As mentioned in yesterday’s blog post, some users were experiencing connection problems using the Yahoo widget.

In collaboration with one of our users, Adrian Gawrys, we were able to determine the problem. It turned out that we weren’t escaping usernames (or password) which might contain url-obstructive characters, resulting in a mall-formed url and a failure to load that url. At the same time we have made the ‘unable to connect’-message give a more detailled story.

Anyhow, download the latest widget and everything should be fine.

PS: we’re still looking for Adobe Air widget developers.

Some of our users are experiencing connection problems when using the Yahoo widget and since we (digitalbase) aren’t having enough time to spare, we’re now looking for third-party developers who can develop a new widget for us.

We’d like it to be developed using Adobe Air, so if you’re skilled, interested and up for the job, make sure to have a look and bid at Elance.

As you might have notices a few days ago, there is a new feature on the site with Automated Reports. Well, we’ve improved it a bit. We moved the navigation under My Timesheet.

You can now choose between “Tabular” (like it was before) or “Cumulated”.

A cumulated report is a custom report where the timeblocks are grouped by a time unit (day/week/month).

Another improvement in the cumulated report, is the fact that you can group the sheets per user/tracker.

You can see a preview when creating/editing a new report. Or if you just wish to make a one time stylesheet, you just press the “get excel preview” button and you don’t save the automated report.

As everybody should know by now, Google is a must to have implemented on your site. This is why we have integrated a Google Map for companies (and previously Google OpenId login).

You can find your company by looking up the address or by double clicking on the map. Once the location is saved, you can see the result in the overview of your company.

In the future there will be a company overview with all your companies located on one big map.

Jan Sequens suggested some more improvements and although they were already in the pipeline, his request pushed them out

So please, keep the suggestions coming!

Custom time filtering

A much needed feature, which recently became much easier to implement, due to changes in our underlying framework, so here you go!

Include subtrackers when filtering

A small improvement concerning user-friendliness: you’ll only need to select a parent tracker and check the box, which will select the subtrackers for you.

Calendar Totals

The calendar view now also contains the day totals at the bottom.

We just rolled out an update of the login & lost password pages. The interface now looks cleaner & better then before.

The form will now produce more clear warning messages. Let us know what you think…

Yesterday, we introduced our new openID support via Google.

This basically means that we can automatically create an account for you during sign up, since Google will tell us what your email address and name is.
Just click the Google icon to let Google know TrackMyPeople can access your information (we just need your email address & name…)

let Google know that we can retrieve your information,

and that’s it… You now have an activated your TrackMyPeople account! Without having to choose a username, email or password.

To login, you’ll have to do about the same: click the “login via Google”-link

and once more allow Google to pass your info on to us.
Note: if you checked the “remember permission”-checkbox, then Google will obviously not bother you again, but directly communicate with the TrackMyPeople site.

Existing users can simply update their email address in their profile settings to the corresponding Google account, which will allow them to login via google using their old account.

We just introduced our pricing plans. In the future TrackMyPeople will be a monthly subscription service. As we are currently still in testing/beta stage feel free to signup and try our time tracking system for free, the first 3 months…

As we are constantly trying to improve this great service, we will be handing out free accounts for all users with positive/constructive feedback, howto make our product even better.

Before signing up, we ask you to choose one of our packages. Don’t worry, you will be able to use TrackMyPeople without limitations untill your trial account expires.

This feature allows you to send yourself reports at a regular interval.

You simply choose a cron expression, the users and trackers you want in your report and the time span.

For example: send a report each Friday for all my users and all trackers spanning the last week.

We’re always open for interesting user suggestions and to prove it, here are some of the new features that have just been put online, all suggested by some of our users.

Dashboard & Tracker Tree Tracking

Suggested by: sebastian chedal

You’ll note a new start icon, or in case you’re already tracking, a switch icon, before the tracker’s name in the small overviews on your dashboard.

Similarly, on your tracker tree you’ll find a new context menu option by  clicking on the tracker row, to start tracking for that tracker or to stop the current block and start tracking for the selected tracker.

Note that you won’t have the option to add a description. If you want to do that you have to use the old way & click the stop icon in the inline timer.

Printer-friendly Weekly Time Entry View and Export to Excel

As suggested by admasterbill, we’ve added a style/layout specific for the printing of the weekly time entry view

and an icon to export the table to excel.

Extra Info Fields on Company Edit

To allow you to add more information to your Companies, we’ve added some extra fields on the Address form, as suggested by Murray Wilson. The new fields being: Zipcode, City and State.

Easily see Who’s Working on What & Making your Users Stop Tracking

Jan Sequens requested to be able to easily see which users were tracking at a given time and stop blocks for his ‘managed’ users, in case they forgot to stop at the end of the day for example. So we’ve implemented a small indicator on the user list allowing you to do just that!

The users with a red dot in front of their name are currently tracking

while the ones with a gray dot are currently not tracking, at least not for one of your reportable trackers.
Clicking the dot will take you to the edit page for the current block, but only if you’re able to edit the block.

As you can see, the tooltip will tell you which tracker they are working for. The tabular view also provides this information, plus it does so more accurately now. As Jan Sequens pointed out: an open block would be shown on the tabular view, but with a zero-total. We’ve improved this as well.

If you refresh the page, you’ll see the totals change since the block is running.