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Carlyn Manly
Introducing the Redesigned Inbox Console

The views of 4me’s Inbox console have undergone a major makeover. When specialists open their 4me inbox, they will initially not notice a major change. Their inbox still presents the assignments in a table layout. But they may notice the ability to switch to a new layout. The new layout offers multiple lines of information […]

Eric Zwierzynski
Impressions from 4me CAB 2018

The annual 4me Customer Advisory Board meeting took place last week at Hartwell House, nestled in the beautiful English countryside. For three days the 4me team was joined by 12 of our customers and partners to discuss service management best practices, the challenges facing modern enterprises, and 4me’s development priorities for the coming year. It […]

Carlyn Manly
More Intuitive Quick Ranges

The quick ranges, which allow people to select a popular date range for a report, have been improved. The reason why this was done is that people always had to think a little to understand the difference between, for example, ‘Past month’ and ‘Previous month’. The new set of quick ranges now has names that are easier […]

Carlyn Manly
Specialists Can See Time Entries of Colleagues

When specialists open the ‘Time Entries’ section of a request, problem, release, change, change task, project or project task, they are now able to see not only their own time entries, but also those of their colleagues. Specifically, they are able to see all time entries of the people who work for an organization that […]

Carlyn Manly
Mail API Limits Relaxed

To protect organizations against malicious use of the Mail API, the maximum number of email messages that gets processed for any person over a 4-hour period is limited. The limit depends on the roles that the sender of the email has in 4me. For the End User role this limit has increased from 10 to […]

Carlyn Manly
Customer Satisfaction Reports

Requesters are encouraged to let their support organization know whether or not they are satisfied with the way their requests were handled. To capture more responses, the ability to provide feedback is now available from within completed requests for 28 days. End users can do this in Self Service and support specialists can do this […]

Carlyn Manly
Different Rule Set for Virtual Machines

The rule set for the product category ‘Virtual Machine’ has changed. It used to be ‘Logical Asset with Financial Data’. It has now become ‘Server’. The new rule set makes it possible to specify the number of processors and processor cores that have been allocated to each virtual machine. This can be important, especially when […]

Carlyn Manly
No More Lists of Checkboxes

A few record types still had long lists of checkboxes. These lists have been replaced by a link that offers a list of suggestions when pressed. This makes it easier to look up and select the specific options that the user is looking for. Large organizations that have many options to choose from will benefit the […]

Carlyn Manly
First and Last Audit Trail Buttons

The audit trail that 4me maintains for each record provides an easy-to-understand overview of a record’s entire history from the moment it was created. As records age, though, their audit trails can become quite long.