ProjjexBlog

We want to make Projjex a better place for you and your team so we listen closely to your comments and suggestions. Please let us know what you need and we’ll do our best to make it happen for you.

Here’s what’s new today:

Pricing Change

We really enjoy seeing people use Projjex. And to make it as useful as possible, we’ve tried to make it as inexpensive as possible. Today, we’re significantly expanding the limits of the three most commonly used editions - especially the Free edition!

The Personal (or Free) edition has now been expanded to support up to 5 active projects, 250 MB of disk, free time tracking, logo customization, and enhanced searching. We couldn’t quite manage the kitchen sink but we have to keep SOMEthing for a future release. Enjoy!

Personal Edition

• renamed to “Team Edition”
• number of active projects increased from 1 to 5
• available disk space increased from 100 megabytes (MB) to 250 MB
• enhanced search (ability to search within documents): now available at no extra charge
• time tracking: now available at no extra charge (see more below)
• ability to customize screen and reports by adding your own logo: now available at no extra charge (see more below)

Team Edition

• renamed to “TeamPlus Edition”
• number of active projects increased from 5 to 10
• available disk space increased from 250 MB to 500 MB
• enhanced search (ability to search within documents): now available at no extra charge
• time tracking: now available at no extra charge (see more below)

Professional Edition

• number of active projects increased from 20 to 25

New Features

Upload file size limit has increased from 10 megabytes (MB) to 50 MB.

All icons are now colored to match the appropriate tab. We think this will help make navigation easier.

New copy and paste feature! A much requested item. You can now copy any Task, Milestone or Note, including its sub-items, to anywhere in a Projjex project that you have access to. Here’s how:

• go to the item you want to copy
• click on the menu down arrow and select “Copy”
• go to the project or item where you want to place the copy. Click on the menu down arrow and select “Paste”. The item and its sub-items will be added below and will be properly indented. You can, of course, re-position this item by “dragging and dropping” the icon.

A couple of things to keep in mind:

- Copy will respect the filter settings that are currently active. For example, if you’ve got the menus at the top set to “My Items” and “Uncompleted” then Copy will ignore other people’s items and any completed items that may be attached to the item you’re trying to copy.

- Copy will grab all sub-items even if the parent item isn’t expanded. So you don’t need to expand an item in order for Copy to include everything below that item.

- you can’t copy and paste meetings and time items. This also means that when copying and pasting an item, all of its sub-items will be copied EXCEPT for meetings, time, and documents, and anything attached to meeting and time items. In the example below these three items would not be copied: the document attached to “Miscellaneous task”, the time entry “Prepare blog” and “Another miscellaneous sub-sub-sub-task”.

By the way, you can use the new copy and paste feature to create templates. Here’s one suggestion:

- create a new project and call it something like “Company Templates”
- share it with everyone on your team who creates new projects
- build your templates in this project: all the tasks and milestones for a template would typically be created underneath a single master task which you could give the template’s name
- of course you could always create a template by copying and pasting from an existing successful project
- then, when you want to use a template, simply open “Company Templates”, copy the template, then move to the new project and paste it in. You can then drag and drop items to rearrange them as necessary.

New Memo field for Tasks, Milestones, Time and Notes. Another much requested item. Tasks, Milestones and Time items now have a new field called Memo. Notes items have had their “Notes” field upgraded to the new Memo field.

Memo fields allow you to record text, as much text as you like. And the text also supports the standard formatting functions such as bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, colour, bullets and alignment.

Memo fields will now print on all reports along with their formatting.

You can now add any single character currency symbol you wish (such as £, € or ¥). In fact, you can have a different currency setting for each project.

To set a default currency setting which will be used to set the currency whenever you create a new project:

- click on “settings”
- make sure you’re on the “Profile” tab
- type in (or paste) the one character currency symbol in “Default currency:”
- click the “Save” button and then “Continue”

To change a currency setting in an existing project:

- click on the “projects” tab
- click “edit” in the menu beside the desired project
- type in (or paste) the one character currency symbol in “Currency:”
- click the “Close” button

Overdue items now show as red text. You can toggle this feature on and off:

- go to “settings”
- make sure you’re on the “Profiles” tab
- toggle “Show overdue items in red text”
- click the “Save” button and then “Continue”

Completed items now show as strikethrough text. You can toggle this feature on and off:

- go to “settings”
- make sure you’re on the “Profiles” tab
- toggle “Show completed items with strikethrough”
- click the “Save” button and then “Continue”

You can now enter dates without the year. Simply enter them as mm/dd (ie. June 15th would be 6/15) and Projjex will assume the year from your computer’s clock.

In the “dashboard” tab, Recent Activity and Activity Log now include a “Resp.” column (that shows the person responsible for that item).

Also in the “dashboard”, Recent Activity now shows verbs at the beginning of the line. We think this helps make things easier to read. Here are three examples:

- COMPLETED: June 11, 2008 status meeting
- REASSIGNED: from Bob Smith to Mary Jones
- REMOVED DUE DATE: Install new projection system

Well, that’s it for this release. Keep your comments and suggestions coming - we love to get ‘em. By the way, the next release is almost done - check back here in July to see what’s new in Projjex.

Until then, best wishes,

The Projjex Team
June 18, 2008