We have been hearing from people who are starting out with Creative Pro Office and are receiving activation errors upon signing up.  We are taking a closer look at this and wanted folks to know that we are aware of the situation.  It is easy to rectify, if you let us know we can manually activate the account, but this isn't a permanent fix.  If you get an activation error, do let us know, it is fast for us to activate your account manually and can get back to you relatively quickly.

In other news, we are aware that CPO is running extremely slowly for us, and have gotten word from other users that its slow going for them as well.  Since we have increased our base of users so much since we initiated our current hosting situation, we recognize that the time has come to give a boost to our bandwidth so CPO can run more smoothly.  We can do this thanks to those who have purchased the source code.

Jeff continues to busily rewrite the code base to so that we can provide a feature rich and stable product for users.  For those of you submitting bugs and feature requests, we owe a debt of gratitude, keep 'em coming because you are what is driving the improvements and growth to Creative Pro!

Thank you to all the folks who have braved the wilds of our first CreativePro Office source code release!  Because of your bug reports and feature requests we are able to release this first patch to the download. 

http://creativeprooffice.com/site/patches

This patch will bring your installation current with the 1.0.3 release of the CPO source code and addresses the following items:

• No pop-up calendar on date fields.
• MySQL error in view project area.
• Missing icons and button images.
• Link to Add new Client goes to dashboard.
• Logo upload in Settings gives an error message.
• Wrong Timesheet link on the Job Timer.
• Data import from hosted CreativePro Office account.

Instructions for installing the patch are included in the zip file that you will download.  Look for more patches in the future at the link mentioned above.

One of the big new features that this patch provides is data transfer from your hosted CPO account to your installed CPO software.  Once the patch is installed, go to your Settings area and look for the data download link.  You will need to have your online CPO login information handy in order to download your data.

Much thanks to those who have contributed on forums, in emails and by posting bugs.  Very soon there will be a  development roadmap here on the blog outlining our path to a rebuilt hosted version of CPO that includes all those features that people have been asking for.  Keep your eyes open for it!