goodreader 4, worth the investment?
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When you have read File Jockey blogs before, you will have noticed that we love GoodReader for iOS devices, to combine with File Jockey for downloading and uploading files in your IBM environment. Good.iWare Ltd. has launched GoodReader 4, the next generation of the famous GoodReader app. • Advantage: many new convenient features. For a complete overview just visit the GoodReader website. • Disadvantage: you have to purchase the app, even if you are already a GoodReader user. Is it worth the investment? Let's find out!TRANSCRIPT
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Goodreader 4, worth the investment?
Kim van den Berg posted this on August, 2014
When you have read File Jockey blogs before, you will have noticed that we love
GoodReader for iOS devices, to combine with File Jockey for downloading and uploading
files in your IBM environment. Good.iWare Ltd. has launched GoodReader 4, the next
generation of the famous GoodReader app.
Advantage: many new convenient features. For a complete overview just visit
the GoodReader website.
Disadvantage: you have to purchase the app, even if you are already a
GoodReader user.
Is it worth the investment? Let's find out!
You can use the File Jockey software on-premises (or in the Cloud);
In this blog I will use IBM Greenhouse to test with, while it is a complete and free IBM
Connections test environment, just sign up. Go to the Appstore on your mobile device,
search for GoodReader 4 and make the purchase. Another option would be to open
GoodReader 3, go to settings and there you will see a migration message (see below).
When you press this option you will get the possibility to purchase GoodReader 4.
I've chosen to purchase the app from the Appstore (price can change over time and be
different per country):
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The app is now available on your mobile device(s). When you open the app and you are a
GoodReader 3.x user, you will instantly get a message to Launch the GoodReader
Migration Assistant, while the app detects that the previous GoodReader app is also on
your mobile device. It is not necessary to migrate at once, you can do this later by just
opening the GoodReader settings and select the migration option. This is both possible in
the GoodReader 3.x app (Migrate to GoodReader 4) as in the new GoodReader 4 app
(Migrate from GoodReader 3). If you do migrate, not only your documents will be migrated,
also your available Server connections will become available in GoodReader 4.
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Migrate GoodReader 3.x to GoodReader 4
Although this has nothing to do with file sharing, I do want to supply you with a complete
manual (and I prefer to migrate the Server connections), so press the Launch Migration
Assistant button to start the migration. Note: the files are being copied, so you need
enough free space to do so. Independent which of the two apps you use to start the
migration, the migration is established automatically from the GoodReader 3.x app.
After pushing the button, the GoodReader 3.x app is opened presenting Migration
information. The message indicates that each setting and file in the GoodReader 3.x app
will be transferred from GoodReader 3.x to GoodReader 4. So if you have already
changed settings or downloaded files in GoodReader 4, these will be deleted! Good.iWare
Ltd. advice you to keep both apps available for a while until you are absolutely certain the
migration was completed successfully.
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Press the Start Migration button. You will receive a Final Warning, press Proceed.
When the migration has finished you will receive the following message:
GoodReader 3.x app is closed automatically. Let's
continue.
Using GoodReader 4 with File Jockey
Open the GoodReader 4 app on your mobile device (in
this manual I use the iPad as you will have noticed).
There are several new functionality. One of them is the
possibility to create a new PDF. Style and fill it the way
you are used to with existing PDF's in GoodReader 3,
extended with several new interesting options. Press
Manage Files, followed by New PDF.
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Fill in a PDF file name
The new PDF file is now available. You can add text, pictures, etc as you are used to (if
not, press learn how to read PDFs), but you can also choose to add information from other
PDF's you have created before (they have to be available in or accessible with
GoodReader).
Click on the PDF pages icon. The available pages are presented. While it is a new PDF,
there is only one page currently. Press the Append button to get access to the existing
files and folders synced in GoodReader.
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Select the preferred PDF, or a folder first and then one or more PDF's.
Press the Append button to copy the PDF pages to the PDF file we are working in.
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Press the Save button to complete the adding of the pages. You will be asked if you want
to save the PDF changes to the current PDF or
create a copy.
Choose Edit this file to add the pages to the new
PDF file. Let's Append another PDF to get the
feeling and to be able to demonstrate some other
options.
For example Move pages in the PDF file, by
selecting a page in the PDF file and press the
move option.
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A new Move option appears, you can press Move here to move the selected page to that
location
Press the Move here option to move the selected page to the end or use one of the two
other presented options. Let's add some text to the first blanc page and then we are ready
to upload the page to IBM Greenhouse.
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Upload the PDF to IBM Greenhouse
There are several ways to upload the PDF file to IBM Greenhouse.
Upload option 1:
Go back to the main screen and select the IBM Greenhouse connection.
Select the location you prefer (this can be My Files, Files, Library, etc) and press the Upload
option at the bottom. The documents, folders, synchronized communities, etc, are presented.
Select the document(s) you want to upload ...
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and press Upload x item (in this case Upload 1 item)
Upload option 2:
It is also possible to select the file (a community, multiple files, ...) and press the Manage Files
option. You will now see and 'Upload' option.
When you press this button, you will see the available server connections. Select IBM
Greenhouse and the rest is similar to option 1.
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Upload option 3:
You can also upload the PDF file from within the file, by using the IBM Connections app:
In the document, press the share icon and choose ... Open In.
Choose either one, in this case I choose Send PDF 'as is' and select the IBM Connections app.
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The file is now uploaded to My Files in the IBM Connections app. It is not possible to upload a
file to a Community.
Upload option 4:
Select the PDF file in GoodReader, select Manage Files, ... Open In and choose Send PDF 'as
is'
Open the PDF in the IBM Connections app by choosing Open in Connections
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Leave the name as is and choose Upload
The PDF file is uploaded successfully to IBM Connections
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Note: the IBM Connections app automatically opens the IBM environment you were connected
with the last time. This can be your own organization's IBM Connections environment, IBM
Greenhouse or IBM SmartCloud. The file is automatically uploaded to My Files (when you use
File Jockey instead of the Connections app, you can determine the location you want to upload
the file to. For more information view the File Sharing with IBM Connections 5 with and without
File Jockey blog)
If you want to prevent the file to be uploaded to the wrong IBM environment, make sure you are
logged out in the IBM Connections app. You will then first receive a message when you want to
upload a file from GoodReader 4.
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Click OK and choose one of the locations presented or press the + in the corner
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Synchronize PDF's with IBM Greenhouse
When you have created a new PDF file and uploaded it the IBM Connections environment,
the file is not automatically added for synchronization. Do the following to establish
synchronization for the PDF file we have just created:
Connect with the IBM Greenhouse Connections environment, find the PDF file we have
uploaded previously, select the file and press Sync at the bottom
You will receive a Synchronization message, press Proceed
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Select the location and press Download here and Synchronize
The to be synchronized file already exists in GoodReader 4, press OK
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Press Sync when the Sync Paramters are presented. There are two different types of sync
- normal sync and download-only sync. In this case we choose for the normal sync while
normal sync is to keep the contents of a local file or a folder identical to what you have on
a server. Download-only sync is a convenient distribution of frequently updated documents
to a group of people. More information about this topic can be found in the GoodReader
4.0 user manual.
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PDF file synchronization is started, select ‘Choose action’
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Determine how to synchronize the PDF file
Select in this case 'Discard this conflict, files are identical' and press Proceed. The PDF file
is now ready for synchronization with GoodReader, indicated by the green icon.
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All you have to do when you open GoodReader the next time is click the sync button,
beside the file (to sync only this file) or at the bottom of the app (to synchronize multiple
files/folders/communities)
Conclusion; is it worth the investment? Yes!
1. Good.iWare Ltd. has made sure that GoodReader 4 has new interesting functionality
which will persuade you easily to purchase the latest version. For me personally the
possibility to create a new PDF and start filling it with content written in the past by
myself or my team members (split, merge, and rearrange files) has the most
advantage to Goodreader 3.
2. It is always advisable to use the latest version of an app when you use it for business
purpose.
3. GoodReader has launched GoodReader 4 as an update for GoodReader 3.x which
can indicate that GoodReader 3.x will no longer be updated with new functionality only
with bug fixes. When you view GoodReader 3 in the app store the following is
mentioned 'This is NOT the latest version of GoodReader. The latest and most
advanced version of GoodReader is a different app called "GoodReader 4."
An app which gives you so much functionality to ease your every day work, which give you
the possibility to work independent time and location, has proven itself in the past, ... Of
course it is worth the investment!
Enjoy GoodReader 4 with File Jockey.
More details about the File Jockey software can be found on the File Jockey website.
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