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.

We are proud to announce the 'export to excel' feature. From now on you can analyse your employees timesheets offline, just use the 'export to excel' button below the timesheet listing to receive an excel of your records.

Keep in mind that this features keeps the current filtering in account,
that means if you are looking at data of employee "John Doe" you will
receive an excel time sheet with records of this user only. 

Please note the generated excel files are in open office format, that means you need Microsoft Office 2007+. I know i know, alot of you are using older versions of the office suite, that's why we will be adding support for older excel versions. But if you already want to open the current spreadsheets use a decent an office suite like openoffice, star office or Google Docs. It's totally free (unlike other office suites).

We'll be adding support for multiple cultures (format the date/time just you want it), adding formulas for totals and improve the layout in the upcoming days

To give you an idea where we are heading with this project a small list of things we will be working on.

• Enhanced Reporting (better, faster, more detailed…)
• Exporting Capabilities (pdf, excel…)
• Calendar Integration : edit your timeblocks using a simple calendar
• Better Management Tools (edit/update clients & projects)
• Better / Faster widgets/applets (faster, more features…)

Keep an eye on this blog and stay informed…