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June 21, 2008 in News by Nick Sivridis

Jello Dashboard beta 4.5

I have finally managed to do some coding work and fix various problems that have been reported. I have also added a few features numbering this beta version as 4.5.

Changes in short:

*Outlook 2007 users will now have the ability to have an updated context/project list into their standard category list.

*Jello can work with priorities now, displaying a red box in front of high priority tasks and a gray one for low-pri ones remember the milk style. You can sort items by priority too and toggle high/normal priority with a new action (y-shortcut key).

*Fixed plenty of calendar bugs although some next day items might be still shown.

*The Review screen now is not showing only items tagged with the review context but includes all items residing into the Review folder too!

*Managed to remove some characters from the restricted list for context and project names: * and + so you need to test those!

*Clicking the current list’s name on sidebar reloads the list fully.

*Added a Go to folder action on the tools section of the sidebar which helps you navigate on-the-fly to a specific outlook folder. This will be a sidebar treeview section in a later version. Thanks justauser for the nice code on this.

*Added homepage inbox widget autorefresh every 3 minutes (default) and a settings for this (again thanks to justauser for code)

*It is now final: The outlook view control cannot handle keyboard shortcuts as it does not expose key trapping events (this is a major drawback I know)

[Full version history]

Thanks everyone for your donations, help, questions and requests. You keep this project alive!
Please download, take some time to test the new version and have fun!

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9 Comments to “Jello Dashboard beta 4.5”

• Caballero
  June 26, 2008 at 5:00 pm

  Hello,

  I know it´s not related with beta 4.5 (the problem is also hapening with 4.3 after migration to vista from Windows 200 keeping Outlook 2003).
  But I´m getting the following:
  Line: 5499
  Char:2
  Error: An OLE registration error occurred. The program is not correctly installed. Run Setup again for the program
  Code:4096
  URL: outlook:today

  Would you be able to help me ? I can just work with Jello Home light or Old Jello Home.

  Rgds,
  Caballero

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• Ben
  June 26, 2008 at 8:57 pm

  I just installed this version. (never had a previous version, just found out about it (and it looks very cool))

  I had originally had office2k — so I got the “can only be opened in outlook” error.

  So I installed OfficeXP, and uninstalled, and reinstalled, Jello.

  I have it assigned, as my homepage in Outlook XP, and I am still getting the same message. “Cannot run outside of Outlook
  Just assign it as a home page to an Outlook folder”

  Any idea’s? Might I have better luck trying the 4.3 beta?

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• Ben
  June 27, 2008 at 9:05 pm

  We have different versions of outlook, you just upgraded to vista, and your error message is different. There is a very high chance, we are not experiencing the same bug.

  I don’t think that just because your error happens with 4.3 as well, necessarily means that my error, would also happen in 4.3.

  Does anyone else have any input on this?

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• Ben
  June 27, 2008 at 9:12 pm

  @Caballero:
  lol — whoops — I thought your comment, was after mine, and so I thought you were answering my question – saying that mine didn’t have to do with 4.5/4.3.

  I realize now, you commented before me, and it just hadn’t showed up yet when I posted.

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• Caballero
  June 27, 2008 at 11:05 pm

  Hello Ben,

  I manage to fix my problem: I went to settings and made a reset it’s working the problem is that I need to create the contexts and projects again but that is a low price to pay. I realize I can’t work anymore without Jello.
  Nicolas you’re a genius …thank you for your good software and fast support.

  Caballero

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• Ben
  June 28, 2008 at 12:05 am

  how do you get into settings? I can’t get it to run at all.

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• Caballero
  June 28, 2008 at 9:46 pm

  Hello Ben,

  would you please describe step by step how did you make the installation ?
  I would guess you should verify the properties from the folder were you made the installation and verify if you have something like that:

  file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/sergio/My%20Documents/Unzipped/JelloDash43/jelloDash.htm

  Try to copy the address to your Explorer and check what happens.

  Rgds,
  Caballero

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• Ben
  July 2, 2008 at 3:20 am

  I ran the install file — and when the window came up and asked me I clicked the link, and chose a folder for the home page to be displayed in.

  The current home page says
  “file:///C:/Program%20Files/JelloDashboard/jelloDash.htm”

  When put in Internet Explorer, I get a few warnings, about activex controls, which i click “ok/allow” for. Then I get the same message as i get in outlook.
  “Cannot run outside of Outlook
  Just assign it as a home page to an Outlook folder”

  I notice that my home page address is not in the MyDocs folder as you suggest. I do have my “My Documents” folder set to another location, than the usual “C:/Documents%20and%20Settings//”

  (You know how you can right click My Documents on start menu, and pick a different location. — The location of my docs folder is “X:\`my docs”

  So the “My Documents” that displays on the start menu and above “My Computer” in explorer, points to “X:\`my docs”

  However there is also a “My Documents” folder in
  “C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/ben/”

  The only thing in there though, is some folder for this other program I have, that must have used,
  “%userprofile%\My Documents” instead of “CSIDL_MYDOCUMENTS”

  Let me know what you think — or if you need any more info from me. I am willing to troubleshoot if you would like.

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• A. Motaz
  August 13, 2008 at 4:25 pm

  Just upgraded to this version. I still haven’t tried it all out, but you apparently did a great job!

  I see you’ve used some PNG icons, which look good, except on IE6 because of the PNG transparency issue. So, I just wanted to suggest adding one of those little pngfix JS files, which should make it work fine on IE browsers prior to IE7.

  Keep up the good work!

  Ahmed

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