**basisboard builds sales tools for estimating teams in construction**
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April 29, 2021: New email features and shared view
It's been a while since our last update report. That doesn't mean that the updates aren't still coming to basisboard! Let's quickly recap some of the features that came out last couple of months that you're possibly already familiar with.
- Analytics: we've added many new features to analytics, allowing analysis of performance to be made by many different criteria, and even with a analysis grouped by a given time period
- Rich Text Formatting: now you can create custom fields that contain Rich Text Formatting (RTF)
- Seeing discussions on list view: we've included a button that allows you to see (or start) the discussions of any given bid invite from the list view
- Amount per GC: when creating bid packages, you can now select a specific amount for each GC, or simply add a margin, then, the GC amount will be calculated based on the base amount
- SMTP and IMAP: as a new way to sync your emails with basis, we now have IMAP support (for scraping emails) and SMTP support (for sending emails)
- Emails: the emails tabs for projects, contacts and companies pages were completely redesigned. This was part of a larger goal of bringing all your email needs inside basisboard. We're now really closer than ever of doing so.
Well, this was just a quick recap of what features were released in the past few months. Now, let's go the the more exciting announcements.
📤 Outbound emails
You can now send emails from your board! It's possible to compose new emails and reply or forward existing ones.
For sending the emails, it's required that you have a Gmail or Outlook email registered with your account. To do so, you can navigate to Settings > Email account. Or, try to compose a new email, and if you don't yet have a linked email account, there will be a link to lead you there.
