A simple user experience with the best features is the top priority here at MangoSpring. This notion is built into all apps in our MangoSuite with features that help you communicate faster and better than with any other project collaboration tool. Whether by offering truly threaded microblogging conversations that keep your entire company on the same page, or by managing your employee’s tasks to keep your corporate ship sailing on calm water, we strive to save you time and broadly inform your organization.

What’s in this release and why should you care?

This release includes 4 features that will simplify your experience in MangoApps.

• The Inline View for Feed Attachments feature inclides an in-app viewer for several file types.
• The Inline Play for FLV, MP3, and MP4 feature showcases our new MangoApps multimedia player.
• The new Task Pop-up Toolbar allows for quick actions like viewing, completing, and deleting tasks to be taken on feeds directly from your “Pending Task” list. Task Details now pop in front of the task list you are looking at using the new Pop-up Task Details Dialog feature.
• And the new Move to Project or Group capability easily moves a Status Update feed to a more appropriate project or group audience.

The “Inline View for Feed Attachments” idea at a glance:

Whether your attachment is a document, a multimedia file, or a picture, colleagues will recognize your attachment and assign urgency to viewing your attachment more quickly and easily. People relate urgency to the types of files that get attached to feeds. A “DOC” file type may be more important to some users than a “WAV” file type. This week we’re happy to add the simplicity of being able to visually recognize attachments’ file types and assign viewing urgency based on its icon.

Besides being able to easily recognize file types of feed attachments, multiple image attachments to the same feed can be viewed as a slide show right inside MangoSpring. Simply click one of the images to open the inline slideshow viewer.

Easy steps to get started now with “Inline View for Feed Attachments”:

1. Create a feed that has multiple (more than 4) image attachments.
2. Notice that the feed shows a “Left” and “Right” arrow denoting that you can scroll to the next or previous image by clicking the arrow.
3. Click one of the images to open that image.
4. You can cycle through the photos manually with the “Forward” or “Back” controls on the inline viewer or cycle automatically by clicking “Start Slideshow”.

The “Inline Play for FLV, MP3, and MP4 Content” idea at a glance:

MangoApps is web based document management software. MangoDocs makes it easier to play multimedia file attachments than ever before by playing them directly in the browser—saving the time and interruption of switching applications. We wanted users to not be distracted by first saving the multimedia file, then finding the application to play the file, then returning to MangoSpring web client to comment on the multimedia file they just played. Users were losing their place with all the distraction. By overcoming all the distractions, multimedia files can be easily and quickly be received, viewed and commented on right inside MangoSpring web client.

Easy steps go get started now with Inline Play:

1. Post a feed with a multimedia attachment like FLV, MP3, or MP4
2. Users can click to view your multimedia attachment.

The “Task Pop-up Toolbar and Task Details Dialog” idea at a glance:

Task completion just got a whole lot easier with the Task Pop-up Tool. Viewing details, marking tasks complete, and deleting tasks entirely can be done from the main “Task details” page on the “Pending Tasks” tab without changing views in the web client.
Icons to the right of the task summary display information about the task or carry out task actions. Icons include the “Notepad” icon indicating that notes are available for the task. The “Private” privacy setting is indicated by the “Lock” icon. The Task Details “Dialog Menu” icon opens the new Pop-up Task Details dialog window. The “Checkmark” icon will mark the task complete. The trash can icon will delete the task. When you’ve completed the action, you’re seamlessly returned to the main task window where you left off.

Easy steps to get started now with Task Pop-up Toolbars and Task Details Dialogs:

1. Create a new task for yourself so it will show in your “Pending Tasks” list.
2. Navigate to your “Pending Tasks” list by clicking “Tasks” feature from the feature list.
3. Put your mouse pointer over any task to view the Task Pop-up Tool.
4. Click on “Task Details” icon to open the dialog below:



5. Click on the “Checkmark” icon to “Mark task as complete”. This action opens a popup dialog to enter more information into the task.
6. Click on The “Trash Can” icon to “Delete Task”. Taking this action icon deletes the task after a confirmation window.

The “Move” feeds On-the-fly idea at a glance:

Part of the magic of “open” collaboration with your MangoApps peers is that casual discussion often explodes into an unexpectedly hot topic of discussion. Some topics that start as a general audience discussion actually should be tracked as part of the workflow of an existing project or group.

MangoApps’ new “Move” feature enables you to reposition topical discussions from the general feed audience into an existing project or group forum.

Easy steps to get started now with the “Move” feature:

1. Create a new feed as a Status Update



2. Click on the “Move” action link under your feed.



3. Choose a radio button. If no project or group already exists, one can be immediately created around the hot topic to preserve the initial workflow discussion.
4. Click the Move Conversation” button to move your feed will be moved to the group or project that you specify.



5. View the result of “Moving” a feed from Main Feed to Project Feed: