillhole-related combination and single key-press keyboard shortcuts are provided in Micromine Geobank:
Drillhole LAS file Wizard
| Key | Action |
| Ctrl + A | Select all files |
| Ctrl + O | Add files |
| Ctrl + F | Find drillhole |
| F2 | Modify drillhole number |
Drillhole Section View
| Key | Action |
| ESC | Restore pointer |
| Ctrl + V | Paste interval code |
| Ctrl + C | Copy |
| Ctrl + F | Search |
| Ctrl + P |
Drillhole Plan View
| Key | Action |
| Ctrl + P | |
| Ctrl + F | Search |
| Escape | Restore pointer |
| F1 | Help |
| Ctrl + A | Select all |
Depth Adjustment
| Key | Action |
| Ctrl + F5 | Load data (re-load with parameters) |
| F5 | Reload data |
| Ctrl + Z | Undo |
| Ctrl + S | Save |
| Insert | Add Interval |
| F2 | Modify Interval |
| Delete | Delete Interval |
| Ctrl + R | Range Insert mode |
| ALT+C | Cut Mode -> Cut Action |
| Ctrl + Insert | Insert into action |
| Ctrl + Up | Fill gap above |
| Ctrl + Down | Fill gap below |
| Ctrl + Home | Insert above |
| Ctrl + End | Insert below |
| Ctrl + L | Convert to locked tie-line |
| Ctrl + U | Convert to Unlocked (standard) tie-line |
| Shift + Ctrl + G | Insert into gap |
| L or 2 | Lock Tie-line mode -> Add Lock Tieline |
| T or 3 | Basic Tie-line mode |
| P or 4 | Fixed (Parallel) Tie-line Mode |
| S or 5 | Split Tie-line Mode |
| CTRL+ draw any tie-line |
Temporarily disable snapping |
| R | Retain interval width |
| Ctrl + A | Apply |
| Ctrl + Shift + A | Apply All |
| Ctrl + G | Goto depth Action |
| Ctrl + T | More ticks |
| Ctrl + Alt + T | Fewer ticks |
| Ctrl + P | |
| Ctrl + Shift + 8 | Fit to page |
| Ctrl + Shift + 9 | Restore original scale |
Sample Tracker
This topic provides a summary of new features and enhancements related to the Sample Tracker.
Sample Tracker Automation
The Folder Options tab has been added to the Receipt Configuration form to allow configuring of Unattended Options for the receipt. These options set the location of the folders where lab files, batch logs and reports are stored. If the folder locations are not configured, the path set by the selected Input File will be used.
Guided Receipt Workflow
The Receipt workflow now follows the 'guided workflow' concept used in Micromine Alastri. New or advanced users can move step by step, rapidly or iteratively though the workflow steps using the buttons: Run Next, Run All and Re-run Current and step list.
Simplified Progress Log
The progress log for the Receipt workflow has been simplified by including entries summarising counts of items such as samples and analyses instead of a full list of every item. Any issues are still itemised for recording and audit purposes.
Sample Tracker Receipts
The Sample Tracker Receipt workflow now provides an assay buffering process so that assay result data from laboratories can be accessed prior to finalisation. This is for two purposes; pre-finalisation QAQC sign-off and pre-processing of new metadata.
The workflow has two paths: loading lab files to the Assay buffer and then, immediately or at a later time, promoting the data from the Assay Buffer to the main database. The desired path can be pre-configured and/or selected in the first step.
The Assay buffer can contain many jobs at any time. The default sorting is by Lab Job No in descending order, then by date descending. This puts the most recent job at the top and duplicates are easily seen. The Sort Order can be adjusted as needed.
Discard Buffered Jobs
Improvements have been made to the progress log to allow buffered jobs in Sample Tracker's Assay Buffer to be discarded instead of promoted to the main tables. When discarded, for audit purposes, the header data is archived; this includes a 'blob' record of the source file.
Reconciliation Legend
A Legend has been added to the Reconciliation step in the Sample Tracker Receipt workflow. The Legend is provided as a pop out on the right of the tab; as illustrated below:
Reconciliation Charts
An option menu to select an R Chart or Shewhart chart to display has been added to the Reconciliation screen of the Receipt wizard. The charts generated from the selection are the same as the main R Chart and Shewhart Chart features.
Receipt Layout Improvements
The layout of the Format Check screen in the Receipt wizard has been improved. The Previews for the receipt have been added at the right, to allow users to easily switch between a preview of the receipt and of the selected format.
Improved Batch Handling
When loading multiple files from a folder into the Assay Buffer, files which cannot be loaded due to errors will skip and a description of the error will show in the progress log. These files will not be archived (if archiving is turned on).
Faster Receipt Processing
Receipt process performance has been improved over ten-fold by an update to the data access technology used by the Sample Tracker module.
Geobank 2021:
What’s New
For an overview of the new features and enhancements in Geobank 2021 (version 11.2) , click on the following links:
New Features
Australian Minerals Reporting Templates
Geobank has been enhanced with functionality for MICROMINE to develop Apps for use within Geobank modules.
This release includes an App for producing Australian Minerals Reporting Template (MRT) files for regulatory reporting to relevant government departments.
Annual regulatory reporting now takes less time and with lower risk of errors. This app is available as part of the Advanced Reports module.
Enhancements
Depth Adjustment
Warnings are now provided where an adjustment will affect the thickness of an interval. This is done with a highlight in the Undo Log tab, Change in Thickness column, of the Depth Adjustment window.
In the Depth Adjust Undo Log the two columns previously called Diff have been renamed to Old Thickness and New Thickness; these are then used to calculate the value in the new Change of Thickness column.
Toggle the Save Order
A new Save option has been added to the Data group on the Depth Adjuster ribbon:
Click Reverse Save Order so that intervals are saved last to first. This can be used if the user is adjusting downwards. When set prior to clicking Save, the last interval is moved first, making space for the interval above it which will be saved next and so on, preventing intervals clashing into each other on Save.
The Reverse Save Order icon provides an indication of the current (Bottom-Up or Top-Down) Save order.
Configuration
In the configuration of a Depth Adjustment Process, a new check box option to group the display panel with adjustable panels has been added:
Plan View & Site Lists
A polygon select tool has been introduced to the Plan View ribbon for the purpose of spatially selecting drillholes within a polygonal area.
Click the Define Polygon tool to interactively define a boundary that can be used for site selection. The Show polygons check box must be selected in the Project layers tab.
Note that the user-defined boundaries you add are temporary, i.e. they are not saved to the database.
Click in the view to define successive boundary points:
Double-click to close the polygon (or select Close the polygon from the right-click menu).
The polygons you have defined can be used to select or deselect points, by first selecting the polygons and then selecting the points within them.
Polygon Selection
- Left-click selects a boundary polygon
- CTRL + click selects a user-defined polygon or obscured boundary in the order created
- Include SHIFT key to select multiple polygons
Points in Polygon Selection
- Press ALT + click to toggle the selection of all the points inside the selected polygons (excluding the section points)
Connectivity
Using Geobank’s Connector, the Plan View can be used with the Site List tool to manage lists of drillholes spatially. Synchronisation now works two ways. The Site List Editor can be synced with the Plan View, which can be used to spatially select the holes that will be included or excluded from a site list. Conversely, you can use the Site List Editor to change the hole selection in the Plan View.
New Refresh and Save buttons have been added to the ribbon to allow your changes to be quickly reverted and saved.
Note: For performance and safety reasons, as a precaution it is recommended to turn off the Save Automatically function if you have a long site list and are selecting or deselecting points in the Plan View, as this will make individual calls to the database and there is no Undo function.
Datasets and Dataset Columns
The Form Designer workflow for selecting or adding datasets to a form has been simplified; a dialog showing existing datasets is immediately shown; from this new datasets can be created if required.
In the Form Designer Datasets panel, in the context menu, there is a new shortcut to add multiple columns and/or labels to a container in the form, in a single action:
- When using the shortcut to "Add Column(s) to Form" the resulting controls are automatically given an appropriate name for easy referencing.
- Likewise, when using the shortcut to "Add Labels(s) to Form" the resulting labels are automatically given an appropriate name for easy identification.
Versioning
Forms now have an "Object Version" property which can be set by the designer to a two-part version number (x.y), in order to easily track iterations of a form's development and distribution.
Folder Picker
A FolderPicker control is now available in the Form Designer toolbox:
Web Browser
Online or file-system PDF files can now be viewed by the WebBrowser control in forms. Files may also be downloaded and saved to the Downloads (or another) folder.
Sample Tag Rules
In Lab File Formats Metadata, Sample Tag Rules can be set for all user-defined QC-types; (previously this was limited to the first user type for each system type).
Additionally, the Sample Tag Rules can now be sequenced and targeted for specific user-defined sample QC-types.
New Default
In the Despatch Sample List 'Unselected' pane, 'Sample Tag' is now shown by default (Columns shown can be adjusted using 'Show Column Chooser').
Exports
A new "Run on Server" setting has been introduced in the configuration of Geobank Exports for faster performance of simple exports. Running locally is still recommended where complex queries are used (e.g. using WITH...)
Graphic Reports
More information has been added to the Geobank Help for Graphic Reports to better explain the usage and behaviour of Pivot Graphical Columns.
Find
The Find button dialog now automatically uses the current value as a default so that less typing is required to adjust the search string.
Home Screen
The Home screen 'Details' view style now has the option to hide one or more of the columns, making it easier to read on a narrow tablet screen.
Licensing
A Licensing section has been added to the Troubleshooting page in the Geobank Help, to assist in resolving certain contextual Licensing issues.
Geobank 2020:
What’s New
For an overview of the notable new features and enhancements in Geobank 2020, click on the following links:
New Features
The Form Designer provides a broad set of tools for a Geobank Administrator to build forms which combine data and process.
A Form is a configurable user-interface object that can be assigned to users, through a profile, to provide a front-end to database tables and views.
Forms are commonly configured to:
- Display geological data in a traditional form view or grid view.
- Provide action buttons to carry out tasks such as managing data and opening other tools.
- Provide access to resources, such as Geobank’s online knowledge base.
For Geobank Users, forms provide a powerful alternative to data views for data display, browsing and processing.
For more information, see: Form Designer
Geobank's new licensing system provides the ability to temporarily borrow a network licence without a security key (dongle) or a persistent network connection. Administrators can set up licence configurations that connect to different licences, or to different feature sets within licences, and new purchasing and leasing options are available.
Once the application is loaded, you can view your current licensing information from the drop-down Geobank Backstage menu on the left-hand side of the application menu:
The options that are available in the menu will depend on the type of licence (node-locked or dongle) that is active. Borrow Licence and Refresh Perpetual Licence options, for example, are only enabled for a network licence.
To import a licence that is locked to a dongle, you can share that licence. When a licence is shared, an exchange file is copied to another computer from the computer of the person who is sharing the licence. This file can then be selected and opened as part of an Import process. In order to use the licence, the new user will need to attach the dongle that is also being shared.
You can also transfer a node-locked licence between different computers. There are two ways to transfer the license to a new computer, either by creating a licence exchange file to import the licence, or by copying an activation code to activate the license online.
For more information, see: Licence Manager
Version and Upgrade Management Tools
The name of the currently connected configuration database is shown when you select Configuration from the Geobank Backstage menu.
A new Version and Upgrade Management tool can be used to manage an independent copy of all configured objects; the benefit of this is that any changes made to the configuration of objects using Geobank 2020 will have no impact on your configuration for previous versions.
Once the next release is available and you have completed testing to your satisfaction, purge tools may be used to to remove legacy configuration objects so that these may be recreated for a new configuration.
Purge tools may also be used to purge the legacy configuration at a later stage once an upgrade to a newer version is complete and all installs of previous versions have been decommissioned.
The name of the currently connected configuration database is shown when you select Configuration from the Geobank Backstage menu.
Refresh DataSource
To refresh the mappings and schemas of the datasources in the tree, a Refresh Datasources option is now available on the context menu of the Datasources node in the Configuration tree. You can also select the same option individually for each datasource:
You can also click a Refresh button on the Table Configuration tab of the Dataset Property Editor.
Library Explorer
Use the Library Explorer tool on the Configuration ribbon to explore the Work Folder and Temp Folder file locations you have specified as part of your Geobank General options.
Options on the Library Explorer toolbar (and the right-click menu) allow you to navigate and drag and drop objects between the Configuration Manager and the folder you have selected in the Explorer window, making the import and export of objects quick and easy.
One or more objects can be selected in the Configuration Manager and dragged into the Explorer window to quickly create a configuration package. Conversely, configuration packages may be dragged into the Configuration Manager to import their contents.
Geobank Support Portal and Online Knowledge Base
Access to Geobank's support portal and online knowledge base is available by login for members of the AL program. For convenience, a Geobank form with access to this portal is available from the Support team.
Geobank database models for a variety of commodities are available through the online knowledge base. This replaces the legacy database deployment tool that was available in the login screen in previous versions.
Passing parameters to applications dynamically
User-entered values can now be passed to third-party applications as command line parameters:
Enhancements
Object Comparisons
The configuration package Import tool now has functionality to compare imported objects with existing configuration objects and assign a default action. There are three object comparison types and four possible import actions:
| New | Actions available are Import or Do not import. |
| Identical | Actions available are Rename or Do not import. |
| Existing | Actions available are Rename, Replace, or Do not import. |
When importing, the option to include folders is provided. If this check box is selected, incoming objects are placed into the folders from which they were exported and new folders are created as necessary. If this check box is not selected, objects are imported into the root node for their type.
Links Resolver
When an object is selected for import and it has dependent objects, for example, the datasets on which a form depends, or the sub-reports on which an advanced report depends, a Links Resolver pane below the right-hand object selection pane will appear. The importer will try to automatically resolve the links for these dependent objects, in which case, they will show a status of Auto-resolved.
Note: If you change the selection of objects, you may need to refresh the Link Resolver pane. If Geobank cannot auto-resolve the object links, before you can process the Import, you will need to link to a suitable existing object or include the dependent object in the list of objects to import.
For more information, see: Import Configuration
Correlation Diagrams
When you select a correlation diagram from a Plan view, the Section View drop-down menu will now show all correlation diagrams assigned to the user.
The option to "Show only correlation diagrams in the same profile" is no longer required.
The Open All button on the Datasets toolbar will now refresh the datasets in the list, if they are already open. This allows any new columns to be shown and selected when configuring a stored-procedure-based dataset for the report.
The Micromine Connector button on the Graphic Report Viewer toolbar (and the Plan View toolbar) now supports Unicode Micromine data.
Despatch Sample List
QC types are now validated in the Sample List when processing a despatch.
A Revalidate button is provided which can be used to revalidate the sample list.
If errors are displayed which have been fixed since the Sample List was loaded, this button will refresh the validation and remove those errors from the Validation pane. Conversely, refreshing the sample list will display errors if they have been introduced.
When processing a despatch, the Sample List may also be grouped by any of the columns, by drillhole, for example.
Modify Sample IDs
During the Despatch process, if the appropriate standard to use is not known, a place-holder ID may be specified and then replaced with the appropriate ID, once it is known, using a new Modify Standard ID option:
Receipt Lab file Metadata
When mapping fields in a laboratory file, the same or overlapping sections in the file may now be mapped to more than one destination field. The same date might be stored in both the Lab Date field and the Receipt Date field, for example, when only one date is supplied.
The validation for maximum length of textual data has been improved.
General Options
The following new options have been added on the General tab of the Geobank options form:
- A Geobank Resources folder can now be now specified. This folder is the location of the Python script library used in the Form Designer. The default location is :
%AppData%\Roaming\MICROMINE\GeobankResources
- A Geobank Configuration folder can now be now specified. This local or network folder location is the location of the configuration file that defines connections to the Geobank Configuration databases. This simplifies permission-granting and connection updating.
- You can now accept the default language, or choose a different language, for the application. You will need to restart the application to apply the selected language.
- You can now select a save layout option which, if selected, will ensure that your window layout is automatically saved at the end of each Geobank session.
- A new security option allows you to login automatically on application startup.
Import File Specifications
Improvements to the advanced properties of an import or export file specification now make it clearer whether the import/export of a task is mandatory or not.
Each task has three possible states:
| Advanced Setting | Meaning | Description |
| Export process has to be completed to continue = True | Required | You must import/export the task to continue. The task is shown in red alongside a checked check box. The check box cannot be unchecked. |
| Inactive at runtime = False | Recommended | It is recommended that you import/export the task before continuing. The task is shown alongside a check box which is checked by default, however the check box can be unchecked. |
| Inactive at runtime = True | Optional | It is optional that the task be imported/exported. The task is shown alongside a check box which is unchecked by default. The check box can be checked. |
In this example, two tasks are shown as Required, while the third task is Recommended:
Date/Time formats
When configuring an Import, a new "Any format" option is available for Date/Time columns. This allows for the import of any valid date format, as an alternative to having to validating incoming data against a single format.
If you accept or select the BLANK format and do not select a specific format, the values in the field will not be validated as part of the import process; however a validation error may still occur if the format is rejected by the database.
Best Fit for Data View Columns
Best Fit options have been added for the columns in a data view. To apply a "Best fit" for a column after it has been re-sized, in the column header, double click on the right-hand border of the column. Alternatively, select Views | Best Fit or Views | Best Fit (all columns) from the menu or the right-click menu:
Multiple File Path Parameters
Multiple parameters can be used when constructing the file path for exports, imports, application calls, etc. A parameter could be configured for a “Project Sub-folder” and another for the “file name”, for example. The path could then be configured as:
“N:\Geodata\? Project Sub-folder?\? file name?”
Task Options
To differentiate task identifiers from other object identifiers, a Command Line Key read-only property is now shown as a property of a task.
A unique key value is generated automatically when the task is created and can be used to reference the task when running the application from the command line, for example:
"C:\Program Files\Geobank 2020\Geobank.Desktop.Launcher.exe" 273
Depth Adjustment Scales
The Depth Adjustment tool can now display scales with decimal labels such as: (0.8, 0.9 ,1.0, 1.1, 1.2, ...). Previously, the annotated values for scaling lines were limited to integer values.
Data Model Downloads
You can now access Geobank data model download information from the Geobank login screen.
For more information, see: Geobank Databases
Log Files
Log files are now stored, in the following location, for each major.minor version of the application, making it easier to match issues to those versions:
C:\ProgramData\Micromine\Geobank\Logs
Note: For troubleshooting purposes, installation log files are written to whatever the TEMP folder is set to in General Options.
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