Light Blue 8.2.4

We’ve just released Light Blue 8.2.4, which adds more new features and some bug fixes.

You can update to Light Blue 8.2.4 by using the “Check For Updates” command from within Light Blue. You’ll find that in the Light Blue menu if you’re on a Mac, or in the Help menu if you’re using Windows. You can also download the installer for the latest version of Light Blue by logging into your account on our website.

The main focus of this update is on improvements to our Google Calendar publishing feature and adding some new fields that are particularly helpful when using Light Blue’s powerful querying and marketing tools. For example, you can now limit a query for contact records to just those contacts that are the head of a group (e.g. so that you can build a query for all of this year’s family portrait clients but limit the results to just your main contact).

Here’s a full list of the changes that we’ve made:

• When you switch on Google Calendar publishing, you’re now given the option of using one of your existing calendars instead of creating a new one. The “Reset Google Calendar” button also allows you to reset your current calendar, rather than creating a new one.
• Reduced the number of Google Calendar API problems that would cause the “Publish To Google Calendar” checkbox to be automatically un-ticked.
• Added “head of group” fields to the query dialog, list view, and export fields for contact records.
• Added an “Is Head Of Group” field to contacts.
• Added “All Contact Names” and “All Contact Names And Roles” fields to the query dialog, list view, and export fields for shoot records.
• Reinstated the popup that appears when you click on a link in our HTML editor, so you can edit, clear, or visit the link’s URL.
• ShootProof orders are now always imported with tax-exclusive pricing, because that’s the pricing that their API provides.
• Typing into the Inbox search box now only runs the search when you finish typing.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when importing a CSV file with bad character encoding.
• Fixed a problem that could cause text to be accidentally deleted when you’re drafting an email.
• Fixed a problem on macOS where PDFs and printed output would use a slightly larger font size than in previous versions of Light Blue.
• Fixed a problem where applying a positive font size adjustment didn’t work.