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ClickTime 7.48

We are happy to announce the release of ClickTime version 7.48 with an updated REST API and improvements to the company dashboard, single sign-on and reporting. Here's what's new in this release:

  1. REST API version 1.2 – We have a new version of our REST API with new and enhanced methods. This includes support for single sign-on authentication, time off and expense receipts. Version 1.2 of the REST API is accessible by all customers. If you're interested in building and integrating your own custom application with ClickTime, check out our web services documentation.
  2. Single Sign-On (SSO) Enhancements – Customers can now specify the particular sign-on provider to enable for their company (e.g. Google Apps, OneLogin, etc.).
  3. Single Sign-On (SSO) with Okta – Enterprise-level accounts can now sign in to ClickTime using SAML-based single sign-on (SSO) via Okta. Our new partnership with Okta gives ClickTime Enterprise users another option to easily integrate with Active Directory.
  4. Company Dashboard – Recent Timesheets – You can now drill-down into a Timesheet Review directly from the "Recent Timesheet Status" dashboard panel. Just click on the numbers of timesheets that are open, rejected or waiting for approval to get more information.
  5. New Report: Task Availability - Customers using Task List Controls may now download an Excel file showing which tasks are available for each active project. This report includes support for Excel Linking, enabling Enterprise customers to pull the data via XML directly into an existing Excel file or other third-party tools for easy custom reporting and integration.
  6. Bug fix: Locking Timesheets by a Manager - Fixed an issue that prevented a person's timesheet from being locked by a manager when the company is configured for timesheet approvals but the person was not yet configured to submit the timesheet for approval.
  7. Web Browsers – ClickTime continues to offer best-in-class browser support. We support the most recent versions of IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari. Check out the ClickTime system requirements for updated information about supported versions of these web browsers.
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February Updates

We've released several updates this month including improvements to reporting, the employee detail page, and a new currency. Here's what's new this month:

  1. Recently Added People – Administrators will now see a list of recently added people at the top of the People List.
  2. Project Availability Report – The downloadable file is now compatible with all modern versions of Excel. We also added support for Excel Linking, enabling Enterprise customers to pull the data via XML directly into an existing Excel file or other third-party tools for easy custom reporting and integration.
  3. New Currency: Trinidad and Tobago Dollar – We added the Trinidad and Tobago Dollar (TTD) as a currency option. You can now enter your expense receipts in this currency. You may also select the Trinidad and Tobago Dollar as your company's primary currency via Company Preferences.
  4. Company Dashboard – Time Entry Completion Panel – When selecting people to be in the dashboard panel, you may now sort the list of people by the division column.
  5. Employee Detail Page Beta – We added support for audit logging and fixed various issues in the updated beta version.
  6. Bug fix: Timesheet Review – Viewing timesheets "waiting for your approval" now correctly shows all timesheets, regardless of the age of the timesheet. Previously only timesheets from the past 9 months were displayed.
  7. Bug fix: REST API – Fixed an issue when a particular parameter wasn't passed.
  8. Bug fix: Reporting – Fixed an issue that prevented some customers from being able to run reports on data prior to 2003.
  9. Bug fix: Client Billable vs. Non-Billable Report – Fixed a calculation issue with one column's grand total.
  10. Bug fix: Week View – Fixed an issue in some browsers that caused the "notes" icon to display incorrectly when viewing locked days.
  11. Bug fix: Add Person – Fixed an issue that caused the expected hours worked each week to be displayed incorrectly.
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News Release Notes Resource Planning Web Services

ClickTime 7.22

We are happy to announce the release of ClickTime version 7.22 with improvements to Resource Planning and reporting. Here's what's new in this release:

  1. Resource Planning – New Dashboard Panel – We built a new "Budgets to Watch" Dashboard Panel to quickly identify the projects that are over- and under-budget.


  2. ResourcePlanning_BudgetSummaryNew Budget Summary Report     – We built a new "Resource Planning Budget Summary" report to show you which projects are over- and under-budget across a specified date range.

  3. Web Browsers – ClickTime continues to offer best-in-class browser support. We've improved the experience on Microsoft's latest Internet Explorer (version 10). We also support the recently released Chrome 26 and Firefox 20. Check out the ClickTime system requirements for more information about supported browsers.

  4. REST API – We improved security on REST SSL connections.
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ClickTime 7.2

We are happy to announce the release of ClickTime version 7.2 with improvements to Resource Planning and reporting. Here's what's new in this release:

  1. Resource Planning - Saved FiltersResource Planning – Saved Filters – We've added the ability to save custom filters in Resource Planning. Now you can quickly pull up custom-built Resource Planning filters that display the metrics that matter most to you. We've provided several helpful filters to get you started.

  2. Resource Planning – New Charting – We've updated the charts in Resource Planning to enhance data visualization. Now charts are bolder, more vivid, and easier to read.

  3. Resource Planning – Interface Overhaul – We heard your feedback and we greatly improved the Resource Planning interface and overall experience. Resource Planning - Navigation The new user interface makes it easier to navigate between views, and presents your data in a cleaner and more concise fashion. You can also now quickly access Resource Planning from anywhere in ClickTime via the tab at the top of every page.

  4. Integration – We added an Integration area under the Company tab to make it easier to find information on integrating ClickTime with other applications including Google Apps, QuickBooks, OpenID, Single-Sign On (SSO) and Web Services (SOAP and REST).

  5. Report Formatting – We adjusted the page size on some reports to better use the full page height. This results in more information per page and reducing the number of total pages in PDF reports.

  6. Bugfix: Report Builder and Firefox – Sharing Report Builder custom reports works properly with versions 18 or 19 of the Firefox web browser.

  7. Bugfix: Timesheet Completeness Dashboard Panel – The "Full Report" link works for companies with many divisions.

  8. Bugfix: Project Availability Report – The Project Availability report works for managers with reporting permissions on all divisions.
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ClickTime 7.0

We are excited to announce the release of ClickTime version 7.0. Included in this release is the ClickTime Resource Planning application, an all new Company Dashboard, billing goals, a new sign-in page, and many more new and improved features:

  1. ClickTime Resource Planning – You can now track monthly project budgets, assign people to projects and schedule their time each month based on each person's availability. Then, you can use our new Resource Planning management interface along with the new Company Dashboard to make sure your company is staying on track. Contact us if you're interested in adding the Resource Planning application to your account.

  2. Dashboard – We have an all-new dashboard for managers and administrators that is viewable upon sign-in. You can add charts, configure and rearrange panels, and fully customize the dashboard to get insight into the key performance indicators you need to stay on top of your business. Check the status of a project throughout the company or look at a specific department. The new ClickTime Dashboard will give your management team new insights into the performance of your company.

  3. Billing Goals – If your company cares about tracking and improving its billable utilization, then this feature is for you. We created new methods for administrators, managers and employees to set billing goals and track progress towards reaching those goals. This feature is immediately available to all customers. Get started by adding/editing an employee's ClickTime info and going to the new "Resource Planning & Billing Goal" area.

  4. Personal Dashboard – People can now keep track of which projects they've been assigned to each month, how many hours they're expected to work on each project, and the progress they've made toward reaching these goals. This is all conveniently accessible from the Personal Dashboard that appears on the right side of your Day View and Week View time entry screens..

  5. REST API – We now offer a REST API that is accessible by all customers. If you're interested in building and integrating your own custom application with ClickTime, check out our web services documentation.

  6. People Roles – We added the ability for you to assign roles to people. Then use roles in the Resource Planning management interface for finding and filtering groups of people.

  7. Sign-in Page – We've given the sign-in page an entirely new design. The cleaner look will give you a brighter start to each day.

  8. Report Builder Enhancements – You now can create heat maps of your data and easily group data for charting by day, month, quarter and year.

  9. Billing Goal Progress Report – There's a new report showing people's progress to reaching their monthly billing goals. You can access the new report from the People category on the Reports menu.

  10. Customizable Data Export – You are now able to export a person's role, workweek hours and billing goal settings.

  11. Organize Your Timesheet by Creation Order – We added the ability to Day View to sort your timesheet entries by order of creation. You may select this sort option under Day View's "Options" menu.

  12. Importing Data – Information on methods to import data into ClickTime is now easily accessible to Administrators in the Advanced area under the Company tab.

  13. Algerian Dinar – We added the Algerian Dinar (DZD) as a currency option. You can now enter your expense items in this currency. You may also select the Algerian Dinar as your company's primary currency via Company Preferences.

  14. Custom Fields – Names of new custom fields may now contain up to 50 characters. We also fixed an issue when similarly named fields had different "required value" settings.

  15. Printing Expense Receipts - We fixed an issue that prevented people with commas in their name from printing expense receipts.

  16. Time Off Balances – We fixed an inconsistency when displaying time off balances. The correct balance was always calculated correctly and displayed properly but elsewhere on the page when it reiterated the balance, it showed an incorrect value.

  17. Web Browser Compatibility – We continue to support the most current versions of the most popular web browsers. This includes the recently released Firefox 13, Chrome 19.x, and Safari 5.1.7. Check out the ClickTime system requirements for more information about supported browsers.
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ClickTime 6.81

Following up on last week's release comes ClickTime version 6.81. The update includes improvements to our Day View beta, horizontal timesheet reports, list views, expense tracking, web services and more. The changes are as follows:

  1. Day View (beta) – We implemented numerous bug fixes and interface improvements.

  2. Horizontal Timesheet Reports – We refined the recently redesigned and rebuilt horizontal timesheet reports that appear in the "Reports" area under the Company tab and the "My Reports" area under the Personal tab. We changed how time off appears in the report and made some other cosmetic changes to fit more information per page. We're also working on additional enhancements based on the feedback we're getting.

  3. List Views – We fixed an issue so that when reactivating a project from the Project list view, the project's associated client automatically gets reactivated if necessary. Additionally, deactivating a client from the Client list view will automatically deactivate all of its associated projects.

  4. Division List Export – We added the ability to export custom fields associated with divisions when running the "Division List Export" report.

  5. Web Services – We added a new method for obtaining detail information about divisions.

  6. Expenses – We fixed an issue which caused the wrong name to appear when a manager or administrator prints another person's expense sheet.
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ClickTime 6.6

We are happy to announce the release of ClickTime version 6.6. The update includes new expense tracking functionality and significant updates to the Day View beta. The changes are as follows:

  1. Expense Receipts - We added the ability to upload receipt images to your expense sheets. You can now easily attach an image for any expense you add to your expense sheet. The receipt image may be in a PNG, BMP, JPG, GIF, TIFF or PDF format.

  2. Day View Beta - We updated the new Day View beta time entry screen. New features include support for start-and-end times and break time, as well as stopwatch improvements. Now anyone can choose to input their timesheet using start-and-end times (e.g. start at 10am and end at 11:30am) via the Options menu.

  3. Timesheet View - We made various improvements to the new Timesheet View. The improvements include consistent ordering of comments between the on-screen and corresponding printable PDF version.

  4. New Currency Options - We added the Central African CFA franc and the Czech Koruna as currency options. You can now enter your expense items in these currencies. You may also select either of these as your company's primary currency via Company Preferences.

  5. Timesheet Review - We significantly improved the performance of the Timesheet Review. This is most noticeable when reviewing hundreds of timesheets at a time.

  6. Desktop App - The beta version of the ClickTime Desktop Application now properly enforces note requirements with each time entry when a person is configured for it. 

  7. Web Services - We updated web services to properly verify that a note exists when a person is required to enter notes with each time entry.

  8. Bulk Editing - Your date format preference (mm/dd/yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy) is now reflected when selecting the date range and previewing the data you want to edit.

  9. Advanced Billing Rates - The advanced billing rate options are now available to Corporate customers only. Existing customers on the Basic plan who were already using an advanced billing rate model will be able to continue using their current account without any changes.
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ClickTime 6.34

We released ClickTime version 6.34 yesterday. The update includes
enhancements to the Desktop App beta and other various improvements. The
changes are as follows:

  1. Desktop Application Beta – The latest beta release of our
    new ClickTime Desktop Application is now available. This version includes an automatic update feature and various stopwatch improvements. If you have a previous beta version installed please uninstall it before downloading the new version (in the future you won't need to do this).

  2. Overriding Timesheets – We significantly improved the performance for timesheet overrides in the Timesheet Review area.

  3. Sub-Job Improvements – We
    fixed an issue with the sort order of sub-job values (phases, sub-phases, etc.). If you are having any issues with this feature, please let us know and we will resolve it for you.

  4. Session Length Increased – Corporate customers who were set to the previous default value of 2-hour sessions have been updated to the new maximum of 8 hours. If you prefer shorter sessions, you can change this value in the Security Settings section of your Company Preferences.

  5. Web Services Documentation – We updated the documentation for the current version of web services.
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ClickTime 6.32

We released ClickTime version 6.32 today. The update includes various session performance improvements and an initial beta release of our new Desktop App. The changes are as follows:

  1. Increased Session Length – We doubled the maximum session length to 8 hours. Session length is the amount of idle time between your last interaction with ClickTime and when you need to re-authenticate. A session length of 8 hours should allow a person to sign in once in the morning, start entering time, and not have to re-authenticate for an entire work day. The new option is in the Security Settings section of your Company Preferences. Customers on our Corporate plan have a maximum session length of 8 hours, and people on the Basic plan get their maximum length doubled to 4 hours. Customers who were previously set to the maximum session length will automatically get their setting updated to the new maximum value.

  2. Session Handling Improvements – We improved how your session is handled on the new Week View and Day View time entry interfaces, as well as the Job Estimation grid. Previously, you may have been told that your session had ended and need to sign-in again more frequently than expected. We've made sure that with every data request your web browser makes to our server, no matter how small, that we update your session appropriately so you don't need to re-authenticate as frequently.

  3. Desktop Application Beta – The initial beta release of our new ClickTime Desktop Application is now available. The new version includes extensive new features, a cleaner user interface, and tighter Web Timesheet integration.

  4. Updated Mobile Sign-in – The sign-in page for mobile devices (iPhone, Nexus One, BlackBerry, Palm Pre, iPod touch, etc.) has been updated to improve the interface for all modern smartphones and other devices. We look forward to using it on an iPad in the near future, too.

  5. Web Services – We would like to remind anyone still using web services version 2.1 to upgrade to the new version. We previously extended the availability of version 2.1 for a couple of months, but it will no longer be available after February 16, 2010.
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ClickTime 6.3

We are happy to release ClickTime version 6.3 today which includes our new Week View timesheet entry screen as well as an early beta version of a new Day View time entry view. The changes are as follows:

  1. Week View Timesheet Entry – The new Week View timesheet entry screen is no longer in beta. We hope you enjoy its updated design and new features including Auto Fill, auto-saving, type-ahead, sub-job support, customizable sorting, advanced job/task search capabilities and more. This new timesheet entry screen works with all modern browsers including IE 7/8, Firefox, Safari and Chrome). For those of you still using IE 6, you'll be able to continue using the legacy Week View. 
  2. Day View Timesheet Entry (early beta) – We have invited a few customers to try out an early beta of our new Day View timesheet entry screen.
    Windows 7
  3. Windows 7 – We fully support Microsoft's newest operating system, Windows 7. This includes support of the ClickTime Web Timesheet system as well as the ClickTime Desktop Application.
  4. Job Availability Report – A new report is available to customers using job restrictions. The report is in the Miscellaneous category and provides an overview of which jobs each person or division can enter time against.
  5. Google Chrome Google Chrome – We've improved support for Google's Chrome web browser. This includes the most recent 3.0 release.
  6. Web Services 2.2 Documentation – We've updated our web services documentation with additional information for certain methods. We would like to remind anyone still using web services version 2.1 to upgrade to the new version. Version 2.1 will remain available until December 1, 2009.
  7. Desktop App: Issue Resolved – You can now use the ClickTime Desktop Application while the "estimation by job and task" feature is enabled on your account.