The introduction of Sugar 6.4 comes with new enhancements, better features and other dramatic changes.
Now, let’s talk first about the enhancements in Calendar.
Below are the new 6.4.0 Calendar features.
• Item dragging and dropping ability
In Calendar, items can now be dragged and dropped for better utilization.
• Quick form creation and editing
Information on any Calendar item can be modified in Quick Edit forms.
• Navigation ability within Calendar through the use of calendar view
With minimized mouse clicks, users can navigate to any date through the calendar view.
• Changing ability in the first day of the week in monthly views.
Modifications in month-view of Calendar can be displayed.
• Individual Tasks, Calls and Meetings color codes.
Easy recognition and identification in Calendar.
For the enhancements in Admin.
There is an addition of users and employees modules to Studio that are fully customizable. There are also changes in the option for Edit Fields in which Fields Editor is displayed in tabular form.
Changes in Platform.
Upload directory is now separated from cache directory while javascript files and other generated files are moved to cache directory. The custom directory has become the new home for persistent configuration files such as encrypted data files from cache. Also added are unified application programming interfaces for cache and upload directory.
There have been changes to all web service application programming interfaces with the release of Sugar 6.4. query validation has been improved in an effort to promote better use and help enhance multiple databases. There is also a limitation to the use of subqueries in all web service calls.
CSS Sprites is one of the new additions to CSS used in version 6.4. Intended for boosting web performance, Sprites is able to reduce the number of http requests being made by the browser to the server. Thus, only one request will be made to the server for big images consisting of all other small images, leading to a faster loading of web pages. Also, this has become very beneficial for those who are having slower internet connections as this as less bandwidth consumption.
Moreover, language specification and alt text in HTML headers are included in 508 compliance for much improved parsing of images.
Platform Components for 6.4.x
Supported Browsers
Safari 5.1
Internet Explorer 8.0 and 9.0
FireFox 3.6 stable version
Google/Google Chrome latest version
Supported Applications
Lotus Notes 7.0, 8.0, 8.5
Microsoft Word 2003, 2007
Microsoft Excel 2007
Microsoft Outlook 2003, 2007, 2010
Support Platforms
Windows 3 or later
Mac OS/Linux/Unix
IBM i
Database
Oracle 10g, 11g
DB2 9.7
MySQL 5.1, 5.5
SQL Server 2005, 2008 R2
