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New Releases: March 2013 Archives

Timesheets Lite has just been updated to version 3.5.1. There's just a few things to mention about it here. First there was a very minor performance tweak made to the Employee Timesheet report. Secondly, the Detailed Activity Report has been pretty much re-written (again) with an aim to improve performance especially when the database is on a network. The final change is to fix a minor bug with the routines that import data from old versions of Timesheets Lite.


By Mark Nemtsas at 2:11 PM

I've just released a minor update of Timesheets MTS taking the software to version 2.5.6. Here's the details of the changes made:

  • Fixed a bug that could stop the program starting up properly if it was closed while minimized.
  • Removed a rather pointless check when saving a non-billable time when the parent project/task were billable and non-billable fields were switched off via user preferences.
  • Adjusted the form height of the add/edit times screen.
  • When a project or task is copied the creation date and start/end dates are set to the current date.
  • The right click "start timer for selected time" menu now works properly.
  • The summary hours reports now only reports on projects and employees with activity during the report period.

By Mark Nemtsas at 8:58 AM

I've spent most of the last week working on improving the performance of Timesheets Lite when it's using a network shared Microsoft Access database. Version 3.5.0 is the result. Here's a list of the changes in this new release:

  • Much data on the Add/Edit Time screen is now pre-emptively cached to speed up loading.
  • Many hours spent improving performance of the timesheet display when multiple times are displayed (think the unlikely case of 50+ times in a single day).
  • Much time spent optimizing the process for loading large collections of times. This should result in much improved performance right across the whole program.
  • Much time spent optimizing the time data object to pre-emptively cache project, employee, and activity data. Again should result in improved performance.
  • Several single table queries have been replaced with cross tab queries to reduce the number of database accesses. Again, should result in program wide performance improvements.
  • Most of the queries used by the employee timesheet report have been optimized or changed to cross table queries to speed up report generation.
  • Time spent on the generation speed of the Detailed Activity report.
  • Filter text box added to the Manage Projects screen.

By Mark Nemtsas at 11:02 AM