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I've released a new version of Timesheets Lite today that includes some performance improvements, a couple of very minor bug fixes and the adding of a new report. The performance improvements are in the regions of the program that deal with the lists of created projects, these should now be a little quicker and more reliable. The bug fixes dealt with a couple of date formatting issues which have now been resolved. The new report is called the 'Two Week Timesheet' and can be found on the main reporting screen. It displays the time spent on projects per user across a selected two week period. The report is split into two sections displaying billable and non billable projects.

A new version of Timesheets MTS has just been released. It contains a new report, the Two Week Timesheet which displays all the open billable and non billable projects and the time that each employee has spent on the projects over a two week period. It's well layed out and easy to understand, and like many of the new reports added to the software was suggested by an existing Timesheets MTS user. The other change to the software was a small fix to the Value Added Report.

I've just released another minor update of Timesheets Lite. This version just fixes up a problem with the Project Activity Report not completing correctly when it contains a project with no activity during the report period. I also changed the printing format of the same report slightly and re-ordered the Tools->Reports menu.

I've just released a new version of Timesheets MTS addressing some reporting issues as well as some tweaks to some reports, and changing the way that the add time screen works slightly. Details of the release can be found below.

• Added an 'invoiced' column to the Project Expenditure Report.
• Added three new columns to the Issue Report, the start date, the due date, and the project notes.
• Changed the way that the project and task drop downs work on the add time screen. You can just type in the first few letters/numbers of the project number or task number and the software will match up project or task for you from your list of projects or tasks. Makes things a lot easier if you have a very long project or task list.
• Added a 'Use Employee Abbreviation' setting to the Detailed Activity Report. Simply allows you to show the employee abbreviation rather than the full name on the report.
• Fixed up a small formatting problem with the project task report.
• Fixed up some resizing problems with the add/edit times screen that users on Vista and Windows 7 were seeing.

A very minor release of Timesheets Lite today addressing a report I broke with the last release. The date column headers on the Daily Timesheets report were not incrementing correctly (thanks to the user that spotted this and let me know). This is now fixed up.

I've released a new version of Timesheets Lite today that includes some tidying up to the backend of the software, some cleanups to the user interface, and added a new report. The details of the new release can be found below:

• Added entries for the project common activity report, daily timesheet report, and the new project activity report to the Tools->Reporting menu.
• Added the new project activity report. This produces a spreadsheet with a worksheet per project. Each project is broken down into the users times and then gives sub-totals per user and per common activity.
• Fixed some date formatting problems on the daily timesheet report.
• Changed a lot of the backend code in the software in anticipation of a user interface re-vamp for the software.
• Changed the way the Reset Password button on the Employee Maintenance screen works to prompt users as to what the password is being reset to.

Two blog entries in two days, what is going on! Enough humour, just a very minor release today removing a stray button from the Project Maintenance page and fixing up some form resizing issues on several of the data maintenance pages.

Ouch. I'd forgotten that this blog existed, many apologies to anyone who was coming here to see if there was any news. There's a little bit today that some users may find interesting. I've made a release of Timesheets MTS today that includes a number of fixes, new debugging code to track down persistent errors and some interesting new features and reports. Key changes include:

• A bunch of new debugging code to try to track down 4 or 5 persistent (but minor bugs).
• Added the project classification to the current projects report.
• Added the labor variance report. It's basically a cut down version of the Productivity Report but with a stronger focus on labor metrics.
• Adjusted the default values for estimated task start and end dates so they set themselves to the task creation date rather than some date back in 2005 which is what it was doing.
• Added dependent task timing. Basically this allows you to define an elapsed task duration (which is different to estimated labor hours). Each task can then be given a predecessor dependency and a rough and ready project critical path built up. Task estimated start and end dates are automatically calculated based on the duration of the task and the predecessors that it has.
• Added the project gantt report. This report prints out a gantt style chart of a project showing task timing and also includes a lot of useful labor metrics which are very useful for project tracking.

That's it for this entry. Hopefully it wont be a year until I update this blog next time!