eHive has upgraded to version 3.0 on 13 July 2011.  This is our biggest upgrade so far.

You should find the system faster and more stable after this round of changes.

The upgrade also lays the foundation for some other major enhancements that we’re working on, including better text searching and reporting functions.

eHive version 3.0 includes includes the following changes:

• New Location History fields have been added
• A new feature on the object detail page allows you to create a similar record based on the one you’re currently viewing
• Valuation History sets can be re-ordered
• Portfolio Title, Inscription and Marks are now public fields for the Photography and Audio-Visual catalogue types
• Search Engine results will now include more meaningful descriptions now that the metadata title and description tags have been added to object, account and community pages
• Sign up pages have been enhanced, validating your eHive ID, email address and password as you type, and including a password strength indicator
• The Change Password screen includes a password strength indicator
• The account usage history chart has been reformatted for better clarity
• Support for Internet Explorer 9.0
• Private tags can be deleted when you’re logged in
• Some bugs with downloading reports have been fixed and the Significance field has been added to the Excel download report.

eHive Hardware and software upgrades behind the scenes:

• We’ve migrated from our original two servers to three shiny new servers
• Underlying software including the operating system, application server software, Java and Google Web Toolkit have been upgraded
• Additional caching has been added to speed the system up
• Additional layers of security have been added

In the latest eHive upgrade we’ve added a Valuations tab to the eHive create screens.  This allows you to record one or more valuations for your objects, and keep track of valuation changes over time.

Valuation information is not publicly accessible – it can only be viewed when you are logged in and viewing your own objects.

For more information, check out the Valuations topic on the eHive wiki.

This latest upgrade also includes some improvements to the speed of eHive.  You may notice faster loading times when you are creating new records, particularly when you’re moving between tabs or saving.

A minor update to eHive was performed on 11th January 2011.

It included an enhancement to allow for searching on words with diacritics (accented characters) with or without the diacritics. For example, you can now search for accounts with the word “Tamaki” and eHive will find the gallery “” as a possible match.

http://ehive.com/esearch/account?q=Tamaki

The upgrade also includes two fixes:

• Edit My Profile – Public Profile – error saving if the latitude and longitude fields were empty
• Download PDF report – Label Report – the line between the header and the content sometimes overlapped the first record

We’ve been building in support for each account public profile page (museum directory page) to have an embedded Google Map showing their physical address. Today’s upgrade includes the bulk of the changes to support this. When you’re logged in, you can now go to Edit My Profile – Public Profile, and set a map location. This can be done by clicking the Geocode button (which gets the location from Google based on your public physical address) or by manually pasting in a latitude and longitude.

The new map appears on the account public profile page on eHive and NZMuseums.

This upgrade also includes:

• Create screen – “Save as Draft” button renamed to “Save Draft” to make it clearer that this does not create a copy of the draft, but is just updating the draft you have open
• Fixed a bug where some system emails were not being sent