The flow up updates has been slower this past fall as we spent time catching up and laying the foundation for our future growth.    That is about to change.  We have a slew of new features ready to go and hope to put updates out every week or two.   We have a number of small features that we plan on releasing or upgrading for the next few weeks and then we will focus on different areas – tasks, files, calendars, and so on.

This week we are pleased to release a few new features and upgrades.

1. Page List: The page list has undergone changes behind the scenes.  We found that our prior version worked well with certain browsers but got very slow when people had large lists of pages in Internet Explorer.  This version should work the same but generally be a bit faster.   Please let us know if you see any problems with it.

2. Desktop Client:  We have fixed some bugs and made some enhancements to our Adobe Air based desktop client.   If you use the Desktop Client and want to upgrade or are interested you can download it from our home page.

3. Task List: When you group tasks by person, list, priority or any other method, you can now “collapse” or “expand” the group by clicking on the + or – sign in front of the group name.   You can also see a count of tasks for each group in the yellow bar.   This should make navigating and working on longer lists easier.

4.  Calendar Control: We have added a calendar control to the “ALL” workspace tab (for those of you that have more than one workspace).   You can now see all calendar entries across all workspaces on this tab.     After implementing we realized that this may cause you to see a large number of tasks on a calendar without knowing at a glance which workspace they belong to.  So for our next release we will implement a few features to make this more obvioius.

5. File Check-in / Check -out: This is almost ready (we hoped to have for this release) but may get released tomorrow (Monday) or Tuesday.   The idea is that when someone downloads a file for editing they can set a flag indicating they have “Checked out” the file.   This will put a small red lock icon by the file so someone else will know that the file has been checked out.    It won’t stop a 2nd person from downloading the file but if  they choose to download it anyway, they will have to bypass a message sharing this information in another way.    When the file has be re-uploaded it can then be “checked in” again.

6. Workspace Tab font:  We made the workspace tab fonts a little smaller so that you can use a few more characters in the name of your workspace.    (Although the change to display more characters still needs to be uploaded).    Therefore you should be able to see about 12 characters displayed instead of 10 from before.

We have about 50 items planned for the next 3 or 4 weeks.  If you have a favorite request please send it in to MikeL@WizeHive.com and I’ll try to make sure it gets on this list or a subsequent release.