Bluyah Development Blog

Introduced in Release 1.1.1, Sharing allows you to create a connector to a private data source, but “share” read-only access to that connection to other users in the account.

In this next screencast in the series, we present a overview on how to share connectors, with other users linked to the same account:

Version 1.1.0 will launch on Saturday, May 16th, 2009, during the 8:00 - 9:00 PM (PSD) maintenance window.

This release introduces a major new feature: Presentation exports.  More details, as well as a screencast, detailing how to use Presentations will be coming shortly.

Contents of the release are as follows:

• Sharees are no longer allowed to disable a database view from being used by all users in the account when that connector is shared to them. [Ticket #205]
• Sharers can now limit sharing to specific database views or Google Docs spreadsheets, without the need to share the connector itself.  In addition, connector sharing has been moved from the Connector Edit screen to the DB Views/ Google Spreadsheets Details page, in order to be more intuitive.  [Ticket #203]
• Enhanced the Professional and Enterprise accounts so that all communications with Bluyah are over SSL for these account levels. [Ticket #40]
• XML Connectors now allow optional username and password.  So if you wanted to connect to your Twitter account timelime, you could do so with Bluyah, then export that data into any export format you choose. [Ticket #224]
• Fixed bug in Map Export that would prevent 1st item in pop-up bubble from being displayed if the element name contained a space. [Ticket #268]

Yes - you read that correctly.  We’re out of Beta!

Thanks so much to all of our great Beta Testers (you know who you are).  They kept us on our toes, made insightful suggestions, and let us know when the application was not doing what they expected it to do. Without them we would not have made it this far this quickly.

In terms of features, very little has been introduced with this release, as we’ve been concentrating on hardening the app for launch.  One key thing that has been introduced, however, is Account Sharing.

If you have several people on your team who need to use Bluyah, go to My Account > Account Settings and invite them to participate.  At the bottom of the screen you will see a button title ‘Invite Users’.  Clicking on this button will allow you to create new user accounts under your account sub-domain.

In release 1.0.3 we will introduce Shared Connectors and Reports [details to follow], which will allow users to create connections (or reports) and share them to all users -  or to specific users - under the sub-domain.

If you have suggestions for how Sharing should work - send us your ideas.