5pm interface is now available in Slovak! Special thanks to Aniko Ferenczi, Tamas Saha, Szilard Deak and Karoly Varga (GenParts.Eu), who helped with the translation.
All together 5pm speaks sixteen(!) languages now: English, Swedish, French, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Polish, Italian, Croatian, Dutch, Finnish, Danish, Serbian, Hungarian and Slovak!
Do you want to see 5pm translated into your language? Any 5pm user can contribute (including the free trial accounts) – just use the “Settings” menu on the top of your 5pm screen. There is a link there called “5pm Translation” that will take you to the public translation area.
We just added the auto-refresh function to our Time Tracker widget – now you don’t need to reload it anymore to see your new projects and tasks.
We just opened our 5pm fan page on Facebook. Join the conversation!
You can also get advise from 5pm community on GetSatisfaction and follow us on Twitter (@5pmweb).
Besides uploading your files to 5pm, there are many other outside storage options – Dropbox is one of them.
Dropbox.com offers a hosted file storage service (free up to 2Gb) and is a great tool for synchronizing files between different computers. You can also share your files with anybody through an unique URL. This same URL can be shared in 5pm through a message or task/project description. [continue reading…]
5pm interface is now available in Hungarian! Special thanks to Mrs. Zsofia Tvarusko (GenParts.Eu), who helped with the translation. All together 5pm speaks fifteen(!) languages now: English, Swedish, French, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Polish, Italian, Croatian, Dutch, Finnish, Danish, Serbian and Hungarian.
Do you want to see 5pm translated into your language? Any 5pm user can contribute (including the free trial accounts) – just use the “Settings” menu on the top of your 5pm screen. There is a link there called “5pm Translation” that will take you to the public translation area.
Some of our users prefer to store their files, especially very large ones, outside 5pm – on FTP, file-share services like Dropbox, etc. They just post the links to them into 5pm (in messages or task/project description), which are automatically converted into URLs.
Files on your local network (your company public drive, for example) can also be linked, but there are limitations we wanted to make you aware of:
- Links to files on local network will work only in Internet Explorer (in other browsers we don’t convert them to URLs, since they will not work).
- Make sure you link to a network mapped drive (ex: U:\myfile.jpg). If you try to link to a local hard drive file (ex: C:\myfile.jpg), IE will simply not open the link due to security restrictions. Generally, you don’t have to worry about this one, since nobody else has access to your local hard drive, so it makes no sense to link to local files.
In 5pm Clients are a separate type of users that are assigned directly to the Projects and can see just those projects.
Projects can also be grouped into Groups (can be used to split project by departments, types, etc.). Many of our user though use Groups to split Projects by clients (one Group for each Client). Naturally, Clients will not see any projects in other groups that are created for other clients (since there are no projects there assigned to them), but they will still see the names of the Groups. This could be a problem, since the names can be suggestive and reveal information about other Clients.
Since it makes no sense to show the Clients the names of the Groups in which they don’t have any projects, we decided to change this behavior and from now on to hide those unrelated Groups from Clients.
5pm interface is now available in Serbian! Special thanks to Predrag Jeremic who helped with the translation. All together 5pm speaks fourteen(!) languages now: English, Swedish, French, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Polish, Italian, Croatian, Dutch, Finnish, Danish and Serbian.
Do you want to see 5pm translated into your language? Any 5pm user can contribute (including the free trial accounts) – just use the “Settings” menu on the top of your 5pm screen. There is a link there called “5pm Translation” that will take you to the public translation area.
Google Docs added recently the possibility to upload any type of files. We just updated our “Link to Google Documents” function to support all those new types as well.
Since it is a Friday, we decided to release a couple of updates at the same time. Today we also added the “Hide from Client(s)” flag to Messages and Files – now you can exchange private messages with your team without clients seeing them.
Besides this update and the new columns in the main view, a bunch of small fixes and performance improvements were also released. We hope you will like the changes.
