News about system updates for customers
The new safeguarding module is arriving. If you need to record and manage safeguarding concerns within your organisation, make sure you’re handling them appropriately, and wanting to learn from and improve your practice… you should take a look. The introductory webinar happened earlier today and a recording will be available in the Hub soon. If …
Like everyone we’ve seen our costs increase over the last few months, especially staffing costs, in an effort to keep up with inflation somewhat. We’ve not seen a big change in computing costs and so we’re really pleased to be able to keep our hosting fees at their current levels. As our staffing costs have …
Did you see our recent newsletter – a round-up of recent news in Lamplight including details of our new Safeguarding Module and free Annual Reviews, an opportunity to reconnect and review how you’re getting on with Lamplight and how we can support you more. You can read it here: What’s new at Lamplight (mailchi.mp) and sign …
This evening (10pm 27th February) there will be an upgrade of the underlying database software (MySQL) used by Lamplight. There may be a brief period at this time that Lamplight is unavailable, but we expect this to be less than a minute. We are currently running live copies of all data on upgraded ‘twinned’ servers, …
We updated the colour schemes slightly in Lamplight this week, for two reasons. The first is to improve the visual accessibility of Lamplight. Some of the colour contrasts made it harder for some to read. We wanted to fix that. The second was to support “dark mode”. Some people prefer a darker screen with white …
You may notice some small changes to the colours in Lamplight today if you use the standard green colour scheme. This is to improve visual accessibility by increasing the colour contrast. The green colour scheme also supports a dark mode, which depending on your browser and operating system may be enabled automatically. We’ll be making …
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Your Lamplight diary can be synchronised with external diaries such as Outlook or Gmail calendars. It can be a great way of checking your upcoming appointments without having to log into the database. If you didn’t know about it or haven’t set it up yet, check out our video about diary feeds on Vimeo. If …
New! Custom Date Ranges and Item Limits for Diary Feeds Read More »
So it seems that some of you have a lot of lists (aka groups) in your system and they are a bit of a pain to keep a track of. So some good news: tagging. You can create a list of colour coded tags and attach them to lists and data views. And there’s a …
We will be carrying out some updates on our systems this evening (30th September 2022) from 9:30pm for 30 minutes. If you are logged in to Lamplight during this time, it’s likely that you will be logged out and need to log in again. This should only happen once during the period, and if you …
