Official WorkforceTrack Blog

New Workforcetrack version launched

2009-03-12T10:24:00.004Z

As an indicator of our continuous developments, we have released new version of WorkforceTrack that came with new add-ons, changes and bugs being fixed. This release includes lots of requested features to help you manage your projects with more efficiency.

Add-ons:

Invoicing - users can add Project / Service based and Free form invoices, keep track of those invoices, their status, register payments. Send invoices by email or print out PDF version. Give access to their clients to view their invoices online. Check here

Expense Reports - All employees can add Expense Reports in user friendly form. Add multi currency expenses, attach receipts to each expense. Expense Report in PDF form can be emailed to manager or PDF form can be printed out any time. Check here

Project cost calculation - Allows managers to calculate employees' wage rate and client charge rate. Also workstream registrations have been added, tasks can be managed by grouping them into workstream. Check here

Resource workload reports - every day Project Managers and Department Leaders can receive an email alert with time entries of their project/department members.

Staff In/Out- Attendance tracking tool. A good way to see for what people had actually used their time during the day. The tool allows employees check In and Out at the beginning and at the end of the day. Check here

Changes:

* New look for a custom reports from the Dashboards section have been implemented
* Changes in the Timesheet section, now tasks are grouped by projects and clients, and for each project's "Week to Date" and "Month to Date" totals, daily actual and daily planned totals are given
* Improved and more user friendly interface
* Documents can now be stored in Google documents
* Calendars - users can now create project related or department related calendars.
* New interactive design for 360 Performance appraisal and full report can be exported in PDF form
* Users can change their credentials in the Settings>> User Credentials Section

Bugs/Fixes:

* Bugs with task status have been fixed.
* Bug with edit employee, edit department been fixed.
* Bug with leave request duration has been fixed.
* Bugs connected with predecessor and successor tasks and a lot more.

Please follow our further announcements and feel free to give us your comment.

Summary of all updates, bug/fixes and a list of coming features on Workrorcetrack.

2008-08-09T15:45:00.000+01:00

Welcome to the WorkforceTrack. Here we hope to bring you all the latest improvements, changes and updates to the system. The team have been working hard to improve the service to you and as part of our continuous efforts we have made the following improvements which we hope you will find useful and user friendly.
Earlier in the year we launched Version 2.0 beta of the system which is fully AJAX and web 2.0 complaints. It is being developed with one of the latest technologies in order to bring a great benefit to you - the user, as it will enable us to enhance and improve the system to a greater extent. We hope to introduce a wide range of new tools and features to WorkforceTrack to make using the system more intuitive, easy-to-use and efficient.
Before you continue with the message, we would like to grab your attention to one technical notice from your development team.

NOTE: All new improvements are being upgraded to the system every Sunday on a weekly basis, and you might experience 2-3 minutes of server downtime. In order to make sure that your browser is using the latest script file, we recommend you to refresh your browser (Ctrl+F5, Ctrl+R), or clear the browser temporary files and cache on Mondays. If you find that the page did not load for you or started functioning abnormally, you can again try to refresh your browser and get the fresh copy of the script file from the server. Feel free to contact our support team, if you experience any other technical problems.

We would like to update you with following enhancements made in the system and some new features coming soon:

Project Management
Updates:
1. Improved task management with advanced filtering options.
2. Timesheet management made easy for you to log your daily hours spent per task.
3. Print-friendly PDF, Excel export options all over the system, would you prefer to print out your task list or any particular item.
4. Keyword-based search function to help you find your tasks easily.

Features coming soon:
1. Events management and calendar feature.
2. Project planning and cost calculation.
3. Gantt charts and critical path analysis.
4. Advanced reporting tool

Performance Appraisal
Updates:
1. You can register all your employee’s at once with new multi-add form, which is easy-to-use, simple and will save your time.
2. Improved template management, you can create your own appraisal templates and use them for you own company.
3. Email notifications are sent each time a manager or an employee reviews the appraisal form.
4. Print-friendly PDF versions of your appraisals can be downloaded any time.

Features coming soon:

1. 360 degree appraisal involving managers, peers and clients.
2. Schedule based appraisals.
3. Goals and custom questions based appraisal.

Availability Tracking Updates:
Updates:
1. Better view of your employees availability and leave requests.
2. You can create your own company timeslots.
3. You can register your holidays.

Features coming soon:
1. Employee check in/out tracking tool

Invoicing Updates:
1. New welcome page which helps you to easily get started with WorkforceTrack Invoicing tool.
2. You can create your free form invoices.
3. You can create your custom taxes and upload your company logo.
4. Print-friendly PDF versions of your invoice can be sent to your client attached to email or downloaded any time.
Features coming soon:
° Itemised Invoices.
° Project-based invoices.

Latest news, updates, improvements made on WorkforceTrack

2008-07-30T11:50:00.003+01:00

As part of our continuous efforts to improve our service to you, we have made a number of improvements to WorkforceTrack.

The first of these is that individual companies will now be able to upload their own logo to their profile to appear on all PDF’s. This applies to Performance Appraisals, Project task lists and timesheets. This gives a more personal feel to Workforce Track.

Another new addition is that companies can now add their holidays in Availability.

Updates

Linked in functions have now been added to Initiate Appraisal, this will enable the user to add their employees on the Initiate appraisal page.

Further improvements have been made to the Add Invoice function, an item description field has been added. Additionally now users can edit their billing address on Add Invoice page without opening the Clients section

These updates are intended to save time when using the system as more functions can be performed in the same place.

Bug Fixes

Profile section bug has been fixed. It was previously not allowing you to open the profile page.

Edit employee has been fixed. It was previously not allowing you to open the edit employee page.

Edit department has been fixed. It was not allowing the user to see the member list in the Department Leader drop down menu to change the Leaders name.

Edit task bug has been fixed. It was not allowing the user to save the changes; also the status change option has been added, users can now change the task status from the drop down menu.

We hope that you find these improvements a benefit and we will continue to update and improve the system for our users of Workforce Track.

Workforcetrack Beta Updates and Fixes

2008-07-14T12:50:00.004+01:00

We are proud to present the quick summary of latest Updates, changes, add-ons and bugs/fixes made on WorkforceTrack. Please stay tuned for further announcements and thank you for using WorkforceTrack.

New Add-on…

(New Performance Appraisal Tool!) 360 degree appraisal is added.

Latest Changes…

New Welcome page for Performance Appraisal;

Changes in Performance Appraisal: Now Appraisal can be initiated by using Template or by set of skills, in the case of set of skills after selecting the template the skills in this template will be shown in the box below where you will be able to remove some skills or add new ones;

Optimized and more user friendly Availability Section.

Bugs /Fixed

Bug in Invoicing Client section;

Client contact registration optimized.

Updates

Improved and more flexible Timesheet section. Now it works just like excel you click and enter the number and click enter and it accepts almost all formats. Additionally Statistics is now added to Timesheet

New WorkforceTrack 2.0 version launched.

2008-06-16T13:52:00.002+01:00

We are proud to present that as a part of our continuous improvements, we have Launched WorkforceTrack 2.0 version . New version built on a new technology brings new possibilities, so we hope to introduce wide range of new tools and features. We hope you will find it more intuitive, feature-rich, and may be even fun!

Please do not hesitate to contact us should you need any kind of assistancefrom us.

Updates On WorkforceTrack

2008-05-12T12:42:00.002+01:00

We have released the upgraded WorkforceTrack Beta v.1.3.0, and here are the list of changes, add-ons, bugs/fixes. Please stay tuned for further announcements and thank you for using WorkforceTrack.

>>Latest changes...

We keep on improving and implementing more changes to the WorkforceTrack lay-out and user interface which we think makes it simpler and more user friendly. Particularly:
* New look for Performance Appraisal;
* Timesheet, Clients and Tasks section enhancements;
* Help tips dotted around the sections.

>> New add-ons include...
* new tool(!) Invoicing/Billing tool;
* Backdated timesheets

>> Bugs/fixes of...
* Some email extensions not recognizing.

>> Coming soon
* New look for Availability section;
* 360 degree performance appraisal;
* And many, many other changes.

Again, thank you for using WorkforceTrack and please feel free to give us your comments.

Coming soon...

2008-04-19T14:32:00.003+01:00

We are excited to announce that new simple Invoicing and Expenses tool will be available for you soon! By using this feature you will be able to raise simple invoices and your staff can file basic expense reports. From project hours to invoicing your clients, with expense reports and timesheet invoices from your contractors, you will be able to automate arduous manual processes and switch to real time user-friendly tools with a click of a button!

Please follow our further announcements and feel free to give us your comment.

WorkforceTrack Beta v.1.2.320 released

2008-04-06T20:20:00.004+01:00

As an indicator of our continuous developments, we have released WorkforceTrack Beta v1.2.320 that came with new add-ons, changes and bugs being fixed :)

Add-ons:

Exporting reports to Excel/PDF;
Custom reports now available for backup managers;
More supportive visuals/help for Performance Appraisal

Changes:

New look for 'My Workspace';
Files/Documents are stored on Amazon S3 now;
Enhanced 'DELETE' function in 'Departments'

Bugs/Fixes:

'EDIT' function in 'Departments', 'Clients' and 'Employees';
Confirmation messages in backdated timesheets;
Newly added tasks not showing;

Please follow latest WorkforceTrack news as we are trying to make them happen more and more often.

WorkforceTrack Beta released!

2008-03-01T15:55:00.005Z

We have officially launched WorkforceTrack Beta. It came with a lot of major changes and improvements as well as enriched by new features that we hope many of you already found useful!

Most of changes affected system layout and usability within “My Workspace” sections, starting from menu options to individual items in each of these sections:

More optimized system navigation;
Better structured information presentation;
Quick help tips all around and other enhancements.

We have added new features and tools, namely:

Getting Started. Replaced former Setup Wizard to drastically simplify WorkforceTrack setup for your company);
Performance Appraisal. Employee appraisal and performance management tool integrated right within WorkforceTrack;
Dashboard. A different set of default and customisable summary reports and detailed reports on your workforce, tasks, projects, hours, clients and company.

Haven't seen yet? Check out now.

Few improvements and changes.

2008-02-09T08:23:00.003Z

We are pleased to announce the following changes that hit WorkForceTrack lately:

New main page for Backend Console - one consolidated page to customise WorkforceTrack;
improvements: Few improvements in 'client contact' functionality and,
add-on: Navigation tabs to simplify Clients section

On the way to perfection.

2008-01-04T08:38:00.007Z

Trying to implement new enhancements, we have updated your WorkforceTrack accounts with latest version. Some changes you might notice include:

LiveHelp! - Instant web messanger integrated right within WorkforceTrack to support you throughout WorkforceTrack
Progress reports - Weekly and monthly project development related reports for project managers and clients
Reports with visuals - area charts, bar charts and pie charts to give your reports more insight and easier interpretation

Recent updates on WorkforceTrack.

2007-12-14T07:20:00.006Z

Following is the list of latest WorkforceTrack updates:

improvements: Tabs are created to simplify project management by giving consolidated view of project related stuff, namely: tasks, issues, documents in a one single place.
add-on: Project Merge function - to merge any two projects by means of tasks and all other related components including but not limited to the project data of both projects.

Few improvements and fixes

2007-11-19T14:32:00.001Z

We keep addding more and more features that we aspire to see in WorkforceTrack. And below is the list of latest changes:

Annual allowance and timeslot settings are added to availability section as a tab, where Director/HR Manager/Administrator can specify employees' annual leave allowance and timeslots.
Some improvements/fixes on projects, employees and teams sections.
Some bugs fixed in tasks section.

Please check us back regularly as we are constantly working on to bring you a good business solution.

Few more changes hit WorkforceTrack lately

2007-11-12T14:31:00.002Z

Here is the list of latest changes we brought to you within the latest version of WorkforceTrack:

Several small bugs fixed in Projects section;
New design for customisable reports section;
Bug within Tasks section is fixed;
User signing-in process improvements.

Performance optimization, bugs, other issues...

2007-11-05T14:20:00.001Z

This week several bugs were fixed on WorkforceTrack.

Several bugs in projects, timesheet and leave requests section were fixed;
Feature of tasks multiple assignment added;
Sub-tasks function added, more yet to come;
Database queries processing schema modified. This change improves WorkforceTrack performance;

Frequent updates become regular part of WorkforceTrack?

2007-10-29T13:59:00.001Z

It has not passed even a week since the last update, and today WorkforceTrack developers gifted us with new features and several improvements on various sides:

Leave requests updated with new features like monthly leave requests' full listing for better insight and management/administration;
Improved alerting emails' formatting;
Tasks search feature suffered great improvements
Projects view tab redesigned;

Keep staying alerted with us. WorkforceTrack is not standing at one place, but rather continuously being developed. More features/improvements to come across!

BreadCrumbs

2007-10-23T13:27:00.000+01:00

Today we updated WorkforceTrack. The major points are as follows:

First, it worths to note that we added BreadCrumbs to make your navigation even easier.
Projects Merger. Now you can merge (consolidate) alike projects.
We also worked a lot towards improving generic/customizable reports. Hopefully we bring it to the next level, as we believe good reporting leads for better management.
Improved Task section (view, edit).

Keeps being updated

2007-09-30T12:45:00.000+01:00

I guess it worths noting that WorkforceTrack keeps being updated. In current version of 1.0.146 the following major features were added and bugs fixed:

Clients Access feature was added;
Search is now Index-based;
Leave Requests malfunctioning bug within Availability section were fixed;
GUI and functionality changes in Project, Task, Team sections;
'Live Demo' bug for FireFox browser was fixed ;
PDF exporting bug was fixed.

Please keep checking back regularly as WorkforceTrack keeps being updated regularly!

Version Builds

2007-09-29T09:46:00.000+01:00

WorkforceTrack now shows version builds. E.g., for the current Alfa version of 1.1.6 numbers stand as follows:
- "1" is the version number
- "1" is the snapshot number (project's consistent state)
- "6" is the number of uploads made since the last snapshot
Once we add several major features, snapshot raises to next level. Once snapshot number reaches specific level, version number is raised to next level.

Please stay tuned with us as we hope to publish more and more news regarding latest major updates on WorkforceTrack.

WorkforceTrack - alpha version is launched

2007-09-28T19:59:00.000+01:00

Congratulations go to WorkforceTrack development and testing team as alpha version is officialy launched.

Here is the short history:
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Development of WorkforceTrack project began in 2006 and it is one of the Finnet's most ambitious project to date: the development of a complete online system which could revolutionise the way small and medium size companies run their business. Verson 1.01 of the WorforceTrack was introduced to UK/Europe in Spring 2007.

Though official WorkforceTrack home page says that alpha version was launched on August 27th 2007, but really, the alpha version with all of its functionality was actually started on September 24th 2007.

Currently WorkforceTrack is a rapidly developing and growing web-based business solution for small- and mid-sized companies to manage their workforce, projects, clients and other resources.

As we roll out, the more features and capabilities are being added by days! Please keep checking back for updates and other news as well as do not forget to visit WorkforceTrack home page itself.

WorkforceTrack

2007-09-28T19:40:00.000+01:00

Welcome to WorkforceTrack's blog.

WorkforceTrack is a web-based projects and tasks management, employee performance appraisals, time tracking and collaboration tool.