Oct. 2nd 2009: Final version of openTRANS 2.1 now available for download

After publication of the draft version in July, we published the final version today. We had three months of public review again and want to thank all contributors and experts who supported us during the development!

This update is only a face lifting and no large structural changes were made. Most adaptations have been made in the invoicelist-document. Now users are able to utilize credit card statements in a much more flexible way than they were before. Here is the list of the most significant changes:
Documentation:

• We improved many descriptions and added more examples. Additionally the outdated examples were replaced with new ones.

Structural changes:

• Dispatchnotification: The element DELIVERY_DATE has been replaced by DELIVERY_REFERENCE (which actually contains DELIVERY_DATE) to support delivery note references on item level.
• Invoice and remittanceadvice: Within INVOICE_CORRECTION it is now possible to add a post-date. This is mainly due to changes in the invoicelist document.
• Invoicelist: We have made a lot of changes here, mainly related to the credit-card-statement document-type. Please consult documenation for details.
• Order and orderchange: On both documents it is now possible to integrate partial shipment dates on item-level.

The efforts caused through a migration of 2.1fd to 2.1 documents should be minimal with the exception of the invoicelist - credit card statement which got some new elements to implement.Reasonable expenditure should alsoaffect migrations from 2.0 to 2.1 since no major structural changes were made. We recommend to switch to openTRANS 2.1 since this is the latest stabel release for a while. We do not plan to publish an additional update for the moment.

We could solve the .CHM-File generation-error in this release. Therefore we provide windows help files (.chm-files) as an alternative to the PDF-documentation. Please note, that chm-files in some cases cannot be opened remote from a netdrive-infrastructure (microsoft support: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896358). Please consult microsofts-support or copy the file to your local environment to start the chm-file correctly.

We thank all contributors and users for their support and wish the best for applications and implementations of the standard in version 2.1!