Atollon Innovations 2022 (week 22)
New Features
Workflow
New plugin: Context Messages
- It is possible to automate and send any notification in rich text (HTML) format based on changes in context - to both internal users and clients. Ie after client is created / project (deal) updated / activity scheduled or expiring, etc.
New plugin: Context Actions
- Several new workflow automation tools created to support automated service creation. When one (service) activity ends, it may create new activity clone to prepare for another period / activity.
Enhancements
Custom Apps
- It is possible to set-up access rights of users to Custom Apps.
Estimates
- New Estimate calc tool for easier setting discounts and price incl. VAT.
Finder
- Forms for New project, New activity now using the same easy-to-use layout.
- It is possible to create sub-folders in Finder to enable company / sub-company structure. Ie University > Faculty clients now supported.
- It is possible to import folders, projects and activities with form data. See Options (>) button on any context folder detail (Export/Import).
Gallery
- Mobile Gallery (Android, iOS) now using native component to upload images taken by your in-hand camera.
- New (optional) component for editing e-mail in HTML (rich text) format. Major enhancement allowing you to rich format e-mail, add tables and images. See My Preferences under your top right name to set preferred e-mail editor.
- E-mail can be printed. We were trying to save forests and for long time, but our customers pressure was unsustainable.
- You can Send e-mail as PDF.
- It is possible to open attachment before the e-mail is sent. You can check your document's properly before sending.
Reporting
- New reporting fields added in Deal Value
- Project values converted to local currency (total revenues or costs)
- Main Supplier (good for reporting of multi-supplier Deals)
- Added reporting fields for activities (for reporting on regular yearly/monthly/etc. service activities)
- Activity start
- Activity end
- It is possible to open reports containing form fields in export to Excel format.
Bug Fixes and Backend Improvements
- General: New server side framework for more robust functionality.
- Contact: Enhanced function IdentifyContact now supports finding duplicates for both persons and companies.
- Dashboard: Report results in Reports Dashboard Widget loaded automatically after start.
- Finder: Function NewActivity now saves start/end date during activity creation.
- Invoice print: Handle empty delivery address properly.
- Invoice print: Follow user-defined order of items on invoice.
- Invoices: Fixed listing invoices in case of sort order by DateCreated.
- Mail: Opening links (URL) from e-mail body (HTML) fixed
- Mail: New validation and security of New mail service - sending e-mails more restricted than before. At the same time more robust for integrations.
- Mail: Fixed auto-mapping received e-mail to contact address (problem with CaSe sensitive e-mail addresses).
- Mass mail: Sending thousands of e-mails are now more reliable and does not need to be executed more than once. Completely rewritten with newest backend framework.
- Recruitment: Saving advanced (customer configured) Job Ads fixed. Now even custom configured fields are properly loaded and saved.
- Recruitment: It should not be possible to search applicants with empty parameters. This caused heavy server load from time to time.
- Workflow: It is now possible to delete time-based workflow settings.
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