Announcing the Blueprint Summer ‘08 Release
Today I’m proud to announce the availability of the Summer ‘08 release of Blueprint! In the Spring ‘08 release, we delivered what we feel is the best process diagramming tool on the market, online or off. Over the last two months we’ve focused on improving the “other half” of process documentation — the standards and procedures, narratives, and data that make up the details that live behind the picture of the process. Let’s take a look at the improvements in depth:
- Rich Wiki Editing Of Process Documentation: Blueprint now provides a rich, wiki-style experience for filling out the details of your process. You can link to external documents, embed images, and format your documentation any way you please. Already have something written up in Microsoft Word? No problem. Just paste it in and we’ll leverage what you’ve already done.
- Printable Documentation View: Once you’ve gotten all of your standard procedures entered into Blueprint, you need to be able to effectively leverage them. You can now generate an attractive printed version of your documentation with a click of the “print” button.
- Improved Process Details: We’ve take the process details pop up windows and completely revamped them to improve their usability. We think you’ll find them much easier to both edit and use to present your content. And they look great too!
- Process Data Export to Excel: Once you’ve entered your data into Blueprint, it’s important to be able to leverage it in any way you see fit. Now you can export your process data in a tabular format to Excel so you can slice and dice it, create PivotTables, or just share it with your friends in the finance department.
- Improved Diagram Layout: In the past, we wasted countless hours in Visio making sure our boxes and lines were all straight on our process diagrams. With Blueprint all of that tedious layout work is handled for us automatically. In this release, we’ve made some tweaks here and there to make your diagrams look better than ever.
We’re constantly working to improve Blueprint. Try out the new release and send us some feedback. Your input helps us shape our future releases and enables us to build the best tool possible for your needs. And if you don’t already have an account, make sure you sign up today!
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5 Responses to “Announcing the Blueprint Summer ‘08 Release”
By Allam Zia on Jun 16, 2008 | Reply
Hi Dave,
I am working at Mourant on a group process mapping excerise.
I often need to move ‘multiple’ activity boxes at one time, i.e. from one swimlane to another.
Is there the ability to move more than one box at a time, i.e. as in MS Visio by holding the CRTL key, selecting all the boxes you want to move and then dragging them all at once.
Or, is this something you would consider adding in a next release, as this would be a much welcone addition!
Many Thanks,
Allam
By Dave Marquard on Jun 16, 2008 | Reply
Allam,
That’s a good idea and one that we’re actively investigating. While it’s pretty quick to drag and drop activities between swimlanes, it would be even faster to be able to do a multi-select and drag like you mention.
We’ll be considering this for a future release. Also, don’t hesitate to check out the Blueprint forums at https://blueprint.lombardi.com/forums if you have more feedback or are looking for tips and tricks.
Dave