Timer, More Storage, File Preview, and More
updated on March 1, 2011 by TeamWork Live
We at TeamWork Live would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year!
We have been very busy over the holidays and have many exciting new
features to share with you.
Timer
By popular request, we have added a timer for tracking your
time. You no longer have to manually track your time and then enter
them into TeamWork Live. Instead, you can now track your time using
our timer. The timer allows you to quickly move between multiple
items and quickly start and stop timers for different items. In
addition, we have added keyboard shortcuts for power users so that
you can use the timer even more efficiently.
The timer can be accessed from the "My Time" page, from the "Time"
section of a project workspace, from the time entries tab on the
detail page for an item, and from the milestones and tasks
page. The "My Time" page and the "Time" section of each
project workspace has a timer bookmark that you can add to your
browser's bookmarks bar to allow for easy access to the timer.
More Storage
We have moved to new file storage infrastructure that has
allowed us to achieve additional cost savings. We are happy to pass
those savings back to you in the form of increased storage. In
mid-December, we doubled the storage space on all membership plans
for the same price. We hope you enjoy the extra room!
File Preview for Adobe PDF, Microsoft PowerPoint, and TIFF Image
Files
We now have built-in previews for Adobe PDF, Microsoft PowerPoint,
and TIFF image files. You no longer have to download these file
types to view their contents. Instead, you can view them directly
from your browser using our built-in viewer.
Tasks/Messages
1. You can now update the approver for a task or milestone from the
respective bulk update pages.
2. When you duplicate a milestone and the tasks associated with it,
it will now automatically update the due dates for the associated
tasks. For example, suppose you duplicate a milestone that has a
due date of January 1st and it has an associated task that has a
due date of January 10th. If you select February 1st as the due
date for the new milestone, the due date for the associated task
will automatically be updated to be February 10th. This should be a
big timer saver for you if you use milestones as tasks
templates.
Messages
You can now view all your unread messages by clicking on the
"Unread" filter from your "My Messages" page.
Contacts
We have enhanced the import contacts functionality to support
importing of any contacts that is exported in CSV (Comma Separated
Values) file format. If our importer does not recognize the contact
fields, you will be asked to help the importer by associated the
fields from the files with the contact fields in TeamWork Live.
Thank you again for your continued support. We hope you enjoy the
new features.
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Great!! update on the timer guys. Finally, an integrated timer in an online project management application.
Feedback:
As you update this timer in the coming months, I would like to suggest moving towards something along these lines:
Maybe place the timer on the main navigation
Dashboard | Project Workspaces | Projects | My Time | Admin
Within the "My Time" section allow the user to launch a single timer that looks something along these lines:
http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2009/06/24/new-design-tweaks-to-the-popup-timer/
In this case, it would have the following related drop downs:
Project Workspace
-- Client XYZ Marketing Project
-- Client ABC Design Project
Milestone
-- Related Milestones (depending on the selected Workspace)
Tasks
-- Related Tasks (depending on the selected Milestone)
This would bypass the need to add new tasks you want to track each time on the "my time" page. In addition, a user could launch this single timer once and easily toggle between projects without having to keep returning to the "my time" page.
In Conclusion:
This new timer update is definitely a move in the right direction. Keep up the great work TWL!!
Thanks,
SM
Thank you for the feedback. We will review them again after everyone has a chance to use it a little more and see how it is working out.
We are working on adding support for budgeting (estimated hours for milestones, etc.) right now and will circle back to the timer again in a future release.
Yay! Multiple attachments to email!
Woo-hoo!
We're glad you like it. We will have an upcoming blog post about that and other improvements that we have added the past month. Stay tuned...