SharePlus 2.2 goodies

Our frequency of releases averages about one per month, and October´s turn has arrived, we are about to submit SharePlus Office Mobile Client version 2.2 for approval to the app store.

Initially version 2.2 was meant to be a "quiet" one, meaning we would ship fixes, and minor improvements, but no major structural changes would be introduced, and no major features either (we do a quiet one, and a loud one, quiet, loud... works for us).

Fortunately this time, we did not only nail our planned features, but managed to package some kickass valuable features meant for version 2.5, such as forms based authentication. That I know some of our users will really, really appreciate.

In a nutshell, among SharePlus v2.2 new features are:

• Form Based Authentication:
  When configuring the connection to a SharePoint site now you can choose between form based or windows based authentication depending of your SharePoint credential configuration. Windows based authentication is set by default. How to tell which one you have? Easy, if when you enter the url of a sharepoint site, you get an html form, then it's form based, otherwise if you get prompted to enter user and password, in a little window the browser pops up, then it's windows based.

• Calendar view (*):
  Now lists of type Calendar can be browsed with a calendar month view display, allowing a more intuitive navigation of events over time.
  

• Local files Management (*):
  There's a new Local Files item in the initial view, which allows to manage files received from third party applications,
  formerly named "SharePlus Inbox". This is a straight forward means to check existing local files, and remove them.
  

• Passcode Lock (*):
  From Global Settings you may configure the application to demand a passcode to be entered whenever SharePlus is open or reactivated, after a sleep period.
  This represents an additional layer of security for the information stored in SharePlus, preventing upon theft the data to reach unwanted hands.
  
  

• Global Settings: A centralized place to configure global application settings, such as connection timeouts, set passcode lock, or browse the product's documentation.
  

• Help: This section contains product related documentation, to help you through the most common tasks in SharePlus, like setting up
  a new SharepPoint server connection or how to configure offline behaviors.
  

Features marked with (*) will be SharePlus Pro only features, and wont be available on the Lite version.

Next one, version 2.5, is a "loud" one :)