Fences 7 Beta 1 Now Available for Object Desktop Users to Test

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Hi All,

We are preparing to release Fences 7 and would love your help testing early features as we finalize this update over the coming weeks.

This beta requires an Object Desktop license at this time. If you do not have one, you can sign up here. Fences 7 will be made available for standalone purchase once the beta period is complete.

To download the beta, you can do so from Object Desktop Manager, or directly from your account page here under product downloads. Once installed, these are the areas of focus for this update:

  • Live Filtering & Search within Folder Portals.
    • On a folder portal, click the magnifying glass, or choose "Search & filter" from the group's menu.
  • New Windows 11 'Mica' material support, including new Light Mode, Dark Mode and system theme matching.
    • In the config menu ->personalization -> Match system light/dark/auto. 
  • Improvements to layout management, including multi-group selection and moving.
    • On the desktop, drag a box around multiple fence groups and move them all at once.
  • Single Click to Open, Navigate to Root, “List” style portals, hide cloud sync indicators, and other app refinements and improvements.

How to provide feedback: We welcome feedback, and for those experiencing issues, the easiest way to fix will be for us to be able to reproduce it in our labs. When sending reports, please provide the steps taken to create the scenario, and also provide a screenshot. Where relevant, system logs can be uploaded using the app, in About.

For current Fences customers – we will be continuing to actively support both Fences 5 and Fences 6 as we have, with continued fixes, compatibility updates and other refinements. For anyone who purchased Fences since Sept 1st onward, a complimentary upgrade to Fences 7 will be provided once the application is released.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

The new light theme support looks fantastic on bright wallpaper and adjusting the icon tint..give it a try! 

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

For better or worse it looks like filtering and search is the big new feature of this release. It is not quite as flashy as tabs was on Fences 6, but it is part of Fences explorer extension work which I know is a staple of stardocks software so I will speak on the feature itself.

 

Search and filtering feedback

1. I'd like better UI options for how search works, something like an optional icon or allow the search icon to be visible when other fences options are set to hidden. With my settings set to have things on Fences set to hidden it makes the new feature seem non existent at first until I dig around a little.

2. There seems to be a limit to how many folders the search can dig into before it stops being able to find results

3. When results start to generate, they temporarily dissappear before reappearing again.

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