WIT versions 5 & 5.0x bring even more power and ease to the organization of your ideas and personal information :

• by adding new features such as task management,
• by automating capture of structured information coming from :
  • the Internet (Web pages content),
  • other softwares (XML, CSV)
  • or simply, from your computer (folders),
• by taking in account the numerous remarks and suggestions made by WIT users (thanks you all !), especially :
  • wished features,
  • graphical user interface usability.

Please also read the note about the evolution of WIT document format.

  Graphical user interface

• New "look & feel" with fashion Windows themes.
• The idea property dialog becomes non modal : several dialog boxes can be simultaneously opened, which simplifies the idea management (and enables drag and drop of idea elements).
• New report grid for the search and selection of ideas and for publications management. This new grid report lets you :
  • choose the information to display,
  • sort and group ideas by their attributes values,
  • directly edit the idea attributes in its grid cells.
  • It also shows whether a search criteria (filter) is active or not.
• Many new possibilities to drag and drop files, images, documents and ideas between : 
  • the idea tree and the idea property dialogs,
  • the file explorer and the idea tree,
  • the file explorer ant the idea property dialogs,
  • between the property dialogs themselves,
  • between the idea property dialogs and the new idea report and selection grid.

  WIT documents

• Any WIT document is now fully portable (use of relative path) when its resources are located in the WIT document folder or subfolders.

  Structure and style templates improved

• CSS elements inheritance better shown in the style templates.
• New elements for better style control.
• New CSS tutorials.
• New ready-to use CSS style templates and structure templates.
• Name of previously loaded structure and style templates is shown.

  Idea management

• New idea attributes :
  • tasks
  • meta information used in the generated web pages
  • statistics attached to every idea.
• These new attributes are used for :
  • • web page creation,
    • in the structure and style templates,
  • they empower WIT intelligent variables,
  • they contribute to faceted indexes (custom fields as well as task fields).
• New Tasks menu in the main window to follow task progress and manage them.
• Idea IDs and file names now can contain space characters.
• Highlight of search results in the WYSIWYG editor and the preview view.

  Idea content editing

• WIT now properly manages JavaScript fragments when pasting data from Web pages :
  • keeps them when fragments are pasted into the "Page Preview" view,
  • cleans them when fragments are pasted into the WYSIWYG editor ("Normal" view).
• Keyboard shortcuts are now available in the WYSIWYG editor for most text editing features.
• Links can be easily cleaned (dedicated function in the WYSIWYG editor)
• Selective cleaning features (professional license) :
  • Removal of style and class attributes
  • Removal of Microsoft Word specific tags
  • All in one removal of text formatting, style attributes and MS Word specific tags
  • Removal of all HTML tags besides paragraphs and line breaks.
• Automatic syntax correction and indentation of HTML code.

  Data import

• Folder import  : WIT creates ideas with files found in a folder, recreates folder trees with ideas, and can recursively create photo albums.
• CSV import : it's now possible to specify idea identifiers and hierarchy, instead of just doing "flat" imports.
• XML import  : WIT imports and exports its own idea trees from and to XML.
• Import of structured documents coming from other softwares : WIT can now import data from TreePad^tm.

  Publication management

• The publication manager now uses the same report grid as idea selector : displayed fields can be selected, ordered, sorted and grouped. You can directly edit the publication attributes in the grid cells.

  Web site generation

• Removal of <meta name="generator" value="WebIdeaTree"> for the professional license.
• Removal of generated <!-- Designed and built with WebIdeaTree --> for the professional license.

  Global

• Replacement of <WORKDIR> variable by _WORKDIR _ and <DATADIR> by _DATADIR _
• Space character is now allowed in page naming.

  Fixed bugs

Major fixes :

• Focus problem with the left toolbar is solved : no more "blocking" of WIT.
• Fix of an infinite loop while importing an XML idea tree including internal identifiers already used in the current document.
• Fix of a WIT crash when dragging / dropping ideas in the main tree view (only with MS Internet Explorer 7 installed).
• In the evaluation of WIT, the choice of the type of evaluated license was not persistent.
• When launched for the first time from a new Windows user account, WIT would fail : fixed.
• WIT did not respond while trying to import images from Outlook Express messages. Fixed.
• Memory overlap eventually leading to a WIT crash.
• Correct processing (url encoded) of some paths including special characters.
• Potential loss of modifications done in the HTML view, when the idea property dialog is used after.
• After automatic image thumbnails insertion, associated HTML code would be lost when activating the HTML view.
• WIT works again with Windows 95, 98, 98SE and ME.
• Better management and portability of images and documents when the *.wit file is moved.

Minor fixes :

• Idea text editing : you can now cut or copy text containing links to images and local documents, and paste it in another idea without loosing the links. (Note : this works properly only with images and documents that have been included with the WIT version 5).
• Improvement of WIT ability to import images that are contained in fragments of pages that are copied from the Internet (no more "void" links to "wit-imported-images" folder).
• Applet Java (used in some web sites) : the data file (tdm.dat) is now named "tdm.txt" to solve some authorization problems with Microsoft IIS HTTP server.
• The "Preview" folder in your user profile (My Documents) is now cleaned when the last WIT instance terminates.
• Disambiguation of some keyboards shortcuts in the menus.
• "Normal" and "HTML" tabs remained disabled while clicking on some internal WIT links.
• The "Clean HTML" feature has been removed from the main WIT menu (available in the WYSIWYG editor only).
• The chosen Windows Theme for the graphical user interface is now persistent.
• Path of inserted images in the WYSIWYG editor was absolute. Now relative.
• On some computers, the idea text edition field was not properly refreshed when changing it.
• Some images, embedded in pasted HTML fragments were not properly imported due to '\' and '/' characters in their paths.
• Inconsistency between the left toolbar presence and the "Display" menu showing or hiding it.
• No more size limitation in WIT user macros. Was 200 characters (bug), 50 000 now.
• Thumbnail building happened to be incorrect or partial at document load, whereas complete at website build time. Fixed.
• The main "Table" icon in the Table menu (WYSIWYG editor) is effective again.
• More accurate internal criteria to display or not the faceted index (was sometimes displayed whereas there were no values to show).
• When editing an URL, the initially chosen protocol was not shown : fixed.
• When inserting an URL to a local file, the "file://" protocol is now added before : necessary for Mozilla Firefox browser.
• All line breaks are now coded as CRLF in generated files. 
• Fix of a problem on some ignored images when clipboard is auto-pasted.
• Fix of a problem on some ignored images after being resized in the WYSIWYG editor.
• Improvement of preview view computation performance (optimisation of 'extra' subfolder copy).
• Void lines removed in the CSS editor.