New Releases: April 2012 Archives

The last few days have been spent improving the performance of in certain areas and bringing more features across from the old version that hadn't made it into the new release yet. We've rolled these changes into version 3.2.0 of the software and it's just been uploaded to the website. Here's a detailed list of the changes:

• The timesheet date (and contents) now change when navigating around the calendar with the keyboard cursor keys.
• If there is activity recorded on a date in the timesheet calendar that day is now shown with bold text.
• Most text boxes have been changed to left alignment.
• Catch put in place to stop an error being thrown when the software is closed before the timesheet summary data capture thread is completed.
• Catch put in place to stop multiple timesheet data summary threads being created.
• Fix to login screen which was not showing the employee login status properly.
• Fix to broken SQL Server/MySQL script creation process.

The last two days has seen a lot of effort put into Timesheets Lite ironing what should be the last issues with the Import Data Wizard. We've also spent considerable time working on the performance of the summary section of the timesheet and we've started adding some of the minor features that didn't make the transition from the old version of Timesheets Lite. Here's a detailed description of the changes made.

1. Added a "Show Closed Projects" checkbox to the Manage Projects screen.
2. Added fore and background colors to projects. Effects how projects are displayed on the timesheet.
3. Column widths on the manage data screens are remembered.
4. Projects are displayed with project numbers in dropdown lists and on the timesheet.
5. Time spent optimizing the process of loading up multiple times from the database. Speed has improved about 400%.
6. Time spent optimizing the timesheet summary area to improve refresh speed.
7. Fix to monthly/weekly timesheet totals of more than 24 hours.
8. Fix to import data wizard which wasn't matching up Customers with projects correctly.

Thanks must go out to some Timesheets Lite users who have helped me out greatly during the last couple of days.

We announced the release of Timesheets Lite version 3 to all users of previous versions of Timesheets Lite yesterday. The users (more than 2000 of them) gave the data import wizard a thorough working over and this highlighted some problems with it. Version 3.1.2 of Timesheets Lite addresses these issues and the fixes are detailed below.

• Fix to data import wizard for projects who have a project manager or were created by and employee that no longer exists.
• Gave the data import page of the import data wizard a proper page title.
• Fix to data import wizard which was not bringing in some non billable times correctly.
• Fix to the hh:mm:ss display format on the timesheet summary box.