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iPushPull Update: New Dashboard plus improved navigation and editing

We’ve been busy improving the iPushPull user experience and now we’re ready to go public with the new updates! This release adds a new dashboard to our web app with quick access to support and the latest company news. We’ve also made it easier to navigate around your folders and pages and improved page editing on our desktop and mobile sites. We’ve added comprehensive help for each new iPushPull update to the iPushPull Support Site.

New Dashboard

Several customers have asked us if we could make it easier to access support, product update information and company news from within the web app. So we’ve added a new dashboard to the site – see the picture above. The dashboard features quick links to useful support information plus the latest company news and tweets. You can also customise the dashboard by adding shortcuts to your favourite pages. Click on the following links to find out more about the Desktop Dashboard and Mobile Dashboard.

The dashboard will be displayed each time you log in, unless you choose your default folder and page instead (see this link for instructions about setting defaults). You can also display the dashboard by clicking the Home button in the top left corner of the web app.

New Navigation Bar

Our new Navigation Bar groups links to the dashboard, your personal profile settings and our support pages together in a single place. On desktop you can find it on the top left of the screen, under the iPushPull logo – for full details click here. On mobile it’s displayed at the top of your Folder List and Page List screens – click here for details.

Improved Navigation between your Folders and Pages

We’ve made it easier to drill down into your pages and move back up to your folder list. This is particularly useful when you have access to more than one folder or when you’re using our mobile site. Details about the desktop site here and the mobile site here.

Easier Page Editing

We’ve reduced the number of steps you need to take when editing your pages, and simplified the edit menu without reducing functionality. The result is a more streamlined experience, particularly when you’re using the mobile app. For more details click here for the desktop site and here for mobile.

We hope you like these improvements as much as we do! If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at support@ipushpull.com.

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iPushPull Update – Simple Page Access Management

We had to smile when Dropbox recently announced that they’d finally added User Groups support to their business package, as iPushPull has featured User Group access control from Day One. It makes it easy to manage the access each team within a business has to different pages – when a new team member joins, just add them to the team group, and when someone leaves, remove them. It’s a feature that’s very popular with our enterprise customers as it enables them to model their iPushPull page permissions directly on their organisational structure.

However, we thought that it might be a bit heavyweight for our smaller customers, so we spoke to some of them and came up with the new feature that we’ve released today: Basic Page Access Mode.

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Basic Page Access mode simplifies the management of user access for businesses with a smaller number of users and pages. Page access permissions are displayed in a matrix showing which user has access to which page, and what level of access they have (Read/Write, Read Only or no access at all). Each square on the grid can be toggled between the three states by clicking it (or tapping it on mobile). The Transpose button lets you switch the horizontal and vertical axes if it better suits your particular set up.

Basic Access mode is now the default for customers on the Free Trial and Business plans. Enterprise users will be able to switch between Basic and Enterprise modes using the Page Access Mode dropdown on the Folder settings tab:

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Note that your Enterprise mode settings are retained when you switch to Basic mode, and vice versa, so you can return to them by switching back. If you have any questions please contact our support team at support@ipushpull.com.

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iPushPull Website Update – Templates!

We’ve added templates to the latest version of iPushPull. Once you’ve created a page layout that you want to use frequently (e.g. an invoice or a report) you can designate it to be a template. Then the next time you create a new page you can pre-populate it from your saved layout.

Designating a Page to be a Template

iPushPull_template_checkTo indicate that a page can be used as a template, go to the Page Settings tab and check the This page is a template box and click Save Settings. Anyone who is a folder administrator can now create new pages based on this template.

 Creating a Page from a Template

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Sharp-eyed users may already have noticed the change we’ve made to the Create Page form that lets you do this. If you want to create an empty page, just enter the new page name and hit return or click the plus sign as usual. If you want to create a page based on a template, enter your new page name, click the down arrow and select Create from template instead.

When you select this a list of all the templates you have access to is displayed (see below). This list will include system-wide templates that we have created for you plus any templates you have access to from the folders you are a member of. We’re going to be adding more templates as we go along so keep checking to see the new arrivals. I’m particularly excited about the daily sudoku template – watch this space…

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As usual if you have any questions or comments please contact us at support@ipushpull.com.

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iPushPull Website Update – Referrals and Folder Access Control

folder_admin_buttonWe’ve made it easier for you to invite new or existing iPushPull users to share your folders. To invite someone new, click on the gearwheel to the left of the Folder name – this displays the folder admin view. Now click on the Access tab.

The Access view lets you control who has access to your folder. You can:

  • invite new users to your folder
  • grant or revoke folder admin rights
  • temporarily suspend user access to your folder
  • permanently remove a user’s access to your folder

You can also see the status of your invitations and view a history of folder events.

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To invite one or more users to your folder, enter their email addresses (separated by commas) into the Invite field at the top of the page. You can add a custom message if you like. When you click the Invite button we will email an invitation to them. If they accept it they will be granted access to the folder and any pages you have given them access to. They can also reject the invitation if they want to. You’ll be able to check their progress in the Access History log on the right of the page.

If you have questions or comments, please contact support@ipushpull.com

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Major Upgrade of the iPushPull Web App

We have just released a major new version of the iPushPull web app. The overall layout should be familiar, but we have modernised the appearance of the site and have made a great many changes under the covers to improve the resilience and extensibility of the platform.

The major changes you should notice are:

  • pages can now be updated from the website, not just from Microsoft Excel or other client applications
  • improved page layouts with much more space available to display your page contents
  • all site functions are now also accessible from the mobile version of the site
  • fully responsive design meaning that the site can be used on all device formats

Please contact support@ipushpull.com with any questions or suggestions.