SME Gateway adopted the JobTrack system from stSoftware

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SME Gateway adopted the JobTrack system from stSoftware in October 2012. Since then the SME Gateway staff has increased by 40%. There are usually 50 concurrent projects under management. A typical month would see more than 30 jobs priced and bid.

JobTrack is used to coordinate the workflow to achieve these through puts.

The iCAL interface provides an intuitive, real time interface to the status of all jobs and bids to available everyone, wherever they are. The Apple calendar, we use also allows us

What to do when you get an email warning about "variable is deprecated"

You may have seen email warnings about "variable is deprecated". The system has been updated to warn if an email variable or bit of code which is 'deprecated' or out of date. (I had to look up what that meant! - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation).

What do you do?

You can click Continue to send the emails and it will be fine.

To stop seeing the warning we just need you to update your email template to the new formats for email variables. For example $recipient.firstname,Sir/Madam$ it is

Website content - why fresh is best

 Websites should be fresh - always up to date

The key ingredient for making an engaging site is relevant content which gives answers & insights for your targeted audience.

Business and society leaders recognise that an engaging website will generate sales or better service their members and are willing to invest time and resources in the creation of a new site. An engaging website generates new sales and great customer service. Business and society leaders recognize this, and invest time and resources into the creation

Does stSoftware's CMS allow for the creation of CMS managed e-newsletter campaigns?

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The system has a central Contact Relationship Management (CRM) module. The standard features include bulk emailing and email templates.

Bulk Email Screen

Email templates with "mail merge" substitutions is a standard feature.

Email Template

All reports can be exported. 

Export of contact

New contacts can be entered. Sections of the standard forms can be hidden as required or new forms can be created.

Person form

Easily import contacts using the import wizard, which includes a number of predefined templates. Custom layout can also be used.

Import wizzard

Release Notes: stSoftware's CMS Upgrade

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stSoftware's CMS Upgrade

Includes new Page Controls which greatly advance the intuitiveness of page editing, a separate Article menu to easily set access priviledges for Article Authors, and a new icon on folders to quickly visualise when they are 'Public'.

What databases are supported by Cloud Blocks.

The system has been tested on the following databases 

  • PostgreSQL 9.1+
  • MySQL 5+
  • Sybase 12+
  • Oracle 12.5+
  • Microsoft SQL server 2007+

The Cloud Blocks stores all the data in simple key/value pair tables, which are support by all major databases. All data access is done via the JDBC driver for the database. The main requirements of the database is that it's ACID compliant and has a JDBC driver for the current Java version.

JobTrack for SME's

Easy online access to the best CRM and management tools to quote and run jobs.

View Job P&L's, invoice and record payments, create purchase orders for jobs or inventory.

 

Running your business from the cloud is easy and affordable

JobTrack Quick Start

Work better as a team with Job summaries, user grouping and shared documents/files online.

Keep up to date with calendar, auto email/sms alerts and day sheets.

Talk to us about adding your website for a complete fully integrated, no hassle online business solution.

Get connected and work on the go!

JobTrack lets you run your business on a cloud or on your

Does stSoftware's CMS meet WCAG 2.0 standards?

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We check that our custom websites and content complies with http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG and checked with http://achecker.ca/checker 

Accessibility checks are built right into the WYSIWYG text editors and validation messages are given when known issues are detected in the site. 

Our custom sites comply with WCAG 2.0 AAA. There is no need for alternative "accessible" versions of the custom sites as we do not use or recommend the use of unfriendly technologies such as flash or Java applets.

Does stSoftware's CMS include an audit trail and full version control of pages including roll-back ability?

A full audit trail is automatically recorded for every change in the system. Selecting records as they were at any point of time is standard functionality. 

On each standard screen there is a log tab which shows the changes to this and related records.

Log tab

Each transaction record every change to every record within that transaction.

Transaction

The journal can be searched using a number of very suffocated commands.

Journal Search

Any transaction or set of transaction can be reversed by an administrator. 

Reverse