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Updates to Contacts app

October 12, 2009

Version 2.7.1 of the Contacts app includes the following changes on the mobile:

  • When you are a within a group or region, you can now add a contact or company directly to the group or region by selecting the New menu. Previously you had to set the group specifically in the new Contact or Company form.
  • The owner of a Contact or Company now defaults to your username – previously the field was empty.
  • The street part of an address can be opened in a new screen to view the complete address field.

Refresh rate of RSS feeds is now related to the TTL field

October 1, 2009

The refresh rate of an RSS feed is now equal to the value of the <ttl> tag if it is present in the header of the RSS feed. If not present, the default value is 60 minutes.

Shopping lists currency in web account

October 1, 2009

The currency displayed in the Shopping Lists web application is now set from the currency in the Upvise User Settings (https://www.upvise.com/useraccount/settings.aspx)

Quick links to Tasks by date group and Completed Tasks view in web account

September 23, 2009

We have added “quick links” at the top of each view to each of the date groups, i.e Overdue, Today, Tomorrow, etc… This enables to quickly filter the list of tasks down to the group you’re interested in, in particular if you have lots of overdue tasks :-)

We have re-organized the Completed Tasks view in the web interface. You can now see the tasks you have accomplished grouped by date, i.e. Today, Yesterday, Last week, etc.. In this view you can also export all completed tasks, or select tasks to be deleted. You can click on the new quick links to display only tasks completed e.g. “Last month” or “Before”, and select only these tasks to be deleted.

New Debts and Credits application

September 22, 2009

We have posted a new Debts and Credits application to our catalog. This is a simple expense manager with a view of debts or money you owe, and credits or money owed to you. You can use this app to assess the cash flow of your business. Another example of use is to track office versus personal expenses: amounts that you spend for your company are recorded as credits, whereas personal expenses paid by your company and that you will need to reimburse, are recorded as debts.

The expenses can be organized in categories.

Note that this application is Free.

Upvise Wikipedia in Portuguese

September 8, 2009

Our Portuguese users can now search Wikipedia in Portuguese.  Requires version 2.5.3 of the Wikpedia app. You can check the version in the Upvise Settings/About Upvise/Installed Apps list. If the version is not correct, select the Refresh menu or press * when on the home page of Upvise.

Upvise Reseller Program

August 20, 2009

We have just introduced our Reseller Program for companies or individuals who would like to become an affiliate, resell their Upvise applications, or resell solutions using the Upvise platform. There’s more info on this page: http://www.upvise.com/reseller

Recurring Tasks

June 12, 2009

We have enhanced the Upvise Tasks app with recurring tasks, ie tasks that repeat with a given frequency.

When you edit a task, you can now set a Frequency: daily, weekly, monthly, every 3 or 6 months, yearly or a custom frequency expressed as number of days. When you mark the task as completed, a new task is automatically created with a due date set to today’s date plus the preset frequency.

Changes to Upvise licensing

May 15, 2009

We have switched to a less restrictive licensing scheme. We now enforce licenses on application access and not at account level.

Previously an Upvise account was either a free personal account or a business account with a 30-day trial. At expiration of the trial, business account users could no longer sign in to their account and access any of their applications. Accounts are now all free, and users can continue to use all free applications. When you sign up for an account, you can choose to have personal or business apps preloaded into your account, but you can also add on any of the applications that are available in the Upvise catalog.

Some applications are free and some require a premium access license. The first time a premium application is added to an account, the user automatically gets a free 30-day trial. At the end of the trial, the user has to purchase a premium access license ($49/year/user) in order to continue accessing premium apps. The license also gives access to additional security features and the backup and restore functionality. If the user decides not to acquire a license, he can still log on to his account and use free applications.

To date the list of premium and free apps is as follows:

Free applications: Contacts, Notebooks, RSS News, Wikipedia, Shopping Lists

Premium applications: Projects, Tasks, Sales, Ideas

Shared or private data in a Business account

February 25, 2009

In your business account, you can now configure each application to either share data amongst all users of the business account, or else restrict access to only the owner of the data. For example in Workspaces, if the setting is Private, a user can only see Posts that he has created. In Business Contacts, or Tasks, or Projects, a user can only see contacts or tasks or projects that have the owner field set to this user.

By default, data is shared for all applications. You can change these settings from the Manage Apps section of your web account. Click on the Sharing tab, and choose for each app whether the data is Shared or Private.

Note that users who are administrators can always see everyone’s data, even when the setting is Private. In the web account, Private data is marked by a red label at the top right of the toolbar, when viewing or editing an item.