Office Tracker Change History

See some of the new features through the past several versions

  • Office Tracker v. 12.2 Changes

    • Text message options for sending reminders/notifications to yourself, your staff and your clients
    • Contacts can "confirm" appointments via e-mail and users can Find confirmed and non-confirmed events
    • Choose which fields to include in the Found Events for both events and contacts.
    • Add up to five additional field items to the Find
    • Color option can be set for each user Name so events are more easily identified.
    • Change all events for a selected Contact to another Name's schedule.
    • Labels now offer a default initial Duration setting at the Office Tracker Server.
    • Add ability to BCC on any email notifications or any place in the system where we allow users to e-mail multiple addresses.
    • Web Client: Ability to drag and drop events in the Planner to change time or name.
    • Web Client: Name Shown Palette lets users keep a palette (small movable window) open on their screen with the names in their current schedule view.
    • Web Client: Status of reminders for contacts with linked events, displays in the Detail window of the Contact Manager under linked events - Set, Sent, or Confirmed
    • Web Client: Option to Export Contacts so ALL fields (including Details page) can be exported.
    • Web Client: When an event is selected user can click the Contacts button and add a contact to the selected event by Shift-clicking on the Contact icon in the list of the Contacts.
    • Web Client: Added ability to right-click on a selected event and copy the event content to the clipboard in the same text format as on the windows client.
    • Web client report: Option to include Contact Detail report for events with contacts at end.
    • Web Client: Support for military time to views and dialogs.
    • Web client pref option to not bring up new event dialog on cell click.
    • Web client: Custom Notifications and Reminders can be created, named and saved by the Server Admin. This allows your office to create a custom message to alert or remind your customers, patients and others about upcoming events.
    • Menu added to event dialog next to contact button that allows user to access Add New Contact easier. Changed the Add New Contact dialog to require last name.
    • Option to print solid color for labels instead of outline to Windows Desktop Client.
    • View option for rounded rectangles or regular rectangles on event display.
    • Ability to hide/show non-timed events in day, week & planner views and reports.
    • Send e-mail to all marked contacts or all found contacts. Creates an e-mail with a BCC list of e-mails. User must enter a main To: e-mail address such as their own.
    • Fixed server export where extra data (Names List and permissions) was exported when just one name was being exported.
    • A "Find Confirmed" or "Not Confirmed" addition to our Events with Contacts Find feature allows the user to find all confirmed or not-confirmed contacts with linked events.
    • "Send Immediate" Reminder option sends the reminder as soon as the event is saved.
    • Changed client's view event display options prefs so that Contact Firstname and Contact Lastname display option and order can be set individually.
    • Allow user to choose a font for event display on web client.
    • Complete support for a full 24 hour day on day/week/planner views. Prior to this users could set 1am to 12am or 12am to 11pm, but not 12am to 12am.
    • Added Log Out to Server Admin pages.
    • Changed Server and desktop client Installer to allow for 64-bit installations.
    • Updated design of Server Admin pages to be more clear.
    • Update to latest ICU libraries, java libraries, xalan, hsql, etc.
    • Added view only user access to windows client.
    • Preference in windows client to remove current database and create a blank one, to clean up large local databases.
  • Office Tracker v. 11 Changes

    • Compatibility with Windows 8
    • "View Only" option to make licensing more affordable for organizations that need some users with full access and others with view only access
    • Improved web client works with most mobile devices!
    • Create non-timed events at the top of your schedule for holidays , special events, tasks and other items
    • Add a category for events to help define them
    • E-mail a selected event or e-mail an entire report
    • Set view preferences on the web client for start and end time, increments, display order of event information, and more
    • Web client users can set a minimum column pixel size for daily view to show more names. Column size can be between 50 and 300 pixels
    • View linked contact information easily in new web client layout
    • View event description on mouse over on Monthly web client view
    • Add Percentage utilized and total hours reported to find and detail report views
    • Added found contact tracking on web client to keep the found set when you move between the full contacts list and the found contacts list
    • Improved SSL interface to allow for third party certificates, add more areas to allow user to insert secondary and tertiary certificates for ssl
    • Improved Server Administrator pages to alert you to unsaved changes and provide more instructions
    • Tracking of connected user info to show if the user is a web client or Windows Desktop client
  • Office Tracker v.10 Changes

    • Two New Add-On Options Include:
      Self-Service Web based Scheduling for Your Customers and Staff
    • Allow your customers, staff or others to choose their own appointment times from your web site and schedule them 24/7.
    • Customize the display of the online scheduling "window" to match the design of your web site. Customers can auto-register themselves for online scheduling. You set up available appointments with the Office Tracker client software just as you do for other events and appointments.
    • The Office Tracker Web Client is now included with version 10
    • The Office Tracker Contact Manager is now included with version 10
    • Set Min./Max. Limits for the Number of Names/Contacts in Events (this is great for special events, training and instructional classes, counseling sessions where a limit is required, etc.)
    • Set the Display Order of Event Items on Schedules (choose what information you want to see first such as label, keyword, attendees, etc.)
    • Transfer Ownership of Contacts from One User to Another
    • Use the "Info" field to view Extra Information for Names and Resources on Screen (like how many seats in a room)
    • New Recurring Event Support adds Multi-Day Events
    • Improved Reminder Displays and Functionality
    • Ability to copy/paste your reminder information
    • New Server Update Messages from Office Tracker
    • Set Time Zone for Server from Admin Page (if you want a different zone than the computer's setting)
  • Office Tracker v.9 Changes

    • New Client Setup Page on Server
    • Client users can access an Install page from their web browser to install Office Tracker across your network.
    • E-mail Integration for Notifications and Reminders - No need to configure MAPI. Now it's easier than ever to integrate notifications and reminders with e-mail.
    • Administrative Alerts and Updates via E-mail- you can receive an e-mail update each time the Server is stopped or started, when backups are made or when someone changes the password.
    • Server Log Improvements - Improved logs let you choose what you want to see in the log.
    • Improved connected users list shows the most recent active and inactive time.
    • Improved Find Open Time - Now it's faster and much more streamlined for optimal performance.
    • New Sharing Privileges - allow sspecific event field settings such as schedulers to change just the label/keyword of an event, or just the description, but restrict them from  changing other aspects of the event.
    • Everyone Owner or User now removes all permissions, even a name or group on itself.
    • E-mail Improvements- MAPI is no longer required for e-mail integration of reminders and notifications.
    • Lively New Toolbar Button Design- Saves More Clicks
    • New Planner Views on Desktop Client- Names Down the Left, Times Across the Top.
    • Date Information Moved to the Top of Each Schedule View.
    • Find Open Time now lets you find one or more available names/resources out of any number of selected names you choose, then you can choose to schedule only those names you want with a simple click.
    • Optional On-screen Display of # Resources/Names - Shows # of people, resources or contacts
    • Reports Include Total Resources/Names and Total Contacts
    • Improved Find Lets You Create Call Lists and Find Upcoming Appointments w/Contacts
    • Improved Contact Linking Function - Contacts are linked in the same way as other Names and contact information is displayed in the event and is kept updated this way.
    • Delete Events from Edit Event Window - A new delete button has been added to the Edit Event window.
    • Automated Alarm Settings - Users can now set preferences for alarm reminders.
    • Preferences window has been improved for faster, easier and more intuitive access to settings.
    • Improved e-mail reminder layout.
    • Mouse scrolling support added
    • Green indicator time range display lets you see visually exactly what time you are about to click.
    • Printing Reports from the web client in Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Report formats
    • Improved Find in the web client lets you create call lists and see upcoming appointments with customers
The amount of time put into scheduling has been cut in half easily.
- S. Miller, GM, IT Manager