In our March 2012 release, we updated the user interface for photo libraries. In order to help answer some questions  - here is an FAQ to help out.

Why did you update the Photo Library user interface?

Our goals were to, eliminate pop-ups, increase usability on touch devices, decrease page and photo load times, quickly print all photos and enable uploading of single or multiple photos via email.

How do I access the photo libraries and thumbnails? Same as before.

From your project, hover your mouse over Photos on the project navigation, then select desired library.

How do I view all thumbnails on one screen?

Under the thumbnails, select ‘show all photos.’

How do I scroll through the large photographs?

Select a thumbnail or the right and left arrows that appear when hovering over either side of the large photo.

How do I print a single photo? Right click on the image you wish to print.

Save image to your desktop. Print Image.

How do I print all photos in a slideshow?

Select Edit button in the upper right corner. Select ‘Download as PDF’. Print PDF

Can I hide the film strip when looking at larger photos?

Under the thumbnails, select “Hide Filmstrip.”

I’m in a slideshow, how do I get back to the page where I can view all photo libraries?

While viewing your slideshow, select ‘return to list’ located under the Edit button.

Can I download all of the photos?

Select Edit button in the upper right corner. Select ‘Download as Zip’.

How do I create a photo slideshow from email?

Obtain the create photo slideshow email address by selecting ‘Create Photo Slideshow via Email’ on the photo library list page. Drag photos into email, enter subject and send.

How do I add a photo to and existing photo slideshow from email?

Obtain the update photo slideshow email address by selecting ‘Upload Photo(s) via Email’ on the photo library context menu on the photo library list page. Drag photos into email and send.

This weekend we are releasing our March 2012 release. Here's a quick preview.

Heres a bit more information:

Ad-hoc Reporting: 

• includes project directory businesses and contacts. Ad-hoc reports may be filtered, grouped or sorted by business, discipline, contact and their job.
• includes the Location & Design Attributes custom field expansion.
• includes the Project Classification custom field expansion.
• apply sorting independent of grouping.

Location Master:

• location master: 200 custom fields including the addition of multi-select fields.
• project classification: 100 custom fields including the addition of multi-select fields.

Photo Library:

• upgrades user interface to eliminate pop-ups.
• upgrades user interface to increase usability on touch devices.
• upgrades user interface to integrate selection of thumbnails and view of detail photo onto single page.
• decreases page load times for photo library lists and photos.
• download all photos as single PDF document.
• upload photos to existing or new libraries via email.

Document Uploads Via Email:

• email single or multiple file attachments directly to project folders.
• upload of new versions of existing files with auto-matching

Photo Library Uploads Via Email

• email single or multiple photos directly to photo slideshows.
• create new photo slideshows via email photo attachments.
• support upload of embedded photos in email from iOS devices.

Email Archive and Discovery

• archive emails by project on any outgoing or incoming message.
• simply include one or more archive email address.
• capture the email thread as a single file with multiple versions.
• easily access all email threads within the document folder structure or fully-indexed search.
• protect email archives with flexible security.
• download entire email archive as a single ZIP file.

Various Updates

• IE9: photo library thumbnails now render
• Project Documents: user alerted when changing permissions and remove their own access
• Project Directory: v-card download now includes Country and Postal Code.

In this next video we show how easy it is to update an existing report to meet the needs of your team members. In less then three minutes we take an existing report, add a project count, add columns, rework the grouping by quarter, save as and export the results to excel.

Easily access and manage your real estate development program via the cloud. As my eight year old says. "Easy Peasy"

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I got called out in December of 2011 - we seemed to be missing quite a few press releases. It appeared nothing had happened at site|folio for the last half of the year. In order to rectify, I spent the end of 2011 taking my 3, 6 and 8 year old to Disney World, celebrating my mother-in-law's 70th birthday (let's keep that number a little secret) and writing a handful of press releases. It turned out to be a great way to reflect on 2011 - revisiting the growth and success of our customers.

Here are a few of the press releases I penned on space mountain.

Wow! In 2011 96% of our customers increased adoption.

Nice! In 2011 site|folio grows revenue 35% and active users 40%.

Looking over our 2011 press releases, it demonstrates that month after month we here heavily invested, working with our customers from a myriad of different departments that wanted to get truely integrated across their real estate development pipeline. They saw what their counterparts had and wanted the same for themselves. Can't blame them. Customers expanded their user bases, broadened the use of master scheduling to now include aspects of design and leasing calendars. Adopted end to end capital budgeting solutions and began tracking contracts.

Take a quick look at how some of our customers expanded in 2011: Press Releases

We are jumping feet first into 2012 with really exciting things coming together for our next release. I can't get into the specifics yet - but it's quite handful of powerful solutions.

2011 to 2012 via Space Mountain. Lead by pure joy, followed by pure terror, followed by a Dad hoping a kid doesn't pop out of their seats.

This next video demonstrates how easy it is for users to create real-time reports on the fly. It's the first in a series and just scratches the surface.

Do you have a meeting in five minutes and need to pull together a report that displays all new buildings scheduled to open in 2011? – no problem. Help your team and business partners gain unprecedented visibility across the real estate development process.

More to follow!

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With Argon out the door and our customers centralizing their Diversity & Qualification Business Partner Information we are heads down working on our next major release Potassium.

In the meantime we have started a YouTube channel to host short videos to help our users get the most out of site|folio.

http://www.youtube.com/user/sitefolio

Here is the first in the series. Understanding how to subscribe to an email notification on a document folder. One of the many ways to be notified when activity occurs on a project.

Argon Already?

Just 6 weeks after our last major release Chlorine,  we delivered Argon on Friday. Argon enables our customers to centrally track their Business Partners Diversity and Qualifications in a flexible and meaningful manner.  This flexibility means the standard configuration of fields can be renamed, extended and suppressed while security rights can be granularly assigned.

Standard Configuration

Diversity:

• Size
• Type
• Gender Classification
• Ethnicity
• Certifying Agency
• Certificate Number
• Certificate Issued
• Certificate Expiration
• NAICS Number
• DUNS Number
• Custom Text Fields
• Custom Date Fields
• Custom Pick List Fields
• Custom Multi Select Fields

Qualifications:

• Type
• Status
• Rating
• AIA Date
• Currency
• Bonding Cap
• Bonding Aggregate
• Average Volume
• Locale
• Custom Text Fields
• Custom Date Fields
• Custom Pick List Fields
• Custom Multi Select Fields 

We  missed renovation realities again this Friday night while we upgraded another physical aspect of our hosting infrastructure.

It’s important. We like to stay ahead of the curve ensuring our solution is highly responsive and available.(So do our customers) As you will see evidenced in the blog several times a year we upgrade various aspects of our delivery platform.

The last upgrade were the SQL servers. The focus this weekend was upgrading the capacity of our current document storage. We increased our capacity over four times. We have plenty of headroom allowing our clients to host as many CADD, Revit, PDF, Word, Excel, (well you get it... any file type)  they desire.

When working with site|folio - everything just works.

September 2011 release (Chlorine)

This weekend we released a major upgrade to our contract administration module which focused on 1) usability 2) configurability 3) seamless integration into capital budgting.

Miscellaneous

Enhancement:

1. Schedules: calculation offset value input box size extended from 3 characters to 5 characters

2. Project Setup: blank entry added to ’Requested By’ field eliminating required selection

Bug Fixes:

1. Submittal Log: submittal view page elegantly handles situations where multiple enterprises share data

2. Static Saved Search: correctly displays results of saved static search

3. IE9: attachment window save and cancel options are viewable

4. Project Overview: schedule upcoming elegantly handles the associated schedule template; displaying expected topics

5. Project Document ILPs: ensures a user with the project security administrator ‘e’dit permission can edit document folder ILP's

Ad-Hoc Reports

Enhancement:

1. Ad-hoc Reports: group and sort ad-hoc report date fields chronologically

2. Ad-hoc Reports: Gantt chart respects ad-hoc report grouping and sorting

3. Ad-hoc Reports: excel export retains grouping headers

Change Request (Prototype Management)

Enhancement:

1. Project CR: ’acknowledged by’ pick list configuration options expanded

2. CR Field Labels: simplified to increase usability and eliminate enterprise configuration naming conflicts

Contractor Contracts II (New)

Enhancement:

1. Contracts: suppress retainage fields when users do not have payment application permissions

2. Contracts: suppress markup percent when change orders do not support markup

3. Contracts: suppress "Revised Contract Finish" when contract days extension configuration is disabled

4. Change Order: allow approvers to edit the change order type dropdown across workflow

5. Attachments: allow approvers to manage COs, COPs & Pay Application attachments across workflow

Have questions? Contact Cristy Rousey-Clement at 206-553-9853

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"When Paul Ozinga arrives on the jobsite, it doesn't take long for a small crowd of construction workers, superintendents and managers to gather around him. Their excitement isn't because he is bringing lunch or paychecks. It is for his iPad."

Back in 2009 site|folio released support for all major web browsers. This decision required a redesign of the user interface and 6 months to execute. We bet that mobile devices would standardize on a single web standard known as HTML5. We looked to provide a quick rendering, highly responsive HTML5 compliant experience for our users across our entire solution. By achieving these goals our solution provides an experience that is not only accessible in major web browsers but across an array of major mobile devices.

Every new feature and effort is designed with compatibility in mind. The industry expects a fully-functional experience across a myriad of devices.

We will meet that need.