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This month we have added a much requested feature to the company calendar within TeamworkPM.

Have you ever looked at your calendar and thought “What is going on, I can’t make any sense of this?”

The company calendar is your hub for seeing what meetings people are attending, what events are on and what important milestones are coming down the line. With all these items on display the calendar can become overloaded with information making it difficult to pick out the content you are interested in.

We have now added a very handy update to help combat this issue. Now at the top of the calendar you will see you have the ability to filter the content by project and by person.

This allows you to quickly see all items that involve you, as well as being able to focus on a single project. This option is very useful if you operate with a lot of milestones.

As someone who often takes part in meetings out of the office, one of the areas of TeamworkPM that I use the most is the main calendar. This is because while at a meeting I need to schedule the next appointment and to make sure both parties are free.

To avoid forgetting, or worse double booking, I usually create that next meeting straight away. To do this I have to login to our TeamworkPM site, via the browser on my phone, and although this view was not bad for checking times, the real issue came when having to create or edit events.

Today I’m really happy to announce that the days of struggling to create new events while out on the road are over thanks to the release of an integrated calendar for Teamwork Mobile. This update now makes entering new events so simple.

Take a look at this short video to see the new mobile calendar in action: 

Or if you'd prefer a bit more detail here are a some screen shots taken from my iPad:

It's my favourite time of the week again - update time!

Based on lots of feedback and suggestions (some old, some new) we have knocked a few items on the head and rolled them out live.

What's new?

• Calendar: If the event end date is past the current time of day we now slightly grey the event title and time so you can focus on what's next
• Calendar: A very popular request was the ability to see tasks per day on the calendar without having to click off to another page. We have now added this ability by hovering your mouse over the task count for the day.
  
• Tasks: If you hover over the time icon on a task we now pop-up a little tool tip showing you how much time has been logged so far

  
• All Time: Custom report now has the option to pick an arbitrary number of projects to run the report against all grouped nicely by Company
  

  
• Project Name: Some people have the same project name for multiple projects but for different company's. We now list the company name next to the project name where the project name may be ambiguous
• Time: You can now associate time entries with a task in the Time tab. Previously, you had to log the time from the Task options menu. We added this for new time entries and when you edit a time entry.
• Resources: We added a sort option (Sort by either date added or name)
  

  
  
  
• Project Report: If Start and End dates are set on a project we also include them in the project report
  

What's fixed?

• Backup download link in Internet Explorer wasn't working
• Milestones were missing in some backups for some users
• We added a handy new rule for Teamwork sites that used to be SSL but are now Custom Domains. Users no longer get presented with an SSL error.
• Basecamp Import: There was some funkiness happening with some imports which has now been resolved
• We improved the display of the Project Report late items when they are late due to a Milestone being late
• We now remember the person picked in the Time filter to make it easier when filtering to edit time entries.
• We darkened the "Un-Pinned" task list icon so it is more visible on the majority of screens
• Recurring Events in the calendar got a lot of love and work 100% now. We had a slight calculation error that caused many of our customers to get grey hair...

Thanks to everyone who sent us Feedback and Suggestions! We have some more on the way that didn't make it into this release!