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This weekend's release

Posted on 17 March 2008 by Ed Robinson

This weekend’s release comprised a number of useful enhancements and tweaks across the board. Here are some highlights:

• Using Outlook for personal tasks – ActionThis is designed for teams, but it’s an effective personal task management tool too. If you’re using it to manage your own tasks, here’s something useful: Enter all the details of the task but leave the recipient empty – when you send the action item it will automatically be sent to yourself. Personal task management made easy.
• Printing from Outlook – For those of us who still like paper documents, we’ve improved how printing works from Outlook. You can use the Print button within an action item to get a useful printout of what you need to do. Simple, but effective.

• ActionThis Installation Troubleshooter – Should you have any difficulties connecting to ActionThis, we’ve enhanced the troubleshooting application which can be used to check the settings of your PC and, in conjunction with our Support team, help us resolve any issues.

• Report Subscription Enhancements – Now you can specify the day and time you subscribe to reports, so the reports can work the way you want. Need your task list before you arrive at work? Want to get a list of tasks the night before your day at work? No problem.
• Support for American Express credit cards – We can now process American Express credit cards. If you’ve hesitated to subscribe because we didn’t take Amex, then the barrier’s gone: we now support Visa, Mastercard and American Express.

Of course, there are also a range of other minor tweaks and fixes to the system. If you’ve got any feedback, feel free to post a comment or contact support@actionthis.com.

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ActionThis CEO speaking at SaaS Conference

Posted on 11 March 2008 by Tim Howell

Just as he did last year, Ed Robinson, CEO of ActionThis, will be talking at this year’s On Demand Software Delivery Summit, being run by BrightStar in Auckland, New Zealand on May 19.

Ed’s session is called “Reading the Tea Leaves: The Next Five Years for On-demand Services” and will be a future-looking presentation. Here’s the overview:

On-demand software is challenging the way we think about provisioning software services. What’s in store for the future? What trends are we likely to see from IT department investment and from On-demand vendors? This talk examines today’s landscape, the trends emerging from Europe and the United States and what this means for New Zealand companies in the future.

To find out more, and book yourself a place, visit http://www.brightstar.co.nz/nz/on-demand-software-delivery-summit.html for more information.

Tim Howell, CMO

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What we're working on

Posted on 07 March 2008 by Ed Robinson

We're preparing new features, concentrating on reporting and printing from Outlook and the website.  These will be released in about a week, and here is a preview of the new report saving dialog.

• we're keeping it simple, with intuitive options for saving
• we're adding more flexibility around date ranges and when things get emailed.

BTW: the "pink" interior of the name box indicates you've got to enter something in the box. Our team felt it is more intuitive than a star * which many other sites use.

Ed

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