With Papyrs, we want to make it really easy to collect and process information online. You can easily build online custom forms with drag & drop. The forms are put directly on your Papyrs pages, so you can show any other relevant rich content and information alongside your form. The data you collect with these forms ends up in a form database that you can search through, filter based on relevant attributes and you can export form data to a spreadsheet program like Excel.

Permissions for Papyrs Forms are straightforward. You can choose whether regular users can view all submitted form records or only those form records they have submitted themselves, and whether they can edit nothing, their own form records, or all form records.

You can upgrade a regular Papyrs Form to a Papyrs App. With Papyrs Apps every time a form is filled out Papyrs creates a Papyrs Page for that individual form record. You can then add rich content to that form record like you can for any regular Papyrs page. This means you can add Tables, Image Galleries, Videos, and any other rich content you like to that App Page. But you keep all the benefits of the structure that a form provides.

These App pages can contain any kind of content. Some of this content may be sensitive, some of the content you may want to share with everybody in your organization. That’s why you can set access permissions for individual App pages. Administrators can choose who can view and who can modify an Papyrs App page. This is in contrast to regular forms where the same permissions apply to every record in the form database. However, when you have dozens or even hundreds of these pages setting these permissions individually can get tedious. That’s why Papyrs has a Bulk Permission assignment tool. You can use that to quickly copy permissions between users, set all permissions for pages in a specific category or for pages with a specific tag. One thing was missing though: the option to set permissions for all pages that are part of a specific Papyrs App. We added that feature today.

To use Bulk Permission assignment for Apps pages first navigate to the people directory and select Edit Permissions:

Then select “Filter pages”:

And here you can select the App Filter:

For Papyrs users who are not yet familiar with Papyrs Apps, take a moment to look at https://papyrs.com/apps/ for a quick overview. The section on Papyrs Apps in the User Documentation describes the functionality in detail. Of course, if you have any question about Papyrs features you can always Contact Us

Heading widgets are useful to split longer pages up in different sections. Each heading on a page in Papyrs will automatically get its own link, so you can link directly to that particular section.

One way to add links to headings of different sections on your page is to add a Table of Contents. To do this, edit the page, drag a Navigation widget to your page, and select Table of Contents. The Table of Contents will automatically add (and update) links to all headings on your page.

You might also want to add a link from one page to a particular section on another page. To find the hyperlink of the section you want to link to, simply click on its heading. After clicking on a heading, the URL in the address bar will change to the address of the heading, and you can simply copy & paste.

We’ve just updated the design of the Google Calendar widget you can add to your intranet pages to share calendars. The calendar widget now supports calendar and event colors:

We hope you like the update! For more details on adding Google Calendars to your pages, or building custom calendars with forms, see Adding calendars to your intranet.

The people directory displays all the staff members on your Papyrs intranet/wiki site. Groups make it easier to find people, manage their permissions, and share updates with them from the activity stream. We’ve added a new shortcut that makes it easier to (re)assign people to groups. Administrators could do this by clicking on someone in the People Directory, and then selecting Set Groups. It’s now also possible to directly assign people from the Edit Group dialog:

We hope you find it useful. As always, more improvements are on the way. Happy intranetting!

Quick update to the Pages overview screen. We’ve just introduced a Trash section, which makes it easier to restore accidentally deleted pages.

If you no longer need a page for some reason, just click Move to Trash from its Page > Page Settings dialog. If the page was more brilliant than you initially realized, you can easily restore it by going to the Pages overview and clicking on the new Trash section. Pages deleted within the last 30 days can be restored from here. You can only restore pages that you had edit rights to.

Made some rather embarrassing mistake on that last page you deleted? Not to worry. Papyrs will permanently remove the page from the Trash if you click the X button icon on the right side in the Trash section (or automatically after 30 days).

More updates coming soon.