Tutorial

With upgraded “invite contacts” feature Flowr enables you to add contacts from your email address book. Now you can quickly invite colleagues to your network with no need to type each address.

Import is possible from MS Outlook, Gmail and Apple Mail as well as from address book in any other application that supports .csv or .vcf export.

You can also add a personal message to each invitation. Don’t wait – invite your coworkers and start collaborating!

We have added new feature for email sharing which enables creating email aliases – additional emails connected with single user.

The feature simplifies sharing via share@theflowr.com. You can now extend sharing information with different email addresses not directly connected to your Flowr account. In order to do this, you have to create email aliases where you might share from (your other email accounts or other email such as info@, support@ etc.).

You can create email aliases in Settings: settings tab > email_sharing.

Why is this important? If you want to share email message or content from your email you send it to share@theflowr.com. Based on email you shared from Flowr searches for matching email address associated to your user account in Flowr network. Now you can connect your user account with additional emails (one or more) and Flowr will match them as well. We added this feature having in mind that networks are sharing content via email addresses such as error@ support@ info@ news@ etc. It’s also convenient if users work with different email accounts.

Email aliases feature enables the following options:

• You can add or remove email alias any time you want.
• You can use more then one email alias for user. There is no limitation for number of alias per user.
• You can’t use email for alias if somebody else is using this email for his primary email.
• Two users can’t use the same email alias. Email alias must be unique to one user.
• If user is banned all his email aliases are also banned.
• You can’t login with email alias. Email aliases are only used for email sharing (sending emails to share@theflowr.com).

Flowr is proudly learning new languages and to make it even easier, we improved our translation tool. What’s new? It’s faster. Translation update takes only one day. It’s even more simple and everyone can do it. No training is needed and everything works with the online interface.

Here’s how you can do it:

Flowr has learned twelve languages so far, recently français and 中文 and we would like to add many others. Do you want Flowr to speak your language? You can help us with translations. Ask for access to our translation system. 

Updating Flowr we created some new themes as well. We know that your workplace needs to fit your personality or at least be likeable to get your work done. Online collaboration with your team should be done in a nice environment also. We often post nice things on our office walls or even paint it so why not paint the online wall? In Flowr, you can do it with a click.

Currently, there are 18 themes at your disposal with different color schemes, shapes and motifs. Take a look and pick up the one that you think will refresh your desktop and inspire you at your work.

New refreshing themes. More will be added in the future.

Activity flow view with different backgrounds. Set yours by going to Settings menu – click Settings tab – Themes. Choose your theme and click save. Which one is your favorite?

If you are a Flowr power user, you keep a tab open all the time so that you can get notifications about the posts. If you want to free that browser tab, you can turn your Flowr network into a Desktop application.

To do this, we’ll use a free application from Mozilla, called Prism. It works on Windows, OS X and Linux. We’ll show instructions for Windows, but it’s similar on all platforms.

1. Download Prism. If you’re not using Firefox, download standalone application.
2. Run Prism and configure it to use your network:
   
3. You can use this optimized icon:
   
4. You’ll create a new application that you can now run. Your Flowr network will now run as a standalone app:
   

You can now keep it running in the background and it’s going to notify you, whenever there is something new in your Flowr network:

• Windows:
• OS X (you might need Growl to make this work):

That’s it. Let us know in comments how it works for you.

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.