A lock for the laptop, and folders inside the case file
This release adds an optional lock that works offline, folders for grouping documents and long lists that scroll without waiting.
A new JUDLEX update. The application lives on the practice's own computer, and that computer is often a laptop that goes out to a hearing, stops at home and comes back the next morning.
The lock is optional and works offline
You can switch on a lock so that JUDLEX asks you for a passphrase when it opens on that computer. JUDLEX checks that passphrase inside the machine itself, so the lock keeps asking when there is no network. It is a switch in your profile rather than a door you have to cross every morning: it is there for the laptop that leaves the office.
The lock protects the way into the application; it does not encrypt the files. Full-disk encryption is what does that, FileVault on macOS and BitLocker on Windows.
The lock and the licence do different jobs. Without an active licence you create no new records and process no new documents, but everything already inside you can read, correct, delete and export: the licence governs the work coming in, not the work going out.
Folders group documents without touching their numbering
Once a case file has grown, you read it better in blocks. Inside it you can gather documents into folders: some for the originals, others for the classified documents, each list with its own. You pick the ones that belong together, give the folder a title, a subtitle and a colour, and open or close it as you work. There is a single level, so no folder sits inside another.
A folder organises the view and nothing else. It does not move the original document, it does not change the number you cite that document by in a filing or the page it sits on, and it leaves the exported index alone. Delete the folder and its documents go back into the list, and JUDLEX removes none of them; take one document out of a folder and that document does not change either.
Long lists scroll without waiting
The lists of a practice grow on their own: clients, case files, facts, originals and classified documents. Those tables take very long lists without the screen suffering for it, and you run down a case file holding hundreds of documents the way you run down one holding ten. The filters, the order and the actions on each row are the ones you already know.