Bluyah Development Blog

Whew - it’s been a busy week!  The devs have fixed a ton of application issues, as well as introduced some cool new features.  The complete list includes:

• Fixed a bug in the Marquee edit screen whereby some gibberish was being displayed instead of the desired content when the user chose to display additional information and selected the sub-menu “All of It” [Ticket #137] 
• Fixed column editing in Report screens so that if you change a column title, then delete that column, the name change is retained (in case you decide you want to re-instate the column later). [Ticket #136]
• Fixed some layout issues with Map exports - particularly with the sizing and layout of the market ‘bubble’ that pops up when a map marker is clicked. [Ticket #138] 
• Added additional confirmations to the Connector manager to prevent users from accidentally deleting their  Google Docs connections. [Ticket #144] 
• Fixed Subscription model so users can now ‘downgrade’ from a paid service account to a Free account at will. [Ticket #145]
• Introduced Scatter and Pie charts.  Both chart types allow you to select the data column to be used in your chart directly from the Edit screen.
• Enhanced all of the Export edit screens to work against an in-memory snapshot of the underlying data set.  This accomplishes two things:
  1. You’re database (or RSS feed / spreadsheet) is no longer taking a hit each time you reposition or edit a column name in the edit screen(s), and 
  2. The editing of reports and exports is, as a result, much, much faster. 
• Fixed the Chart Edit color picker.  It’s now much easier to use, remembers the last color you used, and allows you to directly input the hex value of the color you want to use (if you need that much control).
• Canceling an account now completely deletes all Connectors, Reports and Exports associated with that account.  (We were ‘expiring’ the account in case users wanted to re-instate it - but we’ve learned the Facebook lesson.  :)
• Removed PayPal as a payment option (we can hear the groans already).  But the truth of the matter is, for a monthly subscription service (like Bluyah) very few people we’ve spoken with would consider using PayPal as their payment method.  We already have a great merchant company for handling credit card payments and didn’t wish to pay PayPal’s monthly fees just so we could accept a handful of subscriber’s payments.  Of course - if enough of YOU want this feature in the future, we will revisit it at that time.