projectfacts 6.2 – Make the Most of the Time You Have

Release 6.1

As everyone knows, time cannot be stopped — but the new version of projectfacts helps you keep to deadlines. Get alerted when a project budget is at risk of being exceeded. Analyse how quickly you handle customer requests and improve your customer service as a result. Work even more agilely by recording your project times directly via your board items. These and further features are offered to you by projectfacts 6.2.

Release Details

From 10 October 2019, the new version of projectfacts will be available to customers using our standard hosting. These customers can switch to the new version if they wish.

At the turn of the year, the update will also roll out to our base servers. This later date was chosen because a modern browser is essential for using projectfacts 6.2. Currently, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari in their respective current versions are supported. The Edge browser will follow in the coming weeks. For customers using older Windows versions and browsers, however, an update could cause problems.

Base server customers have the option of switching to one of our standard servers if they would like to experience the new version sooner.

Alerts for Time Budgets

Staying within budget is a fundamental prerequisite for a successful project. For this reason, it is important to be able to intervene in time when an overrun threatens. Managing this aspect of project controlling used to involve considerable effort. With projectfacts’ smart budget warnings, those days are over. You decide when and how you want to be alerted. Receive a notification when a certain number of hours or a percentage of the budget has been exceeded. You can also specify how the notification should reach you. In addition to an internal notification within projectfacts, email and SMS are also available as possible channels. This means you can keep an eye on the most important project budgets even when you are on the go. Planned project expenses and revenues can also be monitored easily and conveniently in this way.

projectfacts 6 brought you the popular agile working tools with the board module. With Version 6.2, you can work even more efficiently. In future, you can record your time directly on your board. To do this, board items such as comments and tickets can be linked to a project. Projects and work packages that you manage via your board receive this link automatically. This gives you even less reason to leave your board, keeping you agile.

Time Recording from 01.01.2020

The ruling of the European Court of Justice on time recording caused considerable excitement. The exact consequences are not yet foreseeable. However, far-reaching implications for all employers in the EU are beginning to emerge. With projectfacts’ time recording, you can face this change with confidence.

Changelog projectfacts 6.2

Highlights

• Individually configurable alerts for targeted adherence to project budgets
• Efficient time bookings via board items
• Target response time for SLA requests can be set
• Evaluation of response times to SLA requests
• Employee overview receives a column for employees’ surcharge-relevant working hours

New Features and Improvements

• Forwarded transactions in tickets now retain their formatting and embedded images
• Replies to tickets can in future also be sent without quotes
• Free fields and the subject of a ticket are now available in the letter layout
• A category and an area can now be stored in a ticket channel. These are transferred when creating tickets
• Specific autoreply texts can be set up for holders of SLAs
• Timesheets can be archived
• Timesheets can be archived, unarchived, and deleted via multi-selection
• Extension of the invoice interface to GP to include the order number and customer number of the responsible contact
• Reviewers are allowed to edit documents that have not yet been validated
• Sick leave reports can now also be entered in My Day
• Comment field in the CRM transaction list can be expanded
• No automatic replies are sent to email addresses with the prefix noreply
• Board items can now be given a keyword
• The payment method for incoming invoices can be stored
• Holiday overview always shows your own holidays
• Sick days can be exported
• My colleagues tile has been limited to 10 names per field

Bug Fixes

• Time values in the time matrix are now displayed correctly
• Compatibility with iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 improved
• Date filter in cost list restored
• Multi-selection is now consistently closed after selection
• Hiding the left action bar now works correctly
• The button to reset the list quick search now works correctly
• Mail attachments with very long names no longer prevent retrieval
• Multiple filter Billability is available again in cost lists
• Passive employees are no longer displayed under HR > Overtime
• Travel expense reports can be downloaded again