15 September 2024

Notification email sent to curator

New feature Curators are now sent a notification email when a user sends an email to their inbox.

Users are no longer physically deleted

Change When an administrator deletes a user, this user becomes disabled, instead of being physically deleted.

The reason for this change is that ClauseBuddy and Clause9 are very centrally organised, so that clauses can be positioned anywhere in the filesystem, ready to be shared by anyone. The downside of this approach is that deleting a user can cause significant harm, as this may affect clause folders and even documents/binders in Clause9.

For this reason, users are now merely disabled.

• They will not count towards the maximum number of users.

• They can be reinstated with the click of a button (see the rightmost button in the screenshot below).

Only ClauseBase employees can permanently delete users.

Consult ownership amounts

New feature In Clause9, it is now possible to receive an overview of all the folders, documents, binders, clauses, etc. that are owned by a particular user.

Better placeholders in Smart Templates

Improvement In ClauseBuddy's Smart Templates, placeholders for unanswered questions will now also show when embedded within cyan-highlighted fragments that also contain other elements. Previously this was only the case when the entire cyan-highlighted part referred to the answer.

The manual page on highlighting and placeholders contains an in-depth explanation, with numerous examples.

@if-value special function

New feature The new @if-value special function (manual) is specifically intended to cater to the aforementioned new behaviour in ClauseBuddy's Smart Templates. It alllows template authors to prevent that a placeholder would be shown for an unfilled question.

For example, have a look at the following screenshot, of a simple document in which the body

Warning when accidentally changing a Smart Templates

Change ClauseBuddy will now warn you when it thinks you accidentally updated a Smart Templates with the wrong document.