MovieSite Version 2 (2.1 to be precise!) will move out of beta and be fully supported for all clients next month. Customers can continue to use Version 1 of the system. Clients who joined MovieSite recently are already using Version 2.

Considerable work has gone into making Versions 1 and 2 as compatible as possible, minimising the changeover process. The biggest underlying change has been to links – now any record can be linked to any other. This means that version 1 links will be converted to version 2 format without any loss of information.

In the last few weeks there have been some major improvements made to the underlying code to improve performance. We have also added some great new features, in addition to the changes in forms, including:

- Image information extract: Some cameras store the location a photograph was taken, together with the time and date. This information will now automatically be pulled into MovieSite without any manual rekeying.

- Image upload is now faster and easier: select up to a hundred images at a time to upload with no timeouts.

- Faster access to information: adding records to lists, viewing image information and editing spendsheets is now faster as the system does not switch to a new page.

- Advanced Custom forms: for larger agencies, it is now possible to have different forms for different users, or for different types of record. This could, perhaps, hide confidential information from a group of internal users who do not require to see it. Alternatively, incoming projects might have a different tracking form to local projects. (Advanced customisation is an additional service offered by Open Brolly).

We will be offering free webcasts to all MovieSite users to introduce the new system, and to cover specific areas of functionality. Watch this space for dates and times.