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Full or Partial Production Database Copy (2 Comments)

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:31:06 +0000

Product Question by Jason

Another question for you guys. I'd like to experiment with some changes on an exsiting "production" database.

Is there a way to make a copy of an existing database? Data, structure, views, etc? Or any combination? I think that would be really helpful. I could download and re-upload the data, but I'd lose the views, etc.

Thanks,
Jason

Tabbed data entry is now available in TrackVia

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:20:52 +0000

Feature Hightlight by Matt Strenz

When you are using the click to change feature in TrackVia you now can save your changes and move to the next field simply by hitting the tab button on your keyboard. If you would like to go to the previous field hold down shift and then hit tab. Because many users come from Excel we've added this because of suggestions we received so you don't have to change from what you may be used to when entering data across multiple cells in a spreadsheet.

Alerts have gotten even better (1 Comment)

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:51:02 +0000

Feature Hightlight by Matt Strenz

Summary

With Alerts being used everyday by many of our customers to track work flow and appointments we have made some enhancements to this feature to improve its use with these type of projects. You'll find these enhancements by clicking on the "more options" link towards the bottom when setting or editing an alert.

With any alert you set up you can now set a custom subject on the email that is sent that can even include fields from the database to indicate what needs to be done. For Example: if you have an alert which emails your billing department supervisor each time a new expense report comes in you can now have the subject of the email say "Susie filed a new expense report you must approve or deny". With this possibility the recipients of the email can now be told exactly why they are receiving an email alert and what they need to do to the record.

You can also now remove the actual details of the record if you would like to get a simple email that alerts you to a change. This is for those cases where a simple alert is sufficient or when you want to not send the information from your database to the recipient.

With many customers using TrackVia for storing appointments we have been asked if this could be made to integrate into Outlook and we're happy to say that this is also now available. When setting an alert you will now see an option to include a calendar attachment. This really only makes sense in databases you are storing appointments because it will require a date or date and time field to use for creating the calendar entry. With this enabled you will receive an attachment with the alert that when saved will create an entry in your Outlook calendar that will use the first date or date and time field as the time for the appointment. For Example: if you have a database of appointments you can use alerts to notify each person when an appointment is made for them that will include a calendar attachment which allows them to easily add this to their Outlook or Google calendar with a click of a button.

These were both enhancements made based off of feedback received from current customers and we'd appreciate any other suggested enhancements.

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Pivot View (2 Comments)

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:03:38 +0000

Product Question by Jason

Any thoughts on adding "pivot" view? I'd like this even better than an enhanced statistics view. It would be great not to have to download the data for indepth analysis. Have you had other requests for this (I haven't seen it on the forums) or work-arounds?

Thanks,
Jason

Quickly Add a Note (1 Comment)

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:38:02 +0000

Product Question by Jason

Another feature request for you. It would be really nice to be able to quickly add a note to a record (maybe where the edit/view options are) rather than have to go into full edit mode or bulk update.

Best,
Jason

EDI Mapping/Transmission (1 Comment)

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:27:28 +0000

Product Question by Jason

I've got another feature request for you. I think it would be great if you could both import and export EDI files directly from TrackVia. Maybe it's another kind of view? Have you guys considered anything like this?

Map View (1 Comment)

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:44:46 +0000

Product Question by Jason

I love the map view you've created. One thing I think would be helpful is to resort the result set based on map zoom level i.e. if I'm looking at the first 50 records then change the zoom level, I'd like to data set to resort and filter from the entire view dataset rather than just the first 50. Maybe just ask if I want it to resort based on the zoom level so it wouldn't have to be such an intensive process?

Thanks for the great support by the way!

Statistics View (1 Comment)

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:40:35 +0000

Product Question by Jason

What are the chances you could add more configurability to the statistics view? I'd like to be able to configure if I see the top 5 or top 10 entries. Also, I found all the pie graphs can't be viewed via the iphone due to flash limitations. It would be nice to have the data set displayed below the graph.

Date Entry (4 Comments)

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:19:54 +0000

Product Question by Jason

One of the things we're having a hard time with is the "date" field type. I find the "3 field" approach to be cumbersom for data entry. Is there a better way? I love the flexibility that dabbledb offers in this regard and would love to see that functionality incorporated.

Thanks!

Parent Lookups (1 Comment)

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:59:36 +0000

Product Question by Carolina

Hello,

I've been using the parent lookup relational field, but I'm not completely satisfied with the results.
This is what I've been doing so far:

I have a parent database containing tools' descriptions and specs, for example:
FAMILY           SPECS
Shackles         1/4 Ton
Shackles         1/2 Ton
Sling Savers     12 1/2 Ton
Eye Bolts        M30
Eye Bolts        M16
... and so on

In the child database I have a link to parent record field (called ITEM1). This field is linked to the previous parent database using the field "FAMILY".

Then I have a calculated short answer with the following formula: parentlookup("ITEM1", "SPECS"). Here I'll get the specs according with the order that I follow when choosing the families. For example if I chose the first line I'll get 1/4 Ton, if I chose the second line I'll get 1/2 Ton.

Is there anyway to get a dropdown list showing all the specs for the same family? I mean, every time I choose Shackles (don't matter if it is the 1st or the 2nd row) I would be able to see both 1/4 Ton and 1/2 Ton.

Thank you in advance.