Forms To Go 4.2.5 released

November 12th, 2009

Today we released Forms To Go 4.2.5. This is a maintenance release to fix a bug ocurring in PHP scripts when validating a file field by its filetype. We also revised the licensing mechanism to make it easier to register the application.

One small but interesting feature we added in Forms To Go 4.2.5 is the modification of fieldname labels when creating the default body email messages.

If you had field names like:

TelephoneNumber
EmailAddress
zip_code

the default body message was:

TelephoneNumber : #TelephoneNumber#
EmailAddress : #EmailAddress#
zip_code : #zip_code#

now we’ve added an empty space for every underscore _ and between lower and uppercase letter, so the new body of the email, with the same field names, will look like:

Telephone Number : #TelephoneNumber#
Email Address : #EmailAddress#
zip code : #zip_code#

Notice the empty space in the labels?

Of course, you can always change the body of the email message to whatever you want, but this feature will make it more readable for those who need a quick script.

Windows 7 is here

November 10th, 2009

We’ve tested Windows 7 and we must admit it’s a great upgrade even if Windows XP users will have to do a major ugprade to their computers by moving all their stuff.

We’ve tested our apps: Forms To Go and Mediata Survey and they work well under Windows 7 and there are no compatibility issues so far. Vista was great in the way it managed memory and it seems that Windows 7 is even better.

In the past, some customers reported problems with Mediata Survey and long surveys when running under Windows XP. The problem was related to a memory leak that we weren’t able to fix it, but it was not present in Windows Vista and it’s not on Windows 7. So we’re confident that many other apps will benefit from the upgrade to Windows 7 when it relates to performance.

Our suggestion is that you go ahead and upgrade to Windows 7. The aero interface and the user experience are better onĀ  many levels than Windows XP.

Mediata Survey 3.0 Beta 3

November 7th, 2009

It has been a while since we announced Mediata Survey 3.0 and it is finally here. This releaseĀ has been delayed for more than 1 year due to the economic slowdown that impacted its development, but it’s ready for release.

Our plan was to release Mediata Survey 3.0 by mid-November 2009 but we now have a definitive date and it will be the 1st week of December 2009. We have reached the third release of this beta and we’re not aware of any potential bug.

If you want to test-drive Mediata Survey 3.0 Beta, please use the following links:

Mac download:
http://beta.bebosoft.com/downloads/mediatasurvey/MediataSurvey.dmg

Windows download:
http://beta.bebosoft.com/downloads/mediatasurvey/MediataSurvey.exe

If you find any problem or bug, please don’t hesitate to contact us and report it so we can fix it for the final release.

This new version brings many requested features as well a better way to export surveys to PDF files. Of course, we suggest that you make copy of your survey files before testing 3.0, since those survey files won’t open in Mediata Survey 2.