We continue to roll out exciting new features for use with Perceptive OBP.  These features, which have been implemented as a result of our customers' requests, address the need to make the platform more customizable, SEO friendly, and supportive for both clients and their audience.

Among the updates included in the newest release of Perceptive OBP:

• Device-Specific Site Wide Templates
• SEO-Friendly URLs for WebApps
• Recursive Modules
• Partial URL Matching
• Improvements to Order and Work Flow Notification
• Forum Subscriptions
• Updated Social Integration

These updates and fixes will enable Perceptive OBP to do more for your business by allowing you to easily customize your site with the features for which you've been asking.

Device Specific Site Wide Templates

Now you can make your site mobile with the device-specific templates that have been created for desktop, tablets, and smartphones.  These site-wide templates detect the type of device your customer is using and display the appropriate template and resolution.  By making your site mobile, customers and users can view your site and interact with it using iPhone, iPad, Android phones, smartphones, and tablet PCs. The templates are customizable through the Perceptive OBP admin panel and may be uploaded via FTP from the Templates folder.

SEO Friendly URLs for Web Apps

Perceptive OBP now offers support for customizable, SEO friendly URLs in the Web Apps Module.  This feature is available through the Search Engine Optimization settings page.  Your web apps' URL will appear as follows, but you may edit the URL in your Manage Web Apps screen:  http://www.yoursite.com/webapp-name/webapp-item-nameRecursive Modules

Recursive modules are essentially "modules within modules."  By implementing recursive modules, Perceptive OBP now allows you to:

• Place modules within content holders
• Add products or catalogs within blog posts
• Insert any module, such as a webform module, catalogs/products, or literature items, into a web app list or detailed view 

The module rendering engine now allows recursive modules up to three levels deep, and in order for you to take full advantage of the recursive module feature, the module limit per page has been increased to 75.

Partial URL Matching

This feature allows your site to become more user friendly for your customers and directs users to their intended target.  Partial URL matching is available for announcements, catalogs, products, and web app items.  With partial URL matching, which may be turned on and off in the Search Engine Optimization settings page, your site's users may type an abbreviated form of the URL and be redirected toward the appropriate page.

Work Flow and Order Notification Improvements

Customizable workflow notifiications and order notifications have been improved by the addition of layouts available through FTP.  Further improvements include the addition of new tags to the Packing Slip layout and Packing Label layout:

• Packing Slip - {tag_shippingattention}
• Packing Label - {tag_shippingattention}, {tag_shippingdescription}, {tag_shippinginstructions}, {tag_invoicenumber}

Forum Subscriptions 

Users can now subscribe to forums and receive email notifications whenever a new topic is opened.  The email template can use both the forum name and topic in the email subject line, making it easier for subscribers to sort, filter, and read forum email.

Updated Social Integration

The new Social Media capabilities of Perceptive OBP have necessitated easier social integration with the platform.  Along with the Facebook Like Module, we have added support for the Facebook activity feed and Facebook Send.

We are excited about the new features and fixes in the latest release of Perceptive OBP and hope that you will find that our latest improvements boost your online success and make keeping up with your business site easier than ever.

Our newest feature - InContext Editing - is now available in the Administration area and ready for use. It's a next generation tool that gives business owners greater control over their websites. You can now make changes more easily without compromising the overall design of your website. Some of the main benefits include:

• The ability to set editable regions within any web page to limit scope of change and preserve design quality
• Content editing is more intuitive - you edit "InContext" on the page rather than having an editor pop-up as was the case with Sitewalk
• The new InContext content editor is much more robust compared with the Sitewalk text editor

Please note that InContext Editing will be in Beta for the next 12 weeks during which Sitewalk will continue to remain available. When the Beta period ends, Sitewalk will reach end-of-life and will be removed from the Administration area. During the Beta period for InContext Editing we will continue to make small improvements.

It's done.  Just launched our new site and our new product - Perceptive Online Business Platform (or Perceptive OBP for short).  We're definitely excited about the changes.  Why don't you grab a drink, put your feet up, take some time to look around if you haven't already, and feel free to let us know what you think. 

We have more big plans for the site - and we'll work them in when we aren't too busy with client projects... you know, the customer comes first.

Thanks for stopping by!