Features in development • 18 December 2012 • The SnowBlog

Features in development

          I hope the training day last week was useful for delegates: it was certainly useful for us because of the great ideas that flowed throughout the day on improvements and additions to Bibliocloud. Here’s a summary of the ideas we noted which will be rolled out as part of Bibliocloud over the next few months.

(edit: I'm updating the list below as we work through the additions.) We’ll make the system detect when a contact’s name is a duplicate of one that’s already on the system, dependent on the contact’s type. 




We’ll add a role name or photo to the Contact index page so it’s clearer which contact is which when there’s a shared name. DONE: you'll see the change on the Contact index page. You can now add photos to each contact: look for the new tab called "Files" when you're editing your contact data. 




We’ll add a word counter on marketing text fields. DONE: you will see a word counter on every marketing text field when you're editing your works. 




We’ll add a search function to all pages, including the AI archives page. 




We’ll make the AI archive easier to manage, so that there’s only one current version but there’s still a useful history of previous versions, and frontlist and backlist versions. 




We’ll build in the option to automate the transmission of ONIX data, whilst retaining the option to control when data is sent. 




We’ll add a bulk-paste option to the search area on works and editions so records can be identified through pasting ISBN lists. DONE: simply paste a list of ISBNs into the search bar of any one of the Works, Works Proposals, Editions or Editions Proposals index pages. 




We’ll consider adding the option of calculating royalties based on a profit share




We’ll add reporting in to aggregate reporting on contribution etc




We’ll buff and polish the payment type for fees section. 




We’ll include rights revenue in the profit report




We’ll look at automatically importing clients’ PayPal sales




We’ll make it possible to generate QR codes and look at a QR/barcode reader for use when hand-selling books.  DONE: see http://youtu.be/zufPdUAB28Q




We’ll add in a lot more functionality around forecasting, production and reporting. 




Since the training day we’ve started implementation of a change log which should be available in the next few days. We’ll let you know when it’s ready to look at. 




As ever, if you think of any new ideas to add into Bibliocloud, don’t hesitate to tell us!