Week 35, August

TimeLog version 2019 (6.1) - Release date 27 August 2019

Features

Time tracking

New compact view in timesheet

Since we introduced the new design in the timesheet, we have gathered a lot of feedback from you. Some of you only work with a few tasks per project and have requested a more compact overview in the timesheet.

We have listened and now present the compact view as an alternative to the standard timesheet. It works just like you are used to, we have only changed the design and removed a lot of white space.

You can switch to the new view in your personal settings, which you enter by clicking the gears icon:

Your changes are saved automatically once you do your selections:

Improvement to stopwatch time tracking

Before, if you forgot your time tracker and went on vacation, a new time registration was created for each day you were away. This was annoying and made no sense.

Since some people work over midnight, it must still be possible for the stopwatch function to handle this scenario. 

For this reason, we have decided that when the stopwatch crossed midnight the second time, it must be because you now forgot to stop a time registration. The system will create one registration for the day you started it, a 24 hour registration for the following day and then stop. This will limit the amount of changes you would need to do, but still allow for stopwatch tracking across midnight.

Projects

Improvement in creation of payment plans for continuous contracts

In our first implementation of the continuous contracts, we auto generated the payments to cover the first 18 months of the contract. This meant that for yearly contracts only the first year's payments were generated, as the second year's period went beyond the 18 month from today's date.

 

We have changed this now, so the system will generate payments that fall within the coming 18 months, no matter if the contract period covered by the payment runs beyond the 18 months or not.

 

This will help in long term forecasting as next year's pre-payment payments will now appear much earlier than before.

 

Employees

User-defined comment field part of approval page

If you have enabled the user-defined comment field in the system administration, you will now see an additional comments column in the approval page. The name of the column will be the one you have set in the time registration settings.

 

You will see it both in the project manager and the manager approval, and you will be able to check that all registrations are correct before you proceed to do your customer invoicing. This helps you increase the quality of your data and make correct invoices in the first go.

 

General updates in the system

Improvements in caching logic in the database

We continuously improve our technical setup and work behind the scenes. Some customers experienced that their sites would time out and become unavailable, and we have now made improvements in the code to avoid this from happening again.

Am I on the right version of TimeLog?

If you are not sure, if you can make use of the above mentioned features already, you can check the looks of your timesheet in TimeLog. If it does not look like this, you would need an upgrade:

Read more about the upgrade process right here and contact our upgrade team via [e-mail] to learn more.