Monthly Archives: May 2007

I’ve added a handy little checkbox that adds a lot of horsepower to reporting: You can now use your friend’s (coworkers/reporters) tags in your reports. This is the first step to dealing with the flood of requests I’ve had for shared tags between users to make task sharing easier.

I’m investigating taking this one step further and making tags shared throughout the rest of the application not just on reports: there would be one set of tags for a Task shared amongst all the people associated with it. I like the idea myself, but I’d like to hear from you before making a decision so please leave a comment with your thoughts.

Enjoy.

What happened?

  • Time entries created using the timer client would be marked as “in progress” (including not setting and end time) until the entry was completed.
  • Reports were tuned to not count “in progress” entries since I didn’t want people invoicing based on partial entries.
  • Due to things like browsers crashing and computers going into standby entries were being left as “in progress” and thus weren’t showing up in reports.

What’s been done to address this?

  • Reporting now includes these “in progress” entries by default, but you can toggle this to compare to previously run reports.

  • You can see a list of your affected “in progress” entries here to help you decide if you need to re-run past reports (eg: for invoicing purposes) otherwise no action is required of you.

What else will be done?

  • After giving sufficient time for everyone to review their entries, I’ll set all “in progress” entries as completed and remove the “in progress” toggle from reporting.
  • The client timer and the API are being changed so that no new entries can get stuck in this permanent ‘in-progress’ limbo. Though it’s a moot point since reporting now includes ‘in-progress’ entries.

Bottom Line: No data has been lost, but some was not showing up in reporting. Check your list of affected entries and decide whether you need to re-run past reports for invoicing purposes otherwise you’re fine.

I thank you for your understanding and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any concerns about your data feel free to email me directly.

A great weight has been lifted in my life with the release of 1.0 of ActiveScaffold.

15 months ago :: It was just me and AjaxScaffold

8 months ago :: Scott and I started on what would become ActiveScaffold with our plugin version

Today :: The 5 member ActiveScaffold team releases 1.0

Phew!