We are happy to announce some new functionality. The tracker (company/project/task) pages can now show your online timesheet in a calendar view.

Incase you have multiple users tracking time for the same project or company, the weekly/day calendar will give you an instant overview of the activity for your project.

If the week view becomes cluttered (that would be the case if you have 10+ users tracking their time for the same day/project) you can always use the “day view” to get a better overview.

Check out the 3 new links (day/week/month view) in the sidebar of your tracker page. Feedback always welcome !

After our upgrade, as mentioned here, the site is back up and running.

Although we have thoroughly cleaned our code, some bugs still may occur… But don’t worry: if they occur, we’ll be right on ‘em.
You may still use our bug tracker to report any bugs.

Hopefully it’ll stay quite

PS: some features have not yet been ported to the new system, but they we’ll be in the coming days, so no bug tickets about that please…

We’re performing infrastructural changes tomorrow at 9AM  Brussels time (what time is that for you?).  TrackMyPeople will be unavailable for approximately 1-2 hours while we make some upgrades to our service infrastructure as well as update the system.

Our core framework will be updated to a new version and we have extended/refactored some of the base TrackMyPeople code:

• optimized page loads;
• optimized queries & query counts;
• some bugfixes;
• switched from scriptaculous to jQuery;

which should lead to a faster and better experience

Note: some of the current functionality will not be available for a few days, since we are still working on these:

• invite users/friends;
• graphs;
• automated reports;

See you tomorrow.

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.