We've been quiet on the blogging front over the last couple of
months as we've been hard at work improving the inner workings of
TeamWork Live. We spent December and the first part of January
improving the site infrastructure to make it more reliable. We also
made changes that will make it easier to add additional features
going forward. We believe you are going to see the benefits of
these changes in the coming months as we start full-time
development on new features again.
Infrastructure Improvements
1. Live monitoring of email processing and notification system so
that we can be alerted if email notifications are not being sent to
you or if our system has problems processing any emails that you
send to TeamWork Live.
2. Live monitoring of database for potential problems (such as
deadlocks) so that we can address any issues before they become
problems for you.
3. Improved clustering and failover of our servers so that a
failure of a server will have minimal (if any) impact on TeamWork
Live. This improvement should also allow us to perform future
upgrades without requiring any extended downtime.
4. Rearchitected many areas of the site to make it easier for
us to add additional features going forward.
New Features
Along with the infrastructure changes, we were also able to
add a few new features that we would like to share with you.
Basecamp Import
Basecamp users will now be able to get a jump start on TeamWork
Live using our Basecamp import tool. The tool will allow you to
import all your Basecamp projects including the files and images in
those projects. You will be able to assign your Basecamp users to
existing TeamWork Live users or create new users for them during
the import. There are currently some limitations with the import
tool due to the differences between the two applications. The major
limitation is that since TeamWork Live only supports one file
attachment per comment or message, so it will only import the first
file for each Basecamp message or comment. We will be addressing
this when we add support for multiple file attachments in the
future.
Latest Activity - Detail Level
We have added the ability to increase and decrease the amount of
activity shown on the dashboard. To change the amount, go to your
dashboard and move your mouse cursor over the "Latest Activity"
header. A "Less" and "More" link should appear on the right side of
the header that allows you to change the amount of activity shown.
The setting will also be applied to the daily digest email and the
activity RSS feed.
Approve Items From Dashboard
It is now possible to approve an item from the dashboard by
checking the box next to the item name. This should save you time
since you are no longer forced to view an item before you can
approve it.
Tasks/Milestones
When multiple people are assigned to a task or milestone, all the
names are listed instead of displaying "Multiple people". This will
save you time from having to view the detail page to see who is
assigned to a task or milestone.
Group Plan Administration
When you create a user from the company management page, you
can now have TeamWork Live automatically send a welcome email to
the new user with his or her login information. To do so, check the
box "Yes, send an email containing login information to the user"
when creating the account. This will save you time from having to
manually email the person yourself.
Thank you again for your continued support. We look forward to
making TeamWork Live even more useful to you in the future.
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You guys are awesome! Love this product it's been a pleasure to use ...thus far! I just do not get what the appeal of basecamp is ...
-SM
Basecamp does actually have one item of appeal now.. You can now easily migrate from Basecamp to Teamwork live :)
Thank you for the kudos guys. We really appreciate the feedback. We have started work on the project status feature and have more goodies on the way.