Latest updates from Tribalogic HQ

We are hiring!

Written by Robin Morris Wednesday, 19 December 2012 00:00

We are looking for a new member of the Tribalogic team, based from our office in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The main responsibilities will be in the working in HTML/CSS and providing friendly and rapid support on our public interfaces.

Ability to delete stuff in the Admin Console

Written by Robin Morris Tuesday, 18 December 2012 10:32

I know this sounds crazy, but there has never been a way for our Administators to delete Entries (properties, caravan parks etc.) in our Admin Console.

Well, now you can.

delete entry action in the Admin Console

The reason it has taken us so long to implement this feature is that there are many implications of deleting something. For example, although you might have stopped managing a holiday property and no longer wish to see it when you log into the Admin Console, you do not want to lose historic bookings that were made to that property.

Balance payments in the Dashboard

Written by Robin Morris Tuesday, 18 December 2012 10:07

As of today, balance payments will now show up on your Dashboard timeline in the Admin Console.

Balance payments showing up in Admin Console dashboard timeline

This means you are more likely to get that reassuring feeling that your guest has paid you!

Platform Update (v2.119)

Written by Robin Morris Monday, 17 December 2012 15:09

Major updates

Admin Console: give certain classes of Administrators the ability to delete Entries, Groups, Services and Subscriptions
Admin Console: when a user makes a balance payment, it will now appear in the Dashboard
Admin Console: reinstatement of booking Timeline view under the "Bookings" tab
Booking: on booking process, when Payment Gateway is PayPal, add the text "Payment will be taken via PayPal, you will be directed to the PayPal website to complete the transaction" and update the continue button to say "Continue to PayPal"

Minor updates and bug fixes

Admin Console: add a mechanism to affix the header of the console in place
Admin Console: update Bookster rates styles
Admin Console: improve remembering that users are logged in to avoid losing changes made over a long period of time
Admin Console: remove "C:\fakepath\" from appearing when uploading images
Admin Console: add an Entry Type filter under the "Entries" tab
Admin Console: fixed bug on promotion codes interface
Admin Console: fix a bug in IE8 that prevented the deleting of availability blocks
Admin Console: fix a bug in the extras interface set all extras to have a min quantity of 1
Admin Console: fix a bug in the opening times form
Booking: do not allow Google to spider the links on the calendar
Booking, Websites: clean up any links to view pages with start dates in them
Platform: add a work around to a PHP crashing issue
Platform: added a basic boolean Element type for storing yes/no values

No longer supporting Internet Explorer 8

Written by Robin Morris Thursday, 13 December 2012 00:00

From 1st February 2013 we will no longer support the use of Internet Explorer 8 within our Admin Console.

This will effect less than 2% of our users.

We will also stop checking client websites in IE8 as a matter of course.

Why can't we support it forever?

Technologies and browsers move on, and we want to take adantage of them.

IE8 has limited support for HTML 5 and other web technologies that we want to use and give our users the best possible experience.

Useful:

Google no longer supporting IE 8

Publish availability to TripAdvisor

Written by Robin Morris Thursday, 06 December 2012 17:07

FlipKey (owned by TripAdvisor) now support reading the iCal feed that Tribalogic Management Toolkit enabled properties produces to publish availability.

Finding your iCal link in the Admin Console (Management Toolkit bolt-on clients only):

Go to your Property
Click on "Actions"
Click on "Share + Embed"
Look for iCal

See how to set it up within FlipKey.

Property Portfolio: place a booking!

Written by Robin Morris Wednesday, 28 November 2012 12:57

You can now place a booking on our Property Portfolio demo!

See how easy it is for your clients to book their holiday on your Property Portfolio website with the Bookster booking platform.

Platform Update (v2.118)

Written by Robin Morris Monday, 19 November 2012 15:06

Major updates

Admin Console: new look and feel
Admin Console: responsive design to work better when viewed on mobile devices
Admin Console: new consolidated "Actions" menu
Admin Console: improved Tagging of Entries
Admin Console: improved commenting on Bookings
Admin Console: improved Booking view
Bookster Rooms, Bookster Pitch: assign Extras to a specific Room or Pitch type
Payment Gateways: add support for DataCash
Payment Gateways: new "basic check" payment gateway type

Minor updates and bug fixes

Admin Console: use the Bootstrap HTML/CSS/JS framework
Admin Console: improvements to the share dialogue
Admin Console: improvements to the "add booking" wizard
Admin Console: speed improvements
Management Toolkit: include property name in the iCal availability feed
Sales XML feed reader: improved error reporting

Lines added: 34k, lines removed: 23.5k affecting 1.2k files.

Changes to the Admin Console

Written by Robin Morris Monday, 19 November 2012 11:14

We have updated our secure Admin Console.

A brand new look

We have introduced a new clean look and feel to our Admin Console.

booking-list

Responsive to mobile

We have used responsive techniques to ensure that the console looks great across a whole spectrum of devices. This is going to be especially useful for mobile users.

Admin Console on an iPhone Tribalogic Admin Console on a mobile

New features include...

consolidated "Actions" menu - a single menu where you can look to carry out various tasks relating to the page you are viewing
better searching and filtering
improved Tagging of Entries
enhanced commenting on Bookings
a new Booking view

single booking view