Mediathek Premium 6.5 is available for download since Sep, 23rd 2007. As always, you have the opportunity to submit your comments, improvements and enhancements requests, based on your own Mediathek using experience & needs. To do so, please use the suggest form (click the link, select "Enhancements" or "Comments" and do not forget to include your email adress). Please read the New Features page to learn about all the new features in latest release. 

This is the list of current scheduled features for next Mediathek releases. The star icon "" indicates features coming with very next release, while b&w icon "" indicates features coming in further releases.

Mediathek is declined in two licensing modes with a unique distribution : a no time-limited freeware release with major functionnalities and a shareware release with the whole software including advanced features.

    Major

• Remplacement of OLE compatible file format for native XML file.

    Interface

• User-interface in Office XP 2003 style.
• Column/fields display & ordering selection for detailed view.
• New icons for folders customization and icon selection.

• History navigation button Previous / Next for document's views.

• End-user defined external icon files support in replacement of default ones.

• Folders drag & drop support (previous releases, support only on items).

• Item's properties displayed in tooltip within detailed view (aka workareas).

    Import/Export

• Books Import filter based on Internet websites ISBN query: scheduled in a minor release as 6.4.1 (around late 2005).
• Html Export Filter : possibility to save generated Html files using the same directory structure as used in the document.
• Internet Import filters (DVD + eBay): option to open website result list and detailed page from requested website using default web browser and to save the full detailed page on local disk (page that contains the data to scan and import into Mediathek document).
• Command line options to launch Mediathek and automatically export mediathek files using Filters.

    Printing

• More HTML templates to use for creating reports using HTML export filter and print using Internet Explorer.
• Reflect printing options using a preview picture in Preferences window.
• Feature that prints select content with items details and associated picture.
• Pen size selection for cells thickness.
• New integrated printing reports (item details property sheet, lended/late items etc...).
• More Wysiwyg printing mode that prints only selected columns for display.
• Option to include a price summary for each subfolder, with detailed information.

    Lending module

• Lended media / item tracking window or filter options (with details & direct access).
• Declared Borrowers / people list displayed from the main treeview items and listview.
• Enhanced lending dynamic context menu with most frequent borrowers.
• Automatic email remind feature for lended items late for return.

    Productivity

• Filter feature to combine detailed view filters with item type/medium/icon.
• Possibility to print a report with document's statistics.
• New media window's fields Automatic pre-loading, based on the values used for previous added item.
• When editing and item, activate the last field used/set the last time an item was modified.
• Search dialog box with basic boolean operators support.
• Extend field cleaning features to any available field.

    Other

• Support for saving and reading Mediathek documents with a "distribution" mode that allows only viewing for the document.
• New field COLOR for items that reflects in the document views.

• New user guide using internet help file format (chm).