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!
5pm interface is now available in Dutch and Finnish! Special thanks to Margot Merkx and Tiihonen Tuomas who helped with the translation. All together 5pm speaks twelve(!) languages now: English, Swedish, French, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Polish, Italian, Croatian, Dutch and Finnish.
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.
This weekend 5pm just turned 2 years old (since the official release)!
This may not seem like a lot, but in internet time it is quite a bit. 5pm was developed as a web2.0 version of an older product that was available back in 2003, so its roots go more than 6 years back.
Since the official release, the work on 5pm never stopped. We are constantly adding new features and improving the existing ones.
We appreciate the support of all our users and hope that 5pm will help many more users in the future!
We just added the User Filter to the 5pm Timeline view (Gantt) – now you can filter projects and tasks by any user.