3 new features are now available to better your AceProject experience:

• The new report on time sheets helps you get an overview of the human resources required for one or all projects. Produce a weekly or monthly report, choose users, dates, and time sheet status. This convenient report pops up in a new window and is ready to be printed.
• Administrators now have their own Gantt chart, where they can see all projects at once, or one project at a time.
• In the My Tasks page under the My Office tab, we have added the Quick Task Creation Box: simply choose your assigned project and click a button to create a new task without having to open a project.

AceProject is constantly evolving. Once again, several improvements and details have appeared in the system:

• On the Edit Task page, a Properties icon takes you directly to the project configuration page.
• The system now checks that simultaneous changes do not cause data loss: when two users are making changes to a task simultaneously, AceProject will stop the second user’s update from overwriting the first user’s modifications.
• Daily and weekly totals are now displayed in the time approval page.
• A drop-down list is available to choose the month and year in the project calendar.
• Ergonomics has been improved in the Add a Week page: you can browse one or four weeks in time.
• AceProject now validates your projects and tasks’ dates. Hence, if you set a task’s dates outside the project’s scope, you will get an error message. Likewise, if you set the project’s end date before a task’s end date, you will get an error message.

Once again, our user’s comments have led to several ergonomic enhancements:

• Project configuration is now tab-based to make navigation easier.
• User configuration is easier to use: you can now assign a project to a user directly from the edit user window – no need to click through to another page.
• Time approval has been added to the Administration tab: it is now possible to approve time sheets for all projects at the same time.
• Weekly time sheets now display daily totals for easier referencing.
• Supplemental information has been added to the discussion forum: you can now see the number of messages in a topic, as well as the date and author of the last post.

In the last year, FreeTaskManager has grown beyond simple task management to a more comprehensive project management system. Hence, FreeTaskManager was no longer a suitable name for it. Starting March 1st, you will find all the user-friendly features you used to know as FreeTaskManager under a new name: AceProject.

Don’t worry about your account and login information: they will remain unaffected by the name change.

• AceProject will let you log in to your account with your FreeTaskManager login name and password.
• Free access will remain available as the Hosted BASIC package.