Since my vacation time was earlier for this year, I had decided to keep myself indoors for some hours to support Jello Dashboard users.

The 6th release fixes lots of bugs and even has to show off some small scale new features!

Thanks everyone for downloading and supporting Jello Dashboard. It may be the best way to GTD with MS Outlook.

Have a great summertime!

Changes (loong) list:

- Fixed: Tag sort order on tree and combo boxes
- Fixed: Go to folder combo box now match international characters
- Added: Tickler popup: Cached list of ticklers for faster rendering. Refresh the list using the date selector button.
- Added: Ability to edit the body text of a tickler or task from the body popup display.
- Added: right context menu to set / change due date for mail and task items.
- Added: Right click context menu for ticklers widget
- Added: “View this Contact” context menu item into inbox and mail folder views: This will open the contact item of the sender.  If ambiguous, a box will popup to allow you to select the correct contact.
- Fixed: Right click context menu behavior didn’t match Outlook.  Now, if you click on an item that isn’t selected, that single item will be used for the item to be processed.  If you right click on any of a set of selected items, all items will be processed.
- Added: When viewing the body of an email, you can toggle the viewing mode between html and plain text using the Toggle view button.
- Fixed: Made the goto box a bit wider and resizable
- Added: Preview panel at the bottom of the action lists. It will use the height and font size of the mail preview panel. Notes, if they exist, are shown at the top of the preview window and display the body of items.
- Added: Using OL2007 and you having notes updated to the body via the setting, notes will be added as text to the body.  They will be delimited with “<– Jello Notes –>” before and after the notes. Any text between the delimiters is treated as notes.  You may edit this text in Outlook.
- Fixed: Smart date bug where format was being reversed is fixed and advanced collect handling of dates was adjusted.
- Fixed: The date field in the form for editing/creating an action can now hadle a 4 digit year
- Added: Experimental setting for using OL2007 “due date” field of email items for storing due dates on emails.
- Fixed: Unknown tags will not be converted in review screen due to tag lost issue
- Fixed: Inbox and Outlook widget’s archive only button not under a menu anymore for better use
- Added: Notification alert when trying to leave collect screen containing uncollected text
- Added: Setting for Outlook view and Outlook widget for OL2007 to display a bit lower so the screentips can be seen
- Fixed: Outlook view and Outlook widget can now process an email with empty subject
- Fixed: Action File attachment and link to action
- Fixed: Advanced settings editor cancel value was dispaying a dev alert
- Added: Date picker customization by the language file
- Fixed: First weekday on date pickers is now Monday as requested
- Added: Setting for sending task requests to assigned action contact (when one)
- Fixed: Inbox counters now showing correct number even if show only tasks in inbox setting is checked
- Added: New setting to select using Goto folder window for selecting folder when moving emails (checked by default)
- Added: Sidebar menu icon to toggle Outlook preview pane easily
- Fixed: Encrypted emails do not cause errors anymore. They show with a lock icon and the user cannot manage them
- Added: Clicking the attachment icon of a message in Inbox view will open up the message
- Added: Shortcut key for refresh (ctrl+S) in action lists
- Added: Closing the Ticklers popup window hides it without unloading data for re-opening speed.
- Added: Alert if no contacts are selected for delegation via the select contact popup form
- Added: Envelope icon and status for delegated tasks sent by email
- Fixed: Inbox and Action editor tag list combo are reloaded after new tags are inserted by typing
- Fixed: Bug caused pop up error msg and tag disapperance When renaming tags
- Fixed: System tags (those contained in the System folder) can be moved like any other tag
- Fixed: Outlook view widget tag combo refreshes when a new tag is added by typing
- Fixed: Hiding Outlook view controls when displayng the Latest form and the Delete task of linked item dialog box
- Added: Archived checkbox for tags. Check to hide a tag from all lists
- Fixed: Error message instead of js error when archiving an item into the same folder it already is
- Fixed: Outlook widget disabling when deleting entries
- Fixed: Improved importing of existing categories as tags from the Settings menu
- Added: Setting to startup to other screens besides home
- Fixed: Creating action from Outlook widget’s email format message body correctly
- Updated: Documentation link no longer appears into the important widget. Moved to sidebar menu.
- Fixed: Setting the jello priority field to high (1) for an action sets the Outlook item to high priority as well
- Fixed: Due date setting on inbox item
- Fixed: Latest window with action editor screen unusable bug
- Fixed: Non-archiving multiple items with custom archive folders
- Fixed: Level up toolbar button for subtags
- Added: Settings function to import existing categories as jello tags from any Outlook folder
- Added: “Make multiline entry” command in Advanced collect toolbar. It takes the selected lines in the collect area and place the line continuation character

I have just finished the fifth update (a really important one) to Jello Dashboard. It is almost a month earlier but regarding its importance it had to be ready as soon as possible.

This release fixes many bugs, but introduces a small number of new features although the users request list is getting bigger!

New Featrures for 5.00.5

• User’s last Sort order is now saved in grids
• A right click context menu to all views!
• Abillity to change theme from the Settings screen/Core combo box (4 themes just for testing for the time being)
• Go to folder function. Fires with ctrl+G from any screen and lets user enter an Outlook folder name to navigate to
• Abillity to manual edit currently used settings. This is intented for advanced users or developers.

*You really should check out the Go to function. Pressing Ctrl+G gives you the ability to immediately navigate to any outlook folder or Jello tag by typing some characters of its name.

Changes for 5.00.5

• Updated: Extjs libraries to version 2.2.1
• Fixed: Issue on tree trag and drop between tags creating orphans and loosing all tags
• Fixed: Advanced collect errors while creating contacts (other contact data)
• Fixed: Cancelling tag creation from inbox combo
• Fixed: Tasks created from Outlook view emails now get body text from them
• Fixed: Inbox error when setting due date on task by popup calendar menu
• Fixed: Outlook view widget Selection/Tag/Archive errors (line 27 etc)
• Added: Extra toolbar buttons on Outlook view widget  (reply,delete)
• Fixed: Narrower tags combo on Outlook view widget to save space
• Fixed: Outlook view widget:Truncate big widget titles
• Fixed: Error generated for tags using the ‘&’ character. & added to the restricted characters list for tag naming
• Changed: Collect popup shortcut key to Ctrl+W
• Fixed: Weekly printout several fixes and it can be now produced from the masterlist view too.
• Added: Weekly printout form new field addition to specify how many characters of the body text are displayed for each task
• Added: if the to line of an email has more than one recipient it will be displayed in the preview pane of an email folder view.  if there are any cc’s, the cc line will be displayed.
• Added: Inbox view is now groupped by type.
• Removed: New tag and up level toolbar buttons from review screen since they created errors or being unusable
• Fixed: Inbox task duplication on due date set and archive
• Fixed:  several fixes to auto-update for the inbox
• Fixed: Inbox move to folder function now uses the go to folder form to quickly search for an outlook folder by typing
• Added: Deleting a task with a linked message results now a confirmation to Delete, Move the linked message or Cancel to leave it intact
• Fixed: Restoring a backup of a settings set retains the original backup and creates another backup of the last used set
• Updated: Search box is now a full panel right above the tree
• Updated: Sidebar toolbar includes Go to function (Ctrl+G) which lets user quickly navigate to an oulook folder or jello tag by typing
• Fixed: Hierarchy sort order of tags is now case insensitive
• Fixed: Bogus tag/folder addition into active list if a new tag was created from the hierarchy (anywhere). It shows now if the current view is the new tag’s parent.
• Added: New setting to mark/not mark outlook messages as read when viewed from jello
• Added: Post it popup now displays and updates the contents of the first post-it widget the user has in the homepage.

Thanks everyone for your reports, observations, supporting Jello by donating, translating and spreading by joining its Friend Connect user list and the facebook group!

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The second update release includes a lot of fixes to annoying and really annoying bugs reported by many users  in the Jello.forum over the last days.

There are a couple of new features too.

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