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 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.

Admitted, we lacked the option to remove a user, because you do not own users, since they can have trackers of their own.

That’s why we, as suggested by jan.sequens (special thanks), added the option to delete a user from all your trackers resulting in the ‘removal’ of the user from your user overview.

Just click the dropdown at the bottom of the user list and select ‘Remove from all my trackers’ and click go.

Note that this will only delete roles you can delete. So only roles from trackers where you have the ‘canDoUserManagerment’-permission and only users that ‘allow kicking’ (so not owners for example) will be deleted.

Enjoy this new feature and keep the suggestions coming!

To please more developpers, we introduce today our JSON API.

You could already write your own apps using our API (see documentation), but if you prefer the JSON format than you can now use for example https://secure.trackmypeople.com/api/status.json instead of https://secure.trackmypeople.com/xml/status.

Please note that some xml responses have changed, so if you were already writing an application then you better use the new xml-url, which is https://secure.trackmypeople.com/api/$action.xml, where ‘.xml’ may be ommitted.
All old xml responses remain the same if you use the old url: https://secure.trackmypeople.com/xml/$action, but it will become deprecated and the new responses contain more information.

As always further suggestions are welcome at info@trackmypeople.com.

You already knew the user report, which used to give you a total chart at the top and a stacked chart at the bottom showing more details about the trackers.

Daily Report : Chart

user report

Single Tracker Graph

And the tracker report, with again a chart with the total time tracked for that tracker at the top, and a stacked chart with the data splitted up per user.

tracker report

We already changed the select boxes in a multi select, to give you more flexibility, but now we have added both select boxes on both reports, giving you full reporting options.

custom selection of users and trackers

It’s been too quiet on this blog, but that doesn’t mean we’ve been sitting around. On the contrary, we have done several fixes and, while doing so, we heavily extended our limetest suite, which now counts well over 1000 tests, and we introduced a better error logging mechanism.

Here’s a small listing of some important fixes:

• fixed timezone issue for free time entry where blocks would appear in tabular view on wrong day (special thanks to candislcurd)
• fixed quick add/edit for free blocks: hour input was peculiarly interpreted as seconds (special thanks to candislcurd)
• fixed white page issue when saving a time block that would overlap with the currently running block
• fixed white page issue when deleting a block that would overlap with currently running block (special thanks to regenerate)
• fixed calendar pop-ups for IE7
• fixed switching between daily and weekly time entry views when reporting (viewing time for other users)
• fixed/enhanced nested tracker trees: imagine structure A > B > C, before if you were member of A & C but not B, C would not be shown
• fixed forgot my password functionality (special thanks to unexpected)

And a few new features have been introduced:

• organigram: check out the new visualisation of your trackers under the Manage menu
  

  horizontal organigram

  

  vertical organigram

• mass edit: you can now change the tracker for multiple time blocks at once, by choosing the change tracker action at the bottom of the tabular view
  
• the tabular view now has a multi-select-boxes for your trackable trackers, reported users and tracker types, so you’d have a more flexible way to view time details and totals.

We’re also working on:

• API documentation for third-party widget development
• multi-select for charts, so you’d have more flexible reporting options, analogue with the tabular view.
• cleanup/update of faq, documentation & videos

More news about this soon, so keep posted!

If you are an active trackmypeople user you will notice we change alot of things, on a daily base. For those of you who did not notice those changes, a brief summary :

• User Profile : Edit / Information : We totally reworked this functionality. You can now easily update your (and your employees/contractors) profile with some advanced validation/error correction
• Tracker Edit / Information : Editing trackers (can be companies/departements/tasks or projects) never was this easy. Use one of the information tabs to get more information about a tracker
• Set your project (tracker) color. Each use can now assign his own color. These colors will be used when browsing through the calendar interface
• Create a user : Easily create users/employees and assign him/her to the trackers you want. This page will automatically send an email to the "created" user
• Calendar Tabs. We changed the calendar interface to support 'tabs'. From now on you can switch between day/week/month view without having to change page
• Updated the "MyTrackers" page
• Fixed various layout issues
• Timezone & Culture detection (when editing profileà
• Persistent User Login : Login once, check the "remember me" checkbox and stay logged in for the next 30 days (only on the same computer)
• …

Login to your account and try all those new features, or join us now, while trackmypeople still entirely free !

Today we updated the TrackMyPeople system. You'll note this immediately when you log in.

The backend part of the site has been seperated from the public (main) content and is totally secured.

PLEASE NOTE: The URL for the backend has changed as well to https://secure.trackmypeople.com, so you need to update your widget (all OS's), which will connect to the new URL.

The system has been refactored to allow greater flexibilty. This way it is (will be) possible to:

• nest trackers (previously known as projects and companies)
• track time for any tracker, meaning you can also track time for a company
• assign multiple (and soon custom) roles per tracker per user; detailed definition and permission explanation will follow soon
• new (predefined) role types: employee, reporter (soon also freelancer, contracter, client, etc…)

We also migrated all current projects and companies to this new tracker system. The attendance project is no longer shared, but personalised. Each user now has a default tracker, which we guessed during the migration process.

We followed these rules:

• users with a single company (owned  or member) have this company as default tracker.
• users with multiple companies now have a new Task named "Attendance"
• users without any companies or projects also have this new task

We migrated all attendance block as well (to match these new trackers). Log in and check the new tracker tree (your organisation structure).

If any of your data has errors, please notify us .

We’re performing infrastructural changes this coming Thursday at 5PM  Brussels time (what time is that for you?).  TrackMyPeople will be unavailable for approximately 1 hour while we make some upgrades to our service infrastructure as well as update the system.

As our service userbase is constantly growing, the architecture of the trackmypeople system quickly showed us some features were really hard to implement. To make sure we can develop/create new functionality faster, we decided to refactor, to make the system more flexible.

Some of the features you can expect in the new version (online after tomorrows update)

• Custom Organisation Structure (departements, multiple projects…)
• Multiple Projects per User
• Custom Permissions & Roles
• Seperate secured backend

See you tomorrow.

Because we want you to access your (and your employees) timesheet we just made it easier for you. From now on you don't need to enter your password everytime you enter our timetracking solution. 

Next time you login make sure to check the "remember me" box on the login page . From then on simply point your browser to www.trackmypeople.com and you will automatically logged in.