QG Software & 5pm Blog

If you are dealing with long messages in 5pm, this feature will be very helpful for you. Compact View lets you shrink the Activity panel content, compressing each message into a single line.

You can collapse/expand each message separately or collapse them all by activating the Compact View. To access this feature click on the arrow-button in the top right corner of the panel. We also added such a button to the left panel and linked to it some common functions for quick access.

Want to find more about 5pm? Visit our website at www.5pmweb.com .

We are glad to welcome Firefox 3 (Release Candidate 3) and announce that 5pm works very well on it. Nearly 60% of our active users are running Firefox at this point. We plan to do some additional tests to measure the 5pm performance on FF2 vs FF3.

You can find more info about latest Firefox here.

While we are working on some big features, we still keep improving 5pm at all the levels. We optimized the main projects/tasks view to work faster and expanded it with some new features like the possibility to fold/unfold all the projects at once. You can now also use the keyboard arrow keys to navigate through the list of projects and tasks.

Also, we added the possibility to mark a project or task with a star icon. With a simple click on it you can change its color (three colors are available).

Some of our users asked for the possibility to duplicate existing projects and tasks or to define projects/tasks templates. We have good news for them - our latest feature, Project/Task Cloning, does just that. With a single click you can duplicate an existing 5pm task or project (with or without its sub-tasks). The dates and status fields are automatically adjusted.

Read more about this feature on our website.

How much paper do you use in your office every day? Ever considered reducing the waste and save some trees? Today is a good day to start, since it’s the Earth Day.

A good way to save paper is to go electronic. Documents, notes, calendars - everything. Especially when you have to share it with others (imagine all the print copies of the same document). Web-based software makes the sharing even easier, since the data can be accessed from any computer that has access to internet.

Is your task list still on paper? If so, you may want to try 5pm web-based project management tool - it will definitely reduce your carbon footprint, not to mention the increased productivity:

Want to find more about 5pm? Visit our website at www.5pmweb.com .

This weekend we added a bunch of small updates to 5pm. They may not be noticeable at first glance but can be very handy.

Firstly, the “Filter by any user” dropdown was updated. It’s not just about the look - now you can sort the projects/tasks not just by any team member but also by any client, with a single click:

The popup window’s design was also updated. Now it includes the “expand” button to maximize its size - it expands the Description/Content field, giving more space for the input text. Some useful rollover hints were added (did you know, for example, that in the calendar you can select the day one week from today by just typing in “+7″):

We believe that a good product is as much about big features, as about small details. In fact, good design is in details.

Want to find more about 5pm? Visit our website at www.5pmweb.com .

We recently got multiple requests from universities that use 5pm and want to pay on a yearly, not monthly basis. It’s linked to the University & Federal Fiscal Year-End.

We decided to make an exception for such clients and process yearly payments. Note, that the Educational Institutions also take advantage of a 50% discount.

In order to take advantage of this deal, just contact us directly. We accept credit card payments, wire transfers and checks.

For more information about 5pm project management service, visit www.5pmweb.com.

We are glad to welcome all our users on our new 5pm server. The transaction went according to the schedule.

Existing users will notice a significant improvement in speed, due to a more powerful server.

We also updated our backup procedures - the backups are created nightly between 2AM and 4AM EST to three different locations, two of them in different data centers, with different hosting providers. We are also planning to add an additional backup storage in Europe.

We are glad to announce that this weekend we are upgrading to a bigger, faster, better server. The transaction will happen on 5:00 PM EST on Friday, March 7. All the services will continue working as before, while DNS changes will be propagated during the next 48 hours. We will be tracking the servers closely during the weekend to make sure everything goes smoothly.

At the end of the weekend, after the DNS change will be finished, we will do the final synchronization of the databases at 2:00 AM on Monday, March 10. The service will be stopped for 30 minutes at that time in order to do the synchronization.

Feel free to email us if you have any questions.

We updated our Timeline design today. It’s been compressed to fit more project/task information. In fact, it can fit double the information now.

Here is what the old and new Timelines look like:

We plan to add soon new features to our Flash Timeline and, in time, even make it editable.

Want to find more about 5pm? Visit our website at www.5pmweb.com .