Public Beta 9.3 (rev 3487)

• [#4932] [#4997] Style importing regression
• Replaced JavaScript disabled warning with image

Public Beta 9.2 (rev 3480)

• [#4742] Advanced grid connection failover
• Merged grid stylesheet into one to improve loading speed

Public Beta 9.1 (rev 3466)

• Fixed exception in cloning a template
• [#4995] Fully localised home page
• [#4993] Support characters !, # and % in deep permalink

First of all, an apology from all of us — we’ve promised to make freezing row/column part of this release. We didn’t, at last, because there are still quite a few bugs there that we’d like to have fixed before releasing this feature to public. We target to release this as a patch to the current release by the end of this week.

Nonetheless there are still a couple of new features that we’re sure you’ll find exciting. In addition to the revamped home page, which I am sure you have already noticed and as introduced by Tony on another post below, we have also deployed the Spanish version interface to the main site. On this I must congratulate all the faithful contributors of the Spanish translation spreadsheet under our ELP, which is our bold experience of localisation in the Web 2.0 way. And we can see that it is heading towards a success here.

Another new feature worthy of note is the deep permalink. You may now go directly to a specific sheet inside a spreadsheet by typing this in your browser’s location bar: www.editgrid.com/tnc/cliff/Real-time_Portfolio_Valuation/Sheet1. Better still you may directly point to the content of a specific cell using this: www.editgrid.com/tnc/cliff/Real-time_Portfolio_Valuation/Sheet1!D7. And these are just the beginning — we target to enhance this feature with range-level permalink, and more, in forthcoming releases.

Finally, you may now upload a new version of an existing spreadsheet from your computer to EditGrid — so that instead of creating a new EditGrid spreadsheet, you also have the option to upload it to an existing EditGrid spreadsheet as a new revision. This will bring great comfort to those users to frequently edit the same spreadsheet on both EditGrid and desktop applications back and forth.

EditGrid Beta 9 (rev 3435) incorporates the following notable new features:

• [#4286] Home page revamp
• [#4971] Spanish version deployed — congratulations to all contributors on the Spanish translation spreadsheet who have made it 100% translated in barely a week’s time!
• [#4107] Deep permalink (sheet and cell level) — can now go directly to a sheet or retrieve the value of a specific cell by passing these URLs to your favorite browser:
  • www.editgrid.com/user/a_user/a_spreadsheet/Sheet2
  • www.editgrid.com/user/a_user/a_spreadsheet/Sheet2!B3
• [#4422] Upload a new version of an existing spreadsheet. The uploaded content will be made a new revision of the selected spreadsheet.

More new features will follow in patches to Public Beta 9 soon coming.

Other new features include:

• [#4693] Allow adding sheet note/tag by clicking “no tag/note”
• [#4918] Show organisation user’s status on user listing
• [#4773] Disable undo/redo when there is no application action on queue
• [#4296] Indicate progress while managing share to users
• [#4452] Usability improvement on sheet navigation, including:
  • [#4386] automatic widening for wider browser window
  • [#4510] the [+] button
• [#4538] Pre-fill remote data tool box with currently focused cell
• [#4094] Publish change log in RSS
• [#4846] Language selection menu at header
• [#4612] Recognise email addresses
• [#4083] Multiple selection with shift+left-click
• [#4873] Enabled hyperlink recognition at post-to-blog

Also fixed in this release are:

• [#4965] Do not localise default sheet name
• [#4794] Accept double quotation marks in number format string
• [#4975] Fixed inconsistent behaviour of show locked region on read-only spreadsheets
• [#4916] Inhibited browser’s native context menu at unlock cell/region button
• [#4935] Fixed garbage file exporting invoked at menu bar
• [#4931] Update menu bar items on click
• [#4906] Fixed bug where sorting + undo/redo would render cell formatting wrong
• [#4450] Fixed bug where a spreadsheet can be shared to the same user twice if hit in quick succession
• [#4876] Display last modified time on spreadsheet lists where time is 0 second
• [#4545] Fixed unlock button behaviour in past revisions
• [#4805] Fixed bug where sheet properties would become unscrollable when there is a very long tag
• [#4454] Fixed bug where a sheet would be re-ordered inadvertently
• [#4891] Fixed bug in copying unicode characters from clipboard
• [#4855] Do not show deleted spreadsheets in search result
• [#4725] Encode parantheses in permalinks
• [#4869] Adjusted column widths at My Workspace for localised versions
• [#4730] Fixed exception where non-owner attempts to roll back to a previous revision
• [#4830] Fixed bug where the whole sheet is copied upon selecting a row/column for copying to clipboard
• [#4880] Fixed critical bug where l10n would break organisation user portal
• [#4768] Ctrl+` in IE
• Extended sorting timeout to 120 seconds
• [#4724] Critical performance enhancement of paste-from-clipboard
• [#4733] Undo paste-from-clipboard in one step
• [#4769] Auto-fill regression
• [#4845] Insert row/column regression
• [#4863] Tooltip at tool bar in FireFox
• [#4970] Fixed critical bug upon sheet renaming
• [#4398] Vertical scrollbar missing
• [#4829] Fixed false security warning on click at menu bar
• [#4682] Usability enhancement of location of context menu in small browser windows
• [#4648] Update references properly for cut-and-paste

And new functionalities supported by API since this release include:

• Imposed API access limit: 3,000 per IP within 24 hours; 1,000 per user within 24 hours
• [#4890] Tab separated values format for get/set cells methods

The messy and over-crowded front page finally got cleaned up in today’s beta 9 release. Hope you’ll find it lovely! Starting from this release, we’ll keep spending some effort on making EditGrid more pleasurable for your eyes. Feel free to let us know if you have any suggestion about that!

But spending time on eye candies doesn’t mean that we’re out of feature to work with. Indeed, we’ve still got a looOOOONG list of exciting new features to be rolled out in our coming number of releases, especially through our labs. All you have to do is to stay tuned!

=)

Public Beta 8.2 (rev 3257a)

• [#4891] Non-latin characters now pasted properly from clipboard
• Extended timeout for sorting
• [#4874] System robustness improvement: restricted maximum number of cells to be imported at 30,000
• [#4765] Fixed critical issue where formulae were not updated upon renaming a sheet
• [#4865] Fixed bug where undoing a sorting of formula references would still give #Ref!
• [#4867] Fixed bug where after inserting a row at the top, a column lock fails to be unlocked