This release adds new functionality and improvements to DASH primarily in the areas of CATI usage.

• An Openoffice conversion program that allows all DASH form elements to be set up in OpenOffice has been added. This replaces the limited capability version that was included in previous DASH releases.
• A template that can handle multi-modal (web and cati) surveys is included in "/home/projects/templates/template". This template is also the default template for OpenOffice converted forms. A demo form including this template in /home/projects/template_form contains pre-loaded data and a few form pages to allow it to be run and tested as is.
• Every time a case is accessed a complete snapshot is saved in the data file. This historical data is now available to a number of DASH utilities in addition to the current case data. Marginals, tables and export data now have access to historical data.
• An auto recode function has been added to the Utilities menu. This is a limited version that allows a subset of Tcl commands to be used to create new data.
• New "use" fields have been added accessType - Stores the user type (interviewer/web/revise/recode/test) and user format (html/xml/terminal)countCallback - Counts the number of times a callback is initiatedcountMonitor - Counts each time a supervisor monitors the casecountRecode - Counts each time a case is recodedcountRevise - Counts each time a case is revised
• New Tcl commands have been added. callbackDaycallbackHourcallbackMinutecallbackMonthcallbackSecondcallbackTimezonecallbackYearxorinsertAndExecuserGetAccessTypeuserGetFormatuserGetTypeuserIsFixeduserIsInterviewinguserIsTransient
• New documentation includes User GuidesExecuting DASH SurveysSurvey Administration How-ToClient Reports How-ToOpenOffice Form MarkupDASH Form Template

• The XUL data entry interfaces now have navigation buttons for Next/Last page and the messages are output on a separate line below the menu bar instead of on the button bar.
• The Tcl command callbackDate now returns the current date/time in the users local time. Also the arguments may now include a preceding "+" to increment an amount of time to the current date/time.
• The Load tab delimited data utility can now handle multi-valued fields even if only the field name is repeated in the first record.
• The Load tab delimited data utility now has an option to skip empty or deleted cases.
• The default "dashboot" start up procedure has been expanded to include a number of environment variables to allow easier configuration at each site.
• The administrator user no longer times out. All other user types are timed out.
• The supervisor interface has a number of additions and improvements.
• The supervisor quota summary "qualified" column now shows the count of remaining sample that is left for that quota category. Previously it showed the static loaded number of calls.
• Test data entry now stores the status "test" for all exit options. It overrides the callback page status if it is selected. This prevents test cases from being presented to interviewers if they are left in the data file.
• "dashadmin" has a new option to dump information for a specific user.
• Tomcat has been upgraded to version 5.5.9.

• The licence server now automatically terminates DASH 2 process entries if the process has terminated and no longer responds. Also when a DASH 2 user has no more live processes then the user is also automatically terminated. The check is done every 10 minutes.
• DASH X now automatically logs out if the window "X" button is pressed.
• The command packdump has a switch -c added to cpio to use the GNU/SVR4 format which permits large inode numbers to be saved.

• The "dashadmin" command line status utility can now handle very large numbers of users. Previously it truncated output after a few hundred users.
• "dashadmin" now uses the environment variables LICENCE_HOST and LICENCE_PORT to allow it to run on a separate machine from the licence server.
• In web surveys selecting "next page" form a page with an "end status" command caused the user to be logged out correctly but the user received no response and timed out.
• XUL based monitoring did not work due to a missing procedure.
• Accented characters now display properly in the XUL data entry client.
• Data characters "#" and "+" entered to a field in the XUL data entry client did not get sent to the server because of HTTP translation.
• The data entry XUL interface did not update the top status line for the page and field when on the interrupt page.
• Time zones are now handled correctly in the scheduler and callback times are always shown in the respondents local time.
• If all the quotas are filled for a form in the scheduler then a global block flag is set to prevent any interviewer access. This flag was not cleared when the scheduler calls were reloaded or the quota limits were updated. This blocked furthur access unless the flag was cleared by an update. It is now done automatically.
• The servlet initiated time-out of a web user caused a loop when a web user was timed out and no other users were logged in.
• Some DASH X initiated programs did not register correctly with the licence server causing an extra allocated user.
• DASH X did not register correctly with the licence server if it was started on a different machine since it did not read the LICENCE_HOST environment variable.
• The DASH 2 data entry program contained an uninitalized error variable which caused a spurious error message when exiting a case in data entry test mode on Fedora Core 3.
• The DASH 2 form conversion programs contained a bad file open that caused printing directly to the printer to fail on Fedora Core 3.
• The DASH 2 "Import/Export Delimited Data with Map" did not import data due to a missing template file. This has been restored.
• The DASH 2 "Create Variables/Data File" menu did not create a data or variables file due to a change in an export program.

• Companies using the pre-release OpenOffice DASH form conversion utility should check the interrupt status codes used by their forms. The following call interrupt status codes have changed in the default template used for OpenOffice conversion; "hard_appt" and "soft_appt" are consolidated into the status "appointment" and "unable" and "no_qualify" have been added. For current forms you may save and continue to use the old template. Of course the new template may be copied and customised to create any code list required.
• Firefox requires "Preferences / Privacy / Saved Form History" to be unchecked for data entry to allow PageDown to proceed in alpha fields.

• DASH 3.4.3 will only run with Java Development Kit 5 (jdk1.5 or greater).
• Data character "<" entered to a field in the XUL data entry client is changed to "[" when sent to the server.