September 2007 Release (rev 10297)

The most notable new features in this release are:

• HTML Export - With HTML export, you can now publish a multi-page spreadsheet online with ease - You can export a multi-page spreadsheet ,switch between sheets using tabs and perform sorting and auto-filtering for your published tables or lists.

• iPhone Edition Beta - Being compatible with Safari, iPhone’s default browser, EditGrid iPhone Edition beta offers you an extended scrolling capability by scrolling your spreadsheet and the option menu with two fingers. You can open your spreadsheet in Edit mode, View Mode and Hybrid Mode according to the size of the spreadsheet. Visit (http://www.editgrid.com/site/news/iphone_launch) with iPhone to feel the unique collaboration experience on the go!

Enhancements:

• Increase upload size to 2MB (Personal account) and 8MB (Organisational account) respectively
• Multiple column resize can be restored by a single undo command (#6301)
• Allow user to choose which workspace to save a new spreadsheet or import a spreadsheet (#6847 & #7106)
• Improved workspace loading speed

And some major bug fixes:

• Recover formula bar at IE6 and IE7 (#7144)
• Html export distorts symbols [&], ['], ["], [<] and [>] on renamed sheet name tab (#7263)
• Fixed Auto-fill malfunction on IE6 (#7264)
• Add share-to-Email warning for empty user/workspace name instead (#7170)
• Fixed frozen grid upon exporting on IE6 (#7268)

August 2007 Release (rev 9580)

The most notable new features in this release are:

• Share-to-Email - Having enjoyed sharing your spreadsheet with other users seamlessly in EditGrid? From now on, you can also share your spreadsheet to those who does NOT have an EditGrid account in just a few clicks! Let’s invite your friends to edit together by going to “Share > Share with others > Add Emails” now!
• Spreadsheet Redirection - You can share your spreadsheet with others in EditGrid without the hassle of e-mailing the document again-and-again, but do you need to notify your friends of the spreadsheet’s link being changed when you rename your spreadsheet? Inspired by MediaWiki, we’ve avoided the hassle by supporting spreadsheet redirection after renaming/changing of ownership! Simply select “Create a new redirection” when you rename the spreadsheet/change the ownership, the old permalink will be redirected to the new permalink!
• Find-and-replace - We never forget to make EditGrid closer to your Excel experience. You can now replace the phrase in your spreadsheet in EditGrid as you usually do in Excel. Go to “Edit > Replace” or simply click the short-cut “Ctrl+h” to open the find-and-replace dialog and start replacing!

Enhancements:

• Skip request for page/static/tt/grid/widget/sort at grid loading (#6426)
• More user configurable workspace listing (#6421)
• Clones remote data when copying a book (#6891)
• Initialise mark revision text box with old description (#5284)
• Allow user to choose which workspace to save for new spreadsheet (#6847)
• Improved cloning performance
• Allow user to choose which workspace to store the newly imported spreadsheet. (#7106)
• More efficient workspace loading

And some major bug fixes:

• Allow add and remove remote data on a writeable spreadsheet opened in read-only mode (#6963)
• Better escaping for web fetch (#6964)
• Import of lotus 1-2-3 file types (#6960)
• Select area where input is unchanged during undo/redo operation (#7003)
• Auto-expand after double-clicking a cell (#7096)

July 2007 Release (rev 9188)

Congratulations to the developers for fixing a total of 120 bugs throughout the EditGrid Big Bugs Hunt for this release. However, this release is much more than bug fixing!

The most notable new features in this release are:

• Dynamic Images, you can now play mash-up with the image URLs. See the demo spreadsheets Weatherholic and Stockaholic to see how it works. - feature sponsored by .
• Direct support of IME input of multibyte characters on IE/FF, without needing to press F2 first (#5313) - feature sponsored by .
• Official Safari 3 support - Safari is the fastest browser for running EditGrid! (note: EditGrid on iPhone not far away!)

Enhancements:

• New preference to set the default workspace filtering between “all”, “active” and “last filtering”
• New preference for organisation user to enable/disable SSL permanently
• Support formula building through keyboard’s arrow keys (#4595)
• Allow copy, cut, paste directly from system clipboard with CTRL+C/CTRL+X/CTRL+V in IE/FF/Opera
• Menu item to auto fill cells (Main menu > Edit > Autofill) (#6986)
• Highlight affected cell upon undo/redo (#6025)
• Added context menu item to spreadsheet images to trigger a force reload (#6796)
• Added “Get Cell Permalink” to cell’s context menu (#6852)
• Detect client locale automatically on the first visit (#5959)
• Allow login using the orgname/username format in organisation login page (#6760)
• Allow unmarking/deleting multiple revisions at history
• New “rename spreadsheet” link on sheet property summary page (#4313)
• Improved chat performance for spreadsheet with a lot of chat users (#6179)
• Added “select all” button on spreadsheet sharing page (#6773)
• Added captcha to prevent spamming on spreadsheet properties and email spamming (#6790, #6792)

And some major bug fixes:

• Fixed scrolling problem on chat box user list
• Allow paste from system clipboard directly under edit mode (#4900)
• Fixed workspace sort order preference malfunctioning for “sort by owner” (#6786)
• Switch to default workspace if the current workspace is unavailable (#6841)
• Fixed organisation master failed to unlock locked cells in admin mode (#6453)
• Fixed security warning when bringing up context menu by right-clicking on IE7 (#6156)
• Fixed language preference not applied with auto-login (through “remember me”) (#6840)
• Fixed invalid sheet object ordering after a spreadsheet is reopened (#6811)
• Prevent access to an inactivated user’s spreadsheet and public spreadsheet list (#6812)
• Fixed “Newly shared” workspace message nuisance (#6775)
• More meaningful error message for oooc failure (#6246, #6247)
• Fixed wrong revision marked “rolled back” upon roll back (#5939)
• Fixed initial version not included in revision history (#5277)
• Password should not be stored in password field after login failed (#6917)
• Show a dummy “failed to load” image if sheet image can’t be imported (#6928)

June 2007 Release (rev 8534)

The most notable new features in this release is:

• Insert Image on Spreadsheet - from the menu bar, click Insert > Image …, and give a URL to insert an image. (#5109)
• EditGrid Status and Availability History - now available at status.editgrid.com - a dedicated website to track EditGrid’s system status in real-time and maintain an availability history for future reference. (#6217)

Enhancements:

• Improved performance for Live Chat, when a large number of users are chatting simultaneously.
• Improved performance when doing column/row operations in spreadsheets with freeze pane enabled. (#6787)
• Better navigation after purging or restoring a spreadsheet from the organisation admin interface. (#6269, #6280)

Also fixed in this release are:

• “Remember me” not working when logged in from /home. (#6696)
• Problem scrolling with mouse wheel in Opera 9.20 or above.
• Fixed spreadsheet not loading in Safari.
• Various minor bugs in Remote Data and Sheet Objects.

May 2007 Release (rev 8298)

The most notable new features in this release is:

• Shared Workspace, allow groups of people to work together in a common environment. Spreadsheets in a shared workspace are co-owned by all the workspace members. (#4028)
• New spreadsheet sharing interface. The previous three paged “Share to Public”, “Share with Password” and “Share to Users” interface are combined into one with a more intuitive workflow. (#6481)
• More scalable backend architecture. We can now handle a lot more concurrent users with more predictable response time.

Other new features include:

• Support fetching data from a password protected spreadsheet web fetch through web-fetch (see the forum discussion) (#6674)
• A new “remove all” button in remote data dialog (#6747)
• Added hyperlink function “=hyperlink(href,text)” (#6652)
• A tooltip to notify users of new features. You should have noticed that we’re using it to promote our Shared Workspace feature already. (#5974)

Also fixed in this release are:

• Freeze-pane not properly exported in XLS format (#5204)
• Phantom editing of unauthorized sheets (#5901, #6661)
• Cell comment rendering problems (#6609, #6635, #6657)
• Properly handle permalinks of spreadsheets with a trailing dot (#5937)

Other enhancements:

• More prominent unlock button for password-protected sheets (#4822)
• Optimization of the Chat protocol - now consume less bandwidth

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