Timesheets MTS: January 2013 Archives

I've just uploaded Timesheets MTS Version 2.5.5. This new version includes the following changes:

• The project expense report now includes the expense incurred date.
• The current projects report can now display closed projects as well as open projects.
• The employee abbreviation field is now colored yellow as it is a required field when creating a new employee.
• <PROJECT_CUSTOMER_REFERENCE> field has been added to the detailed project task template.
• Fixed a bug with projects managers not being able to edit the projects they "own" when project manager security is turned on.
• Project charge rates are now hidden from project managers for projects they do not "own" when project manager security is turned on.
• Fixed up some resizing issues on various screens, including the project maintenance screen, the user maintenance screen, the contact maintenance screen, and the who is logged in screen.
• Project budget amounts are now updated correctly when task level budgets are changed.
• Current timesheet date is now displayed on timesheet travel, expense, and issues tabs.

In most parts of the world it is now 2013. This means in a lot of cases you may find that when you try to add activity to a project in Timesheets MTS that you get a message box popping up saying:

No period is defined for this date.
Someone with Super User privileges must define a period covering this date

By default for the last year the software created a single period covering all of 2012. Now that we are in 2013 this has expired and you must create a new period. To do this just log into Timesheets MTS as a super user and go to the Tools->Options->Periods menu and add some new periods covering the coming year (or several years if you like).

For your reference you can make use of periods to stop forward posting by users or to stop users editing data in previous periods.