Archive for August, 2010

Today we enabled our first Flowr translation: Slovenian. While it’s a small language  in global sense, it presented interesting challenges because of it’s grammatical complexity. By using it as a test case, we’ve shown that Flowr can be translated into most complex European languages and prepared translation infrastructure.

You can enable it from your profile settings (‘edit profile’).

Would you like to contribute your language? Let us know and we’ll give you access to translation interface.

“Flowr should speak my language,”

was one of the most often heard feature request in our last months’ survey. Since English is not our native language, we know that using localized interface instantly makes the user experience better.

That is why we’re announcing Flowr Translate program, that enables Flowr community to help localize Flowr into your own language. Standing on shoulders of open-source community, we created easy-to-use web translation interface. This way everyone can contribute, without having to learn specialized tools. We do support them, if you prefer using them.

Now, we need your help with translations. If you’d love to see Flowr in your language and help with translation, send us an email and we’ll give you access. To thank you for your contributions, we have premium accounts for your own networks.

While small distributed teams happily embrace online services like Flowr, established enterprises often require additional branding and security requirements to ensure that access limitations are properly in place.

With this in mind we’re happy to announce two branding related features and a new security enhancement:

1. Custom Flowr themes for your network

This feature allows you to prepare custom themes for your network users. This ensures that default look of your network is aligned with your other intranet and corporate web-pages.

To learn more about setting custom themes for your network, check out our blog post about Flowr custom themes.

2. Flowr on your domain

Second most requested feature was the ability to map your Flowr network to your own sub-domain, e.g. flowr.mycompany.com or community.mycompany.com.

To setup Flowr network on your domain, send the name of your network to support@theflowr.com and we’ll send you instructions on how to configure your DNS servers.

3. Limit access to your Flowr network based on IP ranges

Depending on security policies inside your enterprise you might need to limit access to your network to certain IP addresses. Inside admin panel you can define your network ranges. This way only people that are inside your corporate network or are using VPN can access web version of your Flowr network.

Both IP address and CIDR notation are supported.

What other Enterprise features are you looking forward to?

Corporate branding is important for many aspects and while we believe that our default themes provide a positive experience towards online applications, we also support creating custom themes for your network.

To define custom themes for your network, go to Admin -> Themes and define your theme in Custom theme area:

After setting your theme, press Add custom theme button, to add the theme to available set of themes.

Once your theme is added, you can go to Edit Profile -> Profile Settings -> Themes to test your Custom theme in action:

Your custom theme will be default theme for new users in your network. Existing users will have to set it manually.

Have you created a great theme for your network? Send us a screenshot and we’ll feature it.