To make last year’s 2010 AGM and Bright Ideas Day as interactive as possible we decided to add a group discussion session to the programme. Something that might generate useful feedback for InMagic seemed a good idea so we discussed this with Phil Green, who told us how they always loved to hear the top 10 items that people would like in the product -
“A summary / consensus of useful enhancements as output from the meeting would be great”
To help get the ideas flowing we also asked people to think about what they liked and disliked most about their InMagic products.
The results of 30 minutes of lively discussion in small groups were fed back to the whole group later in the morning. It was here we discovered from other attendees that we could already actually do one or two things on our wishlists but just didn’t realise it! The flip charts were then stuck to the walls around the room so that we could add any further thoughts as they came to us during the day, and these were summarised and e-mailed to Phil immediately after the event.
The UKIUG top wish list items were:
- Automated backups for CS/Textworks
- The ability to write a report as .doc format
- An ‘Undo’ option for batch modifying/deleting
- An easy scripting options/facility
- More functionality in web forms – variation of font etc in one box
- The ability to paste into a field and keep formatting, e.g. bold and italics
- Can’t backup or unlock a record when someone in
- It would be nice to be able to have different formatting in same field or box instead of all bold or all italics
The thing we disliked most was in Genie – when items are returned from loan, the title and name of borrower are not displayed.
What we liked most, probably not a surprise to the group, was the control we have over the product. We can be more or less self sufficient and rarely need to rely on our IT departments.
So, have a look at future enhancements to InMagic products and we may well find some of our UKIUG requests are included.
