Tasks start date is defaulted now to the parent project start date if it is in the future (instead of “today”). The same applies to parent tasks and sub-tasks. This makes it easier to add future tasks.
5pm will be performing a scheduled maintenance on Friday, December 25, 2009 between 2:00AM and 3:00AM EST. The service may be unavailable during the maintenance hours.
To all office dwellers, travel warriors, white and blue collars, non-profits and big businesses – we wish you happy holidays and the best in the new year!
May all of your projects be completed on time, your teams achieve all their goals and get even more done by 5pm each day!
Today we added a new status icon – “updated” – in addition to the “new” one. Now you will be able to distinguish between newly created items and the updated ones.
We just extended the Time Report with the possibility to list the Progress Notes information – now you can have a detailed view of how the time was calculated.
Autodesk is a software company with products like AutoCAD, 3DS Max, Maya and Softimage, that found 5pm a good fit for managing their projects:
“We use the 5pm to manage technical marketing projects and deliverable. I chose 5pm because it was straight forward and easy to use with minimal training. I was using it proficiently in about an hour. For me though the biggest reason behind the choice was that it can’t get in the way or make my employees jobs more difficult or they just won’t use it. 5pm not only doesn’t get in the way it actually has made my teams communication easier.”
(Shawn Hendriks, Autodesk Media and Entertainment)
The possibility to answer directly from email to email notification, and getting the answer posted back into 5pm, is a handy feature. Now we improved it by adding a separator line (“Reply above this line”) into the email notifications to give users control of what actually to post to 5pm.
This update will give you the possibility to automatically exclude from your comments the email history, email signatures, etc.
After a month in beta testing, our 5pm Time Tracker is now officially released!
You can use it to track your time and log it into 5pm without opening the web application.
5pm has an open API that our clients can use to extend it with more functions or communicate with other software.
3Digit – an Internet Agency building websites based on TYPO3 – used our API to build custom 5pm Reports. This is what Cedric Moschallski from 3Digit shared with us:
“Currently we use the API to generate Custom Reports which give us some more finegrained views for our customers. Because of the lack of some fields we have schema for our tasks like “Foo task (3)” meaning this task was estimated for the customer with 3 hours. Also we work with some other special-chars to indicate different billing-modes. In the next step we want to push these reports with one click to some online invoicing tool (http://invoicemachiene.com) over their API to quick-create bills from our open projects.
Our main goal in using the API was to implement some very custom stuff which I did not see in any available software…
Another task will be to implement some specific bug-tracker in our homepage which directly connects to 5pm to create / update tasks.”
Feel free to check 5pm API – it can help you extend 5pm with new custom features.
5pm is being used by many universities, colleges and schools around the world. Pepperdine University, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Wisconsin-Madison – just to name a few – found 5pm very helpful for their projects.
With a simple and intuitive interface people with any background can start using 5pm right away, without extensive training. This makes it an ideal fit for many educational institutions.
A special educational discount of 30% also makes it more affordable for such organizations.
Open your free trial today (no credit card required) and start using 5pm right away!