Same Barn, Clearer Words: What Changed in HorseBook 1.1.40

By Brian Bickell, who raises paint and quarter horses at Bickell Ranches in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

This update changes very little about what HorseBook does and a lot about what things are called. As HorseBook grew, it picked up more than one name for the same thing. The iPhone said Medical where the web said Medical Records, a breeding was a cover in one place and a breeding in the next, and the same list of bookings was Deals on one screen and the season book on another. If you used both the phone and the web, you had to learn both sets of words.

From 1.1.40 on, the menus, page titles and back buttons use one name for each thing, and it's the same on iPhone, iPad and the web. A few labels inside screens still use older words. The help pages use the same words, so what you read there matches what's on your screen.

The iPhone and iPad update is 1.1.40 in the App Store. The web changed the same day.

What's called what now

Your records haven't moved. Each one is where it was, under a clearer name.

The web addresses follow the names. /app/dashboard is now /app/today, /app/business/deals is now /app/business/bookings, and a stallion's breeding report now sits under that stallion. Old bookmarks and links still work and take you to the new page.

What's gone, and where to find it now

We removed a few screens that repeated something you can find elsewhere.

• Mare compatibility is gone from the stallion page, on iPhone and the web. We didn't delete the notes you saved there. If you want a copy, email support@horsebook.app.
• The second stallion book on the web. A stallion's horse record had its own Breeding page with season money, a program summary, a freezing log, collections and mare bookings, all of which the stallion page under Business → Stallions also has. That copy is gone. The horse record keeps his breeding history, his foals, and a card that opens his Bookings.
• This month's expenses on Today (web). Everything it showed is on Expenses.
• Season contract defaults are changed on the web. On iPhone and iPad you can still see a stallion's season defaults, and a new contract starts from them; what you change on that contract is for that contract only. Changing the defaults themselves is on the web, where the rest of contract setup lives. Making, sending, signing and voiding a contract work on the phone as before.
• The old sign-up questionnaires. A new account now goes through one short first session on every client: one question, your first horse (or your mares), and what HorseBook will remind you about. If you already have an account, nothing changes for you.
• Extra Import your herd buttons. Importing a whole herd starts from Horses or the Add menu (or the first session, for a new account). The buttons in Settings are gone.

iPad now runs full screen

Until now, HorseBook on an iPad was the iPhone app in a phone-sized window. From 1.1.40 it's a real iPad app:

• It runs full screen, in portrait and landscape.
• Each screen's content sits in one readable column down the middle, under a full-width top bar.
• In Split View, Slide Over or a small Stage Manager window, it switches to the iPhone layout.
• Most confirmations point at the button you tapped, and messages that used to say "this iPhone" now say "this iPad".

It's the same app with the same account and the same records, so there's nothing new to learn, just more room to work in. The few desk jobs that live on the web, like setting up your own contract, work in Safari on the iPad too.

Fixes in this update

• Deleting a document on iPhone now removes its file from storage too, the same as on the web.
• Upload signed copy → Choose file on a booking's contract opens the Files picker again.
• A scan started from Siri, or from a HorseBook notification that opens the scanner, lands on Scan, including when the app wasn't already running.
• On iPhone, a link in an email or notification to Expenses, Contacts, Documents, Locations, Herd report or Settings now opens that screen, not just the Farm tab.

Questions

If a name you were used to is missing, or a screen isn't where you expected, reply to any HorseBook email or write to support@horsebook.app. The Help Center uses the new names throughout.