What's new in the latest version? (Archive 2)
RS4.9.179.7 release date: 10 July 2009
- A log entry is now created when the user is changed on a record.
RS4.9.179.6 release date: 09 July 2009
- The log options in the Emailer toolbar are now visible in Windows Vista.
- In the Call Backs screen you can now create a call back by dragging a client or candidate from the right hand panel onto the appropriate day of the calendar.
- Bug fixes.
RS4.9.179.5 release date: 05 July 2009
- There is now an export facility to send selected clients from the Search and Mailings results to the Client List on the Sales Calls form. This makes the creating of a sales call list a lot more flexible.
- In the Emailer, the salutations drop down has been changed to present just the placeholders for LastName, FirstName, DisplayName, Job Title and Company. Users can select an appropriate name(s) and add the 'Dear', 'Hi', 'Cher', etc. themselves to the body text in the email body.
- Users who do not have export rights set by the Administrator can now not copy data from Search and Mailings, My Clients and My Candidates and paste it into Excel spreadsheets.
- In the company tree panel, the Vacancies (under a client) are expanded by default to be consistent with previous usage. There is now a right click option to collapse the Vacancy nodes to compact the tree.
- Bug fix on New Client and New Candidate buttons on the Company form.
RS4.9.179.4 release date: 03 July 2009
RS4.9.179.3 release date: 01 July 2009
- A multi-branch facility has been added to the Company form to handle companies with more than one branch.
- The concept of Disciplines has been introduced to Candidates, Clients and Vacancies. This will be featured in a forthcoming tutorial.
- The data service on your PC or server that holds your Recruit Studio data must be updated to enable these two new features. See instructions on how to update your data service.
- Issues with emailing via Lotus Notes have been resolved.
- An option to email directly via SMTP has been added.
- Users can now be designated as Administrator, Manager or Consultant to enable various levels of access to certain functions.
RS4.9.146.7 release date: 03 June 2009
- Email address validation is now available. Any incorrect email addresses will be prefixed with a '?' in the Email field.
- Minor bug fixes
We have updated the website with new step-by-step help guides on many topics. They include screenshots and are easy to follow. Take a look at the Training page to see the list.
RS4.9.75.8 release date: 06 May 2009
- In Search and Mailings you can now search for Hot Lists as well as closed vacancies.
- There is now a company status field. (Requires a database update.)
- In Search and Mailings there is now a segments panel so you can see the segments relating to a particular client or candidate.
- Further changes to reminders.
- It is now possible to see which user last edited a client, company, candidate or vacancy record. (Requires a database update.)
- Only public CVs are sent by the Emailer. To make a CV public, right click a CV in the candidate's Attachments panel and choose 'Make CV public'.
- CVs in PDF format can now be public CVs.
- The Emailer now displays the email signature automatically in the content panel.
- Changing the sector of a company now changes the sectors for clients/candidates if required.
- The Sales Meeting button has been removed from the logs toolbar when in a company or vacancy form.
- When skills are captured from a CV in a candidate form then all skills are used in the scan of the CV, not just the skills for the particular sector.
- If you have more than 20 tabs open then a message is shown when you open another tab.
- Emailing via Lotus Notes now handles Unicode characters correctly.
- Emails background is now set to transparent.
- The following functions are now Admin only: Database Update, Add/Remove Users, Delete Sector, Menu table buttons for menu dataset access and export users list, Stop Data Service.
- You can now populate the client call list in the Sales Calls form from your Hotlist of clients.
RS4.9.75.0 release date: 18 March 2009
- A 'Not interested' box has been added to the Candidate status panel in the 'Candidates' tab on Vacancy records, likewise in the 'Client List' tab on Candidate records.
- The reminder pop up box has been replaced by a popup list on the Reminders button on the lower toolbar. Clicking on a call back in the Reminders list opens the Call Back form and highlights the call back.
- A Document panel has been added to the right hand panel of the screen. This can be seen by clicking 'Show documents' on the View menu. Documents can be opened in the browser or dragged into the Emailer or into the Attachments panels on records. Shortly, users will be able to edit and save these files with an icon in Attachments.
- Documents (and other template icons) can be entered or edited/deleted using the new template editor on the Admin menu.
RS4.9.60.0 release date: 03 March 2009
- Recruit Studio 2009 version has been issued.
- There is now a Search Companies button on the Candidate record so you can seach for Companies as well as Vacancies.
- The new Search and Mailings is now on the Main Menu.
- A whiteboard is now available on the Main Menu. It is a general all user message board.
- The default font in the Emailer is now Arial.
RS4.9.13.10 release date: 23 February 2009
- Bulk email filters for newsletter and date last emailed in the new Search & Mailings.
- There is now an option to set a mandatory email field in a Client or Candidate name box. You can set an option meaning that you must enter an email address if creating a new record.
- There are changes to the Lotus Notes Emailer handler so that the British £ sign is handled correctly and the character set is now UTF-8 which prevents character problems in some situations.
- The 'Newsletter' tick box is now set to ticked when a new Candidate or Client is created.
- In the Candidate's details form, the tick box 'Work Permit Required' is renamed 'Eligible to Work' which is a more accurate description of whether a candidate is allowed to work in a particular country.
- The organogram chart in the Companies form is now scrollable.
- The Vacancy panel background colour is now correctly set using the status field.
- The Candidate's date of birth field is now correctly handled across different time zones.
- When updating either the non-auto updating client program and the add-ins program, there is now no need to uninstall the software first.
RS4.9.13.3 release date: 13 January 2009
- New email signature facility. You can now create several html email signatures for the Emailer to use. Use this facility if you are having problems with Outlook signatures when emailing from Recruit Studio.
