The FastFrame team is proud to announce the release “GUI Goodness,” version 3.2 of FastFrame and its applications.
It’s certainly been awhile (over 8 months!) since the last release, but we’ve been hard at work fixing bugs and improving the user interface to make mayday, checkout, and other FastFrame applications easier and faster to use. A lot of the improvements came through adding AJAX and other javascript functionality to the main pages used by the different applications, which means less page loads and a smoother interface. However, these improvements did come at a small cost, older web browsers are no longer supported. You must have Safari 1.2+, Firefox 1+, IE6+, or Opera 8+ to use FastFrame now. If your user base is using older browsers you’ll need to upgrade them.
Please note: There is database incompatibility between 3.2 and 3.4. By running updatedb_32_to_34.php in the FastFrame/scripts/ directory you can upgrade your database without losing any data. See the upgrade docs for more information on upgrading.
Highlights of this release include:
- IE loads faster because transparent PNG icons are no longer used
- Support for AJAX
- Comments can be added, deleted, and edited inline.
- Multiple attachments can be added to a ticket at one time.
- Comments can be added, deleted, and edited inline.
- Comments are collapsed by default (gmail style!)
- Assigning a mayday and changing priority can now be done from the summary page without a page reload.
- The email interface is much more robust (people who are CC’d are added to the watchlist, emails that are sent high priority are marked as such in the mayday)
- Deleted reservations and completed loans can now be searched and displayed.
- Added the ability to download borrower info in CSV format.
- Shoppers can now see their demos and reddots via the My Profile page
Those are only the highlights, so head over to the download area to get them. Or, as always, you can check out the demo to give it a test run.