Surround Technologies Announces New
Accelerator Version 3.2
Bloomfield, NJ – January 18, 2012 – Surround Technologies
announces the release of its Accelerator™ for .NET version 3.2
available immediately, with features that provide even greater
productivity to users and functionality for business needs. “We
understand the urgency of businesses to develop new applications to
support their business, and, in some cases, to modernize the legacy
applications that aren’t keeping up with today’s demands. We continue
to offer more features and functionality for the business, while staying
true to our methodology that allows for fast development and better
architecture,” said Lee Paul, CEO of Surround Technologies.
The addition of the features highlighted in this release began with
existing clients. Derek Maciak, the firm’s CTO, remarked “The most
exciting part of our engagements comes when we work closely with our
clients to understand how they will use the applications they’re
developing. While many choose to use the standard out-of-the-box
features, our ability to create new custom features to meet their
specific needs is an added benefit.”
Accelerator for .NET v3.2 includes several new features such as:
Mobile Signature Capture
The Mobile Signature Capture application is a device-independent web
application built for use with touch based interfaces, such as iPad,
iPhone, Android and more, allowing the capture and storage of customer
signatures or other written input. This application can be controlled
remotely from the desktop application, so that the desktop user can see
what a particular tablet is doing and take over control when needed. The
capture application is able to show content to users, and includes a
control which lets the user sign their name or other text and send it to
the desktop application, where it is converted to a PDF document and
stored.
Attachment Manager
The Attachment Manager allows users to upload and attach files to
specific records in their systems, to an application or application
module, or to the system. The files are uploaded to a storage
server where they are accessible from other devices and computers
running the application. The plug-in can be added to any
Accelerator-based application and used without any coding. Future
releases of the Attachment Manager will allow managing and attaching
websites, email addresses, and even other records together.
Accelerator
PowerGrid Improvements
The new Accelerator PowerGrid enables flexible
and powerful data grid capabilities, incorporating the ability to work
with multiple items at the same time with an Excel-like familiarity in
both user experience and interface. Some advanced features of
Accelerator PowerGrid include:
- Grid support for databinding
and Services Oriented Architecture
- Enhanced edit
capabilities and cell at a time updates to the database
- Copy
and paste to and from an Excel spreadsheet and the Accelerator
PowerGrid
- Copy and paste between rows or columns within the
grid
- Mass auto creation of new grid row entries based on
copied features of other rows
- Automatic user feedback of
validation rules
- Dynamic column freezing
- Cell
and row highlighting
- Many grid display and organization
capabilities
- Loading options for desired scrolling and data
manipulation
Filter Functionality
The Accelerator Filter provides
another way for a user to further narrow their search for necessary
information with the added benefit of not losing or changing their
current search result set.. By finding the information quicker, they
perform their task quicker. The Filter box is nested at the top right of
all content windows and automatically filters the results as the user
types, showing the user only what is relevant to their criteria. The
current data set is filtered in memory and data that matches appears
with the filter text highlighted; any records not matching the filter
text are hidden from view. The Accelerator Filter includes the ability
to use wild cards and can narrow their matches by single terms or
phrases by grouping words with quotation marks. The window will reflect
total number of records in the original data set and the number of
records that match the filter criteria. Filtered results can be easily
exported for reporting and other uses.
Multi-Level TreeGrid
The
Accelerator Multi-Level TreeGrid is the combination of standard Tree and
Grid controls, expanding the features of both to allow the user to view
hierarchical data in a grid-like structure. The grid data can be
expanded or collapsed like a standard tree control and data can be
sorted by column headers as would be expected in standard grid data.
Rows which are logical children will be collapsed and expanded in tandem with their parent row(s). Multiple data columns can be defined and
are horizontally aligned by default.
For more information and other features contact Surround.
The Surround Accelerator™ Development
Solutions provide developers with a more productive development
environment that produces high-quality, open applications, while
accelerating the adoption of new technologies for both the
developers and the organization.