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More context in the history

Thursday, September 02, 2010 by Duncan Stockdill

The layout of the the contact history in Capsule was designed early on and it’s been long due for a tidy up. The main problem with the old design is that the sender of an email wasn’t clearly identified. This made it difficult to know if the email was sent by you or by a contact.

The new design shows the sender and recipient(s) of the email so it’s clear whether the email was sent by you to the contact, or was received from a contact. We’ve also included the contact’s picture alongside each entry in the organisation’s page. The user and entry date are still displayed, but are given less prominence to make it easy to scan through the information in each entry. Here’s a preview showing the new design:

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Comments

Martin Thu Sep, 2 2010 at 01:43 pm

How exciting! When will we see this new feature being rolled out?

Frank Stratmann Thu Sep, 2 2010 at 03:17 pm

Yes, that´s really nice. But it is a preview without announce, when this feature will be available?

Duncan Stockdill Thu Sep, 2 2010 at 11:32 pm

@Frank @Martin, the new history layout is available now. If you look at an organisation’s history you’ll see the layout as per the screenshot.

Jimmy Fri Sep, 3 2010 at 04:46 pm

...not showing on mine…? The layout looks to have changed slightly but no sign of contact pictures.

Duncan Stockdill Fri Sep, 3 2010 at 06:39 pm

@Jimmy, the pictures don’t show when viewing a person’s history (since they’d all be the same anyway). But they should appear when looking at an organisation’s history. If not, can you drop us an email on .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) with details including which browser you use. Thanks.