Time Budget, Multiple Attachments Support for Comments and Messages, Improved Editor, and More

Time has been flying for us here at TeamWork Live! We have been so busy working on our next set of features that we almost forgot to tell you about all the great improvements that we released last month. I'm sure you sometimes have problems keeping tracking of time yourself. Some of the features we are announcing this month should help you to better manage it.

Time Budget
We have added support for entering time budgets for milestones and tasks. The budget information is integrated with our time tracking feature. You can configure each project so that specific members are automatically notified when the budget is exceeded for any project, milestone, or task. For example, you can configure the project so that all team members are automatically notified when the time budget for a task is exceeded so that everyone can stop working on the task until the administrator has a chance to decide how to handle the overrun. This will help keep your projects from going over budget, which is especially handy if you have promised your clients that you will not exceed their budget without their approval. 

In addition, we have added a project time report that allows you to see how your actual hours is tracking against your budgeted hours for your projects, milestones, and tasks. Team members on a pay plan and all clients will be able to view the project time report.

Multiple Attachment Support for Comments and Messages
You are no longer limited to attaching just one file to comments and messages. We have recently improved both features to allow for multiple file attachments. This change will make it even easier to share files with team members and clients. We will be extending this to milestones, tasks, and documents in an upcoming release.

Improved Editor
We have upgraded to a new version of our rich-text editor. The new version loads faster and is more responsive. Additionally, the new version fixes an issue we previously had with the formatting buttons occasionally not working correctly.

Automatically Shift Tasks Due Dates When Updating Milestones
You now have the option of automatically shifting the tasks associated with a milestone when you update the due date for a milestone. For example, if you have a milestone with a due date of March 15th and the milestones have associated tasks that are due March 1st and March 7th and you change the due date of the milestone to March 22nd, the due dates of the associated tasks will be shifted to March 8th and March 14th. To automatically shift the associated tasks, check the "Also shift the due dates of uncompleted tasks linked to this milestone" checkbox that appears when you change the due date for a milestone.

Create Items Via Email Enhancements
You can now specify a recurrence and a recurrence end date when creating items via email. You can also create specify subtasks for tasks when creating items via email. Please see the help pages for more information.

Navigation Reorganization
We have made some changes to the navigation for the accounts and company pages to make it more user-friendly. We have moved the "Plan Administration" into "My account". The membership plan selection has also been moved into its own section within "My account".

As always, thank you for your continued support. We will have more announcements coming soon.