Recent Posts by Charles Seybold

Topic: help topics / Change a Folder to a Task...?

That works for sure but if you have docs attached to the folder, you might want to move those. Remember you can go to the Trash tab and undelete things if you need to.

Topic: help topics / Change a Folder to a Task...?

Unfortunately, that’s a one way trip. You can convert a task to a container but not go the other way.

Topic: feature ideas & requests / Status Updates like twitter

I really like this idea. It fits in with some other stuff we’ve been thinking about.

Topic: announcements / 8/13/08 Release: Terminology change, edit from dashboard, more...

Thanks Sparky – uhmmm, I think we just forgot to add the breadcrumb to he printout. I’ll follow up with Adam our rockstar PDF developer :)

Topic: announcements / 8/13/08 Release: Terminology change, edit from dashboard, more...

@foreversublime – Edit note feature is fixed. Fit F5 to refresh before trying again.

Topic: announcements / 8/13/08 Release: Terminology change, edit from dashboard, more...

@Aaron – thank much; we know we had to set the bar high to meet your design standards ;^)

Topic: announcements / 8/13/08 Release: Terminology change, edit from dashboard, more...

@bill.wetherell – glad you like it; we’ve continue evolving it. It’s a good example of the forum community influencing our development priorities :)

Topic: announcements / 8/13/08 Release: Terminology change, edit from dashboard, more...

We’ve isolated it and are currently working on a fix.

Topic: faq / How do I delete a Workspace

Thank you :)

The truth is you’re very likely to get a speedier response via the forums. We all watch them like hawks including during non-business hours. We’re very passionate about our product and want people to find project success with it.

Topic: faq / How do I delete a Workspace

Click on the wrench icon at the top of the application.
Then click on edit workspace settings.
Then click on the delete workspace button.
You can’t reverse this so make very sure you want to do this.

Topic: feature ideas & requests / Teams as Task Owner

Hi Rolli – that’s a good question. We don’t support it now, but our dev team has been talking about it. The virtual member is a good route, but as you discovered VMs assume one person’s availability. One route is to allow 20 days a week as you’ve suggested, which is pretty straight forward. We’ve also talked about turning the member list into an organizational tree. As you might imagine, that would have some additional management and reporting benefits. I’ll take your post back to the dev team so they know it’s being asked for.

If I might suggest a hack (in the truest sense of the word) until we support this, create a virtual resource and label it something like this: Test Team (4x)

When you estimate work for the Test Team, just enter an effort estimate that is the work for one person on the team. For example if you anticipated 20-40 days of total work, enter 5-10 days of work. This will of course under count on the total remaining work estimate but the schedule will be roughly right.

Lastly (as I’m sure you probably know), this technique is at best only good for roughing out a schedule since different people work on tasks at different rates and often can not perfectly work in sync. I recommend keeping your ranges wider if you use this technique to capture that uncertainty.

Thanks,
Charles.

Topic: feature ideas & requests / it's hard to use multiple browser tabs

I’ll have to let Adam speak to how we handle multiple sessions, but perhaps more importantly, I think you’re going to really like the update we are shipping next week. You’ll be able to update estimates and mark things done from the dashboard.

If there is more to it than this for you, let me know.

Thanks, Charles.

Topic: general questions & discussion / Milestones/Promise date as a dependency source

Try this, create a project (perhaps at the top of your plan) called “parts delivery”.

• Parts Delivery (delay until 9/17/2007)
  • Wheels
  • Seats
  • Engine

Open up the edit panel and go to the scheduling tab. Set the delay until date to the date you expect the parts. Add a task for each part you want to track under it.

You can then set dependencies on the parts delivery container as a whole (or on individual parts). To do this go to the new task (e.g. assemble car) and edit the task. On the dependencies tab you can form the dependency on parts.

Topic: feature ideas & requests / Edit window stays open after 'save'

No problem – open the edit pane and look to the right for the push pin icon. Click it and the edit panel will stay open. Thank you for trying LiquidPlanner.

Charles.

Topic: help topics / Tracking & Estimation

We are in the design phase of estimation in hours (vs. days); it’s currently included in an upcoming time-tracking update.

Topic: general questions & discussion / Setting start dates on multiple projects

@Qrystal – sorry about the categories terminology choice (we’ll be fixing that next week). I’m glad we could revolutionize your project management experience; it’s why we are here :)

Topic: general questions & discussion / Resource working in simultaneous tasks

Hi Steve, I wanted to say thanks for the long post; I’ve read it a couple of times and need to come back to it. We’ve been pretty busy around here getting ready for the next release.

Topic: feature ideas & requests / Search, Contact Info, Revision history, Last log-in

1) It looks like you might have missed the search tab. We do search a little differently because you can search the whole space or use the quick filter controls to restrict your search.

2) Contact info makes sense, or at least a note field where you can add what you’d like.

3) We don’t keep multiple versions of the notes you can revert to. You can look at the history tab and see a retrospective view of the changes make to the item. We may consider this in the future.

4) We have this information; it’s a reasonable thing to add to the members tab.

Thanks so much,
Charles.

Topic: general questions & discussion / Recurring Meetings

We’ll be adding support for dependencies in the duplicate function in a upcoming release. Looking at our schedule, it may make it into the August 08 update; if not, then the September 08 update.

Topic: feature ideas & requests / unique id and jump-to

Sure that makes sense. We have a bunch of things we want to add to the product to make it more efficient and easy to use for case management. We can look at moving the ID reference stuff up and delivering it earlier.

Topic: feature ideas & requests / Global Priority

Thank you. You can actually do this right now on the Estimate tab. Go to the actions menu, advanced actions, custom columns.

Note, in our upcoming release in August, this will be easier to find and you will be able to add columns to the schedule view as well.

Topic: feature ideas & requests / unique id and jump-to

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Is that what you meant?

Topic: feature ideas & requests / Add a sample project

Duplicating dependencies is on our development schedule and I give it a 50% chance of making it into our August release.

Topic: feature ideas & requests / disable automatic tracking

Also note, we have a refinement to auto-tracking that makes it easier to clear it coming in the August ‘08 release.

Topic: general questions & discussion / User name changing when virtual user accepts invite

Hi Patrick – We didn’t think of this case. The current design is that the member gets to set their nickname. It’s perfectly reasonable that the space owner should be able to override this. I’ll add it to our product plan. We anticipated the virtual user feature to be used for things like “TBH SQL Dev” and figured we change he a nick name to something that would identify the person being identified the most uniquely (email).