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LiquidPlanner, Project Management

Empower Your Team With the Final LiquidPlanner Update of 2016

The final LiquidPlanner update of 2016 is here! And so is the most wonderful time of the year: crunch time. Businesses around the world are pushing projects to the finish line and rushing seasonal orders; teams are reflecting on the past year and setting goals for 2017–all simultaneously. It’s enough to make you want to guzzle a few eggnogs at the holiday office party.

To help your team feel empowered to do their best work and finish the year strong, we’ve added some sparkle to your workspace: an updated Edit Panel.

What’s new?

For starters, a new streamlined design makes it easier than ever for team members to stay on top of changes, move project items forward, and do their best work every day. These layout improvements help everyone find important information fast and make updates as needed. Project contributors are able to track the nitty-gritty details that are critical to the success of their work, while project managers can check finish dates, add deadlines or reassign work.

Familiar Functionality, Cleaner Design

Here’s what to expect from your updated Edit Panel:

The organization of the Edit Panel has changed a bit. What we did was group common elements together, putting the most important information right at the top of the panel. In Planning, item details, custom fields, and dependencies are separated into new, collapsible sections, so they’re accessible to the people who need them, and hidden from the people who don’t use them.

Project panels now show the entire project team in a grid view, making it a lot easier to see who you’re collaborating with on a particular project.

Comments and item history have been combined to show a timeline for an item, which helps you get the full story for what has happened in chronological order.