One of the EFFACTS developers (Menno Pruijssers) has been developing and testing our first iPad App, the digital Board Room, which has been reviewed and authorized by Apple today!
Our unique iPad app will make meetings more efficient and effective: easily register, check and share all of your confidential information. Sending your information by email or post will no longer be necessary.
The application will be available in the App Store starting Oktober 1st.
More information to follow!
Legal Counsel Day, knowledge and meeting area for Legal Counsel! EFFACTS is sponsor of this conference, Thursday November 24th 2011. The managing director of EFFACTS, Harm Bavinck, will be one of the lecturers.
29/7/11 – Planning for the User Meetings this fall is as follows:
| Contract Management | Thursday September 22nd | 9:30 - 12:30 (full) |
| Sharepoint & EFFACTS | Thursday October 6th | 9:30 - 12:30 |
| Meeting Manager | Thursday October 27th | 9:30 – 12:30 |
| Contract Management | Thursday November 3rd | 9:30 - 12:30 |
| Cursus Administrator | Thursday November 17th | 9:30 – 16:00 |
| Corporate Housekeeping | Thursday December 1st | 9:30 - 12:30 |
The User Meetings always take place at Aristo Accomodaties near Amsterdam Sloterdijk. This locations is easy to reach by public transportation. The meetings take place from 9:30 until 12:00 uur, the final 30 minutes are reserved for questions. Participation is free of charge.
The fee for the ‘Cursus Administrator’ (Administrator Course) is EUR 250 with lunch included.
Would u like to attend a meeting and/or course? Sign up now at our Service Desk:
+ 31 020 330 16 82 or support@effacts.com.
The Single Sign-On for EFFACTS has been renewed. Before we used software made by [JESPA], now Effacts has made its own .NET application. This allows the user to access the application without the need for logging in. Authetication is done using the user’s windows domain. Adding the username to Effacts allows you to log in immediatly. The new version, unlike the old, supports and unlimited amount of users.
04/07/11 – EFFACTS continues to grow with double figures. the first 6 months of this year, a new record of companies started tot use an EFFACTS data room. Customers are from Benelux, Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Effacts version 3.6 has been finished. This major release sees many bugs, originating in the development of version 3.5, fixed. Besides fixing several problems, 3.6 also contains several new features.
3.6 is already available for several ‘installed’ customers and will be launched for the online environment in July.
Customers using the installed version of Effacts where able to set up their own login page and CSS.
As of 3.6 this is no longer possible. The custom login pages had too many security issues, being outside of Effacts management. Everyone now has the same login page. This page still has the option to set a custom title and sub-title. The CSS has been turned off because this caused an unreasonable amount of maintenance when small changes in the html or CSS of Effacts occurred.
Several changes have been made to the organigram. Primarily to give better support for categories.
The colors of the categories have been changed to make differentiation between different parts of the organigram clearer.
When editing, the first field of the form no longer has the main focus. This solves the issue where users would unknowingly commit unwanted changes.
The option to directly edit Microsoft Office documents in Effacts has been turned off. This caused too many issues with users accidentally committing changes where they only meant to read the document. The option isn’t gone, but has to be explicitly turned on.
When Effacts is running on MSSQL or Oracle, it is no longer possible to put more than 4000 characters in a text area. It was already impossible to save more than 4000 characters, caused by a limitation of the chosen database. PostgreSQL has the capacity to save more than 4000 characters.
It is now possible to export data from a report into an Excel or Word template. This is an addition to the feature allowing subject pages to be exported in to a template.
Besides templates in Word and PDF it is now possible to use information in Effacts to fill an existing Excel document. For example; this allows the use of pivot tables in reports. An example of this can be found in the contracts demo.
Documents with an ‘em dash’ —, ‘en dash’ – or ‘figure dash’ ‒ in its name can now be opened using Internet Explorer. It was previously possible to download these documents but an error in Internet Explorer made it impossible to open them.
It is now possible to print pages containing special characters to PDF. This concerns characters such as; ë and ó.
It is now possible to print reports containing the ‘ character to PDF in Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer 9 is partially supported by Effacts. At the moment the browser is set to compatibility mode upon opening Effacts. Full Internet Explorer 9 support will be supported in a future release.
The ipad now has better support. An error in JavaScript that made reports of types with multiple relations glitch visually has been fixed. By fixing this error all pages and screen besides the popups now have full Ipad support.
The breadcrumb ( navigation under the logo) is now working properly in Chrome, even when containing a large amount of pages. Earlier releases had issues with this feature because of the internal cache in chrome used by the browser for redirects.
When mailing to a group of users the collection of email addresses will now appear in the BCC of your message. This applies to mails by users. It doesn’t apply to alerts as these are always sent to a single user.
In Effacts 3.5 a search result would only show active dossiers, causing a lot of confusion.
As of 3.6 search results will also show inactive dossiers. It is still possible to only show active dossiers by selecting the link above the search results. (see picture below)
Search results in the popup are now the same as the ones in the normal search result screen. Results shown in the search popup are now based on:
- Active and inactive dossiers
- Relations
- Fields
It is now clearly indicated when a search results contains PDF documents in which one or more of the search terms have been found.
When a URL is relative, it will no longer cause a new tab or window to open. This makes it easier to make a report containing a collection of the most important links within an environment.
It is now possible to hide fields completely on:
- Making a new form. The form can now be made simpler by hiding certain fields, making data entry faster.
- Editing a form. Fields only used when creating can be hidden for editing. This avoids any accidental changes.
- Editing a form. Fields containing the title or tracking number of a dossier can now be hidden. This avoids showing unneeded information on the page.
Besides these it is now possible to hide the label of a field on the page view. This is especially useful for large amounts of text. Text and title can be aligned making the page view a lot clearer.
Users are now obligated to change their password when logging in to the application for the first time.
When a non-existent user tried to log in it would give an error message. The application behavior has now been equalized for both existing and non-existent users.
When a database is turned off or becomes otherwise inaccessible this will no longer cause a need for manual maintenance to get the application up and running.
The icons Effacts uses for document export are now available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.
Icons are based on the FamFamFam silk icon set.
Excel spreadsheet icon, with thanks to Jeroen Kroes at Us Media
PDF document icon, from the FamFamFam iconset
Word document icon
14/06/11 – EFFACTS is now compatible with the Ipad. Users can easily access the corporate information with the touchscreen. The interface is very user-friendly. This summer we will release our first specific app. For more information please contact our Service Desk.
06/06/11 – The Dutch legal service provider Legal Manager has been acquired by Effacts B.V. The specific business knowledge of the legal industry and the best practices are of great value for our services.
01/06/11 – EFFACTS released a new website and logo. The new design represents the ambition of EFFACTS to become a leading supplier of corporate data rooms. Together with Us Media, a Dutch web designer, we created a perfect platform to communicate with our prospects, customers and other stakeholders.