Upgrades by Category
Security Enhancements
Feature | Upgrade Date | Password Expiration You can now set a system-wide password expiration number of days. Each user will be forced to change their password once that number of days has passed. |
April 2009 | Password History You can set the number of previous passwords (to a maximum of 32) that the system will remember for each user. When changing their password, users will not be permitted to re-use a previous password until the specified number of unique passwords has been used. |
April 2009 | Instance Lock-Down
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May 2009 | Remove User Access
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May 2009 | Terminate User Session
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May 2009 | Enable Logout
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May 2010 | Custom Password Policy
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May 2010 | Local Administrator E-mail Alert
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May 2010 | Primary Authentication Controller
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October 2010 | Reporting on User Type and Access Type
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October 2010 | Hierarchical Password Policy
A different password policy can be defined for each company which will automatically apply to all sub-companies in the hierarchy, unless they have defined their own password policy. |
May 2011 | Persistent Login
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May 2011 | Email Restriction
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May 2011 | Backup Server Access
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May 2011 | SSencrypt Command
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May 2011 | URL Parameter Encryption
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May 2011 | The maximum number of password changes a user can make within a 24 hour period can be defined. This is to prevent users bypassing the password history restriction by changing their password repeatedly to return to a previously used password. | November 2011 | A new Global Setting to prevent use of the exlogin external login short-cut. | November 2011 | Enforce from address in password e-mail: When a user clicks Send Password by default is uses their e-mail address as the from address in the system e-mail. With the from address used will always be the one defined on the User Email Templates page. | May 2012 | Challenge questions: rather than e-mailing a randomly generated password when new contacts register or when users click the Forgot Password the system can be configured to e-mail a time-limited authentication link. When clicking the link the user will be presented challenge question that must be answered correctly before they are logged into SmartSimple and asked to create a new password. | May 2012 | Support for Captcha on external pages such as registration forms. | May 2012 |
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UTA Enhancements
Feature | Upgrade Date | Standard Field Visibility Control
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April 2009 | Level 1: Tabs for Contact and Account Lists
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April 2009 | Level 1: UTA Contact and Account Filters
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April 2009 | Level 1: Contact Restrictions
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April 2009 | Level 2: Multiple Contact List
If you enable the Use Multiple Contact List checkbox on the Settings > Application Configuration screen you will be able to associate and control contact associations in a similar manner to Level 1 contacts. |
April 2009 | Level 2: Multiple Account List
If you enable the Use Multiple Account List checkbox on the Settings > Application Configuration screen you will be able to associate and control account associations in a similar manner to Level 1 contacts. |
April 2009 | Level 2: Role Filtering
You can restrict the selection of contacts that can be associated with Level 2 items by role. Previously you could only restrict by specified named contacts. An additional lookup text area has been added the bottom of the Level 2 Types Settings page to specify the roles. |
April 2009 | Disabling Specific Transaction Types by Template
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April 2009 | Level 3 Template Formulas
You can now associate template formulas with Level 3 items in the same manner as Level 2 and Level 1 items. |
April 2009 | Submitted URL Redirect
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May 2009 | Suppress New Level 2 or Level 3 Buttons
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May 2009 | Batch Update Owner Field
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May 2009 | Cross-UTA Transactions
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May 2009 | Level 1 Submit Button Script
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July 2009 | Level 2 and Level 3 Submitted URL
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July 2009 | Level 2 Type Tab Label
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July 2009 | Skills Matching Template
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July 2009 | Advanced Logic to Suppress Contact Hyperlinks
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July 2009 | Record Lock
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October 2009 | Level 1, Level 2 & Level 3 Formulas
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October 2009 | Advanced Logic to Suppress Public Notes
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October 2009 | Internal Branch Filter
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October 2009 | Level 3 Default Type Setting
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October 2009 | Batch Update
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May 2010 | Archive Level 1 Activities
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May 2010 | Filter Person Based on Customer
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May 2010 | Level 2: Disable Default Assign
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May 2010 | Focus Highlight
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May 2010 | Record Unlock
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May 2010 | UTA Data Exchange Automatic Unpack
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May 2010 | Role-Based List Views
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October 2010 | Level 2 & 3 List View Colour
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October 2010 | Level 3 Activity List Batch Update | October 2010 | Master Schedule Template
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October 2010 | Level 2 Assign By Role
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October 2010 | Level 2 Side Scrolling
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October 2010 | Transaction Batch Update
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October 2010 | Data Exchange
The Data Exchange has 3 new features:
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October 2010 | Level 1 Status Indicator
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May 2011 | Default Contact Role
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May 2011 | Level 1 Template Branch Restriction
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May 2011 | Quick Entry
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May 2011 | List View Heading
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May 2011 | "Is Empty" Search
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May 2011 | Lock on Type
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May 2011 | Creation Roles
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May 2011 | Available Statuses
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May 2011 | Recurring Activities
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May 2011 | Level 2 Contact Calendar Status
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May 2011 | Assign By Role Expansion
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May 2011 | Invoice Status Batch Update
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May 2011 | Void Invoice
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May 2011 | UTA Role Custom Fields
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May 2011 | Group Contact Assignment
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May 2011 | Multiple Contact/Company List
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May 2011 | Aggregation UTA
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May 2011 | Data Exchange
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May 2011 | UTA Connection List View
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May 2011 | Template Pages
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May 2011 | Track Changes setting on the Contacts standard field to audit addition and removal of contacts on a Level 1 record. | November 2011 | Level 1 Statuses can now be limited to show only the Submit button. | November 2011 | When copying a Level 2 the contacts and/or companies in the multiple contact/company lists (if enabled) can now be copied with the record. | November 2011 | Deleted Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 records can be restored by Global User Administrators | November 2011 | Batch Update can now be used to remove contacts or companies by role. Additionally a given contact (or company) can be replaced in batches with a new contact (or company).
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November 2011 | Disable Default Date setting at Level 1 so the startdate, starttime, enddate and endtime will be blank on new records | November 2011 | Level 1 branch standard field can be configured to manifest as an Ajax search with a lookup button instead of a combo box. | November 2011 | Open Level 1 records in Edit mode: When defining the List View at Level 1 there is a new setting to determine whether the Level 1 records should open in Edit mode rather than View Mode. | November 2011 | UTA Consumer/Provider Enhancements
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November 2011 | New Duplicate Check Settings tab added on Level 1 templates. | November 2012 | New ability added to configure multiple submit buttons on Level 1, 2 and 3 with varying visibility conditions that move the record to various statuses. | November 2012 |
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Autoloader
Feature | Upgrade Date | Contact Autoloader: Match a field on the contact with a field on company records so the contacts will be created/moved under the relevant company. Similarly with company autoloader. | May 2012 | Company Autoloader: Match company field to find parent company, allowing new/updating companies to be managed within a hierarchy. | May 2012 | Disable users with the autoloader (expose the Access Type) | May 2012 | Setting to specify 'Append' role defined on autoloader rather than replace it if the user already exists in the system | May 2012 | Allow addition of multiple roles (select many list box instead of combo box) | May 2012 | Contact and Company events can now be uploaded using the autoloader. | October 2012 | Ability to load to "Owner" or "Person" standard field and match to a custom field on the contact. | October 2012 | Transactions can now be autoloaded and attached to Level 2 records. | October 2012 |
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Calendars
Feature | Upgrade Date | Recurring Calendar Events
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Communication
Feature | Upgrade Date | A new version of SmartSimple's Add-In for Microsoft Outlook has been released an will be available in the Downloads section. The Outlook Add-In will synchronize Contacts / Companies and Calendars, as well as the ability to attach emails to either contacts or Level 1 records. This version replaces all previous versions. | October 2012 | There is now a Group Email button at the bottom of UTA List Views when enabled in Advanced Logic. By filtering using the List View Search, a specific set of records can be included in the Group Email recipient list. The "Owner" and "Person" standard fields are also available as recipients for Group E-mails. | October 2012 | When using the "Forgot Password" option on the Login Page, the e-mail will now be sent out immediately. | October 2012 |
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Contacts/Accounts
Feature | Upgrade Date | Contact and Account Standard Field Terminology
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July 2009 | MS Outlook Contact Synchronization
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July 2009 | Geocoding
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October 2009 | Unique Contact Identifier
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May 2010 | Primary Contact
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May 2010 | Accounts List View
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May 2010 | E-mail From Address
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May 2010 | Contact/Company Ajax Search
The fields that are searched and displayed when using the Ajax Lookup can be defined for Contacts and Companies. The column headings can also be customised.
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May 2011 | Edit Contact Logic
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May 2011 | Contact/Account List View
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May 2011 | A new setting to flag a role as a UTA Role only. Enabling the setting will hide the role from Able to Set and Roles & Access page where it is not required. | November 2011 | New variable syntax to use role name instead of roleid to determine if a contact has a given role: @object.inRole(Rolename)@
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November 2011 | Ability to initiate a duplicate check while viewing a contact or company record. This can be enabled via Advanced Logic | November 2011 | Group e-mail Ad hoc e-mail broadcasts can be sent from the contact search list view using this feature, enabled via Advanced Logic | November 2011 | Sign-up pages can be configured to Use Internal Formatting, so the formatting and functionality of the sign-up page will reflect the display and operation of the internal pages. | November 2011 | The pipe (|) can now be used as a column delimiter when importing contact or accounts. | November 2011 |
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Document Management
Feature | Upgrade Date | MS Word Merge Custom Field
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April 2009 | Allow Merging of PDF Documents
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April 2009 | Multiple File Field: Display Additional File Attributes for PDF Documents
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April 2009 | Single File Field: Display Additional File Attributes for PDF Documents
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List Views
Feature | Upgrade Date | User defined List views: users can create their own personal list views for any entity (organizations, contacts, Level 1, Level 2, Level 3). They can select the fields they wish to use in each view, the display orders of the fields and sort order of the data and the colour of each column in the list view. | May 2012 | Administrators can choose to make List Views public to be shared with other users. | May 2012 | Any List View (system, public or private) can be copied, renamed and saved. | May 2012 | The contents of a List View can be exported to MS Excel, MS Word or PDF though an Export feature | May 2012 | The List view contents can also be used to create a set of MS Word letters though a Merge feature. When this feature is used an MS Word Merge Word custom field is assigned to the list view to allow bulk merging. (All selected records will be merged into a single document for printing) | May 2012 | The System will remember the last list view used by a user and reapply that list view when the user next accesses that part of the system | May 2012 | Multiple fields can be displayed within the same column in a "stacked" configuration. | May 2012 | The List View for Associates/Associations can be customized via the Global Settings page. | May 2012 |
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Personal Settings
Feature | Upgrade Date | Time Format
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Reports
Feature | Upgrade Date | Report Variables
Example: To display the exported report for the report with ID 12345 @ReportProperty(12345,exportdata)@ These 2 variables can be used in a Web Page View or Read Only - System Variables custom field, or be included in the body of a Workflow message.
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May 2010 | Report Builder - Table Selection
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May 2010 | Show Total
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May 2010 | Caching and Record Limit
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May 2010 | Record Lock
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May 2010 | Export Button
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October 2010 | Flash Charts
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May 2011 | Dashboard Layout
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May 2011 | Once a report is generated the user can select an MS Excel template used to create a MS Excel version of the report. | May 2012 | Support for exporting reports to a MS Word template | May 2012 | The Report Builder will now support the having clause. Having is used to accommodate criteria when aggregate functions are used. | May 2012 | Custom Field Settings are now available as a Recordset table for reports to show the properties of custom fields configured on your system. | October 2012 | You can set any report to ignore the Global Report Template and use the template defined in the report settings. | October 2012 |
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SmartFolders
Feature | Upgrade Date | Inclusion of Folders in Search
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Standard/Custom Fields
Feature | Upgrade Date | Auto Save Custom Field
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May 2009 | Bar Code Custom Field
In the above example 13975 is the Custom Field ID of the "Ticket Number" field, which would display on the record as: |
May 2009 | Custom Field Tabs
In the above example there are 3 tabs named "Additional Details", "Company Information" and "Contract Details" Navigation between the tabs can be accomplished by either clicking on the Next or Previous buttons, or by clicking on the name of the tab you wish to access. |
May 2009 | MS Word Merge Enhancement
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May 2009 | Field ID Variable
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July 2009 | Custom Field Number Format
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October 2009 | Single File Field Online Editing
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October 2009 | Single/Multiple File Field Upload Workflow
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October 2009 | Edit Data
When prompted enter the opportunityid (Level 1) or eventid (Levels 2 & 3) for the relevant record and a pop-up window will appear allowing you to directly edit the data in the selected field for that record. |
October 2009 | Custom Field Type: Special - XML Data
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May 2010 | Custom Field Type: Special - Spreadsheet
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May 2010 | New Custom Field Type: Select One - User Group
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May 2010 | New Custom Field Type: Lookup - ICD Code
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May 2010 | Web Page View Field: SSattach
<!--@ssattach(insert;@static pdf.value@;n)-->
<!--@ssattach(after;@Cvfile.value@)-->
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May 2010 | Web Page View Settings
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May 2010 | Single File Custom Field Settings
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May 2010 | Multiple Files Custom Field Settings
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May 2010 | ICD Code Lookup Button
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October 2010 | Onload Function
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October 2010 | Post to External Server
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October 2010 | Standard Field Edit Condition
A conditional statement can be entered to control whether standard fields appear as editable or read only. The conditions can be based on role, status, or other criteria. This feature applies to company, contact and Universal Tracking Application standard fields. |
May 2011 | Custom Field Language Display
The captions displayed on custom fields can be configured for multiple languages. When viewing a record the personal language setting for each user will determine which language is displayed to them. |
May 2011 | New Custom Field Type: Special - Hand Drawing
This field type stores freehand drawings done either with a mouse or touch sensitive screen. The background image can be defined, as well as the colours to be used and patterns/images that can be "stamped" onto the image. |
May 2011 | Enable Camera Snapshot
The "Display Only - Image" custom field has a setting that enables a web cam attached to the computer to be used as the source of the image to be stored in this field type. |
May 2011 | Document Console
When using the Multiple Files custom field you can enable the document console. This allows you to easily preview and print the documents. |
May 2011 | Settings for Standard Fields will be managed in a similar manner to Custom Fields. Including Role and Status Field Permissions lookups and the ability to translate Standard Field labels and validation messages | May 2012 | You can now Track Changes on Contact and Company Standard Fields | May 2012 | An improved Rich Text editor will be introduced. As well as improved functionality and compatibility, the array of buttons displayed can be configured by an administrator as needed via Global Settings | May 2012 | File Type Restrictions: Single File and Multiple Files custom fields can be configured to define which file extensions can be uploaded to each specific field (e.g. .pdf, .doc, .xls) | May 2012 | Translation XML: custom field language translations can now be done by exporting and importing using an XML template. | May 2012 | Level 1 Track Changes: the field history of all fields with Track Changes enabled on Level 1 can be viewed at once with a new menu bar button. | May 2012 | Option to make custom fields manifest as hidden for the following field types: Creation - Created By, Creation - Date, Special - Auto Number, Special - Calculated Value, Store Value - System Variables. This will allow the value to be updated/saved without being visible on the page. | May 2012 | When editing custom fields you can now use the custom field batch update to add/update the Tab Name for multiple custom fields at once. | May 2012 | There is now an "Appear Mandatory" setting for custom fields which will make the field appear as mandatory to the user even though the "Allow Empty" setting is selected. This is useful when using JavaScript validation on the field. | October 2012 | HTML entered into the template on a Web Page View Field will be displayed with syntax highlighting. | October 2012 | If a Tool Tip has been defined on a custom field, the field name caption will display with a dotted underline indicating that the user can "mouse-over" the field name and Tip text will appear. Also, if there are field services (e.g. Map or People Search) or Track History enabled, then those options will be displayed by hovering the mouse over the field. | October 2012 | Additional capabilities have been added to the Browser Script custom field which allow it to trigger system functions (e.g. workflow, activate user) with options to trigger on load, on save, or on demand. | October 2012 | A new custom field setting (Type Field Permissions) has been added to make it easy to select the level 1 template(s) and level 2 types on which a field will be visible, rather than using the visibility condition. | October 2012 | The Level 1 Branch standard field can be configured to allow external companies as well as internal companies. | November 2012 | A new Middle Name standard field on contacts. | November 2012 | Dynamic Data and Select One – Combo Box custom fields can now be manifested as radio buttons. | November 2012 | Prefix/Suffix standard fields on Contacts can now be customized as drop-down boxes. | November 2012 |
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Transactions
Feature | Upgrade Date | Transaction Template Formula: server side formulas to be run whenever a transaction is saved. | May 2012 | Transaction Template Page: Template page that can be used for internal or external entry/update of transactions. | May 2012 |
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Variables / Variable Processor
Feature | Upgrade Date | Report Record Count Variable
Example: To generate the number of records (equivalent to the number of rows in the report) for report with ID 12345 @ReportProperty(12345,recordcount)@ This can be used in a Web Page View or as a Read Only - System Variable to display a record count, as part of Submit Logic, or included in the title of a Portal shortcut to indicate how many records are at a given status (for example). |
October 2009 | Assign Level 1 Customer
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October 2009 | User/Company Association List
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October 2009 | Currency Formatting
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May 2011 | System Library
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May 2011 | System Variable Pre-processing
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May 2011 | Global Auto-number
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Web Forms
Feature | Upgrade Date | Web Form Status
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May 2009 | Convert Web Form to PDF
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Workflows
Feature | Upgrade Date | Level 2 Creation
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May 2009 | HTML E-mail Format
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May 2009 | Recurring Workflows
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May 2010 | People Association Workflow Task Type
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May 2010 | Level 1 Date Trigger
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May 2010 | UTA Role Assignment Tasks
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May 2010 | Transaction Workflows
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May 2010 | Workflow E-mails
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May 2010 | Select User for Next Task
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October 2010 | Create Activity
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May 2011 | Workflow Requests
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May 2011 | Branching Workflows. A logical statement can be added to workflow connectors. This will enable workflows to branch based on conditional statements. For example: if a workflow request is triggered for a request exceeding $100,000 it will be sent to Senior Management for approval, while requests under $100,000 will take a different path. | November 2011 | Workflow History: a Manager Permission will enable a tab on Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 to display the history of workflows triggered on the entity. | November 2011 | Workflow Request re-assignment: workflow requests (Request for Approval or Request for Comment) can be reassigned on the Pending Task list view. | November 2011 | Update Custom Field task type will be available on Company and Contact workflows | May 2012 | Company and Contact Workflow connectors can be delayed to trigger on a date stored in a Custom Field on the Company/Contact record | May 2012 | The Recipient of workflows (Acknowledgement, Request for Comment, Request for Approval) can now be defined using variable syntax, rather than being limited to the list by role. This will allow you to send the same e-mail to multiple roles at the same time rather than creating 2 different tasks. It will also allow you to filter based on a custom field on the contact, or UTA Contact Role Based custom field(s). For Notes created against UTA records this will allow you to select recipients by UTA role (or owner/person) rather than system role. | May 2012 | The following workflow task types have been added:
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October 2012 | "Update Custom Field Value" and "Change Status" tasks have been added to transaction Workflows. | October 2012 |
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Miscellaneous
Feature | Upgrade Date | Custom Defined Holidays
Example: ssvar_holidays=',2009-01-01,2009-02-16,2009-04-10,2009-05-18,2009-07-01,2009-08-03, 2009-09-07,2009-10-12,2009-12-25,2009-12-26,2009-12-28,2010-01-01,2010-04-02,2010-05-24, 2010-07-01,2010-08-02,2010-09-06,2010-10-11,2010-12-27,2010-12-28,'; |
May 2010 | System Date & Time
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May 2010 | Chat | May 2010 | Variable Processor Enhancements
@fieldname.value@ or using field ID: @#fieldid.value#@
@fieldname.numoffiles@ or using field ID: @#fieldid.numoffiles#@ |
May 2010 | Advanced Logic
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May 2010 | Company and Contact Role-Based List View
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October 2010 | List Calendars by Company
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October 2010 | Autoloader Support for XML Files
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October 2010 | Email Attach from Smart Folder
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October 2010 | HCAI Status | October 2010 | SMTP Settings
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October 2010 | Advanced Logic
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October 2010 | File Upload with Proxy Server
We have also introduced a new multiple file upload tool that can be enabled if your office connects to the internet via a proxy server. |
May 2011 | Message Queue
A manager permission has been implemented to provide read-only access to the message queue. Previously only Global Administrators had access. |
May 2011 | Multi-File Upload Applet
Use of the multi-file upload tool can be restricted by role using a manager permission. |
May 2011 | Advanced Search: A more powerful search facility can now be enabled to replace the right-hand search panel within Contacts, Companies and the Universal Tracking Application. The Advanced search enables quick and easy input of multiple criteria including AND, OR and NOT operands. | November 2011 | XML Section Builder: An automated tool to facilitate creation of XML tables such as budget templates etc. | November 2011 | Auto-close on set password page: after setting a password for a contact the confirmation window will auto-close in 3 seconds | November 2011 | Language Library: Labels within the system can be custom translated using the Language Library, accessible from Global Settings. The same label can be given different translations for each specific page within the system | November 2011 | Last Search option for Contact search, Company search and Level 2 / Level 3 searches | November 2011 | The Applicant Tracking built-in application can now be renamed. This will facilitate its use as a Volunteer tracking system. | November 2011 | Workflow IDs will be shown in the list of workflows to facilitate configuration | November 2011 | Global Advanced Logic to control View/Edit on contact records | November 2011 | Global Advanced Logic to hide the Organization Chart on company records | November 2011 | Global Advanced Logic to remove the hyperlinks on the e-mail field and phone number field on contacts and account | November 2011 | The access level a contact has been given (No Access, User Centric Interface, Administrator or Portal Interface) can be accessed using variables @accesstypeid@ and @accesstype@ | November 2011 | Autoloader Encoding When autoloading from CSV files you can now specify if the CSV file is encoded as UTF-8 or UTF-16 to facilitate special characters. | November 2011 | Advanced Date Searching: When using the advanced search to search a date field (standard or custom) you can search using: On, before, after, between or is empty. | May 2012 | Level 1 Copy: Specify which Custom Fields will be copied when a Level 1 is copies, including specifying which are mandatory. Can also define a Level 1 Status to be the default copy status. | May 2012 | UTA Consumer/Provider. Full support for Level 2 to act as both consumers and providers. Can now define a Role for Consumer/Provider relationships, including the ability to have role base custom fields to track attributes of the association between specific consumer and provider records. | May 2012 | Pandora utarole_add, utarole_remove and utarole_update functions extended to create, remove and update consumer/provider relationships. | May 2012 | Batch Update Contacts can be added to Level 2 records using batch update when the Multiple Contact List is enabled at Level 2. | May 2012 | Variable processor support for:
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May 2012 | A new setting in email broadcast to choose a user custom field as email address instead of user standard field (e.g. alternate e-mail address) | May 2012 | Ability to define the new contact as the primary contact for the new company created when using a hybrid signup page | May 2012 | Two new date functions have been added:
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October 2012 | A setting to specify where a note type is available in the system. You can restrict note types available to the following entities:
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October 2012 | A new UTA setting will allow you to define a template for the browser to use when the user deletes the record that they are currently on, rather than being brought back to the parent record. This can be applied to all UTA Levels (1, 2 & 3) under UTA Entity settings. | October 2012 | An "All Record" check box has been added on the deleted companies/contacts list view so that when selected, it can restore or purge all records in the database that are flagged as deleted. | October 2012 | Two new manager permissions have been added for Sales Tracking Opportunities:
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