Hi all. We're at the point now where I am able to reveal some more information about the next version of KeySoft, which we hope to release in the first quarter of this year. KeySoft 5.1 will be a free upgrade for all version 5 customers. If you have a software maintenance agreement, it will not decrement your SMA count.
Late last year, I asked participants on our BrailleNote discussion list what they would like to see in KeyPlan, our Planner application. Version 5.1 of KeySoft is largely devoted to implementing most of our customers' vision of the ideal planner application, with a completely rewritten planner package. KeyPlan in KeySoft 5.1 will use database technology. The first benefit of this is that the boundaries between years no longer exist. If you wish to reschedule an appointment from 2003 to a date in 2004, this is easily done. When you make appointments, you can now specify an end time, as well as a start time, for appointments. This allows you to block time in your Planner, and you will be advised if you attempt to make an appointment that conflicts with an existing one. You can choose to accept the conflict or reschedule one of the appointments. The end time can be on a date that is different from the start date, allowing you to schedule appointments that span more than the one day. KeyPlan in KeySoft 5.1 will allow you to specify the location of an appointment, to mark time as free, busy, tentatively scheduled, or out of the office. Some minor changes, such as the Next Appointment feature advising you how many appointments you have remaining today, make the Planner even more useful. And most significantly, KeyPlan will support a wide range of recurring appointments. You can schedule your appointment according to dates, or patterns of days, weeks, months or years - for example an event may be on the 25th of every month, or on the third Thursday of every month, or every 25th of March, or every day at 9am, etc. There is a pattern of recurrence to cover just about every type of recurring event you could think of. A new version of KeySync, version 1.1, will mean that you can synchronise appointments with Microsoft Outlook. We're also adding the much requested word count feature to KeyWord, and making a number of minor fixes which we will detail when we make the release. KeySoft 5.1 gives you one of the most powerful planners on the market today, yet in the familiar friendly KeySoft style where you don't have to grapple with graphical interfaces to get the job done. We'll look forward to telling you more as the Development work is completed and the release gets closer. Jonathan Mosen BrailleNote Product Marketing Manager Pulse Data International Ltd DDI: +64-3-373-6192 Fax: +64-3-384 4933 Mobile: +64-21 466 736 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: www.pulsedata.com
