features
I Need to Know. Everything. Immediately.
One advantage of using an online database is the visibility it provides into one’s data. Custom views, statistics, and powerful search features make it easy to see what’s happening with customers, orders, inventory, and nearly everything else.
Sometimes, though, that’s not enough. If a customer logs a critical bug, I want to know about it right away, not the next time I log into TrackVia and look. If our sales group has a time-sensitive opportunity that requires senior management involvement, our CEO wants to know about it immediately, not the next time TrackVia emails him a pipeline report. In fact, come to think of it, I want to know about all bugs, and our CEO wants to know about all sales opportunities, as they happen. We have a high need to know.
New Feature...Saturday?
Last week I declared that we'd launch a new feature or improve an existing feature every week -- I called it New Feature Friday. Well, this week's feature did get launched on Friday...somewhere in the world. But the description of it had to wait until today, Saturday.
This week's product improvement consists of some useful enhancements to database views:
- You can now publish statistics views to your website, or to a public URL. So to publish a pie chart of donations by source, for example, simply create a TrackVia view with just the "Source" column, set the view's default format to "statistics," and paste the "publish this view" code snippet into your webpage, as usual.
New Feature Friday
We’ve been on a roll lately when it comes to adding useful new features to TrackVia. So I’m going to go out on a limb and declare that we’ll announce a new feature or product improvement every week. Call it New Feature Friday. Except...it might not always be on Friday, or every week...but we’ll try!
Today’s new feature announcement is that we’ve added three new field types to TrackVia:
