We’ve opened up the ProWorkflow Mobile Webapp to allow your clients and contractors to get more involved with their projects and your staff. Your project management software has just got more mobile!
The view in the mobile app is a little more limited than the staff view but still gives them enough to see what’s going on, view files, add messages and have a general overview.
Have a play, try yourself with a client login and then start to tell your clients about their new project access!
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How do we use it?
To access the mobile webapp, just open Safari on your iPhone or a web browser on your Android smartphone (or any smartphone). Just type in the account URL and add ‘/m/’ to the end…
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Example:
If you account was: https://proworkflow5.net/SAMPLE/
You would add ‘/m/’ to the end. it should be:
https://proworkflow5.net/SAMPLE/m/
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What will they see?
Below are the screens that your clients and contractors will be able to see. Please note they can only see THEIR projects only. Clients will never see other clients’ work.
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The Copy Tasks is a really useful feature on the Project Details page. This allows you to copy the tasks to a new template or to another project – perfect when the job is setup just how you like!
There’s a quick video guide that runs through how easy it is to use and make life simple:
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Today we went over the 10 million mark for the number of hours tracked in ProWorkflow
(Live accounts only, excluding trials)!
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As more customers come on board with the ProWorkflow project management software and we see the numbers climb, we’re stoked to see the app delivering value and the infrastructure holding strong!
Many are long time customers and their feedback is vital to us in the ongoing application development. We love helping our users get their business processes streamlined and it’s great to see them put so much chargeable work through the system.
At average studio rates, this is getting around the 1 billion dollar mark for the amount of work invoiced through ProWorkflow!
Wow! Go ProWorkers!
The next milestone will be 1 million projects! We’re currently at 809,347 projects and 3,389,282 tasks!
Thanks to our awesome userbase for keeping us on our toes and giving great feedback as we continually develop! We’ll also soon be announcing the V8 release and that will take your ROI to a whole new level again!
We had so many lovely comments this week that I felt we should share some. I love that our users are so passionate!
“Your system is too good not to use
” – Viivi, Branding Manager
“ProWorkflow has reduced my workload by 75%” – David Traffic Manager
“Doing my projects is fun again” – Freelancer
“Hey thanks a ton for your nice call, you guys are great at PWF” – Alex, Agency Director
“you’ve got a great app there” – Paul, Technical Director
“Keep on Rocking in Free World” – Ryan, Marketing Director
“Everyone out there is just a basecamp clone, I was glad to find something that was more of a real business tool.” – Marcus, Interactive Agency Director
“currently ranking no 1 among 20 systems I’ve tested and around 50 I’ve checked” – Jang, Business Process Manager
“First of all, congrats on building quite a substantial body of work. The software is impressive in its usability, intuitiveness, and breadth. And the support offerings, especially the video tutorials, are incredibly helpful. “ – Rafael, Agency Owner
“I love the program it definitely keeps me organized” – Jodi, Graphic Designer
“The best vendor we deal with” – Laila, Financial Controller
“I will always recommend you to anyone.” – Jonathan, Communications Director
“I love PWF” – Chris, CIO
“It is an awesome program overall and your staff is friendly, helpful and has great customer service.” – Tara, Operations Manager
“Thanks! By the way, I’ve been working all day with PWF with clients and our team; everyone is LOVING it!” – Jonathan, Writer
Right back at ya folks!
We’re always committed to ensuring smooth running of our subscription servers and as part of this we occasionally need to do some server maintenance. We will be performing some scheduled maintenance during the times below.
Whilst each server will only be unavailable for less than one hour we suggest you avoid using ProWorkflow during this two hour window.
Scheduled Maintenance Period (Time Window)
UK – LONDON
Sunday 17th April 2011 11:00AM – 1:00PM
UAE – DUBAI
Sunday 17th April 2011 2:00PM – 4:00PM
RUSSIAN FEDERATION – MOSCOW
Sunday 17th April 2011 2:00PM – 4:00PM
HONG KONG
Sunday 17th April 2011 6:00PM – 8:00PM
USA – NEW YORK
Sunday 17th April 2011 6:00AM – 8:00AM
USA – CHICAGO
Sunday 17th April 2011 5:00AM – 7:00AM
USA – DENVER
Sunday 17th April 2011 4:00AM – 6:00AM
USA – LOS ANGELES
Sunday 17th April 2011 3:00AM – 5:00AM
NEW ZEALAND
Sunday 17th April 2011 10:00PM – 12:00AM
AUSTRALIA – SYDNEY
Sunday 17th April 2011 8:00PM – 10:00PM
AUSTRALIA – PERTH
Sunday 17th April 2011 6:00PM – 8:00PM
JAPAN – TOKYO
Sunday 17th April 2011 7:00PM – 9:00PM
This maintenance period is planned to be outside of work hours for most ProWorkflow users, so should have minimal impact.
If you have any questions, please feel welcome to contact us.
Using the ‘Group by’ feature on the Projects Page and utilising Project Categories is a great way to quickly sort your projects. You can group your projects by important informations such as Client, Project Manager and Due Date.
On the Projects Page you’ll find the ” Group By”, on the right hand side near the top, with a drop down with seven different viewing options – simply select that one that you require and the Projects Page will automatically sort into those groups.
You will also notice that there is a Category selection available here. Project Categories are great for things like setting Project Status’s and Types of work.
To edit the Project Categories there are two options:
1. In line edit, when you select Group by Category you will see when you hover over the Categories they change to Green, simply double click and you can edit the name of each Category.
2. Or you can go to Administration > Usability Settings, scroll down and you will see the Categories Editor, here you can edit, add or delete Categories.
Our new Timeline has been really popular and as more of you use it we’ve had a few requests for extra features. We’re pleased to announce that the most popular of these has just been rolled out so check out the details below!
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New! – Multi-select
You can now make a change to one Project or Task bar and the change will be replicated to any other bars you’ve selected, great for making lots of changes in less time.
Double-click on a Project bar to select the Project as well as all of its active tasks, any change you make will affect the Project and Tasks so adjusting your entire schedule is a breeze.
Note: If you just want to change a few Tasks then just hold down the Control key and you can select individual tasks one at a time.
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Static Project and Task Titles
No matter how far you scroll sideways, the Project and Task names will always be visible so you can be 100% sure what you are making changes to.
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Client View
Your clients can now use the Timeline Page to view any Tasks you have given them permission to see so they can see just how hard you are working for them!
These changes are live now on all accounts, if you don’t see them then you might need to clear your cache just to make sure you get the latest code.
We’re excited to announce that we’ve released the new Timeline with drag’n’drop capabilities for easy, fast Project and Task planning and scheduling!
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The new Timeline lets you see your schedule and workload as well as giving you the power to adjust start and due dates with just one click.
Using the Timeline to reschedule your work couldn’t be simpler – just enable the Edit Mode, you can move the entire Project or Task or just change the start or due dates:
To help you plan future work and highlight any under or over-resourcing issues, the allocated hours per day for each staff member is shown below the Timeline. If you need a breakdown then just hover over the total to view all of the details.
Here’s the workload breakdown detail showing on hover.
The Timeline will automatically show you all active Tasks from 1 week ago onwards but it’s easy to adjust this if you need to see a wider range. Also there are handy filters so you can view tasks for a certain user, client or category.
The individual Project Timeline has also been updated on the Project Details page – scheduling has never been so easy!
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Can I see it?
If you haven’t already tried this in your own account then you can view a preview here: http://www.screencast.com/t/mqKLBSjx
Note!
If trying this on your own account, we suggest you make a sample project and some tasks and play around on those first. There is no ‘Undo’!
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We know that our ProWorkflow users have been looking forward to this and we already have plans for additional features so we’d love to hear your feedback – Send your thoughts!
