Today, the manula.com website and, more importantly, all manuals hosted on manula.com, have been moved to HTTPS.
This is especially important for Private manuals hosted on manula.com, ensuring that login credentials are sent over a secure connection.
Don’t worry, you do not need to change anything on your side to make this work.
All “old” HTTP manual URLs automatically redirect to the new HTTPS URLs.
Our Image Manager has had a “Replace” feature for quite a while. This lets you replace the image of an existing entry in your Image Manager, while keeping the same identifier and properties.
Super useful, but sadly this feature was a bit hard to find, and it required moving your mouse pointer over the thumbnail image at the top right of the Image Manager, making the Replace button appear.
Not anymore! The Replace button is now clearly placed below the thumbnail 🙂
The Revision Manager is a useful tool to track the changes to a topic, and if necessary, to revert to an older version.
This tool has now been enhanced with author tracking, so that is now also shows which of your Author users made the changes. More importantly, the Revision Manager is now also available at the manual level, so that you can view all changes that have been made to a manual, by topic, date and author.
Added today, thanks to Magnus Schlamovitz, the user interface texts for the live manuals are now also available in Norwegian.
(user interface texts automatically switch over with the language setting of your manual)
Another new feature today: Automatic numbering of your topics.
This was requested by user Tiana and I must admit: I was a bit hesitant about this one initially. I mean, Manula is all about interactive online manuals, so who needs numbered topics?
But then she explained:
“Well, we do a lot of phone support, and we often need to refer people to a manual topic for further info. And then it really helps if we can just say: look at chapter 3.3.2.”
Which makes a lot of sense 🙂 So we implemented it.
And now it’s live, I must say it is pretty cool. In fact, I suspect many users will switch this on.
Thank you Tiana for suggesting this!
The Auto-Number setting can be found in the Manual Settings screen, on the Customization tab:
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This is (or was) by far the most common request from our customers:
* Can I get notifications by email if people comment on my topics?
Finally, here’s the answer: Yes, this is now possible!
In the Manual Settings screen, on the Feedback tab, enable the “Email notifications …” checkbox. (now enabled by default). And if you wish, enter 1 or more email addresses to receive the notifications. If you leave this box empty, the notifications will be sent to the account email address.
The default or customized copyright footer is now also show in the generated PDF version:
Another tweak in the category “Why-Didn’t-We-Think-Of-This-Earlier” :
A small but useful addition to your Manula Topic Editor:
Next and Previous buttons, for easily iterating through your topic list.
Enjoy!
One of the more common questions we get at Manula Support is:
“Can I upload PDF files and offer them as downloads from my manual?”
Our answer has always been:
“No sorry, you cannot upload PDF files, but you can upload them to your own website or a 3rd party file hosting service, then link to them using a regular website link”.
But as of today, our answer to this question will be:
“Yes, you can! Just use our Document Manager to upload your files to our server, then easily insert links to the files into your topics :-)”
Now live in your account. Enjoy!
