Author: wim

Hi everyone, quick update: we just released a new navigation widget to add to your Papyrs pages: Table of Contents.

If you have a long page with a lot of documentation, it’s often useful to be able to jump to different parts within that page. If you add the Table of Contents widget, an index of all headings on your page is generated, so the visitors of your page can easily jump to different sections. If you add or remove headings, the index is updated automatically. See the screenshot below for a small example:

You can add the Table of Contents widget by adding a Navigation widget, and selecting Table of Contents.

Hope you find the update useful, we’ll be back with more soon!

Today we’re launching a new widget for Papyrs: the poll widget.

Although it’s already possible to create all kinds of survey forms using the form widgets, a poll can be useful if you want feedback on a single question, and immediately show the results. With Papyrs, you can now add two types of poll widgets. After adding a Simple Poll widget, people can vote for one of the available choices. They can also view the results of the poll, with a bar showing the percentage of the vote for each option.

The other poll widget is the Preference table. Using this widget, people can select multiple options, and a table is shown with the names of people who voted and the selected options. This is great for deciding between multiple alternatives/preferences with a group of people, from planning a date for a meeting to deciding between various designs for a new project.

Some examples:

To add a poll widget to your page, drag the Media/Widget to your page, and select the Poll tab. Only users with View & Submit permissions or higher can vote in a poll, but everyone with access to a page can see the results.

We hope you find the new widget useful. More updates coming soon!

Today we’re announcing more integration for Papyrs with Google Apps! (available for Papyrs for Google Apps users).

If you’re someone who needs to spend a lot of time in your Google Mail Inbox, you probably already use the Notifications in Papyrs to stay up to date of new page changes and form submissions.

Some updates might require you to take some action, especially when someone submits a new request that needs to be reviewed. To reduce the time you have to spend switching between apps, we’re now introducing a Papyrs Widget for Google Mail to help with that!

Everytime a form is submitted with a status field, and you’re an administrator for the form page, a widget automatically appears below your mail. Just by pressing a button, you can change the status of the form directly from your Inbox!

As an example, consider a form page in your Papyrs intranet for requesting Paid Time Off. When someone in your team submits a request, a widget is automatically shown below the notification email in Google Mail:

If we want to change status (e.g. we want to Approve the request), just select the new status and click Change Status. That’s it, the status of the form request will be updated, without having to leave your Inbox!

Here’s another example, for a form to submit new Client Project Proposals:

We hope you like the new feature, which is now available to all Papyrs for Google Apps users!

Note: if your Google Apps domain is already using Papyrs, your domain administrator needs to approve access to this new Papyrs feature on the Google Apps Control Panel first (http://www.google.com/a/<domain>).

We’ll be back with more news about further Google Apps integration, and other features, soon!

Want to read more about workflows? You can find more information in our documentation about Form Workflow options.