Last upgrade: Notification banners and Preferences in Activities
Over the week end, we have upgraded two features of AppShore offering.
First the visual notification system. Notifications are the short colored messages that appear on top of the screen to inform the user about an event, the result of an action or an issue. Most of the new banners are now timed based which means that after few seconds they will automatically disappear. When it is necessary to insure that the message relayed by the banner has been seen by the user, the banner will stay (sticky) on the screen as long as the user acknowledges it by clicking the closing button or another link. Banners can also have link inside and in this case they will also stay sticky until the user takes action. Here the different types of banner available, quite simple: * Green banners are for INFORMATION and successful actions from the user like when a record has been created, updated or deleted successfully.
* Orange banners are for WARNING when some action is requested to the user. Often these banners will contain a link and will invite the user to click on it.
* Red banners are for ERROR. They are always sticky with or without a link.
In Preferences, the user is now able to set the location of the banners on his screen (top left, top center, top, right, bottom left, bottom center, bottom right). More banners will come shortly with a batch of new features, here a quick look at one of them: Activity reminder.
Second upgrade is related to the Activities/Calendars application. we have added a new sub menu called Preferences where the user can define parameters of the calendar and the default settings of a new activity:
