We hope you had a great break, and are feeling refreshed and ready for 2013. We used the Christmas and New Year break to implement an overhaul of our systems, so we are re-vamped and revving for a busy year ahead. Here’s what we did: – Upgraded key underlying software on the eHive servers, including the operating system. – Added another 3 servers (eHive now runs across 10 servers) – Split some of the application to separate servers to help
eHive’s new baby – beta version 2.0 of the API and WordPress plugins
In 2010 we developed version 1.0 of our WordPress plugins and application programming interface (API). We’re now ready to make this public.
Data harvesting and programming interfaces
We’ve been working hard on our programming interfaces to eHive. The first part of this has now been released with the addition of support for data harvesting in the latest upgrade.
UK eHive Workshop in New Lanark
Would you like to attend the eHive workshop in New Lanark? Date: May 23 2012 Place: New Lanark, Scotland Time: 10am – 3.30pm Cost: free Please bring a WIFI enabled laptop to participate in the ‘hands on’ section of the afternoon. Contact anne@vernonsystems.com for bookings. Seats are limited! (article image: Pedro Plassen Lopes)
eHive feature survey results
We have completed our inaugural eHive features survey. For those that participated in the survey, thank you for taking the time to fill this out. Your feedback is valuable for shaping our development plans. We will be running surveys again in the future, as they are a simple and quick way you can help us prioritise our planned features. Advanced searching and more options for sorting and reporting featured highly in our survey results. We used a scale of 1–
9 February 2012 – Excel and XML reporting improvements, indexing changes
Our new reporting tools allows reports to be downloaded in the background. This upgrade migrates the existing Excel and XML report options into the new Create Report function. As the report generation now happens in the background, there is now no upper limit on the number of records that can be included. We are also migrating the text indexing used in eHive from Apache Lucene to SOLR. The search options remain the same, but it allows us to more easily
UK eHive Workshop in Hertford
Would you like to attend the eHive workshop in Hertford? Date: March 26 2012 Place: Hertford Time: 10am – 3.30pm Cost: free – lunch and refreshments will be provided* Please bring a WIFI enabled laptop to participate in the ‘hands on’ section of the afternoon. Contact anne@vernonsystems.com for bookings. Seats are limited! *with thanks to Hertfordshire Museums (article image on homepage: Anders Sandberg)
17 Nov 2011 – Reporting Revamped
eHive’s latest upgrade, version 3.2, includes a revamp of the reporting tool. The reports have been rebuilt in Jasper, a report design product, and a new downloads section has been added to eHive to allow reports to generate in the background while you continue with your work. Changes in this eHive version 3.2: Previous PDF reports replaced with neater versions built in Jasper Reports download in the background Account holders can run reports on any number of
13th July 2011 upgrade
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
5 April 2011 – Record valuation information in eHive
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
11th January 2011 – Improved searching on accented characters
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 –
26th November 2010 – Google Maps is here
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
