Two small widget updates today! First, a refresh of the design of the navigation widget, like navigation to other pages and categories:

We’ve also made two adjustments to the Form Choice widget. You can add Form widgets to a page when creating an interactive online form for your co-workers to fill out. The Form Choice widget adds a form field with a list of options, like a dropdown menu. These new changes make it easier to manage a large list of options. The Add many options… function will now automatically filter out duplicates which helps when pasting options from somewhere else. We’ve also introduced a new Sort alphabetically function, which should save a lot of time compared to dragging around options in a long list.

Hope you like it. More updates soon.

People in your organization can subscribe to any of the pages they can access. When they are subscribed to a page, they will be notified when the page is updated (they’ll either receive an email notification straight away, or the update will be included in a daily digest summary email, if enabled).

It’s an easy way to keep track of pages you’re interested in. It’s not always useful to notify people of changes though, for example when you’re just correcting a typo.

Today we’re releasing a quick new feature you can use if you want to save minor changes which you think won’t be worth any notifications. Just click the arrow dropdown menu next to the Save button, and select Save silently:

As before, people can of course also unsubscribe from a page, disable notifications altogether, or manually review changes of a page using the Page Versions feature.

Today we’re introducing a couple of improvements to the Activity Stream.

The most important change is that the Activity Stream is has become real time. What does this mean? It means that whenever posts a comment, submits a form, creates or updates a page the activity feed will get updated immediately! This includes discussions on pages that use the Discuss widget. This means you can finally have real-time conversations on Papyrs!

When the real time feed is working you should see a green light next on the Feed page (number 1. in the screenshot). If you don’t see the green light (even after refreshing the feed page) then your browser doesn’t support real time notifications.

We also added yellow envelope icons next to the groups on the right hand side of the activity feed. Click those icons to toggle whether you want to receive email notifications for activity in that group (number 2. in the screenshot).

Finally, new activity gets highlighted in the feed so you can easily recognize which items are new. New items have a brightly colored bar to on their left side (number 3. in the screenshot). The color of the bar depends on on your site’s Theme settings.

That’s it for now. Thanks for reading!

Requirements: A recent version of Chrome, Safari (Mac or iOS), Firefox, or Microsoft Edge.

We’ve just launched a major new version of Papyrs, with a complete overhaul of the visual appearance and a ton of new features (including the highly anticipated responsive version for mobile devices).

• The upgrade is available today for all customers (at no charge)
• Customers can upgrade to the new version by navigating to Settings > Theme. If the new version isn’t to your taste you can simply switch back.
  

  Read all about this update here

2015 was a great year for Papyrs. We did a lot of work to improve performance and to make the Papyrs back end rock solid and faster than ever. This investment paid off. We didn’t have any unscheduled downtime this year our service was available 99.99% of the time, despite upgrades, software improvements, and the occasional hardware failure. More and more companies rely on Papyrs every day, so this is a result we’re definitely proud of.

To close out the year we’re announcing a couple of new features that we’ve recently rolled out:

Bulk change email notifications

With Papyrs you can subscribe to email notifications for each individual page. This way your email inbox doesn’t get flooded with emails updates about pages you don’t care about. You can subscribe or unsubscribe to a page with a click. Easy enough. However, when you want to change your email notification preferences for a hundred or a thousand pages having to change your preferences one by one takes a long time. So now there’s a single place where you can subscribe and unsubscribe for every page on your site in one go:

Just check or check the boxes next to the pages you want to get email updates for and hit save at the bottom.

Administrators can also change the email notification preferences of other people in their team. Just impersonate the user and visit their email notification settings page.

iFrame/Media widget and 3rd party widget improvements

• Custom iFrame widgets can now go full screen. Handy if you embedded Vimeo or YouTube videos onto your pages.
• You can now have use variables g_user and g_email in your iFrame widgets

For example you can do something like this to create a link that contains the user’s email address and name. Handy when you want to integrate with 3rd party applications:

<a target='_parent' class='yourbutton'/>

<script>
$('a.yourbutton')
  .attr('href', "#" + encodeURIComponent(g_email))
  .text('This button is for ' + g_user);
</script>

Active Directory just-in-time synchronization

Papyrs synchronizes every night with the Active Directory server to get the most up-to-date user information. This means that when a newly user is added to the directory they may not be able to log in to Papyrs yet, because Papyrs doesn’t know the user exists. We improved this: Papyrs now checks with the Active Directory server to see if there are new users during the login process.

Anonymous forms

You can now configure Papyrs Forms to be anonymous.

Just check the box labeled Make form submissions anonymous in the Form properties window. This is great for handling sensitive complaints and reports, where people may only be willing to fill out the form on condition of anonymity.

New RSS widget

Our old RSS widget relied on Google’s Feed API service, which sadly got discontinued last month. Papyrs now has a new RSS widget (still found as an option under Media Widget) that supports all common RSS formats.

Thanks!

We’d like to thank all our customers and all the individual users who use our service. Special thanks to those of you who took the time to report bugs and other glitches that help us squash the trickiest bugs.

We hope you had a great year and we wish you spectacular 2016! Happy new year from the Papyrs team!