WorkSection - Blog http://www.worksection.com/ Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:32:13 +0200 WorkSection en Online view of documents, notifications and updates of the mobile version http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=73 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=73#review Dear friends, I’d like to inform you about releasing of update for online view of documents, improvement of daily email notifications and adding a feature of using files in the mobile version. So, here... Dear friends,

I’d like to inform you about releasing of update for online view of documents, improvement of daily email notifications and adding a feature of using files in the mobile version.

So, here are details:


Online View of Documents


We implemented Google Docs Viewer for online viewing of main types of files directly on the service. To use this feature, you should accept Google terms of service. For viewing docs via Google — temporary links to Worksection files are used, so, there’s no possibility for third parties to access files.
To use this feature, you should accept Google terms of service. For viewing docs via Google — temporary links to Worksection files are used, so, there’s no possibility for third parties to access files.

Now in the extended view of a task there is an option «View». Choose a file and press «View».



Agree with Google terms (it’s impossible to disagree, since it took over the world)



and view content of a document )


Improved Daily Notifications


In Worksection there’s a convenient feature of daily notifications about tasks starting/ending «today». On your requests, we have added two additional options to these notifications:

—a list of overdue tasks
—notifications about tasks, approaching deadline

you can enable these options in Profile ->My settings




Improvement of the Mobile Version


And good news for those, using mobile version of Worksection. I’ll remind that the mobile version is available by the address http://your_account.worksection.com/m/ ..
A feature of uploading and downloading files was added to the mobile version. Also,a feature of auto-recognition of mobile devices was added and few minor bugs were fixed.




Two updates on time calculation and e-mail notifications are now in the process. Stay in touch with us http://facebook.com/worksection, http://twitter.com/worksection ]]> Specialties and updates Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=73 Chyngis Barynov User roles, permissions and departments. http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=71 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=71#review User roles, permissions  and departments. Folks, we’re pleased to introduce a new update. So, what we have for now.

Roles and customized permissions

Now a person from a client’s company can become an administrator (before this update, only an employee of a company, owning an account, could be admin). Admin’s permissions can be independently set. Let’s see how it works now. I’d like to remind that only an account’s owner or admin can appoint a new administrator and customize his/her permissions.
On All Members page choose a user for making him/her administrator. Option "Set permissions"



Choose role:



You may ask what is the difference between company’s and account’s admins. The difference is in the scope of authority. Company’s admin manages projects, belonging to his/her company, while account’s admin manages all the projects plus he can manage account settings.



Also, there you can assign permissions selectively.

Guest Role

You’d prefer not to reveal to your freelancers info about your project and client? With Guest role you can limit permissions for temporary employees. It is just perfect for people, whom you want to give an access to a specific task, but do not want to give access to the whole project.

Guest can and CAN’T:
  • Can’t create and edit tasks
  • Can see and comment ONLY task, being under his/her responsibility
  • Can see ONLY files, being in “his/her” tasks
  • Sees ONLY members of his/her projects, and does NOT see their contact details, only names
Guest can be appointed this way:






Departments appeared

On your requests, we added a feature of dividing users into departments. You can add a department this way. While deleting department, users are not deleted, but transferred to the department named "Without department ".






Quick Switch between Accounts

Many users have several Worksection accounts, for their convenience we added a possibility of quick switch between accounts. If you’re not logged in another account, you’d be asked to log in.




Mini-bonus: icons in an expanded task view

Icons in tasks subscription were changed to more neutral.




Thank you, guys, for staying with us. And special thanks to those, having sent us feedback and wishes. Please, write us whenever you have something to tell us or propose Time update is in the progress. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter. ]]> Specialties and updates Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=71 Chyngis Barynov Affiliate program up to 50%! http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=69 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=69#review Dear friends, again we have good news for you.Check for an unprecedented action that starts in Worksection Affiliate Programme on 1 January 2012: get up to 50% partner accruals from every new customer you've involved!. You may cash out the money earned and use it to pay any Worksection account with a bonus +20%. Dear friends, again we have good news for you.

Check for an unprecedented action that starts in Worksection Affiliate Programme on 1 January 2012: get up to [H]50% partner accruals[/H] from every new customer you've involved!. You may cash out the money earned and use it to pay any Worksection account with a bonus +20%.

This offer is valid until 1 May 2012. After this, you'll get 10% per monthly payment guaranteed. Read more about affiliate fees

Do you like Worksection and you recommend it to your colleagues? Now it is more easy and profitable.

Register, become our partner


How to recommend?
1. You may recommend it by two clicks – through social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn…
2. By placing a direct reference (e.g. in comments)
3. By placing a banner or a button on your site. Attractive banners are available in the affiliate program for your choice.

How to withdraw money?
It is no problem – throughPaypal, SKRILL(Moneybookers), Webmoney . If you already have any Worksection account, you may also withdraw money to it with a bonus +20% to the withdrawal amount.

For more details read the Affiliate Program section.

In case of any questions and proposals do not forget to write us.
We will always be happy to know your opinion.

Best regards,
Worksection team. ]]> Promo actions Specialties and updates Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=69 Valeriy Galyant 10 happy days. http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=67 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=67#review Each of our clients gets 10 free days of Worksection. Celebrate and have a good rest - and may nothing distract you form the joy of vacations! And those who make a deposit into their Worksection account from December 25 to 31 2011, will get an additional 30% from the deposit sum

Dear customers! Merry Christmas and Happy new Year! 2011 has been a wonderful year. You all are one step closer to your main goals, we hope, with our help. May upcoming 2012 be even more effective and prosperous!
Here are our traditional gifts to you.

Each of our clients gets 10 free days of Worksection. Celebrate and have a good rest - and may nothing distract you form the joy of vacations! And those who make a deposit into their Worksection account from December 25 to 31 2011, will get an additional 30% from the deposit sum

Also we got a special affiliate offer from 1 January. Dont miss it, check out our twitter,facebook channel. 

Best regards, Worksection team
]]> Promo actions Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=67 Alexey Lushik New possibilities in your interface http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=64 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=64#review A universal view setting has been added. It will enable you to configure, sort and filter lists of tasks, comments, blocks, urgent tasks etc. The setting has been named by the icon’s view – an “eye”. Now you will always be able to find the “eye” in the upper right corner.Convenient filters for tasks lists: “Responsible”, “Author” and “Labels”. Dear friends.
I’m in a hurry to share news with you about new possibilities in your Worksection system.

What is new:

In the whole system

A universal view setting has been added. It will enable you to configure, sort and filter lists of tasks, comments, blocks, urgent tasks etc. The setting has been named by the icon’s view – an “eye”. Now you will always be able to find the “eye” in the upper right corner.





You can configure the block’s view and activate the “eye”.




When the “eye” is deactivated, the block will return to its normal view by default.






Taskbar


Now you have convenient filters for tasks lists: “Responsible”, “Author” and “Labels”.






“My” tasks, as well as “completed” tasks, are already highlighted. A convenient reference has been provided in the subtask section. The entire system (files, users, tasks) is now accompanied with a context menu.





Two new taskbar types – “Detailed” and “Compact” – have been added in the taskbar’s “eye”. Activity, priority and completion date sortings have also been transferred here.





Jump to the “eye” setting and select the “Detailed” view. This view displays in details the activities by subtasks and comments. If you click “More”, hidden comments will be loaded.





The “Brief” view may be selected in the same way. Just a Spartan list of tasks and nothing left.






Detailed task view.


A setting to configure the view of comments has been added. Do everything by the scenario tested. Click the eye, then select the view to watch comments: “new comments on top” or “new comments on bottom”. In this very section, you can configure the view showing the form to post your comments. Here you may also specify the number of comments per one page.







We hope that our updates will be helpful in your business. Such an update is possible only due to your feedback on the system.
Please, your reviews and suggestions with us.

I would also like to tell you that updates for e-mail notifications on tasks, time tracking and company departments are being developed and will appear soon. Our pages in facebook / twitter will keep you up to date with the latest updates and news. ]]> Specialties and updates Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=64 Chyngis Barynov About the discounts for six months/one year http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=65 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=65#review Dear friends. We want to inform you about the automatic discounts added in our payment mechanism. As of now we will present you pleasant bonuses upon your payment for six months or one year. For example... Dear friends.

We want to inform you about the automatic discounts added in our payment mechanism.

As of now we will present you pleasant bonuses upon your payment for six months or one year.

For example, if you decide to pay 228$ for one year under the Studio tariff, we will credit 228+3*19 = 285$ to your account.





Well, if you decide to pay for 2 years, 3 years or to obtain a discount for a cooler term – you are welcome to write us at the address: info@worsection.com.
We will settle it for sure )

In addition, you may be interested in our new payment methods:
  • 2Checkout.com (an American processing centre for such cards as Visa/MasterCard)
  • Skrill(Moneybookers)
  • Paypal
  • WebMoney (direct payments with no Robokassa commission)
]]> Promo actions Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=65 Chyngis Barynov Copying tasks and something else… http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=61 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=61#review Dear friends, I am glad to inform you about several updates. Firstly, it has become possible to copy tasks from one project to another. This is how to do it: Screenshot “Copy task. Step 1” Select “Copy... Dear friends,
I am glad to inform you about several updates.

Firstly, it has become possible to copy tasks from one project to another.
This is how to do it:

Screenshot “Copy task. Step 1”


  1. Select “Copy” in the menu of the task required.
  2. In the drop-down window, select the project to which the task is to be transferred.
  3. we see participants having been involved in the task (manager, analysts). Mark the participants to add in your new project along with the task. (Screenshot “Step 1”)
  4. Then you should select subtasks to copy in your new project. Here you may as well specify the terms, replace managers or names of task and subtasks. If the Executive is not involved in the new project – the system will highlight it in red, which means that you should either replace it now or return one step back and add this participant in a new project. (Screenshot “Step 2”)
  5. Confirm the copying and send out notifications.

Screenshot “Copy task. Step 2”




Secondly, detailed notifications on task updates can now be communicated by e-mail.
Now, if any participant changes labels, dates or priority – you will receive a letter with such updates indicated.

Screenshot “Update notifications”





Thirdly, by our users’ requests, we have added the possibility to view subtasks on the “Tasks Priorities” page.
To do this, you need to tick Subtasks in the “More parameters” section of the “Priorities” page. As you requested, the system will either display all subtasks or select only the required ones according to your filter’s parameters. If you want to print this list (including subtasks) or communicate it to all the participants by E-mail – you still have such possibility.

Screenshot “Tasks Priorities”



Thank you, our dear users, for sending your requests and advice – they are very interesting to read and even more interesting to do.
We welcome your letters to the address: info@worksection.com. ]]> Specialties and updates Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=61 Alexey Lushik Worksection Gadget in Gmail and iGoogle http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=59 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=59#review Dear friends. Many of you probably use the Gmail mail service, and now I will tell you how to add a Worksection gadget to your Gmail or to your Google main page. This will enable you to see the latest... Dear friends.

Many of you probably use the Gmail mail service, and now I will tell you how to add a Worksection gadget to your Gmail or to your Google main page. This will enable you to see the latest developments in Workseñtion without exiting from your mail, while continuing your work.

It will look as follows:



So, in order to add a gadget:

Step 1: You need to enter your Worksection account and click on the reference “obtain gadget code” on the bottom right corner (under the notebook).



If you want to place a gadget on your Google main page – it is enough to click on the reference in the resulting window. If you want to view developments in Gmail – copy the code and pass to your Gmail account to make further settings



Step 2: Enter the “Mail settings” -> “Laboratory” and activate the option “Adding gadget to URL”




Step 3: Enter the “Mail settings” -> “Gadgets”. Insert the code copied.



That’s all. We hope it will be helpful in your work.

Best regards, Chingis Barinov.
Worksection team. ]]> Specialties and updates Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=59 Chyngis Barynov Bookmarks for any pages and Tasks transfer http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=56 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=56#review Dear friends, today we want to introduce you a couple of new functional abilities 1. Adding random pages to bookmarks Now you may add not only tasks to bookmarks, but also absolutely any pages. Meanwhile... Dear friends, today we want to introduce you a couple of new functional abilities

1. Adding random pages to bookmarks

Now you may add not only tasks to bookmarks, but also absolutely any pages. Meanwhile, when pages “Gantt Chart”, “Key Dates”, “Tasks Priorities” and “Time” are being added to bookmarks – the state of all the extended filter’s parameters will be saved. You need to filter the data only once and add the page to the bookmarks… Thereafter you can return to this page easily and quickly at any time.

How to add pages to bookmarks? Switch to the needed page, filter the data (if necessary). Then open the “Tabs” dropdown list and click “add to bookmarks”.



You will be offered to name the page added to bookmarks.


Done.

2. Tasks transfer between projects

The administrators have now obtained an ability to transfer tasks from one project to another. The reason: either your clients or employees have created a task in an irrelevant project or a task within the current project has lost its sense, but it should be continued in another one. Are different participants working in these projects? It is not a problem – the system will inform you about the participant that must be added to the new project and remind the role implemented by each of them. Are the FTP project files already in the storage? Worksection will find them there and transfer to a new project, and all of them will remain available.



After the transfer, all the subscribed participants will receive messages about it.

Thank you for being with us, we wish pleasant work for you.

Best regards,
Worksection team ]]> Specialties and updates Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=56 Valeriy Galyant Comments to subtasks! And something else… http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=53 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=53#review Dear friends, we introduce you the next Worksection improvement. The main subject is commenting subtasks, but there are another couple of pleasant details of which you can read below. 1. Comments to subtasks... Dear friends, we introduce you the next Worksection improvement. The main subject is commenting subtasks, but there are another couple of pleasant details of which you can read below.

1. Comments to subtasks

Now you may actively comment not only tasks, but also subtasks. In the right unit, opposite each subtask, an icon has appeared, opening the way to discussion. Green color of pictogram will prompt you about the location of new records, and white color will point the places where they are absent yet. By clicking the comment’s icon, you will get to the detailed page of a particular subtask. In the header we see the mother task and the reset button. The subtask commented in the right column is highlighted in yellow. It is impossible to get confused.



The process of working with comments of subtasks is exactly the same as that for tasks. You can also restrict visibility and make attachments. All messages on new comments to subtasks appear both in event tapes and are sent by email as notifications to all participants subscribed to the task.

 Remember!  You can restrict visibility of the content at any of the levels Task / Subtask / Comment.

2. Marking unread comments

The already known green pictogram will be present in the entire system. It notifies about one or several unread comments that have appeared in this task or subtask.




3. Time at closing tasks and subtasks

We have made a nice pop-up window, which, while closing tasks and subtasks, will offer you at once to record the time you have spent. You may always correct the entered values on the Time page (available in the Studio package and above).



4. Improved viewing

And finally, a couple of useful details.
Task viewing has become more convenient. Now the system administrators can promptly find out the tasks of which a particular person is an executor and author.



You can see the comment content directly from the account’s main page. To do this, draw the mouse to the event record.




Thank you for your attention, we hope that for you it will become more pleasant and simple to work.

Best regards,
Worksection team ]]> Specialties and updates Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=53 Chyngis Barynov Megafilters, time, calendar http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=49 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=49#review In your account, on the pages “Task priorities”, “Time”, “Key dates” and “Gant diagram”, there were little possibilities to select elements by several parameters. From now on, the abilities have become very wide. In the right part of the filter block, a button “more parameters” has appeared, opening these wide possibilities. Dear friends, again we are pleased to inform you about some useful updates.

1. Megafilters

In your account, on the pages “Task priorities”, “Time”, “Key dates” and “Gant diagram”, there were little possibilities to select elements by several parameters. From now on, the abilities have become very wide. In the right part of the filter block, a button “more parameters” has appeared, opening these wide possibilities.



You may select tasks from several projects, those made by definite authors and executors, and those containing specific marks. Additionally, you can select only tasks or subtasks, all which are open or only expired ones, all which have been implemented on time or delayed ones. And these are not all. You can select a range of tasks’ start and end dates..



2. Time

We have made some restyling of the Time page. It has become more clear and compact. Opposite each task, a dropdown tool menu has appeared, and the newly added megafilter enables you to show time expenditures on several projects at once. In such case, the total time in the bottom of the page can be maximized by the button “show for each project”.



3. Calendar

The restyling has touched also the first tab of the “Key dates” calendar. The calendar grid has become wider, and the delayed tasks are marked in pink color. Also a legend has appeared, and, of course, megafilters.




Thank you for your attention, we wish pleasant work for you.

Best regards,
Worksection team

]]> Specialties and updates Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=49 Valeriy Galyant Mobile Version (beta) http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=48 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=48#review Dear friends, we want to notify you on starting the Worksection beta version for mobile devices.

Dear friends, we want to notify you on starting the Worksection beta version for mobile devices.

The mobile version is available by the address http://YOUR_ACCOUNT.worksection.com/m/ (just add “/m” to your account address), it does not have the entire functionality, but can help you in a situation when only a mobile phone is at hand. We continue the testing, and will be very grateful to you for your notifications on possible problems on your mobile device.

Best regards,
Worksection team ]]> Specialties and updates Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=48 Valeriy Galyant Worksection account on your domain http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=46 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=46#review We have two good domain news for you. Firstly, these are alternative domain names, at option. Secondly, the ability is given to permanent customers to reverse the current Worksection account to the company’s own domain.

We have two good domain news for you. Firstly, these are alternative domain names, at option. Secondly, the ability is given to permanent customers to reverse the current Worksection account to the company’s own domain.


How does this work? We will tell you…


Alternative domains

Your favorite name for your account is already used – there is no reason to be upset. From now on you have more names available! In addition to the usual one, worksection.com, such names as worksection.org, worksection.net, worksection.com.ua and worksection.net.ua have been added.

For the accounts which have already been created, transition to any of the alternative domains will be allowed within one month. You may do it on the Settings page.



Please note — SSL encryption may be exploited only on the worksection.com domain.


Account on your personal domain

Alternative domains are not enough? Do you want to ultimately personify your account? Now this is also practicable!

All customers of the Studio tariff plan and those above can receive the account address on their company’s domain (e.g. work.My_Company.com)

To do this, you should change the DNS records of the required domain: transfer the A record of your domain to the IP address of our server 89.184.65.182. You may do this either via the recorder’s profile or via the Hosting Panel (if the domain is registered there).



Then indicate your domain name on the Settings page.



Within 1-2 work days the account will be configured and transferred to your domain. All references to the past account address will be automatically redirected to the new domain.

Please note — using your personal domain excludes the ability of SSL encryption of the Worksection account.


We wish nice work for you (as much as it is possible in this unbearable heat).
Best regards,
Worksection team ]]> Specialties and updates Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=46 Alexey Nabok Labels and task priorities http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=45 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=45#review It is becoming more and more simple to organize work with a great number of tasks. Marks and multilevel priorities have been added to your arsenal.

It is becoming more and more simple to organize work with a great number of tasks. Labels and multilevel priorities have been added to your arsenal.


Labels

Labels are intended to divide tasks into subgroups. On default, 6 labels have been created in your account. 3 of them are generally available, and 3 are to be applied inside the company (they are marked with a lock and not seen to our customers). .

Labels are controlled by the administrator from the same name tab and in the account settings. You may easily rename and repaint any labels, including preset ones, change their visibility, delete them or add new ones.




It is very simple to assign or change labels of a particular task. It can be done both during the task creation phase, and during subsequent editing. Additionally, you may assign labels on the fly by using the relevant option of the dropdown task menu.




How to select tasks with definite labels from the general list? A block filter has appeared on the Tasks and communication page. Flag the labels you are interested in and click “Filter out”.




To return to the general list of tasks – reset the filter by the button “Show all tasks”, or click the “All tasks” reference located before the page header.




Priorities and statuses

In response to numerous requests from our users, we have made the usual “High priority” mark more flexible and not so categorical. Now you can set the task priority within the scale 1 to 10. Each priority has its color, from cold grey to hot red. (“High priority” that you set up before has got the priority No.7 by the new scale; all other tasks get the priority No.1)

Additionally, we have added the “Suspended” status corresponding to the zero priority and marked with a pause symbol.




Of course, the “Outstanding tasks priorities” have also been updated. No you may change priorities and control the execution sequence on the fly. A dropdown task menu which enables you to assign marks without exit from the page has been added to this page.




We hope these improvements will make your work yet more pleasant and efficient.
Please send your feedback regarding this update, as well as suggestions about further improvement of the service. Your opinion is very important for us.

Best regards,
Worksection team. ]]> Specialties and updates Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.worksection.com/blog.html?id_post=45 Chyngis Barynov