Ding dong, it’s feature time ! I am sure some of you have already discovered some of the below features, for those of you who didn’t, here is a brief overview :

Project/Client Hourly Rates

From now on you can assign rates to all roles bound to a tracker (client/project/company). To make it super easy you also have the option to set “default rates” within each tracker profile. After assigning your (and your team’s) rate (in dollar, pound or euro) we will be able to convert every timeblock and represent it in a different way.

Budget Tracking

Tracking Time is one thing…It only makes sense if you do something with all these records. That’s why from now on you can set project budgets. As soon as you assigned a projects budget (in total hours or maximum budget), we will show you a progress bar showing you the current situation and every day’s progress.

Timeblock Rounding

Are all those small timeblocks preventing you from seeing the real picture ? Do you want to bill your client by 15 minutes ? That’s exactly what this feature is for. Use the “Timeblocks & Tracking”-tab to active timeblock rounding.

Enjoy !

We are happy to announce another great feature. From now on you have the option to “include subtracker” data to all client/company pages. This way you have the ability to get a good overview of what is going on in your entire company.

We have released a new version of the adobe air widget. Only one fix but a pretty big one :

In case of lost internet connection (just coming out of hibernation, network down, …) the widget kept going and you were not able to do anything with it. We’ve fixed this and the widget will timeout after 15 seconds.

After that you can just hit the “reload” button whenever the connection is back to start time punching again.

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.

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.

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!

We already announced some novelties in the field of API and today we launch the following new functions:

• Report: to be able to retrieve a list of time blocks matching your posted criteria
• Reportees: to retrieve the profile_ids from the users you may report for
• AddTime: to add time blocks via the API interface
• AddFreeTime: to add free time blocks (blocks without a fixed start & stop) via the API interface

Read the api guidelines for more details…

To all developpers, please keep us posted about your progress and do not hesistate to contact us if you have some suggestions for new functions.

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!

A quick list of most important changes to make our “timetracking application” a little better.

Online Time Applet

• Fixed redirection after starting/stopping a time block
• Switch project now works like it should (switch project = change task)
• Start Tracking : punch clock principle : when pressing the ‘start’ button the clock starts ticking automatically

Various Other

• Redirection when logging in : if you try to access a certain tracking or reporting feature without being logged in, the site will automatically redirect you to the page you initially requested
• ‘Switch to dashboard’ / ‘Switch to public website’ quicklink updated

As always, suggestions welcome.