Space compared to Project / Tabs

I’ve been testing LiquidPlanner for a few hours now. It looks very promising :)

But, I’m not sure I understand the concept of a ‘space’ compared to a ‘project’. It seems in your demos, you typically have the space called your company name, which works fine. However, if I invite a new person to join a project from the same company, it also creates a ‘space’ for them. Maybe it is just me, but it seems confusing if all the person wants to do is join the current project. On the other hand, if I invite someone from another company who already has a site on LiquidPlanner, then they will now have two sites. With two sites, I cannot look at my dashboard and get an overview of what I need to do. Instead, I need to look at site 1 and then site 2 and see where there is overlap. Sorry for the rambling…hopefully it makes sense.

As far as the tabs, it seems like there is an extra layer of navigation and duplication. For example, if I am on the Dashboard, there is a dashboard tab and a dashboard button right above that. Why not have all the tabs available (Welcome, Dashboard, estimate, schedule, etc.) on the same level? It would seem more intuitive.

Well, like I said, I’ve only used it for a few hours.

Thanks,
Bob

In a couple of weeks we’ll have the next update rolled out and the first thing you will see is that we cleaned the tabs up; no more double layer.

Spaces (or more formally Workspaces) are collections of projects. In LiquidPlanner you can set up as many spaces as you like and each space can have as many projects and sub-projects as you like. You can invite members to each and any space; only the members can see and participate in the space.

When a person creates an account, they get a default space with thier name. If they decide to just work in your space, they can delete the automatically created one.

Currently the dashboard only let’s you look at one space at a time. We did this so that people who work with multiple companies (consultants) could open thier dashboard in the presence of a customer and not have to worry that one client will see another clients information.

Eventually, we will provide support for you to see accross all your spaces at one time.