OfficeStatus Release Notes

Maintained by Mark Richards (mark@keymetricsoft.com)

Version 1.6.0.0 - Released May 5th, 2007

• New feature - Added support for multiple office locations. Locations can now be defined within the system, and users assigned to them. A location drop-down box has been added to the OfficeStatus Client toolbar, allowing users to (optionally) filter their user status dashboard contents by location. Location names can optionally be displayed on the status dashboard (through use of the column chooser).
• New feature - Introduced a new Departmental Report, accessible within the reports menu of OfficeStatus Client. This report shows the name and description of each department defined within the system, as well as all of its members. The report is filterable by location.
• Improvement - Improved user image maintenance within the web-based administrative interface. User image thumbnails are now shown in the primary user editor screen.
• Improvement - The OfficeStatus user list (within the web-based administrative interface) has improved filtering, with new support for location selection.
• Improvement - Changed the location in which OfficeStatus Client stores certain end user data files, in order to improve compability with Microsoft Windows Vista.
• Improvement - Added "Start of Day" and "End of Day" fields to OfficeStatus user profiles. These are set within the web-based administrative interface (user editor) and displayed in the user contact window within OfficeStatus Client.
• Change - Column moving within the OfficeStatus Client user status grid is now disabled by default. Users must now explicitly enable this capability through a setting available via the Customize | User Status Grid menu. This extra step helps prevent accidental changes to column ordering within OfficeStatus Client. 
• Bug fix - Duration field within the User Status History report was not showing hours correctly when the status event duration spanned multiple days.
• Bug fix - Modified the activity event controller so that it won't process an idle return event if the current status wasn't previously triggered by an idle event.
• Bug fix - The OfficeStatus Client note reader screen was not wrapping lines correctly during printing operations. This has been resolved.
• Bug fix - Validation of product license limitations wasn't always handling user editing operations properly within the web-based administrative interface, and this has been corrected.
• Bug fix - Resolved a problem with OfficeStatus Client not always firing user status change event notifications correctly. 
• Additional minor enhancements and corrections.

Version 1.5.0.0 - Released Nov. 20th, 2006

OfficeStatus Server:

• New feature - Added a new Note Broadcast capability to the web-based administrative interface. Available under the Tools section of the navigation tree, the Note Broadcast feature allows system administrators to send a note to multiple OfficeStatus users at once.
• New feature - Added the ability to specify company information within the web-based administrative interface. It is now possible to specify a company name, company contact information, and company policy information. When provided, the company name will be displayed in the title bar of OfficeStatus Client installations. The other fields will be avabile within a new Company tab of the existing User Contact Information window (which appears whenever a user contact field is double-clicked within the status dashboard).
• New feature - The OfficeStatus web-based administrative interface has a new option on the user editor screen called "Hide user's status from other users". When engaged, the specified user's status will not be visible to others within OfficeStatus Client. Note that a "hidden" user can still see their own status within OfficeStatus Client (their status just won't be visible to others).
• Improvement - Made several overall navigation improvements to the web-based administrative interface, including the addition of a "breadcrumb" navigation control, improved heirarchical navigation of features, and more.
• Improvement - Added sorting capabilities to the AD User Import user interface pages. The user import selection grid and the import results grid are now both bi-directionally sortable by all columns. The Export Results to Excel feature will also reflect the current sort order.
• Improvement - Made these release notes available within the web-based admin interface (via the Help | About screen).
• Improvement - Added the ability to manually check for available software updates via the web-based administrative interface (available on the Help | About screen).
• Improvement - A new option was added to the General configuration screen of the web-based administrative interface which controls the ability of OfficeStatus Client installations to view a list of OfficeStatus usernames during the login process.
• Improvement - Added per-page context-sensitive help links to the web-based administrative interface.
• Improvement - Filtering of the user listing within the web-based administrative interface has been improved. Filter matching now uses "contains" instead of "equals" when applying the filter, and a new column ("job title") is now available for filtering.
• Improvement - The web admin user listing now indicates how many active users are defined within the system, and how many are allowed with the currently installed product license.
• Improvement - Added a new "Depts" tab to the user editor within the web-based administrative interface. Previously, it was necessary to navigate away from editing a user in order to alter their deptartment membership. Now this can be done directly within the user editor.
• Bug fix - The Help hyperlink on the login page of the web-based administrative interface was broken. Clicking this link now brings up the correct help topic.

OfficeStatus Client:

• New feature - Added spell checking capabilities to the OfficeStatus Client application. The primary use for spell checking is within the note composition window. You can also check the spelling of status comments that are entered during status change operations.
• New feature - Added the ability to recover deleted notes to the "My Notes" window, via the new "Deleted Items" view. This allows users to recover deleted notes themselves by right-clicking on one and selecting "Recover" from the resulting pop-up menu. Deleted notes must be recovered prior to them being pruned by the database pruning system (time frame configurable by system admin).
• New feature - Added the ability to create draft notes, which are saved without being immediately delivered. Users can then click on the "Drafts" view button and double-click a draft note to begin editing (and optionally send) it again.
• Improvement - Re-tooled the status change menus and toolbar buttons to be more intuitive and more powerful. Now, right-click status change operations have access to all statuses defined within the system, including custom ones. These are contained within a new "Quick Status Change" submenu, while access to the User Status window has been simplified.
• Improvement - Made several new columns available within the primary OfficeStatus user status grid - "first name", "last name", "email address" and "username". To make any of these fields visible, right click on the user status grid column header and choose "column chooser". Select the desired fields from the list that appears.
• Improvement - Added several new available columns to the User Status History report. The new "Duration" and "End" columns can provide an indication of how long the user was in a particular status, and a new "Changed By" column indicates who actually initiated the user status change.
• Improvement - Added column choosing capabilites to all reports available within OfficeStatus Client. Note that column customizations will be reflected during report printing and exporting operations.
• Improvement - Added the ability to specify "time unknown" during user status changes. This allows users to specify, for example, that they'll return from travel tomorrow, but at an unknown time.
• Bug fix- OfficeStatus Client was not propertly detecting workstation lock / unlock environmental events on the MS Windows 2000 operating system. Win2k apparently does not broadcast notification of such events, so an alternative technique is used in such cases.
• Bug fix - Customizations to the User Status History reporting grid weren't being persisted, and this has been resolved.

Version 1.0.0.0 - Released August 29th, 2006

• Initial OfficeStatus product release