News in PX-Edit Copenhagen, 2 October 2014. Kööpenhamina [email protected]...

News in PX-EditCopenhagen, 2 October 2014

[email protected] Kööpenhamina 2.10.2014

PX-Edit: The Mission

PX-Edit is an expert tool for specialists for efficient editing and creation of PC-Axis files (for PX-Web)

PX-Edit should be able to read every valid px table detect most of all the possible errors (at least all real-life ones) repair majority of the detected problems

New features are added when they are considered feasible, sensible and necessary

PX-Edit is feedbackware

..What, No New Version?

Plenty of reasons…

The ongoing platform shift makes it possible to utilize the same code base for every PX-Edit family products get rid of old stuff (DDE, Excel 2.1, ancient file mapping, ..) explore interesting possibilities (compression, .NET, compiling, ..)

The new versions will work only on supported Windows platforms (Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10)

the old PX-Edit versions (2.4 - 3.1) are still available if needed

The next slides will show the current status of all of the ‘PX-Edit application suite’

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PX-Edit

Version 3.1 (new features since Tirana) chart creation and interface revisited interface changes: eg. language and default lists Excel: hyperlinks in output, big table reading recognising two or more keywords in one rowiso-8859-15 as default value for CODEPAGE support for special language codes (eg. bs-Cyrl-BA and bs-Latn-BA)

Version 3.2 new development environment: in beta phase exciting possibilities (chart engine, speedups..) new features in the wishlist: vs/agg files, saved graphics, variable

joining..Kööpenhamina [email protected]

PX-Job

Version 3.1 automation and validation in Statistics Finland’s publication process new features: set (specialised settings file), –k (keep the file date), –v (validation), –ydd.hh.mm (hours/minutes included),etc.

internal switches for CONTACT updates and MATRIX renewal speedups!

Version 3.2 some switch syntax changes necessary (alphabet is running short ) proposed new features: calculator routines, variable joining, ..


(Some of the) Tamed Bugs

Sparse table saving added zeroes at the end of the file Keyword fetch crashed if there was nothing to fetch Period in full path name puzzled file saving Copy + Paste from Excel rounded all numbers to integers Empty Excel cells were not treated properly Windows’ VirtualStore prevented application updates Selecting one language in multilingual table surprised file saving Empty data part was always saved as zeroes www link input crashed The execution order in Calculator was always fixed


PX-View

Version 3.2 (now in alpha phase) follows PX-Edit development cycle possible to pack every needed feature in a single executable limited features threaded file input as few changes in the PX-Edit source code as possible


PX-Tool

Version 2.4 outdated but still functioning uses different approach to file handling than PX-Edit monolingual px files only

Version 3.2 platform shift necessary:

multilingualityUnicodenew features and rethinking..


Statistics Finland’s Internal Apps

PX-Flat makes two-dimensional tables from multidimensional tables used mainly for the time series database

PX-Packages output for special customers

(Bank of Finland: Special Data Dissemination Standard

> National Summary Data Page > SDMX..)


Installation

The installation package in Statistics Finland’s site will install (usually) the latest PX-Edit (and PX-Job) in one workstation

no external settings (eg. Registry, .NET)

When already installed, you may simply replace the old files with the update package (.zip)

especially the .paq file(s) and the dyalog132rt_unicode.dll

The centralised installation needs one network directory, which all the users are allowed to read

the language files can be localized all the preferred company settings will be defined in one

initialisation file (px-edit_31_main.ini)Kööpenhamina [email protected]

Some Useful Settings File Tricks

Support for different PX-Web installations px-web_version={2003|2005|2007|2008|2013}

Minimized language selection list with language names languages_main=fi suomi,sv ruotsi,en englanti

Selection lists for many keywords they may be language-specific, if needed

listedit_SUBJECT-AREA[en]=Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery= <<MAA;Construction=RAK;Culture and the Media=KLT; <<Education=KOU;Elections=VAA;Energy=ENE;Enterprises=YRI;<<Environment and Natural Resources=YMP;…


There’s (Still) Not Fabulous Documentation, But

PX-Edit_main_31e_ini.txt detailed explanation of every PX-Edit settings file switches

PX-EditJob_bat.txt all the PX-Job switches and options with some examples


PX-Edit Is Feedbackware

I cannot correct errors or add new features I don’t know about

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