What's New in Clarizen SR1.02

• ProjectMail^TM - Progress Reporting by Email
  • Extended collaboration features through email
  • Receive and update project tasks via email
  • Unsubscribe capabilities
• Improved User Interface Design
  • New toolbar icons in the main project view(WBS)
• New ‘Owner' filter (on tasks and projects)
• User Set Fields

Earlier Changes: For information about previous release notes, please see the Clarizen V1.01 Service Release Notes.

ProjectMail^TM - Progress Reporting by Email

With Clarizen's ProjectMail feature, project team members receive status reports, tasks and updates from the system directly to their Inbox.

ProjectMail Benefits:

• Team members can update their progress on projects directly from their inbox.
• You can edit, modify and mark items as completed on your project status in just one click.
• Get on going, up-to-date information for timely, on-target decision-making.
• Hassle Free - No Login Required!
• When project managers initiate a progress report by email they can expect participation from their project team members.
• Every update is automatically updated in the system.

How does it work?

• Progress Reports are automatically sent to users, but managers can also place a manual request from resources to update their progress.

• The email includes all the active and current tasks and the expected progress status. The user can accept all changes, meaning each task would be updated with the expected progress, or the user may choose to manually update his/her progress.
  
  
  
  
• When manually update is selected a web form opens with a list of his/her tasks, were he/she can insert the actual progress.
  
  
  
• These operations are done without having to log into the Clarizen system.

Improved Toolbar Design

The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) menu has been modified with better icons that are more intuitive.

New ‘Owner' Filter (on tasks and projects)

This feature allows users to create more granular filters on their home page so that they can see work items (project, tasks) according to their role - e.g. only projects they manage, only tasks they are a resource in, etc.

A new ‘Owner' Filter was added on tasks and projects panels and subsystems.
You can now filter work items to view the ones assigned to you as manager or as a resource.

User Set Fields

This feature allows users to manually set various work item attributes such as Start Date, Due Date and Duration rather than have them be computed by the system. Users can easily instruct the system to re-compute a certain value. For example, if the system calculates the start date of a task to be November 1, the user can manually set it to another date, say November 10, and the system will indicate this field with a blue triangle at the top right corner of the field.

By hovering with the mouse over the blue triangle, a little window will open and provide the user with links to perform certain actions. These actions include restoring the system- calculated field on a field that was manually edited by the user, or opening the Clarizen online help in a specific relevant location.

If the user wishes to restore automatic calculated fields, he may do so easily from the project page.

Known Issues

Limited Firefox Support - Firefox will be fully supported in version 1.03.