We would like to take this opportunity to thank all people who donated to us in the past, thanks to you we can pay a (small) part of our bills.

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Grubba is so called Donationware. If you use Grubba and like it,
you can make a (small) donation to support us.

We were just a bit blogging-tired. But hey: look here, new post!

Many users wanted more fields to show up on these pages.
This would slow the system too much, so we decided to do it this way.

Click on the questionmark icon before the quicksearchfield and a popup will load the first 5 fields of the record.

Hope you’re happy with this new function. Please send feedback via the contact form or post a comment below.

It will take about 5 minutes (if all things are going well)…

When launched we had to cut some corners on our design in our attempt to make the 1st january deadline. So we made a few ugly and - not - so - user - friendly choices.

I think it’s better now, next thing is to get rid of the ugly tabs on the info page, but thats for later…

January 2009 we launched Grubba. It was 95% bug free, at least we thought so. But based on your feedback we fixed quite a few bugs the last year (see our news plugin for the bugfixes).

Until we are 100% bugfree it will remain Beta.  So i am afraid we never get rid of the beta tag…

Bugs are one thing, but not the most important reason why we are still in beta.  We code Grubba for you - the end user -. With that in mind we value your feedback a lot. We get good ideas for improvements every day. Our TODO list never get’s shorter. Because we are continuously improving Grubba, we decided to stick with the beta tag anyway.

So what are we up to in the near future?

A few major new functions:
* a desktop quick launcher
*  export to MS Word and Openoffice with  .rtf
* website plugin (share your data on your own website or on a Grubba subwebsite)

And some improvements:
* better date-searching (date-range)
* export in alphabetical order
* more tutorials
* more templates
* Spanish translation
* Adding up currency fields

And fixing a few known bugs.

Almost all browser-reported issues with Grubba are IE-related.  We have to code separatly for IE6, IE7 and now IE8.  So we do recommend to download a decent browser like Firefox but…

Sometimes you can’t download and install an alternative browser or access security settings in Internet Explorer  due to office restrictions, pesky IT support, firewalls etc.

In that case you can download Firefox Portable and run it from an USB stick.

Go here for more info:
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

Users with many e-mailaddresses were running into problems due to a limit in the number of BCC fields that can be inserted into Outlook and Thunderbird with a weblink.

On your browse and list page (the page with the results from your search) click on this icon:

Click on it and the system will search for the e-mailaddresses.
A popup will appear with the following choices:

Click here to open e-mailadddresses in your e-mail application › (= comma separated)
Click here to open e-mailadddresses in your e-mail application (MS Outlook) › (= semi colon separated)
export data (large datasets) › (= comma separated )
export data (large datasets) (MS Outlook) › (= semi colon separated)

If you click on one of the export links, a new popup will appear with your addresses filled in a textarea. Select all  with CTRL-A, then copy with CTRL-C and paste in your e-mailclient with CTRL-V.

Screenshots

Also keep the feedback coming, you can report bugs and wishes here:
feedback form »