Tracker Improvements
Saving column width, row height preferences, @mention capability to user look ahead, new URL column type, bulk row operations and new system columns capabilities have been added to the tracker in this release
Save column width & height for all users
- Column width for each column in the table can be set and applied to all the team members
- Row height now has 4 options to choose from and can be applied to all the team members
- Short
- Medium
- Tall
- Extra Tall
- Column width option is available on column borders. Row height option is available on right click of the row.
- Column width & row height can be set differently for each table in the tracker
- When the column width or row height is changed, the button to save these changed will appear on the top bar
- Only tracker creator and team admins have the permission to save the changes and apply it to all users
User look ahead can now @mention the user
- User look ahead field in the tracker has a new setting to @mention the user in the cell
- The news feed preference “When entry is added” should be set to “Add a new feed” for the new @mention setting to be applicable
- The user in the cell value who gets mentioned can be any user based on the ‘Look Ahead Data’ setting.
- The mentioned user will see the record feed and the comments/activity on it under their ‘Mentions’ tab (like it is for other feeds where they are mentioned)
- The mentioned user will see the @mention icon in the record feed in the tracker (if they have access to the tracker)
- Additionally if the news feed preference value for “When entry is added” is:
- Set to “Add a new feed”, then in record activity you can @mention any network user in the domain including non-team members.
- Set to any other value, then in record activity you can @mention only team members of the team. This is the existing capability.
- NOTE: @mention of a NON team member in the activity tab of an EXISTING entry/row is ONLY supported when there is a corresponding news feed for that entry/row.
New URL column type added
- A new field type to support http & https URLs has been added to tracker & forms
- Like other column types the URL column also has properties like default value, behaviour options like required and admin only visibility are supported
- Clicking on the URL column in the record will open the web app/site in a new tab
New system columns added
- Following new system columns have been added to tables
- Submitted By – The user who added/submitted the record
- Submitted Date – The date/time when the record was added/submitted
- Last Modified By – The user who last edited/changed the record
- Last Modified Date – The date/time when the record was last edited/modified
- System columns can be used to filter or sort the data in the tracker
- System columns can be added to or hidden for specific tables by tracker creator/team admins
- The column properties and column type of these system columns can’t be changed.
- Tracker widget on dashboard and team pages will support the system columns also
Multiple attachments support
- Attachment column type in trackers has been enhanced to support & show multiple attachments in one column
- Forms with attachment field has been enhanced to support upload of multiple attachments
- Up to a max of 10 attachments are be attached to a file attachment column
Amount & formula improvements
- Amount column now supports
- Showing commas in the value
- Allowing negative value in the field
- Formula column now supports
- Showing the currency in the value when one of the columns in the formula is an amount.
- The final value in formula will now be rounded off to 2 digits
- Formula to calculate ‘percentage’ has been added
Bulk row operations
- Ability to select bulk rows with a new ‘Select All’ check box option.
- ‘Select All’ selects on up to max of 500 records at one time and on “Right Click” offers the following bulk actions on rows
- Lock/Unlock All Selected Entries
- Archive/UnArchive All Selected Entries
- Delete All Selected Entries
Add table to calendar enhancement
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- Table (with a custom filter) when added to the calendar can now be optionally made visible to specific people in addition to the entry creator & manager
- A unique color can be assigned to entries from one table to make it easy to view tracker entries in the calendar
- On the calendar when the ‘Tracker Entries only’ filter is selected there is an additional filter available to narrow entries
- Entries the user has added
- Entries the user has edited
Misc additional improvements
- Records in a table
- Count of records in a table will now be shown on the top bar
- Record count will be automatically updated when records are added, records are deleted, search is performed or a filter is set
- Multi-column filters
- When a filter is applied on one or more columns, it will now be indicated on the top bar as ‘N filters applied’
- Ability to clear all the applied filters with 1-click has been added
- Bulk setting of default values
- There is new action for ‘Apply Default Value’ on columns that have a default value
- When the admin sets a default value for a column in a tracker that already has records then they can use this new action to apply the new default value to all records where the column value is empty
- Creation of new table & new form
- Ability to create new tables and forms has been moved to under ‘Tracker Tools’ alongside all other admin actions
- New column addition
- The UI to add new column or insert new columns has been updated to require ‘Column Type’ to be selected before showing the other column specific settings
- Column type dropdown has a search bar to make it easy to pick the type
- Transfer tracker owner rights option
- Team admins (or tracker creator) can transfer the owner rights for a tracker to another member of the team
- Tracker log will capture the transfer owner right action
- Captcha setting for public forms
- When the public sharing setting is enabled for a form, there is a new option to enable captcha on it
- When captcha setting is ON, the captcha is shown when the form is viewed by a non-logged in user (to prevent spam entries)
- Logged in users will not see the captcha when they submit the form