STRT Appearance

STRT Appearance is an internal browser extension developed for STRT to improve day-to-day usability of miniCRM — the CRM platform our team works in every day. Out of the box, miniCRM has a few UI quirks that slow things down: tags get cut off and are hard to read, a single accidental click on the delete button can remove a tag without any warning, the fixed column layout wastes screen space, contact cards can carry a long history of old dated course tags that clutter the view, and a contact's related records are lumped into one undifferentiated list with no visible status. This extension fixes all of these. 1. Tag Expander Tags in miniCRM are displayed in a compact, truncated format that hides their full content. Tag Expander gives you the choice to display them stacked (one per row, full width) or inline (side by side, wrapping naturally). Either way, tag names are shown in full up to 22 characters — no more guessing what's behind a clipped label. 2. Tag Delete Guard One misclick and a tag is gone. Tag Delete Guard adds a confirmation step before any tag is deleted, so accidents don't happen during fast-paced data entry. Choose between a clean modal overlay, a native browser confirmation dialog, or simply hide the delete button entirely if your team doesn't need it at all. An optional toast notification confirms when a deletion goes through. 3. Column Layout Entity detail pages in miniCRM have a fixed column layout that doesn't always make the best use of your screen. Column Layout adds two sliders to the extension popup: one for the form fields column width and one for the right sidebar. Drag to resize — your preferences are saved and applied automatically on every page load. 4. Sidebar lists: grouping & order miniCRM lists related records in an effectively random order. This feature sorts each related-records block with sensible rules and groups a person's deals under quiet captions by pipeline status (NEW, IN PROGRESS, APPLIED, CANCELLED…), in miniCRM's own pipeline order, soonest course first. Courses are listed in natural order ("SM2" before "SM10"), other lists newest first. Toggle it off to fall back to miniCRM's default order. 5. Active Record When you open a record, it also appears in the related lists as a faint gray entry that's easy to miss. Active Record makes it stand out: choose its colour (gray or blue) and optionally make it bold. By default the current record is shown in blue and bold. 6. Deals Button On a course page, Deals Button adds a "Deals for this course" button to the header. It opens miniCRM's filtered list of the deals (applications) for that course, matched by the course code. Colour (blue, black or red), new or same tab, or off — all in the popup. 7. Smart Notes & Activity On record pages the Activity feed and Tasks list get a tidy-up. The note's author becomes its heading, a small green or red pill shows whether the task was completed or failed, the type tags your team writes into a note (SCALL, MCALL, EMAIL, ADMIN) become colour-coded pills, and notes imported from ActiveCampaign carry an info bubble with the original author, email, date and reference. An empty Tasks box collapses. By default it also hides the entries miniCRM writes by itself, leaving the notes a person wrote plus the channels you keep on (emails, calls and SMS each have a switch, all on by default); switch "Hide automatic entries" off and everything comes back, since nothing is deleted. It works in any miniCRM language. The Activity filter's "Closed tasks" option is renamed to Notes. 8. Tag Date Filter Contact cards can accumulate many dated course-instance tags from years of past courses, cluttering the card. Tag Date Filter lets each user hide the old ones by their course start year — pick a threshold in the popup (e.g. "Show course tags from 2024") and older course tags are hidden from view. It's entirely view-only and per-user: it only hides chips in your own browser and never deletes or edits any tag in miniCRM. Undated tags and course-type, topic, brand, and lead tags are always shown; switch the feature off (or back to "All") and every tag reappears. 9. Smart Contacts The contact block in the right-hand sidebar gets two improvements. When someone works at a company, miniCRM lists every contact of that company; the colleagues' cards are hidden, matched by miniCRM's contact ids. And where miniCRM shows only one phone, email and address per contact, every value is listed with its label: a phone dials, an address opens in maps, an email starts a message. Both halves have their own switch. View-only — nothing is edited in miniCRM. 10. Box Order A record page shows its fields in a stack of boxes down the middle column, in an order fixed by how the record type was set up — which is rarely the order any one person actually works in. Box Order lets you rearrange them yourself: hover a box heading, grab the handle that appears on its left, and drag the box where you want it. The arrangement is saved for that record type and applied every time you open one, so your colleagues keep their own order of the very same page. Boxes are only moved on screen — no miniCRM setting is touched, nothing is hidden, and switching the feature off in the popup restores miniCRM's own order instantly. 11. Related Activities On address book pages, click "Read activities" to collect activity across all related records. Temporary background tabs open together and close independently after reading each record's activity pages. Browse ten entries per page, newest first, with the source record's name, product, status and date in each card. The feed respects your "Hide automatic entries" preference, provides cancellation and reports incomplete reads. Results stay in page memory and nothing is edited in miniCRM. 12. Multi-AND Filter (on by default) miniCRM's filter builder allows each field once, and repeats of a field mean "either/or" — so "has tag A AND tag B AND not tag C" cannot be built. With this on,…