I was sitting at my desk in my dressing gown this morning, wrestling with Tiktrac’s deployment scripts to get them as seamless as possible, to the dramatic sounds of Muse’s latest album. Of course, I broke things, but after a few coffees everything is now better than ever!

I had a reason to get up early and start work while Tiktrac’s usage is low: we’ve added a new custom branding interface and cleaned up the settings area:

This means you can now select your own colours for Tiktrac and upload a logo. But wait! It’s more awesome that mere colour selection! It also generates gradients to soften the blow of most corporate colour schemes.

To try it out, navigate to ‘tiktrac settings’. The link’s at the top right of any page. Then select ‘appearance’. Play around with the colour sliders, then save and your changes will be visible:

The logos will appear in your header, so it’s bes…

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Big changes are afoot in Tiktrac today. The whole user management system has been refreshed, so you’ll forgive me if I don’t sit back and relax with some wine and music after working every possible hour on these features for the last two weeks.

Do you remember that I hinted Tiktrac only had 2 more large updates to go before it goes live? This collection of improvements constitutes one of them. This one was fundamental, and overdue—the user permissions system (the Administrator, Staff, Read only metaphor) was slightly odd and only intended as a placeholder.

Now you can add people to clients with read or write permissions, allowing you greater control over who can post tasks and who can simply view them.

When editing an account, there’s now a permissions section:

The People page has also been updated:

In addition to these welcome changes, clicking on a person’s name now shows you a page containing what they’ve been working on recently….

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Tiktrac’s search interface has just been updated, along with more export options and some minor usability enhancements.

Search now allows you to narrow down your query by selecting a sheet or person. It also displays the total time for the tasks it finds.

Your entire account’s data can now be exported. Look for the ‘Data export’ page under ‘Tiktrac settings’.

‘Daily summary’ exports have also been added under the ‘Export’ tab found on sheets. This produces a CSV file with total time for each day. This was added because many contractors submit timesheets in a similar format. Hopefully this will save you some time!

Developing the search update came from an accidental discovery. During a visit from a client, we got talking about a new feature for their application. The feature was conceptually similar to something else, but would have to be developed almost from scratch.

To get a time estimate we struck upon the idea of using Tiktrac’s sea…

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