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2010
Message Replies to Sender Only, Email Notification Enhancements, and Milestones Enhancements
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We have been spending most of our time making a lot of infrastructure changes to our site in preparation for adding mobile support so we have been mostly quiet on the features front. We have managed to add a few tweaks since our last blog entry, however, that we want to make you aware of.
Message Replies Sent to Sender Only
Message Replies Sent to Sender Only
We have enhanced the messaging feature so that when you send messages to multiple recipients or all project members, you now have the option of specifying whether replies are sent to everyone who received the message or to yourself only. If replies are sent to yourself only, the recipients will not be able to view the replies from the other recipients nor will they be able to see the list of other recipients who received the message.
Email Notifications
1. We have made it even easier to fine tune the email notifications that you receive so that you only receive notifications for the activities that are important to you. At the bottom of each notification email that you receive, you will now see a link that you can click on to deactivate future email notifications of the same activity type. Previously, if you wanted to stop further email notifications of the same activity type, you had to sign in and go to your preferences, figure out which notification rule needed to be disabled, and then disable the rule manually.
2. The comment feature has been modified to allow you to deselect the users that are automatically being notified of a new comment. If the comment is being added when a task is completed or reopened, there will be some users that you won't be able to deselect (because it is based on the recipient's notification preference), but they should still not receive too many of those types of notifications since closing/reopening tasks occur much more infrequently than adding a comment. You can also deselect users that would automatically be notified when editing a milestone, task, etc.
3. Email notifications for new messages now include the project the message is for and the list of recipients who received the message.
Milestones
1. You can now add tasks to milestones from the milestones page. To do so, expand the list of tasks for a milestone and click on the "Add task" link.
2. You can now archive completed milestones to remove them from your milestones page.
Email Notifications
1. We have made it even easier to fine tune the email notifications that you receive so that you only receive notifications for the activities that are important to you. At the bottom of each notification email that you receive, you will now see a link that you can click on to deactivate future email notifications of the same activity type. Previously, if you wanted to stop further email notifications of the same activity type, you had to sign in and go to your preferences, figure out which notification rule needed to be disabled, and then disable the rule manually.
2. The comment feature has been modified to allow you to deselect the users that are automatically being notified of a new comment. If the comment is being added when a task is completed or reopened, there will be some users that you won't be able to deselect (because it is based on the recipient's notification preference), but they should still not receive too many of those types of notifications since closing/reopening tasks occur much more infrequently than adding a comment. You can also deselect users that would automatically be notified when editing a milestone, task, etc.
3. Email notifications for new messages now include the project the message is for and the list of recipients who received the message.
Milestones
1. You can now add tasks to milestones from the milestones page. To do so, expand the list of tasks for a milestone and click on the "Add task" link.
2. You can now archive completed milestones to remove them from your milestones page.