With RIM’s release of BlackBerry Tablet OS 2.0 in February, we are now able to offer WorkMobile® on the BlackBerry PlayBook.

If your PlayBook is upgraded to 2.0, go to BlackBerry App World and search for “workmobile”.

Due to a restriction of the PlayBook, WorkMobile® is unable to access the camera on the PlayBook.  If your form contains the Photo tool, it will act like a “file attachment”, allowing you to select a photo from the device’s file system.  A “barcode” tool will work like a text box, allowing you to key in a value.

Top tip: to see extra menu options on any page, swipe your finger down from the top of the screen.

Graham (Senior Developer)

The Calendar tool is used to capture a specific date.  How about if you wanted to capture the date the form was being completed?  Or even capture the exact time the form was being completed…

Your Mobile Users could just fill this detail in themselves but a simple way to ensure the correct date or time is recorded accurately is to use specific formulas.

Date
When building your form, in the Form-field properties of the Calendar tool, enter into the Formula box: =today()

Time
The Time tool will capture a specific time of day in hours and minutes.  Reduce errors and get more accurate data by using the formula: =now()

Did you know you can share and gain information by using our online forum?

Our internet forum is a Knowledge Base where all our users can look for online support and join discussions with other users.

• Get advice from other users as well as from the professionals here at WorkMobile®!
• Give us your suggestions!
• Get support for each of the different platforms!
• Help others with the knowledge you have gained from using WorkMobile®!

Register to join the Forum now at www.esay-solutions.co.uk/forum

Send notifications to multiple email addresses… and at different stages of the job!

With our latest Advanced Notifications feature you can now set up multiple members of your team to receive an email alert notifying them when a job has been allocated, raised, issued, on-device, completed, unallocated or rejected – making sure you and your team are always kept in the Loop.  Amazing!

To find out more about the new features and join one of our FREE online demo sessions click here to reserve your place.

Let your forms do the hard work.

Similar to excel calculations, you can include formulas from the very basic through to advanced within your form.  For example you could build a WorkMobile® form to capture customers order including parts, labour and VAT – calculating the price on the spot.

Formulas can also be used to validate captured data.  For example, you can add a formula that checks the ‘Email Address’ field actually contained an ‘@’ symbol before the form is submitted.  Amazing.

To find out more about the new features and join one of our FREE online demo sessions click here to reserve your place.

Are your mobile workers tired of wading through long lists of possible options to select on their form?

You can now build your form so that only relevant results appear for their selection.  For example, if your team needs to order a replacement part in the field, ‘Data Link drop-down lists’ will allow them to select the ‘Part Name’ offering only the relevant results for their next selection i.e. ‘Part Size’ or ‘Part Colour’.

To find out more about the new features and join one of our FREE online demo sessions click here to reserve your place.

We’re delighted to announce the launch of WorkMobile® Desktop – our latest platform addition for desktop PCs, Macs and ruggedized laptops.

This allows both your field-based and office workers to benefit from WorkMobile® completing forms electronically such as holiday requests, timesheets, absence forms, mileage claims and… well, the list is endless.

It’s never been a better time to go paperless.  Download WorkMobile® Desktop from the portal www.esayworkmobile.co.uk/Login and challenge a member of your team to eliminate paper forms across your business today.  We promise you won’t look back.

To find out more about the new features and join one of our FREE online demo sessions click here to reserve your place.

A sought after advanced feature perfect for all businesses that require barcode or QR scanning on the go.

The new feature effectively uses your device’s camera to scan barcodes and QR codes to quickly and accurately capture data on your form – so whether it’s to scan the barcode of a replacement part used on a job or a QR code to reserve a product in store, this new feature is ideal.

To find out more about the new features and join one of our FREE online demo sessions click here to reserve your place.

Using valuable customer feedback we have been able to determine features that would be useful to you and your business.

We are always interested to hear your views on current and new features, as well as how they could be improved or added to in order to fit your business needs.

The WorkMobile® team are constantly working on improvements and new tools that will hopefully benefit your business, and if you have specific requirement or suggestions then please do let us know.

In the meantime, keep your eyes open in New Features Week (12th-16th March 2012) for the interesting things now available…!

New Features Week runs from 12th to 16th March and you will receive a daily email of each new feature if you are registered on the WorkMobile® website.

February each year, for one week, the entire mobile phone industry camps out in the tapas bars of Barcelona.

Occasionally, some people might stray into the Mobile World Congress, a magnificent event in which the likes of Microsoft, Nokia and Research in Motion try to convince us that the products they showed us last year are somehow newer and shinier this year.

Those sober enough to make it to RIM’s developer event on Monday were treated to a free PlayBook each.  Meanwhile, Nokia had a beach party.  The Far Eastern companies, like Samsung and LG, were less imaginative.  Rather than trying to disguise their lack of innovation with cunning free gadgets and liquor, they actually had some new products.  “Phablets” are all the rage.  Not quite a phone and not quite a tablet, a phablet is, essentially, a very, very big phone.  Samsung’s Galaxy Note has a 5.3 inch screen (compare to 3.5 inches on the iPhone).  Some of you will be glad to know that the stylus is back.  Sorry, I mean “S-Pen”.

Here at eSAY, we’re dedicated followers of fashion, so expect to see WorkMobile® on the PlayBook real soon, and optimized for tablet and phablet Android devices later this year.  Now, if you’ll excuse me, these patatas bravas won’t eat themselves…

Graham (Senior Developer)