New in version 2.0

Welcome to Aware IM 2.0, the latest version of our unique web application design and management software. It marks the first anniversary of the first official release of Aware IM. A lot happened during this year and the result is a more mature, more robust, more powerful, and more flexible Aware IM than ever before.

Many thanks to all of you who gave us feedback, shared your thoughts, reported problems, suggested solutions and contributed to the wish list. We listened carefully to all your comments and addressed many of your requests in the new version.

Aware IM 2.0 is packed with dozens of improvements. The most significant new features are described below.

English, Française, Deutsch...

In response to numerous requests we have added support for languages other than English. Aware IM is now shipped with support for French and German with more languages to be added in the future. If you need support for other languages, please email us for availability schedule.

Calendar View

Aware IM is designed to manage all kinds of data. Most types of data look good when displayed in tables but some don't. For example, a list of appointments, or other time-based data, would have to be shown as a table. Until now...

Aware IM 2.0 lets you see appointments in a calendar view just like in a diary. In fact, there are no fewer than five separate calendar views:

Day view	Working Week	Week view

Month view	Year view

...and you are free to switch between them as you please. Not only that, you can create new appointments by clicking an icon right on the calendar. No need to select a command from menu or enter a date.

More flexible forms - without extra efforts

The ease of working with related data has been one of the trademark features of Aware IM. This included an automatically constructed editable list of related items on a data form. However, its usability was somewhat limited since all data for related items had to be placed into a single line.

Aware IM 2.0 offers a much more flexible presentation solution for related data. You can now nominate a related data form to be used in the main data form for each related item:

Another welcomed addition is an ability to place multiple attributes into one cell on a form layout. This allows for grouping of logically connected data and displaying it in a more intuitive way:

Yet another degree of flexibility added in Aware IM 2.0 is an ability to hide sections (tabs) on multi-section forms. Now you can state conditions when a particular section should be displayed. If they are not met, the section will never show up!

Icons, icons and more icons...

A picture is worth a thousand words... You can now make your forms more instructive, intuitive and just better looking by adding small pictures to various elements on the form. What kind of elements? Operations displayed above or below the form, tabs for multi-sectioned forms, attribute labels, column labels in tables for related data.

What's more, you can nominate icons to be displayed depending on data values or other conditions. For example, a communication type may be may be indicated by a specific icon:

HTML E-mails

It was always possible to send template-based personalized emails with Aware IM. But, they would go out only in a plain-text format, which is, well, rather plain...

Not any more! Now you can automatically send professionally looking newsletters, invoices and other emails, nicely formatted and complete with pictures. All the recipients have to do is just open the email! No need for clicking hyperlinks or detaching attachments.

Windows service

What if you must ensure that a computer set up for running an important business application does, in fact, run the application at all times? Even if the computer is restarted remotely, without relying on anyone being around to start the application?

With Aware IM 2.0 you can! It can now be started as a Windows service, meaning that it will start automatically whenever the computer is restarted. No logging in, no manual start up, no worries...

Users make their own choices...

... and if you are a developer, often you cannot simply put some fixed values in a list of choices and hope it would be sufficient or even relevant to all of your customers. Chances are it will not. One solution is to change the configuration whenever a customer requests specific values to be available in choice lists. But then you would end up with multiple configurations of the same application, which may quickly become very hard or impossible to maintain.

Aware IM 2.0 solution is pretty obvious: let the customers put their own values in choice lists without changing the application configuration! Simply by using a web browser and logging into the application they can extend, change, or completely replace the default choices supplied with the configuration. Of course, this functionality is properly protected and is only available to users with Administrator access level.