Revolution Online Features Update

September 2007

There's a new glyph in town

You might have already seen this tweaky little glyph, , located at the top of about 99% of the lists in Portal as seen below.

When you click it, you'll see a screen (below) that will let you name the query that generated the list and schedule when you want the query to run.  After clicking 'save schedule' you, and a distribution list if you choose to enter one, will get an email early in the morning of the day or days you requested containing the results.

B-but what if it's NOT a duplicate?

As you know from last month's features update, we've streamlined the process of identifying, reviewing, and marking duplicates to such an amazing extent it's almost like you can just snap your fingers and it's done.  Maybe you've gone on a de-dupe spree and are scraping the bottom of the barrel with almost no duplicates left.  There's just a few names left but... oops!  Our algorithms have failed us!  We've incorrectly identified two people as possible duplicates!

Well, here's what you can do.  Start with you usual possible dupe screen, seen here:

Suppose, innocently, the list says it thinks "Arthur Jr." (marked "primary" above) is the same person as "Dr. Arthur."  (You're familiar with that whole "kids moving back home" thing, right?)

Well, we're much smarter than any algorithm: we know better.  And NOW we can tell the list all about it.  The duplicate-processing list contains a new column and new button: 

As you can see, in addition to identifying duplicates, which we will merge if you mark them, you can now identify NON-DUPLICATES, which we will mark and never bug you about again!  You can even mark that an account is not a duplicate of multiple accounts at once!

Did You Know? 

When your search criteria produces a large number of results, you can click on the "displaying records" line at the top.  Doing so will give you the "Go to page" function.  Thanks to a super user for this excellent idea!