Announcements

Is your Homepage Optimized for your Investors?

optimize1Our client newsletter this month focused on some simple updates you can make to optimize your homepage in order to allow investors to get quick and easy access to the information they want.

We’d like to showcase recent updates we have done for one of our clients, Canadian Oil Sands, to show you the before and after screen-shots of how these simple updates can simplify your homepage.

What we updated:

  • added our new Investor Briefcase
  • added link to email alerts and RSS feeds
  • simplified the layout from a 3 column to 2 column layout
  • updated the styles for the sections for a cleaner look

Read more…

How to Create Thumbmail Images and Link to Larger Images in Q4 WEB

You may have a page on your site and want to display a small image of a chart or graph but also have the ability for a visitor to click the small image and view a larger image to see all the details.  This is possible using the ‘Image Manager’ within Q4 WEB and here are some steps for adding this on your site. Read more…

Q4 Spring 2009 Release

community-boxStay tuned for more details about our upcoming Spring 2009 Release!  Here’s a peek at what’s coming:

Q4 WEB:

  • RSS feeds for press releases, events and presentations
  • Email alert enhancements:
    • bounce back handling
    • full text of press release within the alert
    • reports on alert sends
  • Share This social network sharing
  • New Q4 WEB products:
    • Newsroom
    • Quotes & Charts
    • Embedded IR sites

Q4 PRESS:

  • Author comments
  • Embedded image handling and tracking

More details about these features are coming soon!

Q4 PRESS FAQ: What Happened to the Feedback in the Task List?

After you have finished working with a reviewers’ changes and you click “I’m done with this item” that feedback is no longer visible on the task list.  You can retrieve all the feedback for the current version of the document you are looking at by clicking the “show removed” checkbox at the bottom left corner of the task list.

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How to add job postings using the Job Posting module

If your site is configured to use the Job Posting Module, here’s how you can maintain listings for your Career section.

  1. Login to your admin control panel
  2. Select “Job Posting List” from the “Content Admin” drop-down in the main menu
  3. Click “Add New” or edit an existing job listing
  4. Enter the information for your job posting:
    1. Country: The country the job is located in (IE: Canada)
    2. Location: The city the job is located in (IE: Toronto)
    3. Division:  Here you can specify a particular office location or division of the company (IE: Corporate Office)
    4. Job Title: The job title
    5. Job Type: select Full-time, Part-time or Contract from the drop-down menu
    6. Job Function: the department or function the job is located in (IE: Accounting Department or IT Department)
    7. Manager’s Email: The email address entered here will receive the applicant’s request when they submit the application form on your site
    8. Date Posted: when the job was posted.  This date does not control when the posting will show up on your site
    9. Closing Date: when you will stop accepting applications for this position.  When this date is reached, site visitors will no longer be able to apply for the position but it will remain visible on your site
    10. Summary/Qualifications: free-form HTML for you to enter the job description
  5. Click Save

You are able to preview the changes before publishing them by clicking the ‘Preview’ button at the top right corner of your admin panel.  When you are happy with the listing, Submit and Publish.

Q4 WEB Email Admin - Adding Email Subscribers

email-add-through-admin How to Add Email Subscribers through the Email Admin section.

If you are leveraging Q4 WEB email alerts, you have the ability to add subscribers via the admin tool.

  1. Login to your admin panel at http://wwwyourdomain.com/login.aspx
  2. Click the “Email Admin - > Subscribers” option from the main menu
  3. Click ‘Add New‘ to add a new subscriber
  4. Enter the person’s email address and check both the “active” and “validated” box
  5. Check the box for each type of alert that subscriber wants to receive.

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Extra RSS feeds for Q4 WEB

It would be nice to have RSS feeds for events and presentations.

New Community Site Launched!

Welcome to the new community site! We’re very excited to release our new community with a host of new features including:

  • Submit Your Idea:  Do you have a suggestion for a new feature or change to an existing one?  Submit one here!
  • Vote on Ideas: Vote on your favorite ideas and watch them turn into product features
  • Stay informed: Get updated via email when new posts are added to the site or subscribe to our RSS feeds

We’re already working on more updates to this site and we want to hear from you.  What would you like to see on our community?  Read more to find out what’s next and vote on what features you would like to see. Read more…

How to Remind Reviewers and Approvers that the Deadline is Coming

There have been a few discussions about how to manage when Reviewers or Approvers (both roles are a type of Reviewer) have been unresponsive and need a reminder that the deadline is coming.  Here are a few things you should know and do about this problem.

You can always selectively re-broadcast to people in the existing phase.  The difference is that:

  • As the Author, if you haven’t made any changes to the document since your last broadcast the *same* version will be resent *and* your notification message will be pre-filled with the content message of your last broadcast.  e.g. nothing has changed so you are just *re*-sending the same version.
  • If, as the Author, you have made minor changes you can still selectively send to anyone currently in the phase.  So you could exclude people on the list that you feel would be redundant to resend to.
  • The limitation is that you can not re-broadcast a previous major version - but you can always selectively broadcast as covered above.

The short answer to this question is to simply broadcast the current version but to only to the missing Reviewers. They will get an email message as usual, and you can customize that broadcast message to their lack of feedback and/or approval.

One last point: if you are re-broadcasting the same version, the persons who already received that version will be un-checked by default when you go to the Broadcast page (see the screen capture attached).  This helps prevent confusion as to why a Reviewer should receive the exact same version twice -Q4 Press always tries to minimize “version hell”

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