New Releases for Morph helpME on June 30

We are happy to announce that we have just successfully released a number of new, helpful features and a patch to fix a critical bug.

• We added a new theme — Harriet the Gray. For those of you who want to give their readers a fresh and clean-looking UI environment, we bring you good news with the addition of Harriet the Gray. The beautiful combination of the colors gray, white, and black produces a clean and simple yet elegant user interface that provides a relaxing background, allowing your readers to focus more on what's important — your content.

• Grant user roles. With this release, you will have a more structured and a more organized collaboration with the other users, as there will now be four types of users, each with different rights and privileges. The four user roles are: Viewers, Authors, Editors, and Admins. See below for the definition of each roles.

1. Viewers - can view only the public UI of the site, whether it is set to public or private.
2. Authors - can do what viewers can do. Authors can also add and manage own pages.
3. Editors - can do what viewers and authors can do. Editors can add and manage any pages.
4. Admins - can do what viewers, authors, and editors can do. Admin can also manage user roles and can modify the site's settings, through the Settings page.
   

• Set a Morph helpME site as public or private. Morph helpME users will now have more control over their site as this release includes a mechanism that allows them to set their site as public (available to anybody who accesses the site) and private (available only to registered users).

Note: Only Admins can manage the site's settings.

• List resources in the table of contents. Users can now display their resources to the Public UI's Table of Contents, just as they would with pages. To do this, add a new or edit an existing resources and then enter the desired label under the "Table of Contents Label" field.

• Fixed the bug that prevents Morph helpME from launching when the user trying to launch the application once modified his original email address and/or username.

Java, MySQL, Scheduled Tasks, and more!

We're excited about the latest features we deployed today: MySQL, web-based DB Admin Console, and Scheduled Tasks.

• MySQL. You asked for it, you got it! Morph AppSpace now supports MySQL. To use MySQL, create a new Morph AppSpace subscription and choose MySQL for your database. Note: this is only possible for new subscriptions, if youre application is already using PostgreSQL, you'll have to manually migrate the data to another subscription.
• Scheduled Rake Tasks. We have also released a functionality that enables you to execute Rake tasks based on a schedule, eliminating the need to manually execute them. It's as easy as creating a Rake task, deploying it with your application, and scheduling it through the Morph Control Panel.
• Web-based DB Admin. If you want to manually make changes to your MySQL database, we've also provided PhpMyAdmin.
• Updated UI. In our continuous effort to improve overall user experience, we've also updated part of the user interface particularly your subscription management pages (you get there by clicking the Manage button of your application's widget). Of particular interest is the Dashboard where we'll be adding even more useful tools/widgets in the future. So watch out for that!
  

Other additions

• Java goes out of Beta. About a month ago, we announced Morph AppSpace for Java and Grails in limited developer preview. We're very excited to tell you that this major feature is now publicly available. The Java and Grails community can now take advantage of our fully managed deployment, delivery and management system to side-step time-consuming challenges such as hosting setups and deployment tasks.
• Affiliate program. Last week, Morph Labs launched its Morph Affiliate Program, a simple affiliate service that makes it very easy for developers and individuals alike to earn commissions through referrals whenever someone creates an account through the referrer's unique sign-up link. More info here.
  
• Invite a friend. In addition, you may want to simply send an email to your friends, telling them about Morph AppSpace using the Invite-a-Friend option that can be found under your Account tab and at the sidebar of the Morph Control Panel. The Invite-a-Friend feature allows you to earn referral fees as well.
  

Morph eXchange

• Morph eXchange Referrals. We've added a Referral Program which allows all Morph eXchange users to earn points whenever a friend has created an account through the Account's unique sign-up link. You can initiate this conveniently through the Invite-a-friend option (found under the Account tab and at the sidebar), which emails your friend the sign-up link. You may also opt to share the sign-up link freely by copying the URL, which is the first code provided under your Account tab, and dropping it in various social media channels such as blogs, forums, Twitter, etc. You may also post a sign-up link on your website by copying the second code provided under your Account tab and adding this to your Web page. Keep posted for future announcements on how these referral points can benefit you. In the meantime, continue inviting friends to Morph eXchange!
  

• Tracks 1.6. We've updated Tracks "Doing Things Properly", a GTD task-management application, to version 1.6. Get your FREE subscription to Tracks right in your Morph eXchange Subscriptions tab. Learn more about Tracks from the project Web site.