Tags: Features
This morning, possibly not the best choice of day given that it's April 1st, we released the latest beta of IdeaJam to the public ideajam.net site.

There are three fairly visible changes that you may notice immediately. The new "quick" login, to save you having to go to the classic login screen, the new Home Page and we have also replaced the default statistics page with some new Flash charts.

There are also several changes that we've made behind the scenes. We have managed to reduce the number of scheduled agents that are required to keep IdeaJam running, which will save on some server performance. We've added better handling of Replication/Save Conflict documents and there is also now some simple integration with Twitter, so that if you are running a public facing IdeaJam you can notify your followers when a new idea has been posted.

So check out the site, and as always, let us know what you think. We listen to every piece of feedback and are always trying to improve the product in the ways that will be most useful to our customers.

Posted by Matt White At 12:54:06 AM Location London | Permalink | Comments (2)

Tags: features
Well we spent a little time upgrading the public IdeaJam site to run on the full production version of our templates. It was a wonderfully pain free process, even though we were upgrading a fairly old, pre-release version of the application. But it's nice to have confirmed how simple the whole IdeaJam application is to look after.

So we've put together a short list of the changes. Most of the serious stuff is behind the scenes to make the databases easy to look after but there are a few key visible changes that we'll talk about over the next few weeks.

Release Notes
- New Notes application configuration including:
    - central "Control Panel"
    - configurable graphics, css, system text etc
- Integration with NCT Remember Me product
- Multi Lingual Support (configurable by administrators)
- Header "Quick Stats"
- Administration tools for maintaining ideas and votes
- New "In Progress" status
- Configurable RSS setup
- Support for IdeaSpace administrators
- Support for different Idea editing technologies (CoExEdit, FCKEditor, Plain text edior)
- Updated statistics page using open source charting engine
- Support for Domino servers from 6.5.x to 8.x
- Support for Directory Assistance in registration
- Configurable menu system
- All existing features can be enabled / disabled by the system administrator including:
    - Showing / Hiding who voted on what
    - What's Hot
    - Tags
    - Registration
    - User Profile

We'd like to thank all of the people who have helped us in out development and testing processes, and of course if you spot any issues or have any questions then please drop one of us a line.

Posted by Matt White At 10:24:29 AM Location London | Permalink | Comments (3)

Tags: features
Matt made some changes today to Idea Jam that will help you quickly check to see if a similar idea has already been posted. After you enter the Idea Title and tab to the next field, a search will be performed that will show you a list of similar ideas that have already been submitted. We hope this helps cut down on the number of duplicate ideas.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 05:10:13 PM Location Vancouver, WA | Permalink | Comments (0)