Category Archives: New features

One of the features in PBworks’ business product that comes in handy for me is the “Recent Activity” section of the Dashboard.  Not only does this provide a list of everyone’s recent edits, uploads, updates, and comments, it also provides a quick shortcut to the wiki pages, files, and workspaces I’ve recently visited. Under theContinue reading “Introducing “Recent Items” in the Livebar”

We’ve just introduced a small but useful new feature in our business products.  Previously, we gave you the ability to make a copy of a wiki page.  This allowed you to do things like use a copy of your previous week’s meeting agenda as the basis for this week’s meeting. Now, we’ve extended this toContinue reading “Introducing “Copy File””

It’s been right around a year since our last big user interface update.  When we made that change, our goal was to provide a more unified and screen-efficient experience to place the emphasis where it belongs: on your content, files, and tasks Over the past few months, we’ve been working on pushing that key principleContinue reading “User Interface Updates Starting May 29”

Not every change we make at PBworks is a big one.  Sometimes, we just want to make incremental improvements. This week, we release two enhancements that improve the overall polish and experience of the business product. First, we improved the “Create Page” experience.  Previously, clicking the “Create Page” button brought you to a separate webContinue reading “Improved “Create Page” and User Profile Experience”

After we redesigned the PBworks business products, we realized that tagging didn’t really fit well with the other page or file actions (rename, move, control access).  All of the other actions were links that led to the appropriate dialogue box; in contrast, the tagging interface displayed a list of tabs, and allowed you to editContinue reading “New and Improved Tagging”

One of the key aspects of PBworks is the ability to work with files.  We’ve made files collaborative–you can upload them, set per-file access controls, share them, track their revision history, comment on them, tag them, and link to them. Some types of files, like web-viewable images like GIFs, JPEGs, and PNGs, we display asContinue reading “Introducing Improved File Preview (and better Sharing)”

Yesterday, PBworks celebrated the new year by introducing our first major feature of 2012: Personal Workspaces. A number of our customers told us that they wanted to use PBworks as a place where their employees could store their stuff–files, documents, brainstorms, etc.  One customer even went so far as to dedicate a member of theirContinue reading “Introducing Personal Workspaces”

One of the convenient features that PBworks customers use a lot is the ability to upload multiple files at once.  This is a great time-saver when uploading files like photos, images, or related documents. Unfortunately, web browser security settings prevent you from downloading more than one file at a time.  It’s not a PBworks restriction;Continue reading “Introducing Multi-file Zip Download”