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🐝 Bzzzzzzz! 🐝
It’s National Honey Month here in the United States, and we are all a-buzz! September is typically the end of the beekeeping season, so beekeepers are busy harvesting honey. Kim Melton, Customer Experience Manager at OmniByte, and her husband began beekeeping a few years ago. She is bragging that this is their best harvest to date, so she and her husband spend their weekends bottling and infusing honey, making beeswax candles and swarming to area farmers’ markets to sell their goods. This is a lot to manage. To ensure Kim doesn’t bumble around with beekeeping, she uses FormsPro to keep her bees-ness on track.
IN THIS ISSUE
Feature Feature: New Features are Coming in 2410.4!
News and Notes about OmniByte: DPF Certification and Re-Meet Marcie
Chalkboard: Available Courses from OmniByte University
Infrequently Asked Questions: MFA Requirements
⚠️But first, an allergy alert: ⚠️
We’re really having fun with this bee/honey thing we started, and as much as we love it, we realize some may be allergic to too many puns in one newsletter.
Symptoms such as groaning 😖, eye rolling 🙄 and the impulse to prematurely close this email ❌ may indicate an aversion. ☠️
We’ve included a straight version of our articles at the end of this newsletter to prevent severe reactions. 🤕
(Except we didn't add this to the archived version. You'll have to endure the puns here!!)
FEATURE FEATURE
We're not Pollen Your Leg...New Features are Coming!
OmniByte worker bees are finalizing features for the upcoming 2410.4 release tentatively scheduled for October 31st. We’re anticipating you’ll celebrate with hive fives when you see our new features. The October edition of NewsPro will cover all the new features, but we’ll sting you with a few in this edition of NewsPro.
Segmented Buttons
A highly anticipated new feature is segmented buttons. They are like radio buttons; in that you have multiple choices. However, unlike a radio button, you can select more than one option, and segmented buttons can have colors. Think of the bee-autiful forms you can make! Segmented buttons are available in advanced and basic forms, and in both dynamic and static tables. In addition, any applied colors to a segmented button print automatically on reports, so you don’t have to do it manually in the Report Writer.
Kim uses segmented buttons on her Farmer’s Market form to track products sold. In this example, when she marks Raw Honey a table opens and lets her mark the type of honey, size and quantity she sold.
Toggles
Toggles can be used when a single on/off, or true/false type of response is needed. Kim’s Farmers’ Market form has a handy dandy toggle to alert her when they need to order more supplies. If they run out of something at a farmer’s market, the toggle is turned on and in this example a section is enabled where they can track product order information.
Kim turns the toggle on when she knows she needs to order more supplies. Once turned on, a section is enabled where she can enter specifics about what she needs to order.
💡Toggle Tip: We added toggles to handle situations where a single checkbox was needed. Think about using them anywhere you would want just one checkbox – like lists of Yes/No questions or a single true/false answer.
OMNIBYTE NEWS & NOTES
Truth Bee Told - We are DPF Certified
OmniByte has completed Data Privacy Framework (DPF) certification! 🎉 This means we have adapted our privacy practices to the requirements set by the DPF program and are committed to complying with the DPF principles. You can find OmniByte listed in the Data Privacy Framework List here, and a new badge at the bottom of our website. 👏
Meet One of OmniByte’s Busy Bees
Many of you already know Marcie Gorder, OmniByte’s Controller, but we thought we’d share some fun facts to re-acquaint yourself with her.
Tell us about some of your hobbies.
I love relaxing at the lake with our family, attending NDSU football games and pre-game tailgating, and visiting local breweries and hole-in-the-wall restaurants during our travels.
Here's a photo of Marcie (far left) and her husband with some of their children and grandchildren:
What's your favorite movie?
Too many favorites to only pick one, but a great movie I recently rewatched was Field of Dreams. RIP James Earl Jones. 😢
Your favorite food?
Supreme Pizza
Fun facts about yourself?
- I can say a dinner prayer in Swedish.
- My dad taught me to milk a cow by hand.
- At one point I had 26 outdoor cats on the small farm I grew up on. Mice didn’t stand a chance!
- I ran my first, and likely my last, half marathon when I was 45.
- I am an avid reader and watcher of all things sci fi.
What's your favorite way to use honey?
I add honey to my tea when I'm not feeling well and I also make a cough and cold syrup with honey and raw red onion. It tastes awful but works like a charm!
CHALKBOARD
Pollinate Your Skills: Explore Our eLearning Offers!
FormsPro 100 - Transitioning to FormsPro
This foundational eLearning course is designed to assist learners in transitioning smoothly to FormsPro from their existing processes. If you're new to the software, this course provides practical strategies and guidance to create a seamless transition plan.
FormsPro 100A - Navigating in FormsPro
This interactive eLearning course is designed to empower learners with essential skills in navigating FormsPro effectively. Whether you're new to FormsPro or looking to enhance your proficiency, this course provides step-by-step guidance through menus, buttons, and key features.
FormsPro 101 - Setup and Configuration Essentials
In this interactive eLearning course, you will explore the FormsPro Configuration and Administration Menus and learn how to manipulate visual settings, users, roles, permissions, security settings, and email configurations.
FormsPro 102 - Creating a Form
Master the essentials of form creation with our comprehensive eLearning course, 'Creating a Form.' Through 12 detailed lessons, you'll learn how to manage folders, start and customize advanced forms, select and edit inputs, apply formatting, utilize tables and conditions, perform calculations, manage time spans, assign roles, configure emailing options, and publish your form effectively.
FormsPro 102 Lessons
Lesson 1: Managing Folders
Lesson 2: Start an Advanced Form
Lesson 3: Choosing the Right Inputs
Lesson 4: Editing Inputs
Lesson 5: Adding Formatting Elements
Lessons 6 – 12: Coming Soon!
Lesson 6 – Using Tables
Lesson 7 – Adding Conditions
Lesson 8 – Using Calculations
Lesson 9 – Using Time Spans
Lesson 10 – Assign Roles
Lesson 11 – Emailing Options
Lesson 12 – Publishing the Form
Contact Nickie Giffey at ngiffey@omnibyte.com to receive OmniByte University course information and get registered today!
INFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Things we thought you'd never ask! 😜
Microsoft is amending their MFA requirements, what does this mean for FormsPro?
Starting in 2024, Microsoft will start requiring multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all user accounts. This may not seem like a big change for some, MFA has been around for a while and most services outside of the workplace require a second factor for authentication.
IT professionals at large organizations manage many credentials. A change as significant as this can vastly affect how they manage users. It’s best practice to review accounts regularly and to configure end users with MFA by default. Keeping a record of all service accounts is also important. These accounts tend to be used for integrations and may be shared with employees to connect to certain environments. The article here is a good starting point to review accounts in your Microsoft environments.
Manage app passwords for two-step verification - Microsoft Support
Knowing which credentials are set up in FormsPro for data integrations will be important. You will need to migrate any service accounts to workload identities to minimize interruptions to your integrations. You’ll want to review all the data connections, data sets, and users in your FormsPro instance.
- You can review users who have access to your FormsPro instance by exporting the report from the Users page.
- After reviewing the users, you should review the connections you have configured in FormsPro. Depending on the connection type, there will be service accounts or users configured for access.
- Data sets will be configured to use connections. You should review each form to make sure the data sets are configured correctly.
If you have any questions about how to review these items in FormsPro you can reference the documentation below or reach out to us.
Setting up Data Connections (omnibyte.com)
Creating a Data Set (omnibyte.com)
Downloading the User Report (omnibyte.com)
Kim, what happens to bees in the winter? Won’t they freeze?
They could, so our bees take a little trip to winter in California. But they do not hibernate, they have work to do! California produces about 80% of the world’s almonds. Millions of beehives (including our hives) are trucked in from out of the state to pollinate the state’s almond trees.
Below is a picture of Brian, Kim's husband, at a recent farmers' market.
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Bee Kind to One Another and Thanks for Reading
We could drone on and on, but we think we’ve shared enough in this edition of NewsPro. Remember bees are our friends.❤️ Wasps are not. 😠 Wasps are “wanna-bees!” 😀
-Your OmniByte CX Team