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February 12, 2008 in News by Nick Sivridis

Jello Dashboard beta 4.1

After collecting some bug reports from all of you guys  (much fewer this time fortunately) I’ve made some minor adjustments and some additions.

• There is now language support for French! (Thanks Emmanuel)
• German file updated
• Applied the custom SDarkColor to toolbars and footer
• Fixed custom color painted sidebar on screen resize
• Fixed light home delete contexts/projects bug
• Tried to fix links error/bug (test this again)
• Masterlist now prints past due items
• Masterlist’s default status for showing orphan items is set to off (too slow)
• Inbox widget is sorted descending by received date (localized versions users test this)
• AND added search folder widget type (test this good please)

So… go to downloads page and get a fresh copy.
Jello was downloaded around 600 times since 27 of January (thank you all for that!)

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18 Comments to “Jello Dashboard beta 4.1”

• snoman
  February 13, 2008 at 2:16 am

  It’s going to get THE extension for managing contexts & Co. in Outlook. My donation is on its way. Gratulations!
  One thing: I browsed through the code of main.js (l.536 ff) trying to find the propper place to add additional output fields for the contexts/projects items rendering but “function showContext(” is quite complex. Example: showing the mail sender name/address in the context/project details

  thanx 4 a hint
  snoman

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• Vadim
  February 13, 2008 at 4:09 am

  Thanks again for this great tool I’m using for a while to get things done.
  I have still the problem with the “no context” and “no project”.
  “No context” – error “No contexts yet”, so it doesn’t display the actions without a context.
  “No project” – the actions are listed, but also all contacts are shown also as actions.
  What could be the solution to fix this?
  Thank you,

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• Vadim
  February 13, 2008 at 4:12 am

  One thing more – the “no project” list displays also all appointments, including the past due

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• LTG
  February 13, 2008 at 9:48 am

  First, I have to say thanks for such a great product! I’ve not yet shaken off my use of Outlook (maybe someday?), and this is an excellent tool for GTD! I’m feeling my way through the GTD system and it’s finally starting to click — and this tool has been a big part.

  I too still get the No Context bug. Just pops up a dialog as Vadim said above. Running Outlook 2007.

  One other question: When I create a project, and assign it a default context, it shows up as gray in my Sidebar. Is there a color setting somewhere for that? I guess I don’t mind tagging those kinds of Projects as different, but I’d like to use a darker color.

  This is probably not the best place for this question, but I am interested to hear how people use Review and Reference. I have a lot of “notes” that I’ve taken that I’d like to categorize under a Project and/or Context. I tend to do that by typing these things in a Task, but then I can’t put them in the Reference folder. Do you guys just create email for reference notes like that? Or use something else entirely (OneNote)? Would it be possible to make the Reference interface show both tasks and emails? Or maybe I’m just using it wrong.

  I’m still having issues with marking things for Review. In the main dashboard, showing my Inbox, I check the email, and hit “r”. This moves the email to the Review folder, but doesn’t mark it with the Review category, so it doesn’t show up when clicking Review on the sidebar. Anyone else seeing that?

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• LTG
  February 14, 2008 at 12:21 am

  Another issue: If I’m looking at my Inbox, or Unread Mail folders (through Jello), and I have the preview window open (on the right), if I switch back to Home, or Next Actions (from the sidebar), the preview window is still open and there is no way to close it other than going back to Inbox, hitting the “Preview Toggle” button to turn it off, and then going back to Home. It’s a small thing, but I thought I’d see if others are seeing this or if it’s a problem with my configuration.

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• mendel
  February 14, 2008 at 6:04 am

  In the today widget on the home page yesterdays all day events show up. This also happens on the masterlist calendar if it is set to the day view.

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• dr Uqbar
  February 15, 2008 at 12:06 am

  @snoman
  Showing the mail sender name/address in the context/project details is not allowed by the Outlook object model. It pops up a security error!

  @Vadim + @LTG
  I still don’t have a clue why this happens. I’ve tried that lots of times with every combination and I still cannot reproduce none of those bugs.

  @LTG
  Projects are shown in gray only when they are set to Private from the project properties.

  The review contexts is somehow the same thing as the review folder. They don’t work together. You can either mark an item for review OR move it to the review folder.

  The preview pane bug is known. I had no success in fixing it. (And I’ve tried a lot!)

  @mendel
  This yesterday thing had been fixed before the first beta.
  I don’t know why it’s still happening to you!
  Sorry (not much of a programmer, aren’t I?)

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• LTG
  February 15, 2008 at 1:35 am

  If I look at the SConProps, it looks something like this:
  Home Repair^^@Home|Setup New Office^^@Work^0|

  The “0″ at the end of @Work only shows up if I explicitly set “Private” on, then off for that project. Otherwise, as you can see, Home Repair doesn’t have an entry for Private.

  If you look at the logic for getProjSensitivity(id), it returns “2″ if it doesn’t find that “0″. I think it might be better to return “2″ (and ultimately to set the color to gray), if it looked for “1″. I also think there could be an error in the logic that looks at p[length] in that function. I think it should be p[p.length-1]? I changed that part to look like this and it appears to work:

  var p=o[x].split(“^”);
  if (trimLow(p[0])==trimLow(id))
  {
  if (Trim(p[p.length-1])==”1″)
  {return 2;}
  else
  {return 0;}
  }

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• Vadim
  February 15, 2008 at 1:43 pm

  Dr Uqbar, I tried marking some projects as personal in their properties to see if their name colors gray and it worked. I thought – hm… a convenient way to mark personal staff.
  BUT, when I unchecked the box “personal” for these projects, their name appears gray anyway. Refresh button doesn’t help. It looks like the coloring to gray couldn’t be undone.

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• kivumanzi
  February 17, 2008 at 6:35 am

  Does anyone know the name of a theme for JD that will make JD black with white text or basically invert the color scheme to make a dark background with light text? Cheers.

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• Vadim
  February 17, 2008 at 6:39 am

  Another problem – after clicking “Reference”, pops-up the error saying that it’s impossible to run the operation as the object was deleted. What is the solution? Thanks,

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• mendel
  February 17, 2008 at 7:41 am

  Hi

  Great Program! Some minor issues, when trying to customize the home page it will not save changes. If it is changed manualy in manage settings, it causes the past due items to show up in the calendar.

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• dr Uqbar
  February 18, 2008 at 12:18 am

  @LTG
  Very useful info. Thanks a lot!
  I think you are right.
  It will be fixed for the next revision update.

  @Vadim
  That was exactly the problem. And I think we found the solution.
  Thanks for your efforts!

  @kivumanzi
  I do not know if any of the users had came up with a theme. There is still only the default one, but check out the jello group downloads page. There is at least one but it’s outdated now.

  @Vadim
  Apparently you set up a folder to be your reference folder and then deleted it. Jello still thinks it’s there. Go to your settings

  @mendel
  This is strange. Do you get an error when saving? Do other user settings save correctly?

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• kivumanzi
  February 18, 2008 at 1:57 am

  Thanks dr, I’ve started mucking with the style.css and have it heading in the right direction but can’t get the pastDueRow color to change. I’ll post to the group when I’m done.

  Also, is there an Outlook task widget so I don’t have to use the Outlook Task folder and view. Seeing the active tasks is most useful.

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• Mendel
  February 18, 2008 at 11:49 pm

  No errors when saving it just reverts to the default home page setting.

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• Ken Neff
  February 19, 2008 at 8:39 pm

  Bug in Master List View with Calendar?

  When I am in Master List view and have the calendar setting set to display the week, the calendar shows yesterday’s tasks as today’s. It also shows today’s tasks as today’s tasks. This happens even after using the refresh button. It changes to the proper display after I change the setting from week to day and then back to week. (Outlook runs 24 hours/day.)

  Wonderful program, btw.

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• Ben Zamzow
  February 25, 2008 at 10:11 am

  Again, love the program.

  With the newest update, when I’m in Master List view and I try to print, it doesn’t print any of the projects or tasks.

  Something I’m doing wrong?

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• Nicolas Sivridis
  February 27, 2008 at 9:33 pm

  @kivumanzi
  Task widget?
  You can use the outlook folder/view widget and select your tasks folder.

  @Mendel
  Try the 4.2 beta that was posted today. If it still happens I will need some extra info.

  @Ken Neff
  I got a few similar reports from some users but I cannot reproduce them to my Outlook installation. I keep it in mind though…

  @Ben Zamzow
  I do not think it’s something you’re doing wrong. The thing is, I can’t imagine what can be wrong.
  Can you print using the top right header-printer icon? Can you print any other views?

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