TeamworkPM’s Engine Room

This is a quick video I made to show you how to take your billable time and expenses and export these into your Freshbooks account for invoicing.

A lot of people work with contractors in Teamwork and have requested that we add a setting so people can view time they logged but not time that other people logged.

Yesterday I totted up the number of Requests from Feedback on this item and decided to implement a new permission View other people's time

The change is now live in the app. For existing users, this is turned on by default so existing users time reporting will work as normal. You can now edit each person's permissions and un-check this permission if you only want them to be able to see time they logged.

Hope you like this improvement.

Dan.

I couldn't help myself, I just had to add your location with a Google Map on hover. Hope you like it.

Here at Teamwork HQ, the annoying interface on the Calendar time picker has come up in conversation time and time again over the last few months. So today I bit the bullet and completely revamped the time picker widget.

Instead of having to scroll through lots of time entries in a small drop down list you now have a menu where you can quickly select hour, minute and AM or PM. Hope you like it!

See the before and after below:

Today we updated the live app to include some important features requested.

Features rolled out today include:

• Ability to "Pin" a task list so it never closes.
• New method of Collapsing/Expanding a task list - Move it from Task List options to an icon on the List title
• Ability to save a task list as a Task List Template
• Messages - From now on, you will be able to see per "Message Post" who received a notification email
• Time Reports now show include the company name so you can easily distinguish between projects with the same name
• A new Filter option of "Tomorrow" added to the Everything - All Tasks page
• A new option to quickly make all tasks in a list private has been added
• Added the ability to create a task from the Late/Upcoming/Today tabs on Dashboard and Project Overview
• Changed the behaviour of the Tab key in Notebook WYSIWYG editor so it indents list items
• Added the ability to see completed task lists attached to Milestones. Previously we only showed active task lists
• Modified the message post listing page to be neater and easier to digest

Bug Fixes rolled out today include:

• Fixed an issue where the iPhone zoomed the text which made getting your API key impossible in the app
• Exporting invoices to Harvest if the Invoice name included an ampersand resulted in a failure
• Daily Emails sent to Timezones GMT + 12 showed an incorrect date for the report
• Daily Emails sent to Timezones GMT + 12 did not send on Mondays (as from our perspective it was Sunday)
• Calendar : Default start time was not in the user's timezone but at GMT
• Files uploaded from Mac or Linux that had non-Windows compliant characters failed. Such as "|"
• Fixed an issue where the custom message was not included in invites to users when a user was created
• Fixed an issue on iPhone/iPad where content was in a scrollable div. iOS doesn't support overflow:auto

There a few other small tweaks and improvements that are not that visible but important none-the-less.

Hope you enjoy these improvements.

Dan.

We have a small, but very handy, update coming very soon. This update will now give you the ability to pin task lists. This means that once you pin a task list it will always remain active, even once you have completed the last task within the list. It will now no longer drop into the completed task list area.

The other little addition you will notice is the small plus and minus sign next to the pin. This is a quick link to allow you to easily collapse and expand the whole task list. This isn't a new feature as such, as we have always had this ability, but you had to click into the drop menu at the front of the task list to get to this option before. Based on the amount of feedback we have received we decided to make this more accessible for users.

As with all our updates and features please let us know what you think.

We rolled out another update yesterday with a feature that a lot of you were requesting towards the end of last year.

This new update relates to the company calendar page. We have now added in an option to allow you to filter the calendar to only show events which involve, the most important person, you!

You will now notice two small buttons just under the Add Event button on the Calendar page. The first, is a button which allows you to see the “Company Calendar”, and the second is the option to see “My Calendar”

This option now gives yout the ability to remove the noise on the calendar and to focus and check out what you have to do.

We hope you enjoy this latest update.

It’s been another great year at TeamworkPM and we have seen our customer base continue to grow even further. We had some great new customers join TWPM and we have rolled out a load of great features and improvements.

Although a lot of our time this year was spent sitting behind our desks replying to customers or building new features, it was great that we got the chance to travel over to Paris at the end of the year for Le Web 2010. Peter and myself really enjoyed getting the chance to meet face to face with some of you and a chance to show TeamworkPM off to a whole bunch of new people. Just before our trip, Dan even found a girl brave enough to marry him, so all in all it was a good year.

As one year ends and another starts, I thought it would be cool to take a look at our live updates page to see how many updates Dan and Peter managed to roll out. I have to say it’s impressive. It took me about five minutes of just clicking quickly on "Show more" to finally get to January of last year. I was hoping to save the whole page and upload it here to show off but there was just no-way to show an image of that size and make it readable, so make sure to take a look yourself.

It’s wasn't untill I got the chance to pause and look back at all the updates that I really realized just how many changes and improvements were put in place during 2010.

When you're living it, it feels like we are never getting on top of the new features because as we roll out a new feature we are already talking about the next one, how cool it would be if it was there and how people will love it. It’s kinda like the carrot on the end of a string story - it's always being dangled in front of our faces but we never ever get to it. Below are a few updates I pulled from the list just to hightlight some of the great new features that came out.

Some of the big updates rolled out last year:

• Speed improvements to the whole system
• New improved calendar
• Recurring events
• The ability to link accounts
• More and better language translations
• New Billing section
• Freshbooks Integration with our billing section
• Improved daily emails
• New people and companies section
• Improvements to Milestones : Mini-Calendars
• New reports and ability to customize reports
• Project Categories
• Improvements to permissions within TeamworkPM
• Full public API released
• iPhone App released
• UI improvements
• Improvements to the task timer
• And a whole load more......

There are far too many updates to list here but if you’re interested in seeing everything make sure you check out our updates page.

That now brings us on to this year. We already have a whole load of wonderful ideas and updates in store. One thing we have always been upfront about is where we are taking the product and what we are working on. We have a published road map of new features we are currently working on as well as ideas we have for new features.

Most of these improvements and new features have come directly from our customers. We have ideas on what direction we are going with TeamworkPM ourselves and what new features we would like to see but I have to say what turns our ideas into reality is based largely on the feedback and suggestions that we receive from our customers.

We would like to start off the year by thanking all of you that have sent on your ideas and feedback, along with your nice letters of encouragment and praise. (always wecome and nice to recieve)

We hope you are enjoying seeing some of your ideas actually turn into cool new features that everyone can use and benefit from, and we hope you are also looking forward to all the new features we have coming soon. Below is the list taken from our live roadmap on what we are working on.

Coming Soon

• Overhaul of Messages Section
• Autosave option on Notebooks
• Notebooks: Redesign
• Messages : Create task from message
• Desktop timer app
• Affiliate programme
• Calendar: Print Support
• Messages: Support for Markdown
• Tasks: Add Task Dependencies
• Email dropboxes
• "Lockdown" - advanced privacy option
• Recurring Tasks
• Contacts - at project level and overall
• Improve Feedback System
• Android app
• Calendar : Add toggle between "My Calendar" and "Full Calendar"
• Tasks: Notifications Tab: Ability to set notifications/reminders
• A whole pile more......

May the new year ahead be a good one for you all. Keep the feedback coming and make sure to keep telling your friends, business partners, even gym buddies about TeamworkPM. Actually make sure you tell the gym buddies soon! Once you stop going to the gym in about another week - you won’t see them again till next January ;-p

From all of us at TeamworkPM HQ have a great new year!

Every day we get requests for new features, requests for help and quite a bit of feedback from customers telling us that they love using Teamwork. I want to share this particularly impressive feedback we received today:

 

From Paul Thornton, President of www.Soulneeds.com

I recently chose TeamworkPM to be our cloud project management system, and let me tell you this was no easy task picking a service.  I didn't realize how many systems were out there, I must have looked at over 50 of them, and actually did the demo or free trials on more than 10 of them.  Our new website business bringing all the worlds best personal development teachers into one site (at www.soulneeds.com) needed a system that could collaborate with our team that is spread out geographically, we needed some strong project management features, we needed a strong task management system, and we needed to handle unlimited users and multiple projects, and we needed to have some strong permission sets on client users, good reporting features, and all in a straightforward and user friendly system.  TeamworkPM was the ONLY one that met all these requirements for us.  Not Basecamp, Zoho, Teambox, Deskaway, Proworkflow, 5pm, Taskpoint, Intervals, Wrike, Feng office, GoPlan, Smartsheet, Gantter, Comind, Manymoon, Glasscubes, Autotask, Project Insight, Mavenlink, and more…  There were some others that did meet our needs, but they were much more intensive and would have been too hard for our client base to learn to use, like @Task, Clarizen, Tenrox, Liquidplanner (these were also quite a bit more expensive as well).  Through all of this research, TeamworkPM rose to the top, and since implementing it we are back on schedule to get our website launched this February.  And I love the roadmap, the openness of the company to share exactly what they are working on – shows they are on it!  Other companies hide this, and some don't even show their pricing, they make you call them – forget that!  I am mostly writing this review, because I wish I had found a review like this in my searches, it would have saved me days and days of researching all these other products, so I hope this can help others save time in their search.

 

 

Thanks Paul!

This sort of feedback makes us smile and motivates us more than money ever will.

We received a very irrate feedback just the other day - a customer complained that:

By way of example, if you wanted you could search for:

(animals AND ("kittens" NOT "snakes")) OR (chocolate OR "cotton candy")