Habr, hello, this is MyOffice. 2019 has been a landmark year for us. We are trusted by an increasing number of users. The volume of licenses sold is measured in hundreds of thousands, more than 1 million free licenses have been transferred to the education system.
The rapid growth in the number of customers does not allow us to sit idly by. We are constantly improving the product, including working on unique features that are not found in any other editor, and we want to give users a more pleasant and comfortable working environment. This year, the largest number of new features were implemented in the 2019.03 release, which we published a week before the start of the New Year 2020. And we can't wait to tell you about it in detail.
We receive daily feedback from our users, systematize and process all incoming requests. This allows us to better understand the real needs of the market and change our product in accordance with them. We have built our business processes in such a way as to best meet customer expectations and regularly improve product capabilities.
Brief historical background about MyOfficeIt's no secret that the main driver of sales in the software market is habit: if a user is used to working with one program that solves his problems, then he will be extremely reluctant to try something new. In the case of office applications, the situation is as follows: since even ten years ago there was no real alternative to popular Western solutions, when trying to master any modern Russian analogue, most users either experience skepticism or expect to see an exact copy of a well-known solution.
We started creating MyOffice six years ago. Today over 400 people work on it. The development basis is built on three basic principles:
- Data control.
- Collaboration.
- Mobility and cross-platform.
MyOffice can be deployed on all modern software and hardware platforms. Our software is compatible with the most popular operating systems and works on Russian computers with Elbrus and Baikal Electronics processors. The private cloud gives our users access to documents from literally anywhere in the world and on any device. Mobile applications are released both for Android and iOS, and for the Russian Aurora OS (Sailfish OS).
What's new in the 2019.03 release
For the first time in the world, office editors now have the audio commentary feature β the ability to create and work with voice notes from the MyOffice Documents mobile app. We believe that voice notes can greatly speed up the collaboration with documents - it is often faster and easier to speak the desired comment than to write it using the keyboard. This is especially in demand in situations where you have to work with documents "on the run" or on the road.
Audio commentary: how it works
To leave a voice note, launch the MyOffice Documents mobile app version 2019.03 or higher, open the file you want to comment on, and hold your finger anywhere in the document for a couple of seconds. This action brings up a context menu with a suggestion to add a comment: regular or voice.
Unlike office software from other manufacturers, which uses an insecure voice input function processed on third-party remote servers, audio comments in MyOffice are stored inside the document itself in XODT format and are not transferred to third services for decryption, which provides full control over user data.
Audio commentary: what features are available
The audio commentary feature is supported by all types of MyOffice products: in the cloud, in PC programs, and in mobile applications.
Users can:
- Create audio comments from the MyOffice Documents mobile app
- Play, stop, move to any place in the audio recording and delete it. These features are supported on all devices regardless of platform and operating system.
- Double playback speed (cloud only).
Updated app design
Many users who are just starting to work with a new product for themselves may experience the discomfort of not immediately understanding where to find this or that function. It is important for us to make MyOffice understandable to everyone, even to those who have never worked with office applications before.
Therefore, MyOffice has a uniform interface on all available platforms. It doesn't matter which device you are using at the current time: computer, smartphone or working from a browser. You don't have to spend extra time getting used to it.
We are constantly improving the interfaces and in the release 2019.03 we decided to reconsider the approach to the structure of the toolbar. We have made the PC application interface visually more visual, and in the spreadsheet editor we have also changed the grouping of functions on the tabs.
Menu "Quick Actions"
We conducted several focus groups and received a large amount of data with feedback from our users. The study showed that many respondents want to work with documents faster. Obviously, there are "hot keys" for this purpose, and this is generally not new to the world of software development. But getting users to remember a set of combinations is incredibly difficult.
We found a way out of this situation, it was suggested to us by the world of specialized engineering software and CAD systems. Now in all components of the MyOffice platform you can press one keyboard shortcut [Ctrl]+[/], which will call the search string for the desired function. The search bar supports predictive input - you just need to type a couple of characters, and the program itself will prompt the full name of the command. Thus, users will be able to perform the desired actions without a mouse.
Ability to compare documents
Everyone who works with text documentation has encountered the need to compare two versions of the same file. For example, you sent a contract to your counterparty for verification, but he made changes to it and did not mark them. How to determine what exactly has been changed in the document? You can spend a lot of time reading and comparing two printed files, but this is inefficient. It is much easier to compare files with each other and immediately see the difference.
In MyOffice, the document comparison function works like this: open the file you want to compare with another file in the document editor. Then in the top menuToolsΒ» select command Β«Compare with..." or call it via "Quick Actions". The program will ask you to specify the file with which it will compare the previously opened document. After the comparison procedure is completed, the program will create a new document in which the differences between the two files will be reflected in the edit mode.
Support for 7 interface languages
The 2019.03 release adds support for Portuguese, as well as spelling and spell checking in French and Spanish. In 2019, MyOffice entered the international market: we made the first installation of our software outside the Russian Federation. Now, in addition to Russia, MyOffice products are also available in the Republic of Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In addition, we have signed several other important cooperation agreements with foreign partners, and we will continue to translate the interface into new languages.
The total number of interface languages ββhas reached seven: in addition to Russian, Tatar and Bashkir, MyOffice is available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
Displaying pivot tables
The result of the work of an analyst in any company is a huge table with data. Novice analysts use simple tables, while professionals use summary tables. They allow you to analyze, structure and systematize huge volumes of the same type of information, on the basis of which you can display the required parameters of the entire data array.
To create pivot tables, specialized business intelligence systems are often used. But they have to be used not only by specialized specialists, but also by ordinary employees, on whose computers such software may not be available. In release 2019.03, we taught MyOffice how to correctly display pivot tables from spreadsheet editor files.
Duplicate headings in tables
A small but extremely important feature has appeared in the text editor. Users can view and edit multi-page tables with duplicate headings on each page. When you change the heading in the "header" of one part of the table, all others can automatically change as well.
Open files from the cloud in a desktop application
The MyOffice cloud file manager has a faster way to open a file using a PC application installed on your computer. Now you can perform this operation through the context menu that appears when you click the right mouse button. At the same time, working with the document and saving the changes made to it also takes place in real time, as in the cloud editor.
And it's all?
No, not all. The volume of one article does not allow to describe in detail each of the new features of the 2019.03 release. A lot of work has been done, the total number of changes reflected in the documentation for the product has exceeded two hundred. For example, the email development team has made a number of efforts to improve the work with events in calendars: synchronization with the built-in calendars of mobile operating systems has appeared, various variants of recurring events have become better processed, and additional options for working with them have appeared.
MyOffice is constantly evolving, becoming even more powerful, faster and more convenient. Our users "keep us on our toes" and we strive to respond quickly to their basic needs. The audience of buyers of MyOffice licenses is active and quite demanding. We feel a real drive, it gives us the strength to move forward. And each of us is truly proud of the Russian product, which is improved and developed daily by four hundred people. Do you want to make a cool product with us? There is nothing easier - choose the right one and send your resume.
Source: habr.com