So you'd like to suppress the welcome email......but

.................you've already told Buzzsaw not to show you these options again, assuming you'll always be firing off the welcome email with all new invites to your Buzzsaw Site.

But now you're adding several new members in a single sessiob..........and you want to suppress the welcome email until your good and ready to send them, now what?

OK. Everyone knows the dangers of lurking around in your registry, but the answer we've found lives there............tread lightly

1. Start>Run
2. Type regedit
3. Goto HKEY_Current_User>Software>ProjectPoint-2007 (assuming you have the latest version of Buzzsaw installed)>Preferences.......
4. Then find the key named “ShowSendOptionsWelcomeEmail”
5. Double click on this key and change the 0 to a 1, Click OK…..then restart Buzzsaw

Buzzsaw in the Bed of a Truck

Things are different now.

The foreman for an 8 person framing crew submits time sheets for his crew by using a Business Process in Buzzsaw, from the bed of his truck, armed only with a laptop and one of those DSL-speed wireless cards.

His Human Resources department gets notified instantly that he has submitted his "time cards"........ This foreman is one of 25 foreman managing various teams for his company.

This particular foreman didn't:

• Leave the job site (and his crew) for 2 hours to make the 2 hours round trip in rush-hour traffic across town to hand deliver the time cards.
• Burn 2 gallons of gas (about 6 bucks worth)
• Worry about forgetting a paper time card at the job site, only to have another crew member make the same trip to the office to deliver it
• Have to make a few phone calls to verify some one's shoddy handwriting on a paper time card "is this a 5 or a 3?"

This foreman did:

• Stay with his crew for the entire duration of the shift
• Take only 10 minutes of his time to submit all the time cards
• Unknowingly create a permanent record of the transmitted time sheets

On this day alone, the company saved:

• 50 hours of foreman labor (25 foreman making the 2 hours round trip to hand deliver the time sheets) x $30/hour = $1500
• 50 gallons of gas = $150
• The hassle of verifying dozens of handwritten time cards.

Oh....and let's not forget they are also viewing plans online.....even the most recent revisions that were made available 2 hours ago.


It's all happening.....right now. The power of Buzzsaw has been extending to reach a much broader user base.......no longer reserved for only for Architects, Developers, Homebulders, Engineers, and Retailers.

Buzzsaw Backup Beta

Buzzsaw Backup, a tool for creating snapshots and generating incremental backups of a Buzzsaw site is now in Beta. We expect to have version 1 available for use within 30 days. Contact us at info@orangeblade.com to join the beta test team.

You do not have to be a Site administrator to use Buzzsaw Backup
Buzzsaw backup should be installed on a PC or server that has constant internet connectivity

“Very” Strong Passwords in Buzzsaw

If you are a site administrator in Buzzsaw, the capability to incorporate some very tight password rules exist.

Strong Passwords: You may already know that passwords must contain at least 8 characters, at least one uppercase character, and one number. But now, kick it up a notch with Buzzsaw’s “Enable Strong Passwords” option. What is a Strong Password? It must:

• start with a letter
• be at least 8 characters long
• contain at least one capital letter
• contain at least one number
• be different from the previous ten passwords
• be different from any password used in the previous six months.

Need more passwords security? How about requiring special characters (such as !@#$%^&*), or excluding words found in a standard dictionary, or exclude the user's name from the password.

We can then choose when these new password rules will go into effect. Should they pick a new password immediately? Or when the users are required to create a new password due to password expiration?

Here is the message alerting a member that they are required to choose a new password

Here is the message telling the user that they haven't complied with some of the new password rules

Does everyone need this level of security? No. But it's good to know that this enhanced level of security is available for those high-security projects.

Possibilities with Information Pages in Buzzsaw

By using information pages in Buzzsaw, we can create a custom "Splash Page" for our Buzzsaw Site, or individual projects within the site.

Possibilities:

A Webcam posted to your Buzzsaw site showing live video feeds

Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, PA









A DWF, perhaps a site plan, floorplan, or progress file









Or link to Google Documents and Spreadsheets.









A Team Calendar








You can dictate who sees the information pages, allowing for some privacy if needed. The activity logs will detail which members have seen the information pages.

Just scratching the surface........get creative.