doQuments Professional Edition is now renamed to Sohodox

Yes you can easily upgrade from doQuments Professional edition to Sohodox. All your existing doQuments DBs will be automatically migrated to the latest version of Sohodox. An upgrade tool is available for the same.

Sohodox user interface had been completely redesigned and it is now similar to the familiar MS Outlook user interface.

The menus and toolbars have now been replaced with the Ribbon bar. This makes all important tools and features of Sohodox very easily accessible.

The File menu is not incorporated in any of the tabs of the ribbon bar. The File menu is replaced with a button called the Sohodox button. You will find this button at top-left corner of the main window. There are fewer options available from the Sohodox button compared to the options available from File menu of version 4. Many of those options are either incorporated in the ribbon bar or are available from the Settings pane.

There is no more a need to create a record before adding documents to it. Documents can be directly to the database by using any method such as drag  & drop, scanning, import etc..

Document Types are groups of indexing fields specific to a particular type of document

For example a Check may need indexing fields such as Check Number and Check Date while an Agreement may need indexing fields such as Agreement Date and Agreement Party etc. You can create as many Document Types as you want.

Use Document Types when you need a more structured way of method of managing your documents as compared to using Folders and Tags.

The Data Field manager is available as the Fields tab while creating or modifying a Document Type. For more info see, Fields Tab

Advanced Search pane is available by clicking the Double arrow button besides the Quick Search.

The System Folder and the Temp folder are no longer used  in Sohodox. The Storage Folder is now referred as the File Store.

Yes you can use your existing DB's (version 4) with Sohodox but only after they have been converted to the new format. The Sohodox DB structure is VERY different from the version 4 structure. The DB in Sohodox have .gxdb extension.

The location.dqs file is now referred to as the multi-user.gdx. The multi-user.gdx file is now stored in the ITAZ\Sohodox folder created under the folder designated as the Common Application Data folder in your Windows installation.

For Windows Vista/Windows 2008/Windows 7, this will be the C:\ProgramData\ITAZ\Sohodox folder.

For Windows 2000/XP/2003 this will be C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\ITAZ\Sohodox

Apart from multi-user.gdx file, the config.ini file is also stored in this folder.