SoftForge has worked with some of the biggest names over the last decade. We can help bring about a team lead solution slotting into that part of an company that requires our expertise to make your projects and plans a reality.

In our time we worked with many national and international companies. One example is Shell. We worked with them to implement their car service network. We built and delivered a multi administrator multi access level platform to allow garages using Shell oil to deliver MOT and car services via the platform we built. It allowed customers to enter postcode and car registration to find the nearest garage that could deal with their make and car, along with the costs involved.

During the life of the project we provided a maintenance contract to make sure the service ran smoothly and when this project came to an end we met their obligations and continue to host copies of the project for as long as they need. Although finished the Shell project can be seen here in the wayback machine.

With the NHS/UCL collaboration, this is an ongoing roll out of a type 2 diabetes site aimed at helping those with the disease to self manage the condition. I large complex site that uses information gathered from the patients records it presents them with structured learning courses and in an interface tailored to make it as easy to navigate as possible for each user.

Capital fortune, a financial services company based in the heart of the London square mile. For them we took over 1600 Wordpress sites and built them into one Joomla site which is secure and reliable. This streamlined their offer saving time and costs, but also delivering better SEO and conversion rates. Important when you are spending money on advertising to push your business forward.

We also work with charities such as the PKD charity and Ciliopathy Alliance, both have had large audiences at times.

For the British Council we created Youth Space. Although the project and the site has now finished, an outline of the project can be here, YouthSpace. You can see it developed over the 5 years and was a success for the British Council and EU authorities who helped fund it.

So however big your organisation is, we can engage with your development teams enhancing the project and driving it forward.

SoftForge has worked with some large organisations over the last 15 years. We have also worked with trusted organisations, organisations who need a reliable partner to deliver their vision to the public and their customers.  We have worked with several national police organisations, one of the latest, just formed is the London Cyber Resilience Centre. The site is replacing the Police Digital security centre which itself replaced the London Digital Security Centre. All have been hosted and maintained, built and administrated by SoftForge.

It is with organisations like the Loncon CRC that SoftForge brings value for money by using the best secure infrastructure, we take care of the things that are vital for the smooth running of a website, so the client can concentrate on what they want to share to the world.

No site is alike and all have their individual challenges and demands. It's the job of SoftForge to recommend and then implement the best course through those challenges and demands to deliver on the clients' needs.

With the National Business Crime Centre, we delivered a blog and news centric system that allows the police to quickly get the latest updates and trends out to business owners and other organisations. It also has a download area for shops and small businesses to print off their own posters and leaflets, linking the police and crime reduction advice with the businesses that need the help and information. Many campaigns have been pushed out through the pages of the National Business Crime Centre over the last 5 years and members of the business world have benefited from the advice given in tackling crime and staying safe at work.

Secured By Design is a sophisticated product search that allows customers, architects, and members of the public to search for companies that supply products that meet the Secured By Design standard.

It also delivers many different resources including building guides, planning guides and counter-terrorism help and advice.

Along with a large download document facility Secured By Design is a central hug for the Police Crime Prevention Initiative.

But we also do some less nationally important but equally vital sites such as Naturally Relaxing, a blog which covers many aspects of how and when to relax. Advice on food, music, lifestyles and hobbies, a fun read with a helpful tone. Informative, friendly and a great source of inspiration, making good use of images and authors articles.

By client we mean a program you use on your computer such as Outlook, Mac Mail, Thunderbird and phone accounts (eg. iOS and Android).

There are two important changes that you will need to make:

• First you need to use the full username and domain wherever it asks for username. So if the username for the email is fredblogs and the email address is [email protected] then you need to use [email protected] as the username and not just fredblogs as we would have in the past.
• The second is that we are connecting using a secure connection. Usually email is sent over an insecure connection but the technology to intercept your messages in public places is becoming more widespread. Because of this we are changing all our connections to SSL connections and this will give the little padlock symbol on your email accounts. The important changes are shown in the screen shots below.

The location of where you need to go in your client software does depend on what it is and what operating system you are using but its fairly generic for all and the places listed below are the ones to search first.

Where we have SoftForge you would be looking for the name that you called your account and the steps in bold have a corresponding screenshot:

• Thunderbird-> Edit-> Account Settings->SoftForge -> Server settings
• Outlook -> Account Settings -> SoftForge -> More Settings -> Advanced -> Outgoing Server
• Mac Mail -> Preferences -> SoftForge -> Advanced -> Account Information -> Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) -> Edit SMTP Servers -> SoftForge

If you have problems following this then do call 01474 350 959 Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm and have the operating system and mail client open and ready to make the changes.

The following are the specific steps for the most common mail clients, Outlook, Mac Mail and Thunderbird:

Outlook

In all cases, the server name for you needs to be the same as in the example. Server name is simply:

softforge.co.uk

Just that, even if your domain is different you connect to our main server which is softforge.co.uk

The port should be 993

We are here assuming you are using imap as most people do, but if still using pop or pop3 then the port will be 995

The username is now your full email address for example [email protected] (please change to what ever yours is).

Connection encryption is SSL

Authentication method is Encrypted Password

NB: The server is no longer softforge.co.uk It has been changed to server5.softforge.co.uk

Sending email, the SMTP instructions are shown as well.Again the server name is simply:

softforge.co.uk

This time the port will be 465

Connection encryption is SSL

Authentication method is Use same settings as my incoming mail server

The username is what ever the username you use normally so if your email is [email protected] then in the past you would have used info but now you must use the full email address as the username so it will be [email protected] (please change to what ever yours is).

You will be asked to reenter your password again, don't forget to tick any "save password" box.

Thats it, you should now be using secure connections and your communications in public areas over public wifi will be a lot safer.

Mac Mail

In all cases, the server name for you needs to be the same as in the example. The server name is simply:

softforge.co.uk

Just that, even if your domain is different you connect to our main server which is softforge.co.uk

The port should be993

We are here assuming you are using imap as most people do, but if still using pop or pop3 then the port will be 995

The username is what ever the username you use normally so if your email is[email protected]then in the past you would have used info but now you must use the full email address as the username so it will be[email protected](please change to what ever yours is).

Connection security isSSL/TLS

Authentication method isEncrypted Password

NB: The server is no longer softforge.co.uk It has been changed to server5.softforge.co.uk

Sending email, the SMTP instructions are shown as well.Again the server name is simply:

softforge.co.uk

This time the port will be465

Connection security isUseSSL

Authentication method isPassword

The username is what ever the username you use normally so if your email is[email protected]then in the past you would have used info but now you must use the full email address as the username so it will be[email protected](please change to what ever yours is).

You will be asked to reenter your password again, don't forget to tick any "save password" box.

Thats it, you should now be using secure connections and your communications in public areas over public wifi will be a lot safer.

Thunderbird

In all cases, the server name for you needs to be the same as in the example. Server name is simply:

softforge.co.uk

Just that, even if your domain is different you connect to our main server which is softforge.co.uk

The port should be 993

We are here assuming you are using imap as most people do, but if still using pop or pop3 then the port will be 995

The username is what ever the username you use normally so if your email is [email protected] then in the past you would have used info but now you must use the full email address as the username so it will be [email protected] (please change to what ever yours is).

Connection security is SSL/TLS

Authentication method is Normal Password

NB: The server is no longer softforge.co.uk It has been changed to server5.softforge.co.uk

Sending email, the SMTP instructions are shown as well.Again the server name is simply:

softforge.co.uk

This time the port will be 465

Connection security is SSL/TLS

Authentication method is Normal Password

The username is what ever the username you use normally so if your email is [email protected] then in the past you would have used info but now you must use the full email address as the username so it will be [email protected] (please change to what ever yours is).

NB: The server is no longer softforge.co.uk It has been changed to server5.softforge.co.uk

You will be asked to reenter your password again, don't forget to tick any "save password" box.

Thats it, you should now be using secure connections and your communications in public areas over public wifi will be a lot safer.

Any questions or requests to reset your password to something longer and safer then please call 01474 350 959 Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.

Phil and Joe

The ratio field type plugin adds a "Ratio Field" to the available list of CB fields. It does not actually add a new field to the database and cannot be edited by the user. It simply calculates a user's ratio based on 2 other numeric CB fields.

You can define any 2 numeric CB fields that exist in the database (eg. any integer or decimal fields) to be used to calculate the ratio. If displayed as a decimal or percentage, you can set the number of decimal places to round the result to. If displayed as fraction, you have the option to simplify it if possible and define what is used as the separator.

Installation Instructions

1. Install the plugin through the CB Plugin Management page
2. Publish the plugin on the CB Plugin Management page
3. Add a new “Ratio Field” type from the CB Field Management page
4. Define the field names to use and set the other parameters as desired