New Feature: Instant event notifications

We are really excited to announce that we now have instant event notifications enabled for everyone directly within TeamworkPM. You should now see the notifications bar at the bottom right of your screen. 

(Note: Reload your browser if you don’t see it)

The number at the front is the amount of notifications you haven’t seen.

Instant notifications

As actions happen on your projects, you will see events pop-up on top of this bar. These event notifications are designed to not get in your way or be too distracting. The events display for a second and then slide away.

This feature really makes you feel more-connected with your team, clients and contractors. It will also allow you to respond to events must faster than before.

Catch-up and miss nothing

When instant notifications pop-up and slide-away, the number of notifications in the indicator increase. Clicking the “View all” button will open up your full list of recent notifications. 

This feature allows you to quickly catch-up on what has been happening while you were out.

If an item is of interest to you, you can click on it to go directly to that event. The great thing is the list will remain in place so you don’t lose your place making it incredibly easy to jump around your account checking on everything that has happened.

Another great thing about these notifications is that you will see all events on your projects, even if a task wasn’t assigned directly to you, or you didn’t get message notifications. This allows you to keep abreast on what’s going on.

Note that if there are a lot of notifications you can scroll through them using your mouse wheel.

Clearing the list

You can dismiss a notification simply by clicking the “x” in the top right of the notification.

Alternatively you can dismiss all notificationsand set your notifications count back to zero by clicking on “Clear all” button on your notifications bar.

Pin events for later

During beta testing, we receive a request to “pin” events. This is useful if there are some events that you definitely don’t want to dismiss and want to return to later on.

Clicking the “pin” icon on a notification will cause the notification to be “pinned”. This prevents you from being able to dismiss this event until you click the “unpin” icon..

Private events

Naturally enough, notifications for private items will only be sent to those people who should see them. If a notifications relates to a private item, you will see a padlock appear on the notification.

 

So that's it! We think it rocks and we know you are going to really love this new feature! If you have any feedback, please get in touch here in the comments or on our facebook page.

New Feature: More helpful notification emails

We’ve just turned on a great new feature we’ve been using internally for a couple of weeks - email notifications which include the most recent comments.

Before, when you replied to a message or added a comment on an item, the notification email only included the new comment body. 

The old email format:

When things get busy, or a reply is added days afterwards, it was easy to lose the context of the original discussion. 

The new email notifications are far more helpful and show the last 6 replies added. If there are more than 6 replies in the discussion we show a link to the full thread. 

The new format:

We’ve also made the email notifications “responsive” so that, on a small screen such as the iPhone, the layout changes with the date and time moving below the author’s name making the content easier to read on the go.

On the most recent reply we also link to the item on your Teamwork account so you don’t have to scroll down the email to get to the actual link.

We also took this opportunity to tweak a few nuances that people sent via feedback.

  • We fixed some localization issues with email notifications so the recipient now sees the times and language according to their preferences. 
  • We improved the subject line in comment email notifications to list the object type the comment was added to. This allows you to see at a glance if the comment was on a Task, Notebook, Link, Milestone or File. We’ve kept the item details at the bottom of the notification email and gave more room to the actual message being sent.

As always, we hope you find this new feature useful! It’s definitely improved our productivity and we’ve noticed people are more inclined to continue the discussion when the context of the notification is clearer!