OnlineHomeBase - New Features

Rich Editing / Image and File Upload

User of Windows / Internet Explorer 5.5+ can now use rich formatting with their OnlineHomeBase sheet.

• Click the "Color and Graphics" link to toggle a sheet to rich formatting
• To upload a photo, click the image icon in the formatting bar.
• You can copy and paste images from other browser windows
• Upload files of any type by clicking the upload button (the one with the arrow pointing upward) in the formatting bar if you're displaying a sheet using rich editing mode. In sheets using plain mode you need to click "more functions" -> "upload". Uploaded files show up as a textlink inside the sheet.
• To delete uploaded files, it is not enough to just delete the textlink inside the sheet. You need to use the new "File Manager" (under "more functions") to delete uploaded files.
• There is currently a limit of 3 MB for the combined file size of uploaded images and files.
• New sheets open in rich formatting mode by default. For new sheets to use plain text mode by default, go to "Account" under "more functions", select "New sheets always plain" and then click the UPDATE button, and then the BACK button.

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Auto-Notify on Save

The new Auto-Notify feature automatically email-notifies OnlineHomeBase users who share a sheet or just the sheet owner every time the sheet is changed by someone. This is practical when it is important that everyone sharing a sheet learns about changes immediately.

The auto-notify options are set by the sheet owner when sharing a sheet by clicking the SHARE / COLLABORATE button. They can be set for sheets that are already shared by displaying the sheet, clicking the SHARE / COLLABORATE button and then choosing "advanced sharing set-up".

There are 3 auto-notify options:

1. Auto-notify just sheet owner every time sheet is changed by someone else.
2. Auto-notify the owner and all collaborators everytime sheet is changed.
3. Do not auto-notify (default)

Notify Upgrade

Notifications , automatic or manual, now contain information about who made the change, what text was deleted and what text was added to a sheet. To see a sample email notification, please click here. To notify others that a sheet has changed, simply click the Notify button or select Notify under "more functions". This additional information in notification emails does not work with content in calendar sheets.

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Create group reminders using group handles associated with a list of email addresses (Jan 7, 2003)

Click "GROUPS" under "more functions" to create group handles (for instance, a word like "myfriends") that the system associates with a list of email addresses that you can specify. The example reminder below would be sent on Monday at 9 AM to all the email recipients that you have defined under "myfriends":

don't forget to come over tonight for Monday night football
;;monday 9AM %myfriends

Note that you have to add a "%" sign in front of a group handle when you use it inside a reminder.

Group handles can also be used with the "Notify people when a sheet has changed" feature.

You can now also explicitly list more than one email address inside a reminder as shown in the example below:

Remember to meet tonight
;;Monday 10AM a@xyz.com b@xyz.com c@xyz.com

The reminder above would be sent on Monday 10AM to a@xyz.com b@xyz.com c@xyz.com 

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Choose your favorite color for the user interface header (Jan 1, 2003)

Click "Colors" under "more functions" to set your favorite color for the user interface header bar.



Repeat code for "repeat every xth of the month" functionality (Dec 26, 2002)

You now have the ability to create true monthly reminders using the "re" repeat code (as opposed to the "rm" repeat code which means "repeat every 28 days"). "re1", for instance, means repeat every 1st of the month. You can use any day of the month instead of "1". If you use "31" and the month has only 30 days, the system will choose "30" for that month and revert to "31" for the following month. The example below will send a reminder on April 1, 2003 at 9 AM and after that on every 31st of the month:

pay bills
;;040103 9am re31

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Extended Options for repeat reminders (September 29, 2002)

OnlineHomeBase's time codes for email reminders have become more powerful. In additional to the repeatmarkers "rh" ("repeat hourly"), "rd" ("repeat daily"), "rw" ("repeat weekly"), "rm" ("repeat every 28 days") and "ry" ("repeat yearly on this day") OnlineHomeBase now allows the use of multipliers like "r3h" ("repeat every 3 hours"), "r7m" ("repeat every 7 months") or "r10d" ("repeat every 10 days") with all repeatmarkers. Only use whole numbers as multipliers (i.e. something like "r1.5h" will not work). For more information on the use of time codes for email reminders, please consult the HELP page.

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Non-Internet Explorer Compatibility (September, 2002)

OnlineHomeBase will now display OK in non-IE browsers. However, some convenience features will be disabled. Using IE with OnlineHomeBase is recommended.

Web address shortcuts for sharing sheet (August 31, 2002)

When sharing sheets in read-only or read/write mode, you can now create easy-to-remember Web addresses like "www.bring-up.com/project_info/" that point to your sheet. See the HELP page for more.


New Layout Options (June 13, 2002)

When creating a new sheet, OnlineHomeBase now enables you to select from 4 layout options:

	4 columns: 4 columns, each taking up a quarter of the screen 1 column: just one column, stretching across the entire screen; similar to a Word document 4-week Calendar: a 4 by 7 grid of inputboxes representing four weeks 3 Columns + Calendar: the first three columns are for note style entries, the 4th column is separate into 28 boxes calendar-style
You can change the layout of a sheet even after it is created by clicking "options".

New 4-week Calendar Layout

The new "4-week Calendar" options enables you to conveniently view and edit four weeks' worth of calendar entries inside a single window. It is much easier to maintain than other Web-based calendars. Since each day box is associated with a particular day, it is enough to supply the hour portion of a time code to set up an email reminder, i.e. you can simply add ";;8pm" to an entry if you want it to be emailed to you on the day of the input box into which the entry is made. Below is an example:


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QuickNotes (May 12, 2002)

Say, you're in a situation, where you want to log into your OnlineHomeBase account and drop off some information or create a reminder really, really quickly, without having to first open up one of your existing work sheets after logging in (you may be surrounded by people and don't want them to see the contents of a work sheet, or what work sheets you have). In this case, right after logging into your OnlineHomeBase account, simply hit CTRL-SHIFT-Q (for "QuickNote"). This brings up an empty input field. Simply enter your information or reminder here, click the "Make QuickNote" button, and it will be added to a sheet called "Quicknotes". If the sheet does not yet exist in your account it will be created automatically.

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Added CTRL-SHIFT-letter shortcuts (May 12, 2002)

N: Create a new work sheet

X: Search in all work sheets


See HELP for complete list of shortcuts.

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Backup feature (May 11, 2002)

Clicking on the BACKUP link allows you to easily combine the contents from all your work sheets into a single text file that you can then save as a back up on your computer's hard drive.

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