Software Updates

We've had a big month of updates to our software.

Our staff rota/rostering software, Oriador Rota, is available from our website in two flavours. The standard download that everyone gets directed to and that is available from Download.com is our stable product. We tend not to add new features to this unless we're really sure about them, development tends to be focussed on trying to make the software easier to use. This month we released a new version which had a few minor tweaks only, and which changed a few of the default settings.

The other flavour is our Preview version, it's available on our site for all to see, but if someone isn't looking for it they won't find it. This is deliberate, we don't want new customers who just want to try our software to end up with a work in progress by accident. It is fully functional, but some of the details of the implementation and the interface are still being finalised. Here we give people a chance to see what we're working on for the future versions of the product.

The key feature that differentiates the two versions is the rule based scheduling in the preview. Most of the core of this is finished, it keeps evolving when more feedback comes in, but the basic implementation hasn't changed much in the last couple of months. What we desperately need to work on here is the rules user interface, it's functional but clunky- we can do a lot better. This month we added a lot of new rules and fixed a lot of little issues.

Finally, Web Helper Browser got some minor fixes, a new feature or two, and Spanish & Italian interface language options.