Aspen Technology, Inc.

Cumulative Patch V7.3 CP5for

Aspen Process Explorer

Product and Version

This patch should be applied to the following products:
Aspen Process Explorer V7.3, with, or without, any earlier patches.
(including Excel Addins)

Other Patch Requirements

Note: This patch should be applied along with the latest Process Data patch as well, if it
has not previously been installed.

Other Products Impacted

The following products are impacted by this patch:
None

Problems Fixed
This patch fixes the following problems:

CQ ID# Description
When opening Process Graphics Editor from Process Explorer, it will only
CQ00487796 open the current Process Explorer graphic if Process Graphic Editor is
not already running.
New Process Data Add-in requests fail when V7.3 connects through DA
CQ00488135
to a V8.0 server.
Trouble opening a trend plot or graphic on a network drive mapped by
CQ00459671
UNC (when double-clicking on the file).

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Map does not update correctly when changing tags in PDATA 2010 COM
CQ00459592
Excel Add-in.
APRM legacy Excel Add-In on localized system requires translation of
CQ00532592
"LIKE" clause to local language.
On-Demand Ad-Hoc calculation is not working with the new V7.3 Excel
CQ00527659 Add-In.
CQ00522657 MS Excel Add-in loses Swedish date format applied to timestamp cells.
CQ00497821 Excel Add-in filter: specifying tag by reference doesnt work.
Excel Add-In problem adding or deleting columns and rows if data is not
CQ00503099
returned in an array.
Legacy Add-in returns wrong output for time column unless certain
CQ00465020
other columns are also selected.

The following fixes are included in V7.3.0.5 and were previously provided in V7.3.0.4.

CQ Number Description
CQ00432646 Slow startup of Process Explorer.
CQ00436928 Graphics Editor should retain version when saving a file.
CQ00482835 ATGetCurrVal function in Excel Add-in takes longer when the
nDSetting is 65552 (Vales as String checked) than when it is 16.
CQ00437486 Graphics Editor -Convert command should allow 2006.5 version as an
option.
CQ00464971 Decimal shows wrong in Process Explorer on Russian OS when used
as decimal symbol.
CQ00485990 Process Graphics hot link not working in an AtAxProcessGraphic
object.

The following fixes are included in V7.3.0.5 and were previously provided in V7.3.0.4
and V7.3.0.3.

CQ Number Description
CQ00462619 Time zone issues with non-English operating systems
CQ00462622 New Add-ins must enforce run-time licensing
CQ00458229 AFW and ADSA registry values could be over-written on 64-bit
operating systems
CQ00468122 InfoPlus.21 Configuration Excel Add-In 2007/2010 disables
breaks Solver add-in

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CQ Number Description
CQ00474426 New Excel Add-In for Tag Configuration Should Support
IP_PvDef records
CQ00466702 When InfoPlus.21 Configuration Excel Add-in active the Undo
function works only once

New Features
The following localization feature is included in V7.3.0.5 and was previously provided in
V7.3.0.4 and V7.3.0.3.
Localization for the French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese,
Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), and Russian languages.

Distribution Media
The media contains the following files:
AspenProcessExplorerV7_3_Patch5.exe

Installation
Pre-installation
Before you install the patch:
Stop any Aspen Process Explorer application that is running on the target computer.
Stop any application that invokes methods in Process Explorer controls.

Installation
Obtain the patch installation .exe file from the AspenTech Support Center:
http://support.aspentech.com.

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This patch may be installed for you automatically by the aspenONE Update Center. You
can access the aspenONE Update Center as follows:
1. Access the AspenTech Support page at http://support.aspentech.com.
From the Technical Library links, click Patches.
Log on by completing the Connect to support.aspentech.com dialog box.
Click the green aspenONE Update Center button at the top of the Patches page.
The Center will respond by searching for updates to your licensed AspenTech products.
Subsequently clicking Apply Updates causes the selected patches to be applied to your
computer.

Besides using the aspenONE Update Center, you can use the AspenTech Support web site
which allows you to manually find and download selected patches. In this case, you
would:

1. Run the patch executable, AspenProcessExplorerV7_3_Patch5.exe.

2. Follow all the patch install instructions.
3. Verify the patch executable completes without error messages.

Post-installation
Not applicable.

Verification

To verify that the installation was successful, verify that the following files have the
specified file versions:

...\AspenTech\APEx\Pe\ProcessExplorer.exe 11.3.5.1
Common Files\AspenTech Shared\Apex\AtTime.dll 11.3.5.1
Common Files\AspenTech Shared\Apex\AtLocalization.dll 11.3.5.1

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Also verify that this update appears as Aspen Process Explorer V7.3 Cumulative Patch5
(11.3.5.0) in the list of Installed Updates.
1. Invoke Control Panel from the Start menu.
2. Select Programs from Control Panel.
3. Select Programs and Features.
4. Select View installed updates.
5. Confirm that Aspen Process Explorer V7.3 Cumulative Patch4 (11.3.5.0) appears
in the list of installed updates.

Previous Patch Releases

This cumulative patch includes all of the fixes that were included in the previous V7.3.0.4
cumulative patch.

Update Center
This cumulative patch solution is also posted in the aspenONE Update Center:
http://cst.corp.aspentech.com/aspenonebridge/manage.asp