Tiktrac’s times are now internally stored in seconds. This means the timer is much more intuitive. We also took this opportunity to make the timer look more like a clock:

The task entry form now displays the end date when you set the task as completed, which saves a few seconds when inputting lots of tasks.

We’ve also made the currently selected sheet clearer in the right-hand navigation.

There’s also a new manage screen which allows you to add or configure clients and sheets—administrators will see a Manage tab at the top of each page. I decided to add this page because we want to remove the right-hand sheet navigation to replace it with something that uses less space in the future.

The seconds upgrade was actually a difficult thing to do, but it’s resulted in cleaner code internally. That frees us up to implement new features soon (upgraded dashboard, navigation and invoicing).

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Our new Tiktrac widget is out: get it on the Tiktrac widget page. This is an entirely new version that adds:

• Timers to every task
• Description editing (click a description to edit it)
• Delete tasks
• Error messages

This version was created by Thomas Loudon with support from Alex at Helicoid.

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Tiktrac has just been upgraded:

• Email imports are now supported
• HH:MM can now be displayed as well as typed in (switch to it by editing a time sheet)
• The login form looks nicer
• Minor browser bug fixes (Firefox/IE both improved)

Email imports are incredibly useful if you’d like to schedule regular imports from a back office system. Set them up like this:

• Each sheet has a unique email address, click “Import” on a time sheet to view the address
• Import a CSV file the usual way, but instead of saving the import select “Set as Email Template”
• The sheet is now ready to accept emails
• Send an email to this address with an attached CSV file to import

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We’ve just updated Deadline with these fixes/improvements:

• Calendar feeds that don’t need HTTP auth are now available for those of you who want to subscribe to Deadline in Google Calendar
• Reminders are now switched off/on properly (thanks debaire)
• Fixed parsing of phrases like “hunt rabbit 3am tomorrow” (thanks voamash)

These issues have been acknowledged but not fixed yet:

• Phrases containing “today” aren’t interpreted 100% correctly yet
• Jabber bot isn’t working across Google Talk to Jabber. We’re testing our own Jabber server, and it may be that we have to run a service for Google Talk and Jabber separately—thanks to dag for helping us with this

These are things we’ve been asked about a lot this week:

• We’re looking into the costs for SMS alerts and international support
• Time zone support quality is being looked into
• We are indeed building a Mac and iPhone application (Helipad iPhone will be out first)
• If anyone builds a cool and user-friendly *A…

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Tiktrac has been upgraded with the following fixes:

• Reports set to show tasks with client filters will now work correctly
• Certain reports weren’t exporting CSV data, this has now been fixed

A few Tiktrac fans have suggested that they’d like more flexibility from the RSS feeds. This made me realise reports should be available as RSS. I’ve just finished work on this and you can check it out now.

Navigate to one of your reports (or add one), then click the Export menu and select RSS Feed:

Your browser will show you the feed:

You can then subscribe in your feed reader of choice. Note that these screenshots were taken in Firefox 3. If you use Safari or Firefox you can subscribe to feeds within the browser.

Tips

• If you want to create a list of tasks (rather than summarised data), make sure you create a report with Summarise ...

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I just finished deploying our latest Tiktrac changes. If you’re a developer, please pay attention to the last section of this post.

Client edit page

The client edit page now makes it easy to see which sheets have been archived. It also allows you to archive all sheets quickly—look for the form that says “Archive this client” to use the feature.

Home page redesign

Tiktrac’s home page now looks more professional, and should help you find any information relating to the product that you need. This mirrors the look and feel we’ve been using on our Helicoid support sites and blogs.

XML RPC API dropped

The one major change with this version of Tiktrac is there’s no XML RPC API. We looked at the logs, and no one has used the XML RPC API for a year. Everyone has built software using our REST API instead. It took us around 200 l…

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We updated Tiktrac this morning with a neater project selector. This makes managing lots of sheets much easier for those of you with large accounts.

During the update we ran into unexpected server issues and had to perform emergency maintenance – this meant we had to take Helipad, Tiktrac and Ebiwrite down to fix the issue (they’re all on the same servers).

During this maintenance we posted updates to Twitter and our service status page. It’s worth bookmarking out status page if you rely on our services, because we post the times and dates of any planned maintenance:

http://status.helicoid.net/

Our twitter account can be found here:

http://twitter.com/helicoid

I also occasionally post technical details about what we’re working on to Twitter, so check it out!

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Tiktrac and Ebiwrite have recently surged in popularity thanks to generous coverage by excellent blogs (thanks 100shiki and Emily Chang!) Whenever this happens, the barrage of new users discover bugs lurking we weren’t able to catch with our tests. I’ve been working hard to keep on top of these, at pretty much all hours.

Here’s what we’ve fixed this month:

• Parts of Ebiwrite became unusable when people used tags with a period in them. We’ve temporarily prevented tags with ”.” from being created, but there’s a fix on the way that permits them (it requires more testing due to other dependancies). Thanks Futty!
• Under certain conditions Tiktrac imports created tasks with no user set, which caused problems viewing the associated time sheet. This is now fixed.
• Tiktrac imports also became unusable when importing CSV files with blank headers. Tiktrac now renames t…

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Note: This tip actually applies to all of our web applications, seeing as we carefully craft mobile interfaces for each of them.

Did you know your Tiktrac account has a mobile phone version? Just add /mob to your account’s URL. Even though it provides a limited view on your account, it allows you to post tasks wherever you are with a mobile phone.

This is great for anyone who leaves the office regularly, like tradesmen. We have a plumber friend who uses his phone to log time when he’s out on a job , which means his time sheets are more accurate: no more end of week panics trying to remember what he worked on.

Similarly, Helipad allows you to read your documents when you’re away from the computer. Just login with your phone at http://pad.helicoid.net/mob. This saved me a lot of time when I was setting up Helicoid, because I …

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Tiktrac, our time tracking app, has just been furnished with a Mac OS Dashboard widget.

To download the widget and get instructions on how to use it, visit the widget’s page.

We’d love to hear from you (and give you awesome free stuff) if you’ve used Tiktrac’s API to make any widgets, gadgets or interesting things. Also get in touch if you’d like help building something like this.

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We recently updated the homepage for Tiktrac, our time sheets web application. While going over the copy we had an interesting idea: why not include a dynamic counter for the total time tracked?

So now you can see the total amount of time recorded by the Tiktrac community. It currently displays 22210 hours, which is almost 1000 days.

That’s a lot of work… maybe soon we’ll have to switch the counter to days instead of hours!

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Tiktrac now supports data imports from CSV files. This allows you to import time sheet data from spreadsheets straight into Tiktrac.

Each sheet now has an Import tab, which takes you through the steps to import your data.

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Tiktrac’s now got a referral scheme. If you get 10 friends to sign up, you’ll receive 50% off the Standard or Premium accounts for a year!

All you need to do is get your referral URL and hand it out to friends, or even stick it on your blog. You can find your referral URL by logging in, clicking on Tiktrac settings and then Referrals.

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We’ve finally updated Tiktrac’s reporting section. What you now see in place of the old report pages is an incredibly flexible system for analysing your Tiktrac sheets in almost limitless ways. Creating your own reports is now possible, as well as filtering them to only show what you need.

Here’s an excellent example for anyone who deals with software: a report to show time spent fixing bugs.

Constructing this particular report was easy enough for my grandma to do it. I added a new report, named it, then added two filters: one to search the task description field for “bug”, and another to limit to a particular sheet.

Here’s how the filters look:

Spend some time experimenting with the new reports feature, and see what you can discover. If you find any really creative ways to use it, let us know so we can share your thoughts with Tiktrac’s fans. In return, we might just give you some *incredible discounts on T…

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This tip applies to all of our applications. When you see a letter underlined in a link or form button, this means there is an available keyboard shortcut. This type of keyboard shortcut is called an “access key”.

Different browsers handle these keyboard shortcuts in different ways. In Safari (Mac OS), I press ctrl-letter. In Internet Explorer, I’d press alt-letter. Check your preferred browser’s manual to see how it handles access keys.

This screenshot is from Tiktrac:

To open up “Add a new task”, I’d press ctrl-a. The task save form also has an access key, so I can press ctrl-s to save.

Helipad has access keys on common operations, like new document and save document. You can even get straight into the handy search bar by pressing ctrl/alt-f:

If you use your applications regularly it’s worth…

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This article is the first in a regular series of tips on how to get the most out of Tiktrac. If you have any suggestions or questions, please contact us

Tiktrac sheets have several export formats. To view the export options, click “Export” when viewing a sheet. A panel opens like this:

Perhaps the most useful way to export sheet data is Export daily summaries as CSV. This creates a file you can easily open with Excel, Open Office or Apple’s Numbers, which contains the total duration for each day. If you’re in the month view, this will export a duration for each day of the month.

This really helps when submitting time sheets to contractor agencies! In fact, we implemented this feature specifically for contractors.

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Using Tiktrac for price plans other than free will require subscription payments starting today.

We allowed free usage for a grace period after beta testing, but unfortunately this is about to end.

If you do not pay, your account will be locked. However, you will still be able to access the data export page and save your data as XML.

To read more about billing or make a payment, navigate to Tiktrac settings (the link at the top-right of the page), then Billing.

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Tiktrac has just been updated with some minor bug fixes (thanks for the bug reports Tom and Oriol). We’ve also implement something to help you with billing clients.

Sheets can now be set up to include a “paid” field. It works a little bit like the “done” field.

Additionally, a new table will appear on the Dashboard to display an overview of outstanding work.

There’s more about this feature on Tiktrac’s help page.

We hope this will make your billing process a little bit smoother. It’s already proven useful to us!

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When we formally launched Tiktrac a month ago, we promised several new features:

• Editable costs Done!
• Bigger branding logos Done!
• REST API (for JavaScript and widget developers) New!
• Configurable reports with CSV exports
• Integration with our other applications

We’ve just finished the third planned upgrade: the REST API. This makes it much easier for widget developers to use Tiktrac.

The rest of this post is aimed at technical readers. If you use Tiktrac and know anyone who might be interested in writing a widget, please forward this on. (Thanks!)

The beta API currently supports:

• Fetching a list of sheets as XML or JSON
• Fetching a list of tasks for a sheet as XML or JSON
• Updating a task using XML

We’ve posted guidelines on how to use the API as a shared Helipad document:

http://pad.helicoid.net/document/public/250fcab4

The documentation includes an example JavaScript class that I …

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In our Tiktrac live announcement we promised editable costs. Over the last week we’ve been working on this, but added and improved so much more along the way.

Editable costs and tax

• It’s now possible to set the cost calculation per sheet
• The cost calculations available are: manual (editable costs), hourly rate and hourly rate + tax
• Tax can be entered as a percentage and defaults to 17.5%

When using manually entered costs, the cost field appears next to the duration field:

Notice that this makes it possible to add a sheet dedicated to expenses. Here’s how we’ve set up expenses ourselves:

Reports improvements

• Reports now all use the same date direction
• Line charts have been added for “busy” reports, making their appearance cleaner
• The “People” graphs are now generated much faster
• The “Overview” reports have been cleaned up

Help system upgrade

We now have a more flexible and friendly help syst…

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We are pleased to announce that Tiktrac has finished its beta trial.

Beta testers have all been granted two months on the premium price plan (this includes 1000 sheets, branding features and secure access over SSL.)

Tiktrac’s launch also sees the release of a refreshed interface detailed below.

New features

• Click to edit tasks – click once to get the full task editor in a pop-up!
• Quickly delete tasks – click the trash can icon to remove a task without leaving a sheet
• You can now create targets for sheets, allowing you to easily see your progress for the month – a feature contractors and agencies will appreciate!
• Tasks now look the same everywhere, and are editable everywhere too
• Time-zone are now supported
• A new contextual help system providing concise help and tips – great for new users and your clients

Targets

The new targets features is especially useful for contractors and agencies. You can quickly see how close yo…

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We’ve been working on making Tiktrac “live” since April. During this time, we’ve held off updates while we’ve gone through the process of setting up our billing system.

This took slightly longer than we anticipated, but fortunately we’ve been able put a lot of effort into Tiktrac during this time.

Before the end of the month, we’ll be deploying:

• Time zone support
• Monthly “targets”—something contractors will appreciate
• SSL—Tiktrac will work over secure connections
• A more consistent, dynamic and refined interface
• Interface and usability tweaks for every feature
• Inline help:
• Bug fixes to improve reliability and speed
• 100% test code coverage—all of our code is now covered by tests

Payments

• Payments for Tiktrac will be made with credit card
• You will be billed monthly
• We will calculate tax where companies are based in the UK and EU, else you are expect…

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I’ve just rolled out three updates to Tiktrac.

You might have noticed the colours next to sheets, clients and people. These are used in the charts under the Reports tab. Editing these colours is now possible, using some Ajax trickery:

Simply click on the colour you wish to edit, drag the sliders and click ‘save.’

The next update provides a new way to enter time. Instead of just entering decimal values or whole numbers, you can now enter times in hh:mm:

I’ve also modified the sheet list, found on the right-hand-side of most pages. It’s now possible to collapse the list of sheets by clicking on the client’s name:

Finally, we found that the sheet list could become broken on small displays in Internet Explorer when clicking on a task’s description, so we fixed that too.

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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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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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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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Some of you reported issues with the task timer in Tiktrac. I’ve been working on getting this right for the last month, and along the way we’ve made quite a few improvements to Tiktrac:

• The play/pause timer buttons work the same way as iTunes
• The dynamic elements of the interface (including the timers) have been fully tested in Opera 9, Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2 and Safari 2 (please blame Kev or Yuka if we’ve missed anything)
• Visual cues have been added when the timers are started and stopped:

• Visual cues have also been added when a task is completed:

• Buttons that change ‘views’ automatically retain their setting:

• The reports section looks slightly more awesome
• The graphs on the reports section are now white so they’re now more printer-fr…

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Tiktrac will be updated this week with some big changes to the underlying system. This will fix problems people have reported with the timer in Opera, and help make the interface feel more responsive. There’s also a few usability improvements for Internet Explorer 7 users.

These changes have been in the works for about 2 months, and should set things up for some pretty serious feature enhancements in the near future.

We’ll post again once we’ve finally finished testing!

Update: I’ve just finished testing a new enhancement in Safari, Firefox, Opera and IE7. It’s a little thing, but it makes things that little bit more friendly:

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I’ve just finished deploying and testing the new features for Tiktrac that I’ve been working on over the last two weeks:

• It’s now possible to view all tasks for a sheet, or use the traditional monthly view.
• Task descriptions now accept textile, so you can format your descriptions with simple markup.
• Several fixes for IE6.

Here’s a screenshot of how the new sheet view looks:

The view change has actually simplified the Tiktrac’s internal code dramatically—this was a good chance for me to refactor things. The upshot of this for you is that it’s now much easier for me to add other views to the sheets page, so get in touch if you have any ideas!

Incidentally, the screenshot was taken in Linux, because we like to test our products in Linux, Mac OS and Windows.

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I’m still working hard on that pet project I mentioned a few days ago. Before I can unleash it, there’s a bit of work left to do on documentation and tidying things up. This project embodies a few concepts that we hope to add to other Helicoid products, which you can see illustrated in this screenshot:

That’s running straight off the development version, and gives you a few clues as to what we’re attempting to do. As I said in my last post, I’m actually using this day-to-day, and it’s pretty great! I can’t wait to release it to beta testers, and I’ll give you details on that through this weblog.

Meanwhile… This weekend could be the date Tiktrac finally gets a different type of view on the sheet page: I’ve been working on expanding it beyond monthly views. This is another step towards a production-ready version!

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We’re always tweaking Tiktrac, and we welcome any ideas you have in our forum. One thing people often ask for is a timer, so Tiktrac can count the minutes for you as you work. So I took it upon myself to dedicate the entire weekend to adding this feature.

Tasks on the homepage and on sheets now have a play/pause button:

Once a task has been completed, a little tick is displayed:

While I was there, I improved the sheet configuration, based on forum suggestions. You can now select which fields you want displayed in a sheet:

This can be useful for people who don’t want the ‘ref’ field, or when you’re tracking a time for a project that only has one person and don’t require the ‘who’ field.
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Julian Romero has kindly written a Greasemonkey script to add stopwatch functionality to Tiktrac. This allows you to stop and start tasks as you work on them without needing to remember the time you spent.

Check it out here: http://wiki.mad.mw/GreaseMonkey/UserScripts/TikTracStopWatch

Greasemonkey is an extension for Firefox that allows developers to modify how websites work. In this example, Julian has written some JavaScript that adds a stopwatch to each task on your Tiktrac dashboard.

To install this script:

1. Get the Greasemonkey extension
2. Go to Julian’s wiki
3. Right click “TikTracStopWatch.user.js ” and select “Install This User Script…”

Now you should see something like this when you’re using Tiktrac:

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I just updated Tiktrac, after a week of gruelling testing. Gruelling because it’s hot in London, not hot beyond enjoyable—it’s just hard to work when everyone else is having barbecues!

So let me explain the updates so I can finally enjoy the sun and relax.

1. More keyboard shortcuts have been added. Look for underlined letters (just like Windows) to see what shortcuts we’ve added
2. When you’re adding a task on the dashboard page, you can press alt-s to quickly save the task.
3. Minor bugs have been fixed with task additions on the dashboard. Safari users probably noticed adding more than one task caused problems.

More on those keyboard shortcuts: Mac users can use ctrl to access them, whereas Windows users use alt. The interface will try and give you some help by underlining things that can be accessed this way. Mac form buttons look like this:

And in Windows:

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If it’s your job to Tiktrac the time for a project, a good way to quickly access Tiktrac is to drag the URL to your dock. Then whenever your boss asks you how long your team has spent on a project, you can quickly pull up the front page and give him the answer.

First, drag the favicon in your browser’s URL bar:

Then drop it in the dock, near the trash:

Since you can do practically everything from Tiktrac’s front page, this can be a great time saver.

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Tiktrac and Bugtagger have moved to a new data center this weekend. You should be able to start accessing Tiktrac as usual by the end of today, but it may take up to 48 hours for some people.

The good news is: once things have moved over, they should be much faster and more reliable!

Let us know if you have any problems with your account after the migration.

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Tiktrac’s servers are currently inaccessible due to problems with our web hosting providers.

This is a strange coincidence, because we’re also migrating to a NEW server set up this weekend.

If you’re trying to access Tiktrac right now it may or may not be accessible, but our hosting providers have assured us that full service should resume within a few hours.

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We’ve just improved the handy table on the Tiktrac dashboard! It now shows some links so you can easily view your data for certain time periods.

Want to suggest more features for us to toil away over? Head over to the forums and let us know!

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We’ve just upgraded Tiktrac! New features include:

Improved dashboard page: quickly add a task, interface improvements, overview of your account’s statistics
Added user administration shortcuts to the client edit page to help make administration easier

This release has many internal changes to improve performance, so please let us know if you find any problems.

And you can always post suggestions to our forums, and discuss Tiktrac with other people:

http://forums.helicoid.net/

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We’re currently finishing off some improvements to Tiktrac, our timesheets software. These updates are really just internal improvements, to make way for future changes.

When we publish the changes, you’ll notice the dashboard page is more friendly. It has ‘Add task’ right there as soon as you login (because that’s the first thing most people do!)

After this update, we’ll be adding time zones, more graphs and then… then we’ll be moving it to a better server setup with more power, more stability, and more sex appeal! We’ve been working hard on other projects for people so we can pay for a better level of service, and you beta guys will get a great deal.

By the way, is anyone running out of sheets? Get in touch if you are, we’ll add more for you.

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This is a small example of what you can do with the Tiktrac API. We’ve created a script that we use with our subversion scripts for checking source code into our repositories.

Whenever we edit code on our projects, we can easily log the time we spent at the same time using a slightly modified version of this script. Download it and hack it to your delight.

Download: tiktrac.zip

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Tiktrac has been updated. We’ve added:

• The API, so developers can extract data and integrate Tiktrac with other applications
• A cleaner sheet page, allowing you to edit the sheet without leaving the page
• A search box on most pages, to help you find tasks easily
• A sheet list that appears on the sheet page, to allow you to navigate between your sheets more easily
• A cleaner login page
• A new reports type, that gives you a general overview of all your tasks and sheets when you visit the reports section

Let us know what you think!

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We’ve been working hard testing the API, making sure it’s secure and provides the features people have requested.

Take a look at what we’ve been doing!

Of course, functional testing is only one part of the testing we do. We’re also testing it with different programming languages to make sure it’s as easy to use as possible. We’ll feed this into our documentation soon, so expect to see PHP, Java and other examples to be included when we launch it.

Our forum is also running. It’s at forums.helicoid.net. You can use this to discuss our software, and get tips and support. Sign up now!

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We’ve just added another report to Tiktrac, and added a few bugfixes that we’ve been hard at work on over the last week.

If you’d like to see more reports on Tiktrac, please tell us what kinds of reports you’d like to see. You can use our contact form to get in touch, or post comments to this blog.

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This week has seen some exciting developments for Tiktrac. We’ve added graphs to the Reports section and improved the interace of Reports overall. We’ve also added sparklines to your account dashboard. These are small graphs that illustrate recent activity for people and your timesheets.

Tiktrac now also supports hours and minutes as time formats for each of your sheets. When viewing a sheet, click on ‘Edit this sheet’, and you will see an option for the time format. If you switch from minutes to hours, it won’t actually change the underlying information, it will simply display hours and let you enter hours instead of minutes.

In more detail, the changes we’ve made are:

Interface changes

• Fixed a bug in the date selector in Internet Explorer.
• Improved the reports section. You can now navigate between reports more easily, and switch between hours and minutes.
• We have removed links that delete items, replacing them with buttons. This is intended to help p…

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Thanks to all our beta testers for the excellent feedback! Gabriel and I have been working very hard this week, employing the little-known rule of software development: test, test, test, then test some more until you fall asleep at the keyboard. We’ve also started adding small tweaks that our beta testers have requested.

• Interface – Added loads of small changes to make the user interface more friendly.
• Interface – Added the contact form to every page, so if you’re really having problems with your account you can easily get in touch with us.
• Interface – Gabriel made an excellent favicon, so Tiktrac looks great in your bookmarks.
• Interface – We’ve added another template to the Appearance setting.
• Technical – We’ve made as much as we can valid XHTML Transitional, which should be everything, and we’ve also fixed a JavaScript error.
• Technical – We’ve added robots.txt to your accounts, so they don’t get indexed by search engines.
• Technical – Fixed date formatting …

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Many thanks to Ajaxian for posting Tiktrac: Timesheet management software!

Ajaxian is one of my favourite coffee break reads, and we’re honoured to have had a mention for Tiktrac. While the news is not as big as last week’s CES announcements, and Apple’s Macworld news (Gabriel recently bought a Powerbook, so I hope he’s not too distressed about the MacBook announcement), it’s a big deal to us.

We’ve had a lot of signups today, and I’m looking forward to receiving feedback from our new users. If you’re signed up to Tiktrac, you can use the contact form, or you can post comments on this weblog.

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We’ve finally launched Tiktrac! Tiktrac, a timesheet package aimed at small to medium-sized businesses, has been created to serve a specific task in a simple and elegant manner. As such, we have used Ajax to enhance user experience: our primary goal was to make it as quick and easy to use as a spreadsheet.

Tiktrac is currently in beta, and as such we recognise that any small wrinkles may lead to changes in the near future. Therefore, Tiktrac will be free to use during the beta period.

We hope Tiktrac relinquishes you from the shackles of emailing spreadsheets or legacy applications! And, as always, please contact us to request features and suggest improvements to the service.

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We’re in the final stages of testing Tiktrac, our timesheets software.

For a long time, we have had to put up with spreadsheets for timesheets. So one of us initiated a project to create a simple Ajax time management application, and then we both evolved it into something quite sophisticated.

We have also updated the Tiktrac homepage, so you can read more about the features it will launch with.

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