After adding the facility to upload your own logo for inclusion on pdf documents, I thought it might be nice to display this as a permanent element, so that you can make adderuppa your adderuppa.

Ok, it’s very subtle, but it’s a start …

You can now upload your logo to your account so that it will be added to your Project PDFs. Logos can be uploaded via ‘account > Account Settings’.

A couple of additions have been made to the Produce a Project PDF page.
1. A ‘Select All’ checkbox has been added
2. ‘Viewing Preferance’, to indicate whether you would like to view the created pdf in the browser, or download it.

Mozilla Firefox seems to dislike downloading too many of the dynamically created Project Pdfs in quick succession. It starts the download process and then freezes part way through.

Until I’ve located the reason for this behaviour, I thought I’d share a workaround that I discovered.

First, cancel the download by clicking the cross button.

Then retry the download.

For some reason that I haven’t had time to explore just yet, the download completes without a problem.

An extra option has been added to the Project PDF section, ‘Total Cost’, under ‘Project Details’. There are times when you might not want or need to display the total cost of time, for example when using this facility to create a specification document.

The Project Details panel has been re-arranged to show Client contact information, removing the need to move between Project and Client pages. The information reflects changes made to the Client dropdown. Client name and telephone number are also displayed when the section is collapsed.

Task titles with apostrophes in them were unable to be timed from the Project Task List page. This bug has now been squashed.

A new item has been added to the ‘Tasks’ navigation, ‘Completed Tasks’, and it does pretty much what you would expect. It displays tasks that have been completed within the last 1, 7, 30, 90 or 180 days, displaying them in exactly the same way as ‘Open Tasks’.

This addition is most useful for those businesses who have a number of employees, and who need an overview of who has completed what, without having to look at individual project details.

Thanks to Ludlow Kingsley for the suggestion.

I have added a couple of options to the Project PDF facility.  Under ‘Tasks’ you can now choose to display the Task Description, and under ‘Notes’ you can opt for Task Notes, as well as Project Notes.

The thinking behind this is that, as well as simply making the information complete, this facility could now be used as a Project Specification tool to create documents that can be presented to clients, listing a full, detailed breakdown of the work required, plus estimated hours, and the cost of those hours ( if necessary ).

Some amendments to how tasks are displayed, and one new feature were uploaded over the weekend.

Downloading Projects as a PDF
Users with financial privileges are presented with the following link at the top right of the Project Details page :

Clicking the link will display the following form:

As you can see,  a wide range of options are provided, giving fine control over what information is displayed. You can display as much, or as little as you need, depending on who you are showing the document to.

This feature makes use of Nicola Asuni’s excellent TCPDF php pdf class. Thanks to One Design for the request.

Tasklist modifications
I have made some changes to the way in which tasks are presented.

• Users with Account and Finance permissions can now view all users’ tasks. Previously, only the account owner could
• Open Tasks now shows only tasks associated with live projects. Previously, tasks associated with quotes were also being listed
• Accounts with multiple users now display tasks grouped by user, with each user’s recorded time being shown. This means that users sharing tasks will only see their own recorded hours displayed.

Thanks to Ludlow Kingsley for the request.

We will be uploading some updates over this coming weekend which require a period of downtime for testing. We will try to ensure minimum disruption to the service.