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Feature requests / Make task description more available (tool tip?)

« on: August 18, 2010, 04:07:11 pm »

Right now the task description it takes 2 clicks to get to. That seems strange to me and I possibly won't use the field for this reason.

How about making the task description display as a tool tip when you mouse over the task?

The task description is to help a person see the details of a task they see in the list.

2 clicks away is too much IMO.

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How To's / Change order of tasks?

« on: August 18, 2010, 02:59:38 pm »

Hi, is there a way to change the order of tasks. I just entered a new sub task that went to the top. I can't see why it went there, and how I could change the order?

Thanks.

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How To's / Milestone list pulled from everywhere?

« on: August 18, 2010, 02:32:52 pm »

Hi, when I'm selecting a milestone for a task I'm seeing milestones from another workspace.

I expected that I'd be restricticted to only seeing milestones in my current workspace. Doesn't showing milestones from all other workspaces defeat the object of organizing tasks into workspaces?

I'm also likely to use identically named milestones in different workspaces (for repeated action groups). It'll be tricky if when I go to pick, I see list of all these identically named milestones...

Am I correct that this is how Feng Office works right now?  Am I missing anything?

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Getting Started / Project Template or similar?

« on: August 09, 2010, 12:20:26 pm »

Hello

I have a list of milestones/tasks that will be repeated over and over.

In Feng Sky, is there any way of copying such a list to a new workspace?  

Thanks.

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Other Teams and Communities / Web publishing

« on: August 06, 2010, 09:02:30 am »

We're a web publishing and web promotion company. Even though we have clients, all our processes are in house so no 'clients' in that sense.

My needs for Feng Office are as follows:

1) Training Repository - Store general training on our methods of publishing and promotion. Use workspaces to separate training into different business areas.

2) Task Template Repository - Outline the tasks required for each step in a process. Store them in a template.

3) Manage Work and Goals - Issue tasks to team members and track completion.

4) Privacy issues. We use offshore freelancers a lot and want to keep them segmented from each other - not able to see each other email addresses. For that reason alone I'll keep them in separate projects (workspaces used for project management only).

My implementation will be as follows (example only):

Public Training Workspace - for training docs only
  Customer Profiling
  Keyword Research
  Content Writing
  Pre-Publishing/Sub Editing
  Site Promotion

  ... Employees have access to all of the above workspaces, irrespective of job function. Freelancers will have access restricted to just relevant workspaces.
 
Freelancer 1 Workspace, Private - for project management only
Freelancer 2 Workspace, Private - for project management only
Shared Employee Workspace - for shared project work only

Perhaps later I may have projects for individual websites, I don't know - I can decide later.

A key for me is that some workspaces are for project management, other workspaces are for document sharing. Those are the 2 functions I'm interested in. Here's a key reason why I've come to Feng Office: other apps seem to have environments focussed on EITHER document sharing OR project management. Feng Office is flexible in letting you have both. A workspace can be predominantly for one or the orher. So I'd love if (for example Task) tabs could be turned off depending on the workspace, or the user's permissions.

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Feature requests / Custom Welcome Message

« on: August 06, 2010, 08:23:01 am »

New accounts will see a welcome message saying: Create workspaces, Presentation, Milestones ... "Upgrade to a new plan" and so on. They might not have the permissions to do many of these things.

I'd like to have the ability to get rid of that message.

The solution for now? For each new user, login to their account and remove your widget before sending them their password.

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Feature requests / Make Non Permissioned Tabs Invisible!

« on: August 05, 2010, 12:11:51 pm »

I'd like the ability to configure the display the non-admin user sees. I thought I'd be able to do this using permissions, but this doesn't work. Instead the non-allowed tab is still visible and they can click over to it. It's not until you press "Add New" that you see that you don't have permission - an error box pops up telling you.

I wish it worked the way workspaces work.

The way workspaces works is great in that non permissioned workspaces are simply invisible. Why not extend that to the workspace tabs?

When coming over here I was hoping to be able to reduce the complexity of the app for my hires, and showing them only what was necessary for their work. Instead they'll see email, web links and all that stuff and wonder what it's about.

A bit disappointed...

Luke

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Feature requests / Show User Last Login Time

« on: August 05, 2010, 12:01:56 pm »

Hi, I currently have a Deskaway account and have stared with Feng Sky. One of the things I like about Deskaway is that it shows the time a user last logged in.

This is a great feature for virtual collaboration..  It's very useful when you have an offsite employee in another country, to see when they last logged in.

I suppose that when I start using my account here in earnest, the notes/messages feature might have the same effect.

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Getting Started / Feng Sky No https question

« on: August 04, 2010, 07:01:47 am »

Hello,

I'm currently in the Feng Sky trial.

I notice that my Feng Sky account doesn't use https. Should I be worried about my password and other data being sent via an unencrypted session?

D'you guys have any plans to change this in future?

This then relates to another question I have: If I chose shift to Feng Office (self hosted, paid support) in future - would someone be able to help me migrate the data from my Feng Sky installation to my hosted version?

Luke