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Carlyn Manly
In Transit

It rarely happens that a status option gets added, but several customers have indicated that the status ‘In Transit’ is useful for configuration management.

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Recently Selected Change Templates

Change managers are going to appreciate this usability improvement. When someone starts to register a new change and selects a change template, 4me is now going to remember this selection. The benefit is that the next time the change manager needs to create a change, the template is presented in the ‘Recent Selections’.

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Editing Tasks within a Popup

When you open a change or project in View mode and you click on a task within the small Gantt chart that is presented at the bottom of the screen, this task is presented in a popup over the change or project. If you have the access rights to edit this task, you can then […]

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4me Welcomes Wouter Wyns

It is my great pleasure to announce that Wouter Wyns has joined the 4me team as Service Management Architect. His primary responsibility is the success of 4me customers.  He will use his more than 20 years of service management experience to guide 4me partners and their customers through the more difficult steps of their implementation […]

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New Task Template Warnings

To ensure that change managers do not unintentionally affect a change template when they update a task template, they are now warned when this could happen.  A warning is displayed when a change manager opens a task template in Edit mode and this task template is part of one or more change templates.

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More Enhancements for Change Managers

Change managers have provided some useful feedback that has helped us perfect the Gantt Chart interface they use to plan their changes. The results are the following 3 usability improvements:

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Self Service Search Optimization

4me continuously learns from the searches that people perform. Search phrases that were previously used by others are suggested only when there is a fuzzy match with what has been entered in the Search box. And by keeping track of how often a phrase has been used to successfully find a service, knowledge article or […]

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Encrypted Data At Rest

The production environment of the 4me service was recently migrated to an entirely new infrastructure. The QA environment has already been running on an identical infrastructure for several months to proof the quality of its architecture.