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Over the past few months, many minor changes have been released to address particular requirements, but this major release draws together a number of features. With the database and server components solid and high performance, this release focusses on the user interface. We’ve had UI specialists working on specific areas and the results are described…

New features Simple joins – life is now simpler for report creators: the system guides you when collating data from multiple sources into one report. Simple, context sensitive options are given e.g. when editing a contacts report, ‘join contacts to addresses’ may be offered. A knowledge of SQL principles is no longer necessary to create…

Summary Over the past year, customers have been using portalBase on an increasing scale in their businesses creating functionality which cuts across multiple departments. New uses have been found ranging from stock/sales analysis and accounting to document management and the creation of knowledge bases. As the scale of applications is increasing, we’ve been doing work to ensure…

Following on from last week’s release, there’s just time for one more update before Christmas. A couple of user interface improvements that didn’t quite make it into the previous version: An “are you sure?” prompt for global editing – a small change with a big benefit. Before altering many records at the same time, the…

Apart from some minor performance improvements and bugfixes, the major work for this release has been in improving the Graphical User Interface of portalBase New interface for editing application modules, under ‘Administration’ Modules can have user-set icons and colours The selected record in the report view is easier to read