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New Features in Team^® 2.8

Alexsys Introduces Many New Features to Team 2.8

Highlights of Team's new features follow.

If you would like to read a more in detailed summary of this update, please review the Team 2 Readme file.

Support for the Latest SQL Servers

Team Pro now supports the following SQL Servers:

Microsoft SQL 2005
Oracle 10g
MySQL 5.0

Unlimited Flag Notes & Discuss Notes

Team now allows you to include multiple Flag or Discuss Notes in a single request. When using multiple Flag Notes in a single request, Team uses and displays the following Flag States:

No Flag - no flag icon is displayed in the request or TeamView, no active flag is in the request
My Flag - a blue flag icon is displayed in the request and TeamView indicating that you have an active flag in the request.
Other Flag - a gray flag icon is displayed in the request and TeamView indicating that another user has an active flag in the request, but you do not.

Team also allows you to change existing general notes in to Flag or Discuss Notes.

Notifications have been enhanced to include the following fields and recipient wildcards that can be used when defining notices for informing users when changes have been made to Flag and/or Discuss Notes as follows:

Flagged By Added
Flagged By Removed
Flag Names Added
Flag Names Removed
Discuss By Added
Discuss By Removed

Field Match Filters and Conditions

Team now allows you to create filters and conditions to match fields with other fields.

* Field match filtering is not supported for range filters on Multi-select fields *

Custom Schema (SQL only)

Team provides you with some custom fields including Text, Date, Numeric, Memo, Money, and Marker fields.

However, you may need additional custom fields or you may not need all of the custom fields that Team supplies you with.

Using the new Schema tool included in the Alexsys Team Database Utility, you can add more custom fields in your SQL database or remove the fields you don't need.

Custom LongText Fields (SQL only)

Team now includes a new field type called LongText. LongText allows up to 80 characters, where a standard Text field allows only 40 characters.

LongText fields can be added to your SQL database using the new Schema tool.

Drag & Drop Support

Team now includes Drag and Drop support for the following:

attachments to/from Requests from/to Desktop
attachments to/from Requests from/to Outlook Messages
text from Outlook Messages to Request memos, notes and attachments
relationships to/from TeamView, Lists, Project Tree, Requests

Work Request Duplication Rules and Properties

Team now includes Field Rules to control:

when values in any standard field can be duplicated to the new duplicated request
when text in memo fields can be duplicated to the new duplicated request

Team now has enhanced "Duplicate Work Request" Properties to:

select the Request Type of the new duplicated request
relate the new duplicated request to the original as a peer, parent or child
copy all relationships from the original request to the new duplicated request
copy all notes from the original request to the new duplicated request
copy all attachments from the original request to the new duplicated request
save the new request and ignore all field rules

Team-Web - Request Duplication

Team-Web now includes the ability to duplicate Work Requests using the same Duplicate Work Request properties that are available in Team.

Team Duplicate Field Rules are also enforced when duplicating requests in Team-Web.

Attachment Type Options

System Administrators can use the new "Allow Attach Methods" settings in the "Attachment - System Options" to control which Attachment Methods Team users have access to when adding attachments to Work Requests.

Attach Method settings are enforced in both Team and Team-Web.

Workday Support

Team now supports Workdays* by including the following new fields and date field variable:

Workdays Left field
Workdays Open field
Workdays Overdue field
[Workday] date variable (allows +/- offsets like all other date variables)

As with all Team fields, these fields can be used in:

TeamView and List columns
Work Request forms
Data Properties (Sorts, Filters, Columns and Table Properties)
Crosstabs and Charts
General and Detail Reports

As with all other Team Date Variables, the [Workdays] variable can be used in:

Targeting
Filters for Target Date field
Default Values
Triggers

* Workdays only excludes weekends. Customizable Workdays to exclude holidays, shutdowns, etc. will be provided in a future release.

Sizable Columns in TeamView, Lists, Crosstabs, and Project Trees

Click and drag column headers to change column widths to desired sizes.

New widths are saved once the changes are made.

Password Expiration Policy

Team now provides you with a new Password Policy that you can use to force all users to have to enter a new password.

GoTo in TeamView (Team and Team-Web)

Team now allows you to quickly access any request by entering the ID of the request in the GoTo box in the TeamView and List toolbars.

Field Name Wildcards in Notification and Escalation Message Titles

Team now allows you to include variables for any Team field in the Title of a Notification or Escalation.

Wheel Mouse Support for Scrolling

Team now supports wheel mouse scrolling to keep your selected columns in view when scrolling.

Team-Web - Custom Login Page Support

Team-Web now allows you to use your own Custom Login Page instead of the one provided by Alexsys Corporation.

Team is available in a trial version that supports both standard and SQL versions.

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