Get the flags out
By chris, posted on May 1st 2007
What’s this? No entries for 5 months then two in a week? It must be something special! And it is special, in fact it’s a whole new feature.
One of the things that I find difficult in projectGenie is keeping track of where I said I would do something. I have no problem seeing what the latest tasks are, and the latest notes attached to tasks, but I remeber I said I’d do something a few days ago, and I can’t remember where I said it or what task it was.
No longer! Now when I add my "Don’t worry, I’ll look at that in a couple of days"-type notes I can just tick the ‘Flag’ checkbox and that task is flagged for me. Not anyone else, just for me. You can see a demo of this wondrous thing in the little screenshot.
And when I’ve done whatever it was I said I’d do, or it turns out that the action is no longer needed, I can just un-flag it (de-flag, perhaps?) and the flag is gone. Simple!
The flags are set on a per-task and per-user basis, so that means that I can flag whatever tasks I want for me, and other users can flag other tasks just for them. If you want to get your hands on this feature then sorry, you’re going to have to wait for the official release of the Brookmeyer version.
- Posted on May 1, 2007, 11:23 pm
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Clocking in
By chris, posted on Apr 23rd 2007
Wow, it’s been nearly 5 months since I last wrote on here. What can I say, I’ve been busy. In fact I’ve been more than busy, I’ve been burning ever candle at every end I could find, but loving it (mostly!)
You may well be wondering what’s happening with projectGenie at the moment, and the answer is not much. I’ve added a few little updates to the demo site. In no particular order they are:
- Renaming the ‘Tasks & Bugs’ section to ‘Latest notes’ (which is what it is)
- Making the name of the person who wrote any note bold where the note was not written by yourself (i.e. the currently logged in user). This seemingly little thing makes it much easier to scan down lists of tasks and see which ones need attention.
- Adding the facility to change your and (if you have the right privileges) anyone else’s layout style through their ‘Contact’ admin screen.
Not much, I know, but it’s something. For the ‘Brookmeyer’ version which hopefully I’ll get chance to work on some time this year, I’ll be rewriting the entire system to be much more modular, as well as incorporating my lovely JavaScript library to do all the eye candy stuff. I also want to give the option for clean URLs on servers that support it. And plenty more besides that, including reports, statistics etc. Goody goody. In the meantime please download ‘Anderson’, with the little tweaks mentioned above and watch this space.
To finish off I’ll share an excerpt from a nice email I got from a projectGenie user:
“First, major kudos for projectGenie! It is EXACTLY what I’ve been looking for to help me run my web design business.”
- Posted on April 23, 2007, 9:47 pm
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Hit me with your style stick!
By chris, posted on Aug 24th 2006
One of the nice features of projectGenie is its collection of skins, allowing you to flavour your software to your own taste. But small screenshots are rubbish, what you want is to see the real thing. And now you can.
Just visit the demo system and log in with the name of the skin you want to try out: 37genies, alert, appy, greenie, pillarbox (scrapped as of 02/12/2006) or ubuntu. The password is still ‘guest’ for all of these skins.
So, to try out the in-your-face Alert skin, you’d log in with the username ‘alert’ and the password ‘guest’. Try it, you might like it!
- Posted on August 24, 2006, 7:03 pm
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