Project Details Page getting some JQuery love!

We’ve had our top JQuery (AJAX) developer working on the Project Details page to improve the usability. He’s getting there and will have an awesome update ready in the next 1-2 weeks.

What we’re doing is allowing nearly all fields (about 30+ fields) on the Project Details page to be edited inline or live on screen. In addition, we’re eliminating page refreshes when any or all tasks are updated, or when the ‘Sortby’ column headers are click to resort the list.

We’ve found that the Tasks section of this page is one of the most heavily used section of the application for most project managers, so getting this sped up will please project managers everywhere! So how does it work?

So basically, Here’s the tasks from the project details page:

As an example, see below, if you hilight any cell, it’ll change to a green (active) color. Wherever you see this colour, you’ll be able to double click to edit this info live, onscreen. (the same process applies to any of the task fields, ie: dates, priority, order etc.

After double clicking, the edit dialogue appears directly below so you an update the info.

You can also click ‘More Details’ to edit other info.

Click ‘Update!’ and the tasks info will be updated live! Awesome! no full page refreshes!

So whilst the original functionality will still be available to add and edit task info, over time, this method will be a great time saver if only needing to edit a small amount of info.

This will be released in the next 2-3 weeks through a regular maintenance update and will be available on all accounts. If it proves successful, we’ll then push this method onto many other areas of the application.

Tags: AJAX, JQuery, Live Editing, proworkflow, speed, Usability