We are excited to announce we have rolled out some requested features such as rounding, min/max length & custom timeblock grid. Those features should be readily available within your account.

Timeblock Rounding

TrackmyPeople now offers a new level of flexibility by enabling you to set “timeblock rounding” for each client/project/company. Whenever you export your timeblocks we will display the real total as well as the “rounded” total, enabling you to adapt your billing process using the “rounded” totals.

Minimum & Maximum Length for timeblocks

We noticed a lot of you had a whole lot of “mini time entries” in your account. Switching from one project to another, mistaking a project for another or punching time too fast could result in having 1 or 2 second timeblocks. In all reports/graphs/overviews these blocks would be displayed. Not anymore !

Minimum Timeblock Length

From now on you can set the minimum and maximum length for all time entries inside a company/client or project. Want to make sure you never run into these “mini-timeblocks” again ? Just go to your main root tracker, set the minimum length for all timeblocks to “10seconds” and apply to all subtrackers. From then on, your time punching activity will be monitored and all timeblocks that do not exceed the minimum length will be automatically deleted.

Notice you will have to click the “apply to all previous timeblocks” to apply these settings to your current timeblock data.

Maximum Timeblock Length

Before this update the maximum length for a single timeblock was 24hours. In case you forgot to press “stop” before heading home, we would automatically close your timeblock after 24hours. You now have the option to set this time frame yourself. This setting will default to 24-hours, so you shouldn’t notice any difference until you change the maximum length settings.

Both settings can be accessed from the tracker dashboard page. Click a tracker and go to the “time block settings” tab on the right side.

Listing of all User/Client/Project timeblocks

Have a lot of users punching time to your account ? After a while this will result in a huge timeblock listing. In case you just want to check the activity for a certain user or client you would have to filter the “time block  list” to find what you are looking for. Those days are over !

From now on in each user & tracker (client/company/project) profile you will find a tab named “time blocks”. This tab will give you a filtered list of all the time entries for the user/tracker you are on.

TrackMyPeople has been in business for a while now, and the least we can say is that is has been an incredible adventure all the way.

Thank you all once again for the tremendous feedback. Rest assured that your emails, bug tickets and feedback is being read and taken into account, thanks !

So, what’s new ?

Multi-Platform Time Tracking widget

We released an “Adobe Air” widget allowing you to easily track your time right from your desktop. Have a look at a video we made showing off the time tracking functionality .

You can download the widget (and some others) from the extras page.

Pricing & Plans available

As of the first of May 2010, TrackMyPeople is now considered ‘production ready’ (I avoided the word ‘stable’). Exactly for that same reason we think it’s time to start charging for our service. We opted for a ‘freemium’ model, allowing you to benefit from most TrackMyPeople features without having to pull out that credit card.

Have a look at our “Plans & Pricing”, and let us know what you think !

Complete Rewrite

As we ran into some performance issues we decided to rewrite TMP from scratch. That was a huge job but we are now on a maintainable & optimised code base. For our users this means improved loading times !

New functionality

A ‘limited’ list of new functionality, readily available from within your account

• User & Tracker Dashboard
• Day/Week/Month calendars everywhere (on tracker & user pages)
• Quick Day/Week time entry
• Improved tracker tree : quickly setup your company structure
• Mass Edit timeblocks
• Exporting Capabilities

Thank you !

Last but not least, we would like to use the opportunity given by this email to thank you all for the tremendous feedback you’ve given us over the last year: exhaustive and mercy-less bug reports, amazing suggestions, super-relevant remarks and deeply hearthwarming encouragements.

Thanks to all of you who helped make TrackMyPeople the lovely experience it has now hopefully become.

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.

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.

We just rolled-out a new version that contains filtering options for your personal timesheet as well as the manager timesheet for one or multiple employees. Just below the tabular listing you will find the 'total'.

If you use the filters properly you should be able to pull the following reports :

• Hours by Project by User by Custom Time Period 
• Hours by Project for all Users by Custom Time Period
• Total Hours by User by Custom Time Period
• Total Hours by Project by Custom Time Period
• Total Hours non billable
• Total Hours billable

We are currently working on alot of user suggested features like excel exporting, custom charts/graphs and alot more. Keep an eye on this blog for more info…

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.

Another small list of updates / fixes :

• fixed issue where events/timeblocks where not correctly loaded when switching the timeframe of the calendar
• fixed permission issue on support section (tnx oscar.st)
• fixed issue where API would return incorrect totals for attendance/totals block (tnx bvanders)
• fixed problem on the timesheet listall page: not showing all blocks (tnx jodorovski)
• updated download link of Linux Gnome widget (tnx oscar.st)

Please make sure to report bugs when you encounter them, as you can see we are quite fast fixing those issues.

The new Windows Widget for TrackMyPeople is now available. We're at version 1.0.0.15.

Fixed bugs

• Starting and stopping projects is more stable
• Refresh of project list now happens without logging in again
• Added an 'OK' button in the select project window for usability
• The projects you created on the website now list correctly after a fresh install of the widget
• Switching projects is more stable
• When a project is started and a user clicks the 'Stop' button multiple times on the widget, the user only gets one 'Stop project' window

Uninstall the previous version of the Windows Widget for TrackMyPeople and download the new version
(1.0.0.15) here.
Install the new version and you're good to go.

If you come across any other bugs, please let us know at support@trackmypeople.com so we can correct them.

We just added a blog on this website to inform you about updates / new features or bugfixes (are there any bugs ??).

Keep an eye on this blog and stay informed !

We appreciate your feedback so feel free to drop us a mail over at support@trackmypeople.com