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REST API 1.3 Now Available!

We have a new version of our REST API with new and enhanced methods. Our time tracker also includes support for SAML-based single sign-on (SSO) authentication. Version 1.3 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.

If you're currently using an old version of our REST web services, check out our REST 1.3 documentation for information on what's changed. We encourage you to migrate as soon as possible. The old version is now deprecated and will only be accessible until September 15, 2015.

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ClickTime 7.75

The release of ClickTime version 7.75 includes a new page design for adding and editing clients. We also made improvements to Resource Planning, Project Budgets and Single Sign-On (SSO). Here's what's new in this release:

  1. Detail Client – We updated the UI for adding and editing clients. The new UI follows the same look-and-feel of the new "detail person" pages we released earlier this year.
  2. Week View – We improved performance of the Week View timesheet entry page. The improvement is most noticeable for customers with long project lists or people who work on more than 10 projects and tasks per week.
  3. Resource Planning – We improved Resource Planning performance for all customers. The improvements are most noticeable when viewing lots of projects and people at the same time.
  4. Single Sign-On (SSO) – We added support for SAML-based SSO to our mobile app (version 1.3.132). The Android version is available now and the iOS version is pending App Store approval. We also improved the sign-in experience for customers who allow use of SSO but don't require it. You can learn more about using SSO with ClickTime.
  5. Project Budgets (beta) – We made several improvements to the "Project Budgets" (beta). With Project Budgets you can track the progress worked towards your company's projects (billable and non-billable). To learn more, or to enroll in our program, contact us.
  6. REST API Version 1.3 – We have a new version of our REST API with new and enhanced methods. This version also includes support for SAML-based single sign-on authentication. Version 1.3 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.
  7. Performance Improvements – We completed the back-end performance enhancements to session handling for all customers.
  8. Interface Enhancements: Personal Tab – The "Personal" tab is now displayed in the navigation bar only to Managers and Administrators.
  9. Interface Enhancements: App Center – The "Mobility" area was moved from the main navigation to the "Help" menu and renamed "App Center." Go to the App Center for links to download our mobile app (iOS and Android) and Desktop Application.
  10. QuickBooks Connector – We improved the performance when searching for timesheet data to import to QuickBooks.
  11. Hourly Cost Wizard Enhancements – Improved the identification and handling of non-numeric values in some fields.
  12. Bug fix: Company Dashboard – Fixed an issue where the "Hours Worked in Last 7 Days by Client" panel didn't update its legend after the data set filters were changed.
  13. Bug fix: Type Ahead on Week View – Resolved an issue that prevented some companies from using "type ahead" filtering on Week View.
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Beta Testing Expenses News Release Notes Timesheet Web Services

ClickTime 7.55

The release of ClickTime version 7.55 includes various reporting improvements. Here's what's new in this release:

  1. Reports Updated – We enhanced many reports to include additional support for displaying your company logo and to provide better results when exporting the data to Excel.
  2. Expense Export (beta) – We made various improvements to the customizable Expense Export (beta). This reporting tool is great for finding and exporting receipts and other information about expenses.
  3. Bug fix: Week View and Project List Controls – Fixed issue when a company is configured to restrict projects by division and employee wasn't assigned to a particular division.
  4. Bug fix: Week View and My Tasks – Fixed issue to properly reflect "My Tasks" settings when entering time on Week View.
  5. Bug fix: REST API documentation – Fixed broken links in our REST API documentation.
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Expenses News Release Notes Timesheet Web Services

ClickTime 7.49

We are happy to announce the release of ClickTime version 7.49 with new notification options and other improvements. Here's what's new in this release:

  1. Timesheet Approval Notifications – For people who submit their timesheets for approval, you can now be notified via email when your timesheet gets approved. To enable this notification, go to the My Preferences page under the Personal tab.
  2. Expense Sheet Notifications – For customers using our Expenses module, you can now receive email notifications when your submitted expense sheets get approved and paid. To turn on these notifications, go to the My Preferences page under the Personal tab.
  3. Billing & Cost Rates – We increased the maximum rates to 500,000. This is helpful when tracking rates in certain currencies.
  4. Bulk Send Welcome Emails – We added the ability to send a "welcome to ClickTime" email simultaneously to a group of people. This is helpful when coordinating the onboarding of new teams or departments within a company. This feature is accessed from the "People" list under the Company tab.
  5. Lists – New Filters – When reviewing lists of people, clients, projects, tasks, divisions and employment types there are now updated filter options. You can filter the lists in order to view either only active items, only inactive items or all items.
  6. Lists – Actions Menu – We added an "actions" menu to the top of the people, client, project, task, division and employment type lists. You can easily activate or deactivate multiple selected items at once with the provided options.
  7. REST API – With the recent release of version 1.2 of our REST API, we are deprecating version 1.0. The old version will no longer be accessible as of July 1, 2014. If you are using the REST API, please review the updated web services documentation for details about upgrading to version 1.2.
  8. SOAP API – We added the GetJobDetailWithEstimation method to the ClickTime SOAP Web Services. Please review the web services documentation for more details.
  9. Bug fixes: Company Dashboard – Recent Timesheets – Fixed miscellaneous issues when drilling-down into a Timesheet Review directly from the "Recent Timesheet Status" dashboard panel.
  10. Bug fixes: Day View – Fixed miscellaneous sub-job issues and a problem with IE 11 when tabbing between fields.
  11. Bug fix: Stopwatch – Fixed an issue when a stopwatch ran for 10 hours or more.
  12. Bug fix: Report – Fixed a sorting issue with the "Expense Summary by Client and Project" report.
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News Release Notes Technology Timesheet Web Services

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 7.0

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.