November 16th, 2009 by Brian Cors
Last month, with the renaming of our document automation software from PriceQuote to SalesDoc Architect (SDA), one of the great features that we added was the ability to create an unlimited number of document types (or “DocTypes”) that you can use to categorize document sections in the document library. When document outputs are generated, SDA uses the DocType you’ve selected for the particular output to filter the document sections that are included in the final output Word document.
Let’s say you want to generate a proposal. By choosing to output only doc sections with DocType = “Proposal”, SDA will filter the output to include only those doc sections in the final output document. This makes it very easy to create new types of outputs simply by creating a new DocType, then tagging the doc sections you want to include in the new output with the new DocType.
Unlimited DocTypes become even more helpful when they are used in combination with other means of configuring the document sections that will appear on the outputs. For example, let’s assume that you have associated part numbers with doc sections in the SalesDoc Architect database as follows… Read the rest of this entry »
November 13th, 2009 by Brian Cors
I love my Blackberry. It’s a great phone that synchronizes nicely with my Outlook (calendar and contacts in my case), enables me to call my contacts hands-free using my voice (e.g., “call Joe Smith mobile”) and – best of all – enables me to send and receive emails wherever I am. But as a text messaging platform, it’s not so good. It takes way too many keystrokes to send a simple SMS text message. I’d rather call someone instead of texting them.
But I have a 14-year old daughter. My response hit rate is much higher when I send a text message rather than calling her (it’s embarrassing to have dad call you on the cell phone when you’re with your friends), and there are other folks in my contacts list who respond more often and quickly to a text message.
Fortunately, after much searching, I’ve found a little $6 application called QuickText that makes it fast and easy to send a text message. From the main screen, I simply press the “Q” key, then the key that I’ve assigned to the person I’m texting. Now I can immediately starting typing my text message. Two keystrokes to get to the composition screen…not bad!
If my intended text message recipient does not have a key assigned to them, then after pressing the “Q” key, I can press the space bar to bring up my address book where I can select the recipient and immediately begin typing my text message. Fast and easy, like text messaging should be!
You can download QuickText, which is made by Cannon Software, from Blackberry’s App World or from one of several mobile software websites. I downloaded mine from www.MobiHand.com.
