{"id":3065,"date":"2024-07-01T06:22:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T06:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cybercom-software.com\/blog\/?p=3065"},"modified":"2024-07-01T22:12:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T22:12:08","slug":"phonepad-version-5-84-0-has-been-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cybercom-software.com\/blog\/phonepad-version-5-84-0-has-been-released\/","title":{"rendered":"PhonePad Version 5.84.0 Has Been Released."},"content":{"rendered":"

We are pleased to announce the release of PhonePad 5.84.0.<\/p>\n

We’re actually, really, really pleased to announce this release.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s been a long time coming, and a lot of work has gone into it!<\/p>\n

So what’s new in this version? Here’s a highlight of the main changes.\u00c2\u00a0 A complete list of changes is shown after these.<\/p>\n

A Quick and Easy Way to Add Users for New PhonePad Installations<\/h3>\n

When installing PhonePad for the first time, so new PhonePad Admins get a bit confused about what to do first.<\/p>\n

So we added a screen that helps them create the user accounts that will be needed for users to log in.<\/p>\n

What’s nice about this screen is that all of the users can quickly be created.\u00c2\u00a0 And, if you also add their email addresses, you can email their login details to them<\/strong> with the click of a button.<\/p>\n

This screen only appears when there are no users in the system.<\/p>\n

\"Phone<\/a>ServiceWatch – A Cool New Way to Monitor the PhonePad Services on Your Server<\/h3>\n

Has your PhonePad Server, or other PhonePad services, on your Server suddenly stopped?\u00c2\u00a0 In the past, you had to either walk over to your Server to check, or remote desktop to it.<\/p>\n

Well, now you can monitor these services from your workstation with ServiceWatch<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>ServiceWatch<\/strong> monitors the PhonePad services running on your Server.\u00c2\u00a0 The Service Monitor<\/strong> service must<\/strong> be running for ServiceWatch<\/strong> to work.<\/p>\n

\"Looking<\/a>But that’s not all it does.\u00c2\u00a0 You can start, stop and restart the PhonePad services on your Server without leaving your desk!<\/p>\n

If you check the Show Alerts<\/strong> checkbox, you will receive a notification message whenever a PhonePad service is stopped.<\/p>\n

ServiceWatch<\/strong> sits in the system tray when minimized.\u00c2\u00a0 To open it, just double-click on the icon or right-click and select Open<\/strong> from the popup menu.<\/p>\n

You can find ServiceWatch<\/strong> in the PhonePad folder (C:\\PhonePad5<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

Getting Around PhonePad Disappearing Off Your Screen<\/h3>\n

Imagine this scenario.\u00c2\u00a0 You login to PhonePad on someone else’s computer.\u00c2\u00a0 Their computer screen has a completely different resolution.<\/p>\n

When you return to your computer and open PhonePad, it disappears.\u00c2\u00a0 What happened?\u00c2\u00a0 Has it crashed?\u00c2\u00a0 No.\u00c2\u00a0 As your monitor has a different resolution, PhonePad remembers the last setting and has disappeared off-screen.<\/p>\n

Now this is easily fixed.\u00c2\u00a0 Hold down the <SHIFT><\/strong> key on your computer and open PhonePad.\u00c2\u00a0 This will reset the position of PhonePad to the middle of your screen.\u00c2\u00a0 Problem solved.<\/p>\n

Overriding Auto Login<\/h3>\n

Imagine another scenario.\u00c2\u00a0 You want to login to PhonePad on someone else’s computer but they have auto-login enabled, so it automatically logs into their user account.<\/p>\n

To temporarily override auto-login, hold down the <CTRL><\/strong> key and open PhonePad.\u00c2\u00a0 The login prompt will appear, allowing you to login to your own user account.<\/p>\n

Automatic Update Plan Updating<\/h3>\n

Before this version of PhonePad, when you renewed your Update Plan you had to go in and update it manually in PhonePad.\u00c2\u00a0 This is now done automatically for you.<\/p>\n

Automatic PhonePad Licences Updating<\/h3>\n

If you’ve upgraded your PhonePad license to increase the number of users, you’ve had to reactivate your PhonePad license manually in PhonePad.\u00c2\u00a0 You don’t have to worry about that anymore as PhonePad now does this for you.<\/p>\n

A Note About New Features and Enhancement Requests<\/h3>\n

We get a lot of requests for new features and enhancements.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of these are in this version.\u00c2\u00a0 We think it’s important for you to know that not all requests will be implemented<\/em>.<\/p>\n

For the ones that will be implemented, we try to get them done as soon as we can, but it all takes time. We ask that you be patient if we haven’t gotten to your request yet.\u00c2\u00a0 The list is very long but we are working through it as fast as we can.<\/p>\n

Changes in This Release<\/h3>\n