VantagePoint v9.5 Release Notes (Academic)
- Access IISC PatStat and VPInstitute from the Help menu
- Find on-line Help resources in the Help menu
- Edit and save titles on many visualizations
- Update to script: "Calculate Emergence Indicators"
- Update to script: "Super Profile"
- Bug fixes
Downloading and Installing
Details on upgrading from an earlier versions and transitioning from 32-bit to 64-bit versions can be found on our website in the upgrade FAQ.
New - Access IISC PatStat (free for a limited time) and VPInstitute from the Help menu (only in VP Academic and VP Student versions)
Help menu: Visit IISC PatStat: This link logs you in to IISC PatStat. For a limited time, you have free access to search and download patent data from IISC PatStat.
- If you already have an IISC PatStat account, you can link your VP License to the existing account.
- If you do not already have an IISC PatStat account, you will be asked to create one.
Help menu: Visit VP Institute: This link logs you in to VPInstitute, an online repository of published research and additional VP tools supplied by the community of users.
- If you already have a VPInstitute account, you can link your VP License to that account by entering your VPI username and password.
- If you do not already have a VPInstitute account, you will be asked to create one.
Use the Help menu to find on-line support resources and Contact our Helpdesk
When you use the Help menu to contact the Helpdesk ...
- You are automatically logged into our web site,
- You have access to special Training Material and FAQ pages, and
- You can submit your question directly to our Helpdesk using the handy pre-filled form.
Edit and Save titles on many visualizations
You can edit the titles on many VantagePoint charts.
- Hover the mouse pointer over the chart title.
- If you see the title highlight with a box around it and a pen icon, click on the text and type to edit.
- Press <Enter> on the keyboard to save the title.
Updates to the Calculate Emergence Indicators script
- Added Option to run General Cleanup, and/or remove specific terms using a stopwords file.
- Adjusted scale to improve second order indicators
- Bugfixes and speed improvements
Updates to the Super Profile script
- Added shaded bars to "number of records" column in Super Profile Excel report
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a repeatable crash when "out of memory" condition is encountered during import on computers with 4GB RAM or less (5190).