http://sourceforge.net/p/group-office/news/2012-09-17T15:27:03Z2012-09-17T15:27:03Z2012-09-17T15:27:03ZMerijn Scheringhttp://sourceforge.net/u/mschering/http://sourceforge.net61c4738b243e3a3c66cc57f6badd677c862d41c1

We've been working a lot on performance for this release. We're now using compression on the files so the startup time of Group-Office is much shorter. Enhancements on the permissions system deliver a much better overall performance on large installations. We've also added a lot of new features like: * Resource management to book meeting rooms for example * Enhanced project manager * Tickets or Helpdesk module * A lot of small enhancements everywhere in the system. Upgrading is recommended for everyone!

2012-09-17T15:27:02Z2012-09-17T15:27:02ZMerijn Scheringhttp://sourceforge.net/u/mschering/http://sourceforge.netfe54703142faba059b1e76289e82a2b71342880e

Since our last news post we've added a lot of new exiting features to Group-Office like: 1. PGP encryption to send encrypted e-mail messages 2. U can use Group-Office as your default e-mail program in Windows now 3. Plain text e-mail composing 4. Your e-mails will automatically be saved every two minutes while composing. 5. Professional PDF calendar prints 6. Set calendar and task reminders by your own default preference 7. New and updated translations 8. And much more! Check out the latest version of Group-Office now at: http://www.group-office.com/Pricing+and+Sign+up

2012-09-17T15:27:02Z2012-09-17T15:27:02ZMerijn Scheringhttp://sourceforge.net/u/mschering/http://sourceforge.net4ecf14db95b661d35ba769d5b128ef5ba80e4283

You can see some of the developments we've been doing the past six months. You can take a look at the new interface we are building for Group-Office. It's far from complete and stable but you can get an impression here: http://go3.group-office.com/ user: demo pass: demo We hope you like it!

2012-09-17T15:27:02Z2012-09-17T15:27:02ZMerijn Scheringhttp://sourceforge.net/u/mschering/http://sourceforge.netf85a051548d6f8d83e9b055c63e07813969f8790

Take your office online with Group-Office groupware. Share projects, calendars, files and e-mail online with co-workers and clients. Easy to use and fully customizable, Group-Office takes online collaboration to the next level. After more then one and a half year of development time and testing it's finally there! We are proud to present Group-Office 3.0, Group-Office needed to be modernised. New web techniques have been developed and are ready to use in a professional platform such as Group-Office. We completely rewrote the interface of Group-Office. It feels much more like a desktop application now with drag and drop features, flexible information panels and much more! Besides the eye candy and usability enhancements a lot has been improved under the hood too. The database adapter has been rewritten to use the improved MySQLi extension for better security. Data sent to the database is checked for attacks at the lowest level so it's impossible for developers to write insecure database queries when they use the Group-Office framework. A lot more has been done to improve security like insecure image blocking in the e-mail module. It's impossible to name every change here in this message, you should check out the new version for yourself!

2012-09-17T15:27:01Z2012-09-17T15:27:01ZMerijn Scheringhttp://sourceforge.net/u/mschering/http://sourceforge.neta5fe171a93615f513bf52b53e45f3fe13c35fdff

We are proud to announce Group-Office Professional 2.18. Most of the changes of this release are in the Professional version. Online file management We created a new Java Webstart program that makes file management easier for you. When you edit a text document on your PC it will automatically save the document in Group-Office for you. When you open a file a small program will load in the system tray that will monitor files for you. When they are modified it will send it back to Group-Office. It's that simple but it makes life much easier! Mailing lists We made sending e-mailings to large address lists easier for you. We brought back the old mailing list feature and improved the new mailing list feature that supports exporting to your favourite text editor too. Synchronization Group-Office supports the latest Funambol 6 clients now. These clients offer much better support for Outlook and Pocket PC. There's also a Funambol client for Mozilla Thunderbird. We don't officially support it yet but you are welcome to test this feature on 2.18 and send us your experiences! Helpdesk module There's also a new helpdesk module. It does not allow your customers to enter tickets directly. It is intended for internal use. An administrator can create tickets for particular users or departments. They get a popup or e-mail notification when new open tickets are created for or by them. The history of all tickets are stored with the tickets and can easily be searched on with the global search function. Customers can also be notified automatically of a tickets' status. You can find more information at http://www.group-office.com and you can purchase Group-Office Professional online at https://shop.group-office.com

2012-09-17T15:27:01Z2012-09-17T15:27:01ZMerijn Scheringhttp://sourceforge.net/u/mschering/http://sourceforge.net6c7960b31df91a62f97335022d6a52a74cf1165f

This version has an improved linking interface and in the Professional version it's also possible to store e-mail as files and link them to contacts, companies or projects. There's also a new gallery module which you can also put on webpages using the CMS. The built in SyncML server was improved and supports latest Symbian phones now. The following languages were updated in 2.16: Spanish, French, Catalan, Hungarian, Italian, German and of course Dutch and English are always up to date. With the new translate module anybody can translate Group-Office without any technical knowledge.

2012-09-17T15:27:01Z2012-09-17T15:27:01ZMerijn Scheringhttp://sourceforge.net/u/mschering/http://sourceforge.net32b537375b2b3a53cae802f9cf9e97974c1497dc

The calendar and task views are much improved and it's now possible to attach files to projects, tasks, companies and contacts. Next to Outlook and Pocket PC 2003 Synchronization it's now also possible to synchronize your Nokia 9300 or Nokia 9500 phone. A complete dutch manual has been released. Soon it will be translated into English. We made some improvements on the administration side too. Administrators are really admins now. They have access to everything and they can create calendars easily for all users now. A complete list of changes follows: * Sharable calendar views * The merged calendar view has a legend and colors per user are settable * Admin can create all the user calendars at once with right permissions * Todo templates for projects. When you create a project you can select a set o predefined todo's. * Complete new development toolkit * A whole new set of PHP classes designed to build Group-Office modules. * These classes make it extremely easy to create standard controls in pages such as: o Tab strips o Sorted tables o Treeview structures o Activitity listings (Listing of related items) o Button menu's o Select dropdown lists o Radio buttons o Checkboxes * The classes make it possible to create pages without using a single line of HTML code. * Pages will be programmed in pure PHP. Output of menu's, tables, tabstrips treeviews will always look and behave the same. * The following modules have been completely recoded: o Filesystem o Addresbook o Todos o Notes o Projects o Summary o Calendar * The other modules have been made compatible with the new framework but need to be recoded someday. * Admins are really admins now. They have access to all the users calendars, addressbooks etc. and can set up the permissions for them. * Recurring todo's. Todo's are stored in the same way as appointments and can recur now. * More controls over the todo sharing. They are shared in the same way calendars are shared. * Files can be attached to projects * Calendar and todo reminders are set for all calendar owners and participants * Out of office. New cron job PHP script to set vacation files for Sendmail Postfix or other mail server that uses .forward files. The Out of office message can be set at the email configuration page. * Calendar view is impoved. Overlapping events are now displayed next to eachother. * You can remove or modify one appointment of a recurring event. Group-Office Professional 2.14 is available for 199,00 (Aproximately USD 256.00) at http://www.group-office.com.

2012-09-17T15:27:01Z2012-09-17T15:27:01ZMerijn Scheringhttp://sourceforge.net/u/mschering/http://sourceforge.netcf4076641ad49d08f0bd427b6a37550aa376ff91

The e-mail client is extended with a preview pane and a much better GUI. Reminders can be snoozed and dismissed now administration modules can be easily customized from now on. A lot of bugs were fixed too. See the changelog for a full list of changes.

2012-09-17T15:27:00Z2012-09-17T15:27:00ZMerijn Scheringhttp://sourceforge.net/u/mschering/http://sourceforge.net4a7e9dafa14b9f2972c51bbdbaed19207e74d975

Some bugs were quickly found in the installer and the projects module. This package fixes all known bugs.

2012-09-17T15:27:00Z2012-09-17T15:27:00ZMerijn Scheringhttp://sourceforge.net/u/mschering/http://sourceforge.net1e3b68a2694d14c298c1b133570c03f6991cea02

An update package for 2.12 is available. It fixes all known bugs.