OS Support

BlueMind now supports RedHat 7 and Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial.

Find out more about all supported OS in the Installation prerequisites

Navigation bar

A brand new top navigation bar offers an easier, modern and elegant stylish way to move around inside BlueMind and access applications and features:

Mail

Large files and detached attachments

BlueMind v.3.5 introduces the possibility to detach attachments from messages and show them as download links instead. This makes messages lighter, thereby alleviating servers and communication networks: files are no longer sent within email messages and stored on the incoming server in addition to the outgoing server and being duplicated and multiplied as messages are forwarded and replied to.

To find out more about how this works, please go to: Large files and detached attachments

For more details about implementing this feature, go to the administrator's guide's page: Post-installation configuration

File chooser

The file chooser enables you to browse previously sent files which are stored in the user's area:

Auto-forward to several recipients

BlueMind now enables you to forward a mailbox's messages to several recipients automatically.

See Administrator's Guide > Users > § Mail

Calendar

Overbooking and automatic resource booking

BlueMind 3.5.5 apporte une fonctionnalité très attendue : l'acceptation ou le refus automatique de la réservation d'une ressource.

Ainsi, les gestionnaires de ressources, bien qu'alertés de la demande de réservation, n'auront plus obligatoirement à accepter ou refuser les demandes en contrôlant personnellement le calendrier de la ressource. Si une ressource est disponible alors sa participation est automatiquement validée, si elle ne l'est pas l'événement est refusé. Le gestionnaire reste libre ensuite d'arbitrer et modifier les réservations si besoin.

Cette possibilité est bien entendu paramétrable et le processus de gestion précédent peut être conservé.

brings a long-awaited feature: auto-accept or reject resource bookings.

Thanks to this, although resource managers will continue to be alerted about resource bookings, they will no longer have to accept or reject requests through the resource's calendar. If a resource is available, its participation is automatically confirmed, if not, it is rejected. The resource manager can still arbitrate and edit bookings as necessary.

This feature is optional and BlueMind's earlier resource management method can be kept.

To find out more, go to the dedicated page Pour en savoir plus, veuillez consulter la page dédiée à l'Administration des ressources

Multiple Calendars

BlueMind users can now create and own as many personal calendars as they like. This means they can sort and share events more efficiently.

In addition, users can choose which calendars will be used to show their availability:

External Calendars

BlueMind 3.5 makes it possible to synchronize external calendars for viewing through a calendar's url in iCal format (.ics file extension).

External Sharing

The BlueMind calendar can now be shared externally through a public address or a private address that allows private events to be viewed.

For more details about this feature, go to Sharing Calendars

Custom calendar colors

With BlueMind 3.5, you can define calendar colors which are saved for future sessions.

To find out more, go to the section: calendar colors.

Meetings

• A long-awaited BlueMind 3.5 feature is being able to specify different participation statuses for each instance of a recurring meeting. As a result, participants can confirm their assistance for the whole series and, if necessary, specify that they will not attend a particular instance.
• Each participant now has a customized view of a meeting, which means they can edit it (customized title, description, location, etc.) without it being seen by other participants.
• The event organizer, who is now a participant of all his events and meetingmeetings, has control over the meeting and centralizes participation statuses. Participants can check others' participation status through the organizer meeting view.

For more information, please see Calendar - §3

Object history

You can now view events, contacts, or tasks creation and modification history.

To-do lists

With BlueMind 3.5 you can now manage tasks in a specific UI and they are synchronized with the calendar.

You can organize tasks in lists and use tags which are shared with other BlueMind applications (contacts and calendar).

You can share to-do lists with your colleagues by giving them basic or full management privileges.

EAS/iOS synchronization

Contacts

Apple mobile devices synchronized via EAS now include the synchronization of multiple address books: personal and shared.

Only collected contacts and the directory cannot be synchronized.

Tasks

You can mange manage all your BlueMind tasks (create, edit, validateconfirm...) in your usual iOS usual app:

For administrators

Subscription

For an subscription-based installation of BlueMind 3.5 with a subscription, the number of BlueMind 's users must be in line with the same as the number indicated in the subscription.

More advanced administration rights management

Improvements have been made to administration rights which can now be fine tuned for specific users or domain administrators. Rights can now be specifically set for:

• users
• groups
• domain address books
• domain calendars
• shared mailboxes
• resources
• the domain (quotas, number of users)
• ...

Restricting the number of domain users

A maximum number of users can now be set for each domain.

For Developers

API Documentation

The BlueMind API has been completely redesigned and is available either directly through HTTP REST calls or using clients (currently Java, Javascript, C#, Python and PHP). The bluemind-samples repository is available and incorporates everything you need to contribute to BlueMind by developing Add-Ons. A maven archetype is also available to facilitate the definition of new projects.

An interactive documentation for our new API REST is imbedded in the installer and can be accessed by users with “Api docs” privileges. This documentation is also published in BlueMind Docs.