TeamworkPM’s Engine Room

It’s been a busy month for us and we have some fantastic new features and interface improvement that will knock your socks off:

We have now improved and standardised how categories are displayed is the sidebar on the left of the these pages - projects, messages, resources and files. When an administrators hovers the mouse over these categories, a link called “Manage Categories” is displayed and this allows you to very easily add, edit and delete your categories.

We’ve all experienced that anguish when you lose 30 minutes of your work; that’s why we’ve added “local storage” support so that the details for your new tasks, milestones and time logs are not lost if you browse away from the page or are interrupted. When you return to the page and click “Add”, the details you had entered are still there. Works in all modern browsers. A nice improvement we hope you’ll agree.

Dashboard shows upcoming calendar events

We have added a new tab to your dashboard which displays a nice agenda view of all your upcoming events in one place. You can choose the time frame for events to show. We also added a handy export to PDF feature which can be printed off should you require it for meetings.

Milestone detail page now shows associated task lists

We received many requests for this feature recently so we added it to our list and are happy to say this is now ready to go. When looking at the milestone view page you can see all the task lists that are attached to the milestone and you can also edit the tasks within the task list all from this one view.

You can now log time directly from the task details page. Previously you could only do this from the main Tasks page or on the Time page by selecting the task. This new update means the task details page now allows you to view and manage all aspects of the task including task details, comments and logged time.

Options to set dates and assign a category

On the new project form, you can now optionally assign the project to a category and set the start and end dates directly from the screen.

One feature that has been long over due an update is the risk register, we recently received a lot of request to add in a mitigation plan. We listened and acted, now you will see a  Mitigation Plan field attached to to each risk entry.

This small enhancement is due to some great feedback we received from one of our users. His problem was he wanted to be able to move from one clients project to another project with the same client quickly and without having to go back to the project switcher or to the dashboard. We discussed this here and came up with a simple solution for this. Now if you mouse over the client company name at the top of the project it will display all the projects related to this client. Now simply click on the project name you wish to jump straight into.

People use Teamwork in a variety of different ways. We received a considerable amount of feedback from people who would like to nominate a person in their company to manage People and Companies without having to give them Administrator privileges.

The Printable Milestone Calendar feature has been updated so you can control what’s display and we even threw in an Agenda format as an export option. This is available on each project or across all your projects under Everything-All Milestones. Perfect for client reports or face-to-face meetings.

Notebook editor improvements

We have improved the editor used when creating or editing a Notebook. Many people use this to create documents and so we have updated it to function and look more like a Word Processor and less like a HTML editor. One of the two biggest improvements is the spacing between paragraphs and handling of pasted code.

Email dropbox improvements     

We added email dropboxes last month to much fanfare last month. We have now improved this feature based on your feedback. One of the biggest enhancement we made was adding the ability to keep message threads together. We now detect when your email is replying to an existing message and now keep it part of the same thread within TeamworkPM. Much neater we think you’ll agree.

File page improvements     

We’ve overhauled the files page this month with support for editing multiple files and drag-drop categorisation . Read the full blog post...

Tasks page improvements

The tasks page now allows you to drag and drop tasks from one list to another. Read the full blog post...

Other Improvements

• Improved project people page.
• Enhanced Markdown Support - We now handle pasted code automatically.
• API returns last-changed-on date for all items.
• Calendar uses full height of screen.
• UI: Improvements for theme navigation bar colors