Long awaited but now ready to be shown to the world! The new farmerswife v6.5 is out! It's been a while since our last major release, but we hope you will think it has been worth the wait!
Read below about our highlights and most important changes.
A stable and fast performance is crucial for your daily farmerswife work. When your database gets really big or you are juggling with long bookings and many involved resources you may have been noticing slow performance. In version 6.5 we've addressed this in various areas of farmerswife. We've looked at different scenarios and processes that our clients reported and found we could substantially improve speed in these ways:
It's not only fun to carefully choose an icon for users or objects. It can also be quite useful for visual layout. Now you can choose your favourite super hero for your staff, freelancers or customer profiles... We have put in a lot of new icons for you to choose from! For a full overview of all icons check this article
If you are still missing your favourite icon then Let us know!
That's why we've added some love to our most popular add-on; we moved some buttons and added some nice tweaks to the Graphical User Interface. You can also now Lock Budgets, so users without permission will see a "locked" icon next to the budget name. Read more.
Additionally you can now attach actuals to selected active budgets when you are creating a booking - pretty exciting for those who hate that chore of attaching actuals in the budgeting window. And then all other involved objects in the booking and time reported extras can be attached to the same active budget. So you can save that time later for a nice cup of tea! Read more.
Version 6.5 is a big step forward towards a complete solution for Rental houses and Production companies that manage large amounts equipment. Curious to find out what we added to our EMT option? Click here to find out.
We know that keeping an eye on the financials is key for running a business successfully . So we've listened to our customer feedback and added more fields and groupings to the Financial Reports such as;
Yes, now you can schedule your (pre-payment) invoices!! Read all about it here. And if you're using Divisions (add-on), you will be happy to hear that you can now automate the process of creating internal invoices. Find out more about divisional invoicing!
We like the Object Tree. It gives you a long term overview on capacity and availability. Now this also allows you to do some bulk operations on Bookings (by multi-selecting Bookings) and to run quick reports. There's a new filter for conflicts and preliminary bookings too. Read all about the Object Tree here.
If you are using Cirkus, our new task management application with farmerswife, you will be glad to know that we have made improvements on syncing farmerswife <> Cirkus for better stability. Read more.
If you are planning a project but you are not ready to release it to your creatives / web users, or do not want them to receive unnecessary schedule changes emails, you can use the "Web Visibility" feature, which we have improved in this version. Read more.
Seen the little magnifying glass? It's really magnificent :) You'll find it in the Project Tree. Click on it to open our new Project Selector, listing recent projects, and if your project is not in the list you can conveniently use the search field. You can also easily create a new project from the same window.
Also new is the sorting of bookings by date in the Projects Tree.... until now Bookings appeared in order of creation (hm) - but now you can nicely sort them by date so they appear in a proper Gantt Chart View - beautiful! Read more.
...should not be unmentioned. You know you can always read all the nice stuff we added (including all nice bug fixes) in our Release Notes... but here are a few of our small highlights:
For the full list of change in this version take a look at the Release Notes.
We at the farmerswife support team are happy to help you with whatever questions you might have. We are just an email or a phone call away.
See you next time in NAB New York 16-17 October!