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Archive for the ‘New Feature Announcements’ Category
Friday, August 27th, 2010
 LuxSci WebMail supports the export of address book entries as vCard files and of calendar entries as iCal files. Now, WebMail further integrates your email with your address book and calendars.
If you receive an email message with a vCard file or an iCal file (or even an Outlook/Exchange meeting notice) as an attachment:
- That attachment will be parsed and displayed nicely inline in WebMail
- You will be able to send vCard attachments to your WebAide Address Book to add as new contacts
- You will be able to send iCal attachments to your Calendars as new events
Additionally, from within your address book or calendar you can select entrie(s) and click on “Send as vCard” or “Send as iCal” to compose a new email message with those entries attached.
LuxSci WebMail and WebAides makes it easy to send and receive calendar and address book entries between LuxSci users and other users whose email programs support these standard event and contact attachment file formats.
Tags: address book, attachment, calendar, ical, vcard, webaides, webmail
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Friday, August 27th, 2010
 LuxSci has long offered the ability for WebAide-licensed users to create custom email filters which can take certain inbound email messages and save their content to a Blogs WebAide or save their attachments to a Documents WebAide.
The automatic processing inbound email based on filtering rules and storage into LuxSci’s collaborative tools automates many operations for many organizations.
Now, LuxSci’s custom email-to-WebAide filters support saving email messages to Notes and Tasks WebAides as well.
Notes: When storing an email in a Notes WebAide, the message content will be converted to plain text and saved as a new note with the note title being taken from the email subject.
Tasks: When saving an email to a Tasks WebAide, a new task entry is created that is due “now”. This entry will have a title taken from your email subject, will contain all attachments in the original email, and will have a description taken from the content of your email message converted to plain text.
This is a great way to add notes or “to do” items by sending a quick email from your phone while you are “on the run”. It can also be used to pick up automated alerts and other email messages and turn them into tasks or notes for later analysis.
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Friday, August 13th, 2010
 LuxSci SecureForm is an easy way to add or enhance security and/or functionality to web and PDF forms you to use to collect important information. This service has been expanded to now store your submitted form data directly to a MySQL database hosted at LuxSci!
SecureForm storage in MySQL is compatible with LuxSci HIPAA-compliant account services.
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Tags: database, mysql, pdf form, secureform, storage, web form
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Friday, August 13th, 2010
LuxSci SecureForm is an easy way to add or enhance security and/or functionality to web and PDF forms that you use to collect important information. Due to the popularity of SecureForm, we have added many significant features in our latest release based upon user feed back and requests.
What has changed?
There are many significant changes. These include:
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Tags: mysql, notifications, secureform, webaide
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
LuxSci SecureForm is an easy way to add or enhance security and/or functionality to web and PDF forms you use to collect important information. Receive the form data via insecure or secure email in a broad range of formats, and/or save it to a LuxSci Documents WebAide (encryption optional) for future online access.
With the new “Dynamic Subject” feature of SecureForm, you can now auto-substitute the posted form content from one or more of your form fields into the subject line of the form-data-laden email messages that you receive from SecureForm.*
For example, instead of receiving a message with a generic subject like “Form post from your contact information form”, it could now be dynamic. You could enter the subject with a place holder, i.e. “Contact information form post from {{contact_name}}”. The data posted in the form field named “contact_name” would be substituted and you would get an email that with a subject line of “Contact information form post from John Smith”.
You can have multiple place holders in your subject lines.
For an overview of SecureForm, see our SecureForm video.
* Note that the Dynamic Subject feature of SecureForm is not available to HIPAA accounts for compliance reasons.
Tags: dynamic subject, place holder, secure form, secureform, web form
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
 LuxSci has completely overhauled the automated reminders available with its Calendars and Tasks WebAides.
Previously, you could receive an emailed reminder when a task or event was near; now, LuxSci also supports visual/pop-up reminders and SMS/text message reminders, as well as multiple reminders and recurring reminders.
Read on to discover all of the possibilities available with LuxSci’s new Calendar and Task reminder system!
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Tags: calendar reminder, popup reminder, reminder, sms, task reminder, text message, webaides
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
 LuxSci has added a new tool to its Document WebAides for downloading multiple CSV files in one merged file. This will aggregate data from all selected files, sorting alphabetically by column, and will automatically prompt you to download it once the merge is complete.
This feature is especially useful to SecureForm users who are storing form data in WebAides in CSV format and wish to download it all at once.
Look for the “Download Merged CSV” option in the Entries dropdown menu in the Document WebAides interface.
Tags: csv, export, merge, secureform, webaides
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Friday, June 25th, 2010
 LuxSci now provides account administrators with the option of having user passwords “expire” once they become “too old”. Many organizations have internal policies requiring that users change their password periodically, such as every 90 days, every year, etc. This new feature allows enforcement of such policies for users of LuxSci accounts.
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Tags: expiration, password, password age, policy
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
 LuxSci’s SecureForm service enables you to quickly make your web site or PDF forms secure and HIPAA compliant. Receive the form data, including uploaded files, via secure email or download the data securely from LuxSci’s web interface. It also supports insecure form posts and delivery, making the usual form-to-email process easy to setup and protected from form Spam.
Typically, when using SecureForm, your web or PDF form will post to a secure web site address (URL) that is provided by LuxSci in the LuxSci.com domain name. I.e. something like “https://secureform.luxsci.com/perl/post/xxxxxxx”. Once the form data is processed, the end user is redirected to a success or failure web page on your site (for web forms), or is shown a success or failure PDF that you provide (for PDF forms). I.e. under most conditions, the end user will never see the domain name to which the form is posted.
For customers who wish to use their own web site URL for the secure form posts, perhaps something like “https://forms.yourdomain.com/perl/post/xxxxxxx”, LuxSci now has a solution that does not require getting a dedicated server!
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Tags: branding, form post, hipaa compliant, pdf, private labeling, secure form, secureform, ssl certificate, web form
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
 It is an extremely common and annoying practice of spammers to send you email that is from yourself or your colleagues or friends. I.e. “forged email”. We discuss this problem in the article: Save Yourself From “Yourself”: Stop Spam From Your Own Address.
Users of LuxSci’s Premium Email Filtering service now have a new and very powerful weapon to stop this kind of spam — “SPF-enabled allow list entries”.
This feature allows you to easily receive protection from forged spam messages while at the same time ensuring that legitimate messages sent between users in your organization are not filtered or caught as spam.
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Tags: allow list, dns, email filtering, spam, spf
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LuxSci now provides account administrators with the option of having user passwords “expire” once they become “too old”. Many organizations have internal policies requiring that users change their password periodically, such as every 90 days, every year, etc. This new feature allows enforcement of such policies for users of LuxSci accounts. 
It is an extremely common and annoying practice of spammers to send you email that is from yourself or your colleagues or friends. I.e. “forged email”. We discuss this problem in the article: 
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