I wanted to share a comment sent to us recently that summed up what the ProWorkflow product and team are all about.
“So far, you have the best app on the market from what I can see. Your competitors are focused on foo foo next gen company model bells and whistles while your product is based on real world business flow from nuts and bolts businesses.”
This has always been our philosophy. To simply create a good tool to do the job well. Whilst we do use cool technology at times, we’re more focused on just making sure customers can get their work done efficiently.
This is a simple tip but so very useful when using templates. Simply add the variable into the Task name and when viewing in the app, on your mobile or through the widget this will be populated.
Tasks can have the variables:
- {code} – client company code
- {company} – client company name
- {number} – project number
- {title} – project title
This will make it easier to differentiate your tasks when looking at a list of similar/same task names, as below…
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Example: Using the {company} variable when setting up templates.
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Example: The {company} variable showing data in the Mobile Webapp.
During December, we had 5x free subscriptions going up for grabs in the Instantshift ‘Givaway’ competition.
http://www.instantshift.com/2012/01/12/announcement-winners-of-christmas-new-year-special-giveaway/
A big congratulations goes out to the 5x winners! We hope you enjoy getting into your ProWorkflow accounts!
We’ve had some great feedback from our users on the new widget we released over the Christmas break. If you haven’t yet tried this, download a copy from here:
Here’s some of the customer suggestions we’ve been able to include in the latest update…
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Client Dropdown!
A large number of users wanted another dropdown to choose the client first, then filter the project list. Done and dusted!
Changes to Task View screen
There’s a few changes on this screen, all designed to get you more efficient!
- Default to Time tab!
To make it faster to get to time tracking, when you view a task it’ll default to the ‘Time’ tab. - Project List Icon
We’ve moved the project list icon (4x bars) to the right to make it a little clearer. - Minimized (Slim) view!
People told us they didn’t like the size of the widget when time tracking so we shrunk it! Just click the minimize icon and you’ll get a tiny version – sweet!
Here’s the slim view of the widget!
Hyperlink removed!
There was a link on the ProWorkflow.com text so if you dragged the widget it would keep opening the ProWorkflow website. We’ve removed this link.
Cancel Time Record!
There was no way to cancel a time record when started, so we added a ‘Delete Record’ link to this view below.
Default Start View!
Our users wanted to be able to start on different views, ie: Search, Choose Task etc so we’ve added these as options.
Keep the ideas coming!
We’ll get focussed on finishing V8 now but we’re still wanting to hear ideas for the Widget and let if know if you find any issues. We can push out updates quickly if needed. 
Merry Christmas!
Here’s a small gift to our awesome customers. It’s a little hard to put under the tree so the blog will need to do 
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We’ve just finished a new time tracking widget (Beta) to replace the old one and given it a lot more functionality! You can now do the following in the desktop time tracking widget!
- Search or select Tasks to work on
- View ‘Upcoming’ Tasks
- View Task Details
- Track Time (Manual/Automatic)
- Add/View Files
- Add/View Messages
Have fun! We’ll be extending the functionality in the new year. We just wanted to put this out early so your feedback could be considered for the next release!
Beta Note:
This release is a beta release. If you spot any issues, please let us know.
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Beta Note:
This release is a beta release. If you spot any issues, please let us know. Submit feedback through the feedback icon in the widget shown below.
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Default View – Task search
This is the default view. Just start typing and your tasks will appear below! Click them to view the task.
Choose Task
If using this option, just select the project and task and you’re good to go!
Upcoming Tasks
Clicking the expand icon on the top bar will show the ‘Upcoming Tasks’ list. See what’s coming up and get straight into it!
Task Details
We’ve extended the functionality of the widget so now you can view info, track time, upload files and add messages to any task!
You also now have both stop/start and manual time tracking. The numbers will indicate if time is over allocated or if there’s files and messages to view.
Upload Files to Tasks
Just drag files from your desktop to the selected task. Easy!
Task Messages
View or add messages to any task! Nice and easy!
Settings
The settings are the same as the current widget. Simple and does the job!
Merry Christmas everyone!
- The ProWorkflow team!
Hey, I’m Emma!
I joined the sales team as an Account Manager about three months ago, I also help with support and spend a lot of time looking at the development team saying ‘What’??? and Yeah, nah…. (famous Kiwi Saying)
Jokes aside, I work in the Auckland office with a fantastic team who have made my transition to ProWorkflow a breeze.
I have a background in working for software companies in range of technical support and sales roles, mainly I have been focused in the accounting industry and if you know any accountants then you will know that out of anyone they really do need workflow help.
I originally come from Christchurch so that makes me a one eyed cantabrian, I moved to the big smoke of Auckland about 14mths ago. Outside of work I enjoy Surfing (badly), Skiing (even worse), painting and decorating Christmas Trees (my favourite time of the year. I am one of those annoying morning people and take great pleasure in harassing non – morning people.
So if you want to know anything ProWorkflow feel free to contact me, I would love the chat.
Kind Regards,
Emma Smith
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In the Salt Mines of PWF the workers are slogging away with the next major release of version 8 of the tool.
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We know that it’s cool to give releases cutesy or cool names (think Poseidon, Longhorn, Panther, Gran Paradiso) however we’re pretty excited about V8 as a name – it’s powerful, fast and versatile.
The V8 release isn’t an update, it’s a total rebuild from the ground up using latest technology. You’ll find it easy to use and it’s really fast!
As much as we’d love to drop more hints it’s sufficient to say that this is going at a cracking pace and the internal previews are very pleasing. There are still a few limited places on the beta program for subscription customers so drop us a line if you’re keen.
Thanks All!
It’s the passion and feedback from you, our users, that has helped shaped V8 and continues to steer the future for ProWorkflow. Keep it coming! We get feedback from:
- Feedback page
- Website
- Blog
- And good old fashioned telephone!
We recently hit a milestone of 10 million hours tracked through our tool by our subscription customers!
(Not trials). This is awesome to see as every minute properly tracked is potentially revenue to invoice! Some other stats that you may be interested to know: (Stats at time of post)
- ProWorkflow is used in 47 countries.
- $617,071,425 has been invoiced through the tool.
- 847,777 Projects have been created.
- 3,591,332 Tasks have been created.
- 10,337,327 Hours have been tracked.
- 160,349 companies and 213,912 contacts have been added.
- The average project has 4.24 tasks (interesting when we see jobs with over 100 tasks!).
- The most popular browser/OS combo is Firefox with Windows, 2nd is Safari on Macintosh with Chrome & IE on Windows tied for third – in even better news usage of IE6 has dropped to under 1%!
