Day 58 - Code Freeze/Beta Testing

Today, I’ve decided to finally (really) stop working on the code and adding little nice-to-haves (hello scope creep) and start focusing on the other aspects of this project namely, the documentation. Here are some the changes that were done on misvCRM in this month of July 2008.

• Made the field name display in the history log more friendly i.e. instead of showing CL_LASTNAME it now shows ‘Last Name’ which is definitely more understandable than showing the actual field name.
• Cosmetic changes in terms of making the labels and captions more consistent.
• Completely changed the way the sales were recorded. The sales items are now recorded from within a single window rather than invoking the sale item dialog window each time.
• Labels with drop down boxes are ‘live’ i.e. you can click on them to bring up the Table Item window to add a new table item (if such an item is not in the list). See the screenshot below. Note the Reason and Method labels.
• Converted a lot of the SQL into stored procedures.
• A lot of itsy bitsy changes…

Beta Test

As a result of this code freeze, misvCRM now moves to the beta testing phase (really…not anymore early beta as was mentioned in the download page…or still is until I get to update it). If you wish to participate i.e. receive a full working version with the printing of reports enabled send me an email at pflores at pcfworks dot com (apologies for the non-standard way of representing my email address…as email address harvesters are prowling the Internet this very moment). I’d really appreciate that if you participate in the beta test you will at least send one or more feeback regarding your testing activity.

Download Available

I’ve also updated the download version to reflect that this latest build is now BETA. You can download it from here.