Product updates, news & miscellanea from your fellow Apollo developers.
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If you used Apollo for a while, reading the title is probably enough to go "Oh wow, that's good news". If you are reading it much later than May 2012, then you are probably reading old news... but still worthwhile knowing!
Yes, Apollo finally supports bulk editing of time entries. You can now go to the project area, click on "time", run a detailed time report, and edit several entries at the same time (or, delete them):
As you can see from the screenshot, you can change the status of your entries after ticking the right ones. You can also select them all.
Reporting is one of the most important aspects in project management. This is why we are working towards making Apollo's reporting abilities stronger. We have just improved reporting across all projects.
Before this change, if you went to the Projects Dashboard and clicked on "Time", you had a breakdown of how much each person had spent on each project, with a pie chart next to it. You could also download this information as CSV, and filter by person.
Some of our users probably noticed that over the last few weeks Apollo's changelog changed a lot less than usual. If you thought that we were slacking off development, think again: we worked really hard to upgrade Apollo so that it used the latest version of Dojo. Here the what happened.
When we designed Apollo, we decided that we could create some really good notification emails without using HTML. There are, no doubts, several advantages when you use text-only emails: spam filters never seem to bother you; there is never a formatting problem (and believe me, different email clients can render things very differently); finally, they are easier to generate.
The only problem, is that they look "plain". Very "plain".
Hi Friends!
Using Apollo makes you feel excited about your projects.
Sometimes, when you create tasks for your project, you are not entirely sure which task list they will belong to. Or maybe none of your existing task lists is the right one. Sometimes, all you want to do is jump on a project and quickly type 4 or 5 quick points, maybe while you are on the phone with your customer.
This is why we implemented a very quick way of adding tasks to Apollo:
Hi there,
The holiday has definitely been good for us: this week, we have released tons of new features which were requested by users over the last few months. I will break up the list in two blog entries.
We now allow users to search notes for contacts. This strengthen further the CRM side of Apollo, which now allows you to look up old conversations with your contacts by typing a few relevant words:
Hi there,
In my previous blog entry I started listing the new features that made it into Apollo since we came back from our summer break. I also asked you to spot the ones I hadn't listed. I am sure a lot of people simply cheated by looking at Apollo's changelog. For the ones who didn't cheat... here we go!
First of all, we added a couple of important workspace settings.
It's now possible to set a default language for your workspace:
Hi everybody,
we are back from our short (and well deserved!) summer break, and here we are rolling out new features already.
Yesterday, we released our new "Milestone completion bar". If you go to the Milestone page of one of your projects, you will see the usual list of milestones, and for each one, a progress bar:
Hi there,
Software development happens in small steps. Before our deserved summer break (which is just about to end!), we released several small improvements in Apollo. We covered a some of them last week. Here is the rest:
We gave this some thought, and decided that the main means of "subscribing" to a task should be by dropping a comment. This is what happens naturally in several blogs.
