New feature
Many of you use Timesheet as the default report and you'll be glad to see that we have now added Billable amount and Total costs columns to it as well. You can add them to the view with the standard column chooser.
Billable amount and Costs on Timesheet report
Improvements here and there
Improvement
We added a few improvements in the past weeks.
Stop timer directly in the Time log form
New default for Project billing settings: Team member-based rate
New account setting: disallow approval of member's own time logs
With this setting ON, administrators or managers cannot approve or reject their own time logs.
Saved default report set-up
All reports will now memorize your settings (such as selected columns) so you don't need to set them up every time.
Bulk editing of Team members
New feature
Administrators will be glad to learn that you can now update Team members in bulk. Archive, change rates, roles or approval settings for multiple team members at once.
Changed (Project) Manager role
New feature
We re-thought the Project manager role, re-developed it from scratch and re-named it to "Manager".
By default, the Manager role works the same way as did the Project manager role. Only it's even more powerful and flexible.
Administrators can invite new or edit existing team members with a Manager role and decide to:
- Limit reporting access to only their Team (you'll find Team assignments under "Teams" section)
- Enable the person to also manage, approve or reject logs of their team members
- Disable editing of projects and tasks (read-only access)
- Hide labor or billing rates
With regard to the 4th point above, we should note that all users can still view their own costs (labor and expenses), but can never view rates of other team members. Unless you allow specific Managers to have access to labor or billing rates.
For existing accounts: all Project managers will be migrated to the Manager role. Nothing will change for them,unless you decide to make changes in the Team members section.
In case you allowed Project managers to view Billing rates (via Account settings), your Managers will have this option turned on.
Improved filenames of downloaded reports
Improvement
In order to keep your reports organized when downloaded, we added a date stamp to the file name.
Copy time log
New feature
Much requested feature of copying time logs is now available for all on the new Track daily timer interface.
Lock entire date range
Improvement
While My Hours offered an auto-locking feature for a while, we kept hearing that it needs to be improved. So we rewrote the locking system from scratch. Administrators can enable daily, weekly or monthly lock, which will result in:
- The system will lock every time log in the past (not only from the moment on)
- When a date period is locked, Normal users and Managers can no longer add, edit or delete logs in that period.
- Administrators can add, edit or delete logs even in the locked period. Bulk editing is disabled for all.
Update billable setting in bulk
New feature
Editing time logs in bulk was always available in the Activity report. With the new release we've added the ability to change the billable flag for multiple time logs in bulk.
Improved reports
Improvement
We've added a few improvements to the Team pivot and Timesheet reports.
Team pivot with more columns
Team pivot report and export now include Billable hours, Total costs and Balance info. Balance is calculated by subtracting Total costs from Billable amount.
Unlimited date period for Timesheet report
Timesheet report was always limited to a week. But our customers sometimes needed to display two weeks or the entire month. Now it's possible to select any date range with our date picker.
Time format is available in a decimal format as well.
View budget info while Tracking
New feature
By popular demand, we've added the ability for everyone (with permissions) to see the remaining budget while tracking time.
For existing customers it's disabled by default, so no worries if you don't want this feature. But if you do, you can switch it on in the "Time log fields" settings - check "Budget info".
Users with the "Normal" role will only be able to view a budget info if it is set in Hours (not Costs or Billable amount). While Admins and Manager can view other types of budgets as well, depending on their permissions.
This option is coming soon to Weekly timesheet as well. If you have any questions or suggestions for improvements, please send them to our support team.
