What's New in OfficeStatus v2.0

OfficeStatus v2.0 is the product of many hours of product development and testing efforts, and represents a major upgrade from the previous v1.x releases. Nearly every aspect of the solution has received numerous updates and improvements, including:

All New Web Interface

In OfficeStatus v2.0, the web interface is no longer just for system administrators - it now also provides end users with a very similar level of functionality available in our powerful OfficeStatus Windows Client. Built on top of a powerful AJAX framework, the new OfficeStatus web interface provides a rich user experience, greater deployment flexibility, and support for non-Windows operating systems.

Web Employee Status Board

Client Settings Management

New to OfficeStatus v2.0, system administrators can manage key aspects of client settings, with the ability to establish defaults that work best for their end users. Individual settings can also be "locked down" so that end users cannot change them.

Status Scheduling

OfficeStatus v2.0 now allows end users to schedule status changes to occur at a future date and time. Status schedules can viewed by other standard user accounts, or managed by their owner or another user with the proper access rights (granted through role membership).

Scheduled Status Changes

New Reporting Interface

The OfficeStatus reporting interface has been completely overhauled for v2.0. In addition to now being accessible from with the web or Windows client interfaces, the reports now use a common reporting engine for better functional consistency. We've also introduced new Location and User Status Schedule reports.

Workforce Status Visualization

OfficeStatus 2.0 introduces a powerful new data visualization mechanism (using a proportional, stacked graph) that provides users with quick insight into staff availability (departmentally and overall). Understand organizational staff coverage at a glance!

Staff Availability by Department

More Flexible Licensing

OfficeStatus v2.0 offers a much more flexible licensing model. Now, multiple licenses can be combined (used at the same time) to achieve a more precise overall user license count and greatly simplify the expansion of user capacity.

Work Schedules & Status Changes

OfficeStatus v2.0 is now aware of user work schedules (with a site schedule serving as a default). This information is used to provide powerful assistance to the user status change process, making user interaction with the system easier and more efficient.

User Status Change Assistance

Performance & Security Enhancements

The OfficeStatus v2.0 release provides dozens of improvements to performance and resource consumption. All components now consume less memory and CPU cycles while exhibiting much improved performance. Internal security mechanisms have also been upgraded and improved.

Many Other Improvements

Version 2.0 also offers (literally) hundreds of additional improvements to existing features and functionality, and also adds many small improvements (new end user options, documentation improvements, installer tweaks, etc.). A number of known issues were also addressed.