Manage 2000 8.1 service pack 3 - sneak peek

Development cutoff is fast approaching for service pack 3 of Manage 2000 8.1. We will be cleaning up the service pack material throughout February in preparation for an early March release.

Once again a number of projects are being released along with bug fixes in this development rich service pack.  Here are my top ten favorite new features:

1. Collapsible Panel Navigation in over 40 web functions provides better use of screen territory and improved mobile experience.
2. MSO support in web functions provides improved web function tailoring capabilities. MSO displays and web functions may be configured to be available without customizing using the same MSO techniques used in PWS workflow configuration.
3. Local ‘Portal’ menus are now scoped to browser tab. This allows multiple browser tabs to display different portals or the same portal with different keys without the local menus interfering with each other.
4. ProductConfigurator supports alternate front-end screens from CTO.ENTRY. This allows ProductConfigurator to use a simplified version of the screens used in CTO.ENTRY.  Sales Reps may then do preliminary configurations in ProductConfigurator and then back end configuration specialists can reconfigure the generated item in CTO.ENTRY.
5. Summary Notes Option added to attachment notes menu on web pages.  This feature matches the PWS notes summary display available in PWS.
6. Global Menu: Home and Logoff buttons are easily accessible no matter how menus are configured.
7. WEB.SETTINGS.INQ - Displays the web preference hierarchy settings for one or more contacts, so if your web settings hierarchy has grown into a ball of spaghetti you can get it sorted out.
8. Customer Administrator role allows delegation of add, change, or deactivation of other contacts. CMADM role users may use UserPreference | ContactMaint to maintain other users from their company.
9. Visual Studio 2017 compatibility updates to website vbproj files.
10. Visual Studio Wizard Updates.
1. Collapsible Panel generation in BTO Inquiry and BTO Posting wizards.
2. BTO Posting wizard support for templated columns with roiTextBox controls bound to metadata for improved data entry features.

So keep an eye open for an upcoming official announcement and after you load up this new service pack find out more about these and other new features in the FEATURE.SUMMARY document.