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No Guarantees

Date:September 28th, 2009 Author:Clare Tags: SharePoint
Category: General Comments:5 ;

I am new to the world of software and I am noticing that you do things differently here.

Some of it is great – I don’t mind that I have had to put my entire wardrobe of business suits into storage and go out and buy a load of jeans and trainers, I’m not missing the endless, pointless meetings I used to sit in, and I’m getting used to the idea that no-one is going to ball me out if I turn up at 10 in the morning, so long as I put in a full day’s work.

But some things are proving more difficult to understand. So for the next couple of weeks I thought I would share some of my “new girl” thoughts and perhaps pick up some insider knowledge from you along the way.

So first up – guarantees.

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Getting Cross (Tab)

Date:September 9th, 2009 Author:Clare Tags: CrossTab, PivotPoint, SharePoint
Category: General, PivotPoint Web Part, SharePoint webparts Comments:0 ;

Update: CrossTab has been renamed PivotPoint

Our newest web part for SharePoint is a data analysis tool called “CrossTab”

We really like it: it works a bit like an Excel pivot table but has some extra functionality that helps you to unlock the data patterns and trends in SharePoint lists.

But nobody except us seems to get it. So we have prepared a quick video demo to show you how it works.

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We’re now a Microsoft Certified Partner – with Software that “Works with Windows Server 2008”

Date:August 20th, 2009 Author:Clare Tags: SharePoint
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As of Tuesday this week we have achieved Microsoft Certified Partner Status – so we giving ourselves a bit of a pat on the back over here in Cheltenham.

Getting the certified status is something we have know we needed to do for quite a while now – but just haven’t got round to it.

To get the Certification we went for the Microsoft ISV/Software solutions competency – for which we had to demonstrate a successful record of developing and marketing packaged software based on Microsoft technologies.

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SharePoint Webpart Customer Feedback

Date:August 12th, 2009 Author:Clare Tags: Reminder, SharePoint, WebPart
Category: General, SharePoint Reminder Comments:0 ;

It’s always great to hear from our customers: positive feedback gives us a nice warm glow, and the less positive gives us the chance to work on our weaker points!

This just in from Alicia is definitely of the warm glow variety:

“Thank you so much for all your help. Your responsiveness and professional assistance epitomize ‘customer service.’ We are still working on perfecting our Sharepoint task list, and we literally would not be as far along as we are today without your Reminder web part. It is exactly what we needed!”

Thank you Alicia!

Alicia also put in a request for a new feature for Reminder, which we are incorporating into the next release – watch this space!

So if you have any feedback for us – good or otherwise – or suggestions for product features or enhancements that you would be interested in, please get in touch.

New Hire for SharePoint Webpart Specialists Pentalogic – Clare Stone

Date:August 10th, 2009 Author:Ryan Tags: SharePoint, WebPart
Category: General Comments:1 ;

Clare Stone - Marketing Manager

Since you may have noticed a new name on recent posts in this Blog now seems like a good time to introduce our new member of staff – Clare Stone.

Clare joins Pentalogic as Marketing Manager. She has a strong background in business and consumer marketing across a number of sectors including finance, professional services, education and the travel industry. Her roots however are in qualitative research – so she will be able to help us get some real insight into our customers, present and future: how they use our products and services, what they want from us and what they don’t.

Clare does not come from a technical background, so she will also be able to help us keep our focus on producing software which provides neat solutions for the issues SharePoint end users face.

So as always, if you have any comments, questions or suggestions then get in touch.

We have moved into a new office

Date:July 27th, 2009 Author:Ryan Tags: SharePoint, WebPart
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In the past few weeks we have moved into a new, custom-built, software development facility in Cheltenham, England.

New office break room

Pittville Pump Room

As well as having possibly the best coffee machine in Gloucestershire our new facility also gives us the ability to offer telephone support to our customers, in addition to the email support we have always offered.

Click here for full contact details.

Cheltenham

SharePoint Planner Webpart – New Version 2.5.0 Now Available

Date:March 10th, 2009 Author:Ryan Tags: SharePoint Planner, Update, WebPart
Category: General, SharePoint Planner, SharePoint webparts Comments:0 ;

A new version (2.5.0) of SharePoint Planner Webpart is available to download.

The main change is the interface has been fully localized in French.

In addition :-

New feature to automatically default the web parts Title to the name of the source list and link to the lists default view (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 only). Both of these settings can be overridden if required using the toolparts Appearance > Title and Advanced > Title URL settings.
Correction to an error that stopped the By Category view grouping correctly if you were using a User lookup field with presence enabled.

You can simply download and install the new vesion – there is no need to remove the old version first.