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Apollo now shows file categories in Project files, and works harder to cache uploaded files

We did some improvements on the file management side of Apollo — although only one of them is actually visible.

When you go to Project > Files, you see all the files associated to a particular project. However, when viewing "All files", you will now see the category the file belongs to:

Also, when a file is served, it will also serve the right HTTP headers so that browsers will cache them more aggressively.

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PDF preview in Apollo

Uploading files is one of the central features in Apollo. Knowing that you need to design a leaflet with set prerequisites is great. However, at some point you will need to show that leaflet to the customer, and will most likely attach it to a comment, asking for input.

One aspect of file upload is that you expect to see a preview of the file you are downloading before actually transferring the whole thing onto your computer (similarly, most desktop file managers will show images' thumbnails when you open up a folder).

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Auto-saving of drafts in Apollo

In web applications, we all have a bit of a fear of losing our current window in the middle of writing a long text. A browser window can be lost for a number of reasons (the dreaded "back" button, a lost connection, or simply the wrong keyboard or mouse stroke that gets the current window out of the picture).

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Turn a company into a person and vice-versa

When you create a contact, you can decide if you are adding a "person" or a "company".

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Various improvements: writeboard notifications, API and search improvements

Apollo is becoming more and more mature; a program's maturity is measured by its stability and its features.

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You can now set a deadline for your whole project

For quite a while, we resisted the idea that a project should have a deadline in Apollo. The main argument was that "that's what milestones are for".

In the end, due to great demand, we thought we found the perfect compromise.

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Apollo gets better filtering options for contacts activity

We developed the "activity" under Contacts to keep an eye of everything that happened in the CRM side of the story in Apollo.

Users find this screen very important, as it allows them to follow what happens to their contacts.

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Archive project messages in Apollo

Apollo is all about communication. We have slowly improved project messages to the point that they became a forum-like system where the most recent discussion would bubble up to the top.

We have recently added yet a new feature to messages: the ability to archive them:

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UZoom media improves their management, and secures new clients thanks to Apollo

UZoom Media is an internet marketing agency working on all aspects of promoting businesses online. UZoom has several sales people, web designers, writers, implementation specialists, and graphic artists.

Anne Craft writes about their work, and their life before Apollo:

"When building a website, for instance, there are many different types of information that we need in order to get started. FTP information, hosting information, logos, branding colors, keywords, pictures, website copy, etc.

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An example on how to integrate Apollo and Google Documents using Apollo's API

I was really excited to hear about the Apollo API because it offered the prospect of pulling data from Apollo to suit some of the 'non-standard' reporting that we needed in our company. Here I will explain how we used Google Docs to access the API and pull time reporting information from Apollo. You can copy the example spreadsheet from here: Apollo API Example. Remember to make a copy of it in order to use it and change it.

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