Release Notes - 27th May 2010
Two great new features and a handful of fixes. As always if you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact us.
Combinations of query results
Insight's Query Wizard already offers you powerful functionality for searching and manipulating your data. In this release, we've given you a whole new level of flexibility, allowing you to compare the results of different queries - for example, "find me all the people in the 'Leaders' group who aren't in the 'Resources' group" or "find me all the people in either the 'Leaders' group or the 'Staff' group.
When you have run a query in the usual way and have your results, you now have the option to save them - at the bottom of the results, choose 'Save & Compare' then 'Save these results' and then, as with saving queries, you have the option to either save in your personal folder or in a specific group. After the results have been saved, you can find them again by clicking your personal folder or the relevant group, and selecting the 'Saved Results' tab.
Next time you get the results to a query, you can compare the results of this query to any set of results that you have previously saved - choose 'Save & Compare', then 'Compare these results with another results set' and you can then choose the results you previously saved and say how they should be compared with your current results set:
- Union - List all items (e.g. users) that are in EITHER results set
- Intersection - List the items (e.g. users) that are in BOTH results sets.
- Complement - List the items (e.g. users) that are in one results set but not the other.
This then gives you another results set that you can save and, if you so wish, compare again to other results, allowing you to build up infinitely complex queries.
Related Group Memberships
This great new feature allows you to define relationships between your groups so that when a user is given membership of one group, they can automatically be given membership of another group. For example, you might want to ensure that all members of the 'Training Course' group are also given membership to the 'Course Notes' group. Optionally, you can also specify that when a member is removed from the 'Training Course' group, they are also removed from the 'Course Notes' group.
To get started with this feature, go to the 'Members' tab of the group, and you'll see a new Task - 'Configure related groups for the group_name group'. Selecting this takes you to the new configuration page which allows you to set groups that the current group will grant memberships to. Click the 'Add Group' button and choose the group you want to add to, then click 'OK'. You can only select from other groups that you also have the 'Membership Admin' permission over. Make sure you click 'Save' when you're done.
Below the configuration area, you'll also see a list of groups which can grant or revoke memberships from the group you're currently editing. To alter these relationships, you'll need to go to the group in question.
Let us know what you think!
We'd love to hear your comments - good or bad - on our latest release, so leave a comment below and let us know what you think!
Other enhancements and bug fixes
- The list of possible tasks on the results page in the Query Wizard had become so long as we've been adding features, that it had become a bit confusing. All the same tasks are still there, but we've grouped them logically.
- In the Web Office, on some documents, there was an error when clicking the 'Viewing History' tab. This has now been resolved.
- During British Summer Time, all-day events imported into Google Calendar using iCal were not showing on the correct day. This has been fixed.
- We've made a small fix to the new rotas interface so that the rota's height is adjusted correctly when adding new events.
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