Customers tell us that because of the flexibility of Reminder, and the huge number of different ways in which a SharePoint installation can be set up: getting Reminder correctly set up and configured for the first time can be a bit of a challenge.
To help with this, in Reminder v1.7 we have added a Setup Diagnostic Wizard that will check for many of the common set up and configuration problems for you and suggest possible configuration changes to fix them.
We are pleased to be able to let you know that we are introducing new free licenses for charities, community groups and philanthropic not for profit organizations on all of our products.
We have always offered a limited free Community license of our Reminder product, but a review of all of our licensing has allowed us to extend all our offering to charities and philanthropic non profit organizations. We will now have a monthly quota of free licenses of all of our products available for non-profit organizations.
Victor from New York asked
Is there a way to configure a Reminder webpart to send an email when task item status in the task list is set to “completed”?
Sure there is!
In this case the trick is to use a SharePoint Views to filter out the tasks you are interested in.
Did you know that you can customize SharePoint alerts with Pentalogic SharePoint Reminder webpart by merging data from fields in your lists into the subject and message of each email alert?
This is one of the most powerful features of Reminder and in this way you can personalise each Reminder email so that you will often be able to include enough data to enable the recipient to complete a task without having to check the task list.
It works just like a Microsoft Word Mail Merge. Include the Merge data by inserting the name of the field containing the data you want to merge into your email message or subject line in square brackets: [FIELDNAME].
So, for example you may have a list of equipment requiring testing, with its location and the date when the next test is due. Have Reminder send your service engineers emails telling them exactly what they need to test, where and when.
So you message would look something like this:
“This message is sent to remind you that the [EQUIPMENT NAME] at [EQUIPMENT LOCATION] is due to be tested on [NEXT TEST DUE DATE]”
Which would appear to your engineer as:
“This message is sent to remind you that the Potterton 2000 Gas Boiler at 37 Gloucester St, Bristol is due to be tested on Monday 1st September 2009.”
Your engineer now has all the information needed to get on with the job, without having to check details on the task list.
For more details and examples have a look at the Pentalogic Reminder online manual.
This web part gives a CrossTab view of a SharePoint® list helping you to summarize and analyze data.
(CrossTabs are more commonly known from Microsoft Excel® as a Pivot Tables – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot_table)
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