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Cerb

Cerb is a fast and flexible Web-based platform for business collaboration and automation. It helps you remember anything about anyone, collaborate from anywhere, deftly reply to a flood of email, automate, stay informed, capture feedback, track time, flag opportunities, manage tasks, share expert knowledge, and otherwise execute efficiently.

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Release Notes: This maintenance update includes five bugfixes and usability tweaks. The 'nobody' shortcut on the ticket peek popup now works properly in IE8. An issue where malformed HTML attachments were being truncated when displayed in the browser was fixed. An issue with purified HTML attachments having their ID attributes stripped when displayed in the browser was fixed. When hovering over an attachment, a download option is now revealed. An issue in the scheduler where only one job would run per request if PHP lacked permission to use the set_time_limit() function was fixed.

Release Notes: This maintenance update includes nine bugfixes and usability tweaks. Virtual Attendants can use the 'Send Email' action in organization, knowledgebase, and time tracking behaviors. An informative error message is displayed when the database connection is lost. An issue in Firefox where the reply box no longer focused was fixed. The first available reply-to address will be used where there is no default. An issue where PHP was expiring inactive sessions earlier than the browser cookie was fixed. Issues with keyboard shortcuts on the reply and compose forms when selecting text with Ctrl+Shift were fixed.

Release Notes: This major update includes 64 new features. Virtual Attendants now track usage statistics. Virtual Attendants can set cross-record custom fields, add headers to sent mail, add recipients to mail, set organizations on tickets, and post comments as their owner. Macros integrate jQuery for automation while replying. Workers may upload multiple attachments at once. URLs can link directly to messages. Comment creation triggers events. Calendars can plot dates from any worklist. Admins can list sessions. Snippets track daily usage. The Web API can upload files, search comments, and compose mail.

Release Notes: This maintenance update includes seven bugfixes, security enhancements, and usability tweaks. Email attachments with HTML content filter out Javascript code before rendering. The 'Remember me' cookie for the login process now uses the 'httponly' option. This release fixes a bug that logged out all worker sessions when any worker reset their security credentials. The merge confirmation popup auto-focuses the 'OK' button to complement keyboard workflows. An issue where custom fields weren't being cached properly in Virtual Attendant behaviors has been fixed. QR codes display properly when using Google Auth and IE8.

Release Notes: This maintenance update includes five fixes and usability enhancements. The Portuguese translation was updated. The default labels for Activity Log entries when used in Virtual Attendant behavior were fixed. A bug in the Send Mail action of Virtual Attendant behaviors that prevented the 'From:' address from being set properly in some cases was fixed. The 'Current Worker' placeholder may now be used when filtering worklist-based dashboard widgets.

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26 Mar 2013 20:01 jstanden Thumbs up

@g2mk Thanks for summarizing our licensing information! I'll edit the record to use the 'commercial' tag.

The editors tend to filter out pricing information in the descriptions (which makes perfect sense). It's front and center on our website. As you've mentioned, the software defaults to a single seat at no cost, and that's a perpetual license that will never expire. By filling out the quick intro survey after installation we bump that to 3 seats at zero cost -- and that contact information is just used to keep in touch about new project updates. We offer higher seat licenses at no cost to charities and open source projects. For commercial/educational/government use, we have paid seats. The license is perpetual, so the right to use the versions you've paid for will never expire. Seats may be renewed annually to provide a combination of support and software updates.

26 Mar 2013 19:52 jstanden Thumbs up

@simog Hi there. From the project information on the right, you'll notice that we've maintained a record here for 11 years. Our project is commercial open source. The full source code is on GitHub under a permissive license, which has always been permitted here. The brand on Freshmeat changing to _Freecode_ is very recent compared to how long we've used the site, but I believe that their use of 'free' continues to refer to liberty and not zero cost.

20 Feb 2013 08:54 aamoruso Thumbs down

The software is very nice indeed, but sadly it isn't a free one. It's commercial open source.

01 Feb 2013 19:13 g2mk Thumbs down

Tagging this kind of software as commercial (or something) would allow to save some time... Here is (below) essential - but unfortunately not quite easy to find - licensing information:

"Seats determine the maximum number of workers that can use the software at the same time."

"Register

In the final step of the installer you are given the opportunity to introduce yourself to the Cerb development team in exchange for a free 3 seat (simultaneous workers) license to help you get started. There are no strings attached. This free license provides full functionality, with no expiration, but it does not include future updates. We hope that you find the software useful, and we’re looking forward to growing along with you.

If you choose not to register your copy of Cerb then the software will default to Free Mode which is limited to a single seat but has no other restrictions.

Complete the short survey in exchange for your free license and then click the Register button."

26 Jan 2013 22:02 simog Thumbs down

This site is called freecode. Not free advertising for your paid application.

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