Here are just some of the things our programmers and graphic designer have been up to since the beginning of the New Year.

Countless adjustments to the new interface design based on your feedback and suggestions have been performed. We are almost done cleaning up AceProject 6.0 from a usability standpoint.

Marked Custom Task Reports

If your default Home tab page is the Dashboard, odds are you have already discovered one of our latest enhancements. A “Marked Custom Task Reports” section has been added so as to provide quicker access to your most often used custom task reports and to avoid having to locate them through the list of all account custom task reports, as you had to before.

Show/Hide Columns settings to multiple other users

Another great timesaver administrators will love is the ability to apply Show/Hide Columns settings to multiple other users simultaneously. Gone are the days where admins had to login as each user to configure their project and task list views.

AceProject 6.0 was officially released on November 26th, 2012. This new version represents a milestone in AceProject’s development history. Never before had so many changes been applied to the application simultaneously.

10 Most Important Enhancements in AceProject 6.0

Although all users  have noticed the most obvious usability improvements, there is a lot more to AceProject 6.0 than meets the eye. In fact, the entire list of modifications reads as a smorgasbord with plenty of goodies for any type of user’s taste.

1. Project tabs can be reordered in the top frame by drag-and-drop.
   
2. Pulldown menus added to the Home and Project tabs for quicker access to frequently viewed pages and common actions.
   
3. New “+” button in the top frame facilitates creation or location and opening of projects. This button also allows you to open multiple projects simultaneously.
   
4. Portfolio tab eliminated. Contents previously accessible through the Portfolio and My Office […]
   

The interface makeover is now available in public beta. Our statistics indicate widespread use of the new interface among our clients although we are still several weeks away from the AceProject 6.0 official release.

To all you beta testers,  our sincerest gratitude for your feedback and suggestions. Keep it comin’!

Improvements in AceProject 6.0

Catch a glimpse of the improvements in the video presented here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151157770994839

For more details about the makeover and the new navigation paths to access AceProject’s features, you may refer to this help page.

Bugs fixed

The complete list of fixed bugs can be found on our Changes History.

What’s coming

Analysis for the timesheet and time report enhancements is underway. Our development priorities remain the timesheet/time report overhaul, the Activity Stream functionality and labor cost tracking.

It’s been a couple of weeks since we released the new interface in private beta. Things are running smoothly and the comments we’ve gathered so far have helped us significantly improve usability and correct bugs, among others elements.

In order to access the new interface, simply add “/new” at the end of the URL you normally use to access your AceProject account. For example, you can login the demo account at  https://demo.aceproject.com/new/

For information in regards to the functional changes in the new interface, please refer to our July 16th blog post here: https://www.aceproject.com/blog/2012/07/16/breaking-news-huge-aceproject-changes-ahead/ For help with navigation in the new interface, you may refer to this FAQ.

We intend to handle bugs in the new interface just like we normally do. As soon as the fix for the bug you reported is online, we will notify you by email so that you may confirm all is okay. If worse comes to worse, you can always revert to the old interface to get […]

The AceProject interface makeover (a.k.a. AceProject 6.0) has been unveiled and hundreds of AceProject users are currently working with the beta version. AceProject 6.0 will officially be rolled out in October. Here are just a few comments we’ve received from our data testers…

      LOVE the new look! (Chris G.)
      Much better. I like the scaling. (Bryan T.)
      Pretty cool. Congrats! (Fernando A.)

Improvements in AceProject 6.0

Catch a glimpse of the improvements in the video presented here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151157770994839

For more details about the makeover and the new navigation paths to access AceProject’s features, you may refer to this help page.

Bugs fixed

The complete list of fixed bugs can be found on our Changes History.

What’s coming

We are working on a new JavaScript Gantt chart component and a fresh coat of paint for our website. The timesheet overaul is also on the horizon.

Here is the monthly digest for August 2012.

What’s new?

All AceProject staff have returned from summer vacations and are raring to put the final touches on the soon to be released new interface of AceProject (code name “Ace 6.0”). E-mail invitations for the beta program have been sent out and the beta phase is just around the corner.

Bugs fixed

The complete list of bug fixes can be found on our Changes History.

Nexus 7 tablet contest

Thank you all for the tremendous participation in the contest and for your great suggestions. You may expect many of your ideas to find their way in AceProject in the coming months.

Choosing a winner was a challenge. In some cases, it was not clear to us exactly what was being requested. We also, unfortunately, had to give less importance to the number of Likes on certain suggestions given one could easily make a case that the participant did not truly know AceProject in the 1st place and/or that the number of Likes was disproportionate to the quality of the […]

Here is the monthly digest for July 2012.

Improvements

No new features added to the current version of AceProject. Most developers not away on vacation put their efforts in bug corrections and optimizations.

However, work on the new design is progressing and a lot of improvements are coming. A limited number of customers will be invited to join a beta program this fall. These customers will get the chance to test drive the new design with their own, real data. Stay tuned!

Bugs fixed

The complete list of bug fixes can be found on our Changes History.

As you know, AceProject was completely redesigned last year. The changes we made back then were greatly appreciated. However, since web apps evolve at a crazy pace, we’ve decided to pursue the makeover and take it to the next level. Needless to say that this Summer is going to be a busy one for our developers.

Once again, many irritants will disappear and actions will be easier to perform (such as user assignment to projects).

Four improvements will definitely stand out from others:

1. The left menu will become graphical and much narrower.
2. Filters will be moved to the right-hand side of lists.
3. Actions will show up in a drop-down on every project tab.
4. The “My Office” tab will be renamed as “Home”. This tab will include My Office’s content as well as the Portfolio’s, which will be removed.

A limited number of customers will be invited to join a beta program somewhere around September. These customers will get the chance to test drive the new design with their own, real data. Stay […]

Summer is coming fast and today we’re glad to announce the changes we made in June 2012.

Improvements

• Upon replying to an AceProject task update/assignment notification, an email notification will automatically be sent to the user replying to the notif (regardless of whether “Notify me every time I create or update a task” is checked or not) as a confirmation of his/her task update.
• Terminology adjustments to the project assignment/unassignment email notification.
•  “—– Write above this line to post a reply —–” added in task assignment/update email notifications.
• New FAQ-based searchable help system unveiled.
• Maximum number of tasks for a task import set to 2000.
• Email notification added for bulk project assignment/un-assignment.
• “Assigned” and “Reviewer” columns added in the Task Reminder email.
• Modifications to the “Task Limit Reached” e-mail notification.
• Task assignment and update notifications now all have “Created/Modified” in the Subject of the email.
• “Remember Filters” checkboxes added in all Portfolio -> Projects and My Office -> Projects pages.
• When a user is assigned to a project via the “Edit Task” page, […]
  

After months of hard work, a controlled beta test with the participation of 100+ of our users has concluded, and we are ready to unveil our latest major feature, recurring tasks. Until now, recurring tasks could only be simulated by copying the same task over and over, and adjusting dates manually. Our customers and ourselves grew tired of this, and are releasing today a real solution to this inconvenience.

Recurring tasks have been on our mind for years, and due to this feature’s complexity, very few project management solutions offer this capability. We are extremely proud to add this feature to AceProject and, as a result, continue to remain competitive.

Basically, recurring tasks empower users to schedule the auto-generation of periodic tasks in a project. A recurrence pattern can be defined, and edited later if needed. A recurrence can occur on a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis. Many other options are available. Actually, we offer the same recurrence options as Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook, and even more.

All tasks of a recurrence can be easily viewed […]