April 2007 Update 3 (rev 7780)

• [#6508] Share with user and public toolbox regression in admin mode

April 2007 Update 2 (rev 7699)

• Insert comment on menu bar
• Close comment toolbox using Ctrl+Enter

April 2007 Update 1 (rev 7668)

• [#6611] Email recognition of MAILTO: hyperlinks in grid regression
• [#6612] Email recognition of MAILTO: hyperlinks in HTML export regression

Perfect timing – EditGrid’s April 2007 Release co-incides with a release by our friends at Google Docs & Spreadsheets on the same day. More telling, though, is that we both released the same feature on the same day.

Cell comments are sticky notes that can be attached to a cell to document remarks — both to you and to your co-editors. Now on EditGrid, you can do this in three simple steps:

For the attentive readers out there – yes, the screenshots were created using Safari, or rather WebKit, the core engine underneath Apple’s Safari. EditGrid has supported WebKit’s nightly builds since Public Beta 18, though we have left the unsupported browser warning there simply because WebKit is not yet officially launched.

April 2007 Release (rev 7610)

The most notable new features in this release is:

• [#3683] Cell comment — right-click a cell and choose “Edit Cell Comment”.

Other new features include:

• [#5900] Import formatting from linked sheet
• [#6462] Add category “All” in function selector

Also fixed in this release are:

• [#6534] Handle unicode characters in outgoing emails
• [#6228] Same-spreadsheet copy-and-paste optimisation
• [#6507] Content images display regression
• [#6541] Access by API would be treated as opening a spreadsheet for Workspace filtering

Ismael Ghalimi reviewed EditGrid among 10 online spreadsheets in this week’s Spreadsheet Roundup. We are pleased to be dubbed “probably the most advanced and most polished AJAX-based spreadsheet editor” in this roundup, and to rank top among the standalone online spreadsheet services (and fourth overall). The review also noted EditGrid’s real-time update (RTU) feature that allows collaborative editing, and paid tribute to EditGrid’s most comprehensive set of chart types among the pack.While EditGrid does provide integration with Salesforce.com, Ismael is somehow correct in his critique in that Salesforce.com users are not yet able to embed data from a Salesforce.com report or from an external source into a saved spreadsheet for viewing, sharing and generating up-to-date charts. This is indeed one of the most popular feature requests on our AppExchange version — we’ll be working with Salesforce.com to make this happen. Let us know if you’d like to request this feature or any other feature on our AppExchange version (or, indeed, any other aspect of EditGrid) by posting at the EditGrid Forum — as always we’ll prioritise our development plan based on users’ feedback.

Thank Ismael for the cool review!