Collanos Workplace 1.3.0.3 Released
July 7th, 2008 by Franco Dal Molin
Collanos Workplace 1.3.0.3 contains some new features, many improvements to existing functionality, as well as various minor enhancements and bug fixes. The focus of this release was to further improve the day-to-day work of users by filling in small but essential capabilities, as well as to lay the groundwork for supporting additional language translations.
New language translations can now be deployed independently from product releases in form of download-able language packs.
Workplace now supports external Hyperlinks and Emoticons (Smilies) in Chats and Discussions. Hyperlinks are also supported in the text areas of Note, Task and Link objects.
Existing contacts in popular social networks can be invited directly to join Collanos.
Many enhancements have been implemented and existing functions polished. See the illustrated Release Notes (PDF format) for more details.
As always, Collanos Workplace 1.3.0.3 is available in versions for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The software ships with built-in English, German and Chinese languages. Additional languages will be rolled out in the coming months, using the new language pack delivery mechanism.
The current version 1.3.0.3 is compatible with all previous 1.3 versions, and to a lesser extent to version 1.2, giving teams with mixed installations a smoother transition. The new release is available both as installer from Collanos’ web site and as automatic update process for existing users (Vista users see note below).
Collanos continues to improve the free version of Workplace. Our gratification is a steadily growing, active and vibrant user community. As always, we look forward to your feedbacks! Please help us by spreading the good news, for instance, by inviting your friends and business contacts to join Collanos as well. Thank you!
Release Highlights
This Workplace release contains a number of important improvements and new features:
- New delivery mechanism and simplified support for new languages
- Hyperlinks supported in Chats, Discussions and text areas of Notes, Tasks and Links
- Emoticons (Smilies) added to Chats and Discussions
- Invite contacts from social networks (Orkut, Friendster, MySpace, Hi5, Facebook, Xing, BlackPlanet)
- Improved usability of “Invite to Collanos” dialog
- Functions “Open With…” and “Save as…” added to Conflict Bin (for File objects)
- Central users directory now supports full name search; plus empty searches more meaningful
- Web page names fetched and filled-in automatically in Link objects
- Plus many more enhancements and over 80 issues resolved…
Compatibility
The current version 1.3.0.3 is protocol-compatible with all previous 1.3 versions, and to a lesser extent to version 1.2, giving teams with mixed installations a smoother transition. Users with older versions will obviously not benefit from new features. For example, a 1.3.0.2 user won’t see Hyperlinks or Emoticos in Chats or Discussions, but only plain text representations. 
Automatic Update
We strongly recommend upgrading to the latest version. Existing Workplace 1.3 users will benefit from an automated upgrade process. All you need to do is restart your application to trigger the auto-update process. Note for Vista users: On a Windows Vista with the UAC (User Access Control) activated, if Workplace is installed in Program Files, the automatic software update does not work unless you start Workplace with the ‘Run as administrator‘ option.
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July 16th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
This sounds like good news..it already was a great tool to share documents, have online discussions, and manage tasks, all in a single, consolidated space…to name a few…and now additional features would make it even better.
July 16th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
The new version was easy to install - and looks nice.
Issue is with new Invite function - cannot invite contacts from Facebook, LinkedIn or email addressbooks (Face book message states Workplace cannot get addresses; email systems require conversion to neutral format prior to loading - any way to get this function to work smoothly?
July 16th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Hi Steven, I passed your feedback to support. We will get in touch with you on this point. Thanks for your feedback.
Cheers
Peter
July 16th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
There will be some very nice new features in the coming versions of Collanos. Time to join the community and give us feedback. Franco Dal Molin will soon blog about the different features in different areas.
Cheers
Peter
July 19th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Great info - keep up the great work.
July 24th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Hello Steven,
One can invite through Collanos his Social Networks contacts. The case that you’ve described is not really connected to Collanos. It becomes impossible to import contacts after some lull in Social Network usage. It is possible to fix it.
1. Login under you social network account on the correspondent site;
2. Change your password;
3. Start up Collanos;
4. try to invite your contacts;
Now contacts should be imported well and you may send invitation mails.
Best regards,
Anna Evpak
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