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• Jun 02FreeNew App
  We sneaked in two quick changes:
  
  Firstly, we now automatically store any images taken with the photo/camera/drawing control on the form to the iPad Photos Library. From there they can be re-used, edited, emailed and, most importantly, backed up independently of Red Starfish if necessary.
  
  Secondly, we've put in some default Help text for the new Help control that lets form designers provide context-sensitive information for users.
• May 25FreeNew App
  We sneaked in two quick changes:
  
  Firstly, we now automatically store any images taken with the photo/camera/drawing control on the form to the iPad Photos Library. From there they can be re-used, edited, emailed and, most importantly, backed up independently of Red Starfish if necessary.
  
  Secondly, we've put in some default Help text for the new Help control that lets form designers provide context-sensitive information for users.
• May 18FreeNew App
  We sneaked in two quick changes:
  
  Firstly, we now automatically store any images taken with the photo/camera/drawing control on the form to the iPad Photos Library. From there they can be re-used, edited, emailed and, most importantly, backed up independently of Red Starfish if necessary.
  
  Secondly, we've put in some default Help text for the new Help control that lets form designers provide context-sensitive information for users.
• May 11FreeNew App
  We sneaked in two quick changes:
  
  Firstly, we now automatically store any images taken with the photo/camera/drawing control on the form to the iPad Photos Library. From there they can be re-used, edited, emailed and, most importantly, backed up independently of Red Starfish if necessary.
  
  Secondly, we've put in some default Help text for the new Help control that lets form designers provide context-sensitive information for users.
• May 04FreeNew App
  We sneaked in two quick changes:
  
  Firstly, we now automatically store any images taken with the photo/camera/drawing control on the form to the iPad Photos Library. From there they can be re-used, edited, emailed and, most importantly, backed up independently of Red Starfish if necessary.
  
  Secondly, we've put in some default Help text for the new Help control that lets form designers provide context-sensitive information for users.
• Apr 27FreeNew App
  We sneaked in two quick changes:
  
  Firstly, we now automatically store any images taken with the photo/camera/drawing control on the form to the iPad Photos Library. From there they can be re-used, edited, emailed and, most importantly, backed up independently of Red Starfish if necessary.
  
  Secondly, we've put in some default Help text for the new Help control that lets form designers provide context-sensitive information for users.
• Apr 20FreeNew App
  You can now set the timezone of your server within the Red Starfish app. Not only will this help to deal with daylight savings time changes, but it will help clients who have users located in multiple time zones saving data back to the same server.
• Apr 13FreeNew App
  Offering major flexibility, controls can now be grouped into sections that optionally become active.
  
  Groups can become active in one of several ways:
  - If a switch is set to Yes/No ("Is there more detail to report?")
  - Based on a choice in a picker list (e.g. Picker = "North")
  - Based on a numeric formula (e.g. Value > 100)
  - Based on a text field on the form (e.g. Area = "South")
• Apr 06FreeNew App
  Form designers can now add a calculation based on one or more numeric fields on the form. For example, add a calculated field to multiply two dimensions together for the floor area; or calculate one value as a percentage...
• Mar 30FreeNew App
  Bug fix: we fixed a problem with Date-Time controls not saving properly and it failing to clear the 'mandatory' indicator when a date/time is selected.
• Mar 23FreeNew App
  Bug fix: we fixed a problem with Date-Time controls not saving properly and it failing to clear the 'mandatory' indicator when a date/time is selected.
• Mar 16FreeNew App
  Bug fix: we fixed a problem with Date-Time controls not saving properly and it failing to clear the 'mandatory' indicator when a date/time is selected.
• Mar 09FreeNew App
  Bug fix: we fixed a problem with Date-Time controls not saving properly and it failing to clear the 'mandatory' indicator when a date/time is selected.
• Mar 02FreeNew App
  Users can now 'send' a completed form even without a network connection: the form's status indicator will turn Blue instead of Amber to show that it's now in a queue to be sent. While in the queue it can be deleted, but not amended.
  
  When the user is next using Red Starfish with a network connection then the app will start to send the queued forms. As each form is processed its indicator turns Yellow then Green to show that it has been successfully saved to SharePoint.
  
  We also added the option for users to re-submit their forms. Swipe right to left on the title of a form with a Green indicator on it and one of the options under More is to Re-Submit.
  
  Additionally, Red Starfish now creates entries in the iPad Calendar app for each new form on the day that it's submitted. This makes it easy to browse through the calendar looking for past jobs, and then to click on a hyperlink in the calendar entry to open up the form directly in Red Starfish.
  
  You can tap the little Starfish button on the bottom of the left hand 'Master' list of forms. It'll fill out solid red when you have a job to do, triggered initially by the presence of an iBeacon nearby. We can also extend this to 'push' or allocate jobs out to users...
  
  Finally, we found that some users were tapping in mandatory text boxes and just pressing the Return/Enter key or the space bar. It was enough to make the mandatory box think it contained a value, but not very meaningful or helpful to colleagues. We've stopped that: we can't make users put the *right* value in, but now they have to put in something visible to other humans!
• Feb 23FreeNew App
  We're rushing out some more iBeacon enhancements: now users can tag individual instances of forms so that they bubble to the top and their indicator turns Red when the user brings their iPad within range of a designated iBeacon. It's another step on our way to making Red Starfish fully location-aware.
  
  Also, we've changed the format of the images we save from camera controls on forms from PNG to JPEG so that we can reduce the file size and speed up the data transfer. We've got some more enhancements to this coming in the next release; but we're always trying to balance the file size, resolution (so you can make out the detail of, say, text in the images you take), and the upload speed... Doing our best to give you the cake *and* let you eat it! :)
• Feb 16FreeNew App
  Colours! (Sorry, Americans, Canadians got that one right!)
  
  Now you can draw, in a mix of colour choices and in portrait or landscape orientation, on a photo embedded in the form. This will help an inspector, say, to describe an issue more easily by taking a photo and annotating it.
  
  You can Copy a form as the basis of a new one: just swipe (from right to left) on the title of a form in the list of form submissions on the left hand side of the app.
  
  Innovative 'Float Labels' can now be added to Text boxes, Date and Picker List controls. We think they make filling out forms ever so slightly less boring. Prompt text will appear inside the control until the user taps inside; then the prompt animates out to 'float' as a label describing what the control should contain. Not only does this look a tiny bit cool and engaging, but it speeds up form design - Designers can just place the control with its label on the form instead of having to add and position a Label also.
  
  It's now possible to have more than one Signature control on a form; and we've improved the way in which the DateTime control works to make it more reliable and faster to use.
  
  And there are several other minor tweaks that you probably won't notice, but make things ever so slightly nicer and cooler.
• Feb 09FreeNew App
  Colours! (Sorry, Americans, Canadians got that one right!)
  
  Now you can draw, in a mix of colour choices and in portrait or landscape orientation, on a photo embedded in the form. This will help an inspector, say, to describe an issue more easily by taking a photo and annotating it.
  
  You can Copy a form as the basis of a new one: just swipe (from right to left) on the title of a form in the list of form submissions on the left hand side of the app.
  
  Innovative 'Float Labels' can now be added to Text boxes, Date and Picker List controls. We think they make filling out forms ever so slightly less boring. Prompt text will appear inside the control until the user taps inside; then the prompt animates out to 'float' as a label describing what the control should contain. Not only does this look a tiny bit cool and engaging, but it speeds up form design - Designers can just place the control with its label on the form instead of having to add and position a Label also.
  
  It's now possible to have more than one Signature control on a form; and we've improved the way in which the DateTime control works to make it more reliable and faster to use.
  
  And there are several other minor tweaks that you probably won't notice, but make things ever so slightly nicer and cooler.
• Feb 02FreeNew App
  Colours! (Sorry, Americans, Canadians got that one right!)
  
  Now you can draw, in a mix of colour choices and in portrait or landscape orientation, on a photo embedded in the form. This will help an inspector, say, to describe an issue more easily by taking a photo and annotating it.
  
  You can Copy a form as the basis of a new one: just swipe (from right to left) on the title of a form in the list of form submissions on the left hand side of the app.
  
  Innovative 'Float Labels' can now be added to Text boxes, Date and Picker List controls. We think they make filling out forms ever so slightly less boring. Prompt text will appear inside the control until the user taps inside; then the prompt animates out to 'float' as a label describing what the control should contain. Not only does this look a tiny bit cool and engaging, but it speeds up form design - Designers can just place the control with its label on the form instead of having to add and position a Label also.
  
  It's now possible to have more than one Signature control on a form; and we've improved the way in which the DateTime control works to make it more reliable and faster to use.
  
  And there are several other minor tweaks that you probably won't notice, but make things ever so slightly nicer and cooler.
• Jan 26FreeNew App
  Colours! (Sorry, Americans, Canadians got that one right!)
  
  Now you can draw, in a mix of colour choices and in portrait or landscape orientation, on a photo embedded in the form. This will help an inspector, say, to describe an issue more easily by taking a photo and annotating it.
  
  You can Copy a form as the basis of a new one: just swipe (from right to left) on the title of a form in the list of form submissions on the left hand side of the app.
  
  Innovative 'Float Labels' can now be added to Text boxes, Date and Picker List controls. We think they make filling out forms ever so slightly less boring. Prompt text will appear inside the control until the user taps inside; then the prompt animates out to 'float' as a label describing what the control should contain. Not only does this look a tiny bit cool and engaging, but it speeds up form design - Designers can just place the control with its label on the form instead of having to add and position a Label also.
  
  It's now possible to have more than one Signature control on a form; and we've improved the way in which the DateTime control works to make it more reliable and faster to use.
  
  And there are several other minor tweaks that you probably won't notice, but make things ever so slightly nicer and cooler.
• Jan 19FreeNew App
  We've introduced the ability for Red Starfish users to draw a 'Signature' on the iPad screen and have that saved as an image as part of their form's data.
  
  We've also introduced the ability to mark selected fields on the form as mandatory so that the form can't be saved without data there. This can apply to any or all of a selection of text boxes, date controls, picker lists or signatures; and the form's Submit button won't become active until all mandatory fields contain a value.
  
  And 'numeric' text fields now default to '0' (zero) so they don't cause an error at the SharePoint end if the user forgets to fill them in.
  
  We introduced some database migration code to make it easier for users to move between versions of the app; along with some performance improvements on picker lists updating from SharePoint and being able to work when the iPad has no Internet connection.
  
  Finally, there are some under-the-covers "plumbing" things which help the app to build on more solid foundations ready for the next round of enhancements.
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