Yesterday we upgraded VELUMrent to a new version. Here is a rundown of a few new features that came with this version…

Custom reservation statuses

VELUMrent now supports up any number of custom reservation statuses. Every status has a changeable name, color and type. By default you’ll only see two statuses. You can edit them or add additional statuses in the Settings menu.

Note that you can now choose the type of every status. This option enables you to choose if it’s possible to freely move reservations around the reservations calendar or if you’ll need to confirm such changes. This option is a safety mechanism for confirmed and approved reservations so they are not moved by mistake.

Restore last session

There were quite a few feature requests for specifying what is the first thing VELUMrent shows after users log in. Some users wanted an option for choosing a default time filter while others requested a default date to be opened.

However, as many users use the same login credentials but want to see different parts of VELUMrent on log in, adding a single setting for the whole account was not the right solution. So to make this possible we implemented browser cookies into VELUMrent. Using cookies VELUMrent can remember you last used settings and then restore them when you log back in.

The great thing about cookies is that they are unique for every browser. This way every member of your staff will have their own settings saved for the computers/browsers they use without interfering with other user settings  on other devices.

Jump-to-Month feature

This feature further extends the functionality of two sidebar navigation calendars. By clicking the month or year number in the calendar header you’ll activate a drop-down menu from where you can choose a specific month and year to jump to.

This feature reduces the number of required clicks, and therefor required time, which takes to jump to a distant month or year on reservations calendar.

Visit VELUMrent’s change log to see other made changes.

]]> http://www.constructivecode.com/2010/05/custom-reservation-statuses-jump-to-month-and-other-new-features/feed/ 1 http://www.constructivecode.com/2009/03/velumrent-beta-is-out-and-official-release-is-next-week/ http://www.constructivecode.com/2009/03/velumrent-beta-is-out-and-official-release-is-next-week/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:20:01 +0000 Darko Kontin http://www.constructivecode.com/?p=289 If you were following our updates via Twitter you already know that we are in final stages of development for the release version 1.0. of VELUMrent. We ran on some issues during implementation of some features and that is the reason why we are running a bit late with the release than we originally planned. But all that is now behind us and we think we won’t have any similar issues until the release date.

Currently the beta version, with all features that will come in the 1.0. version, is available for public testing here:

http://www.velumrent.com/LogIn.aspx

At the moment we are polishing some features like Public desktop, Languages and UI text so they work as we originally planned. Once that is finished, sometime next week, VELUMrent will get officially released to our customers (You).

If you have any suggestions, questions or bug reports that you found during testing please let us know and we will address them all immediately.

Thank would be all for now. Next week we will have a reason to write a longer and more detailed blog post :). So stay tuned.