Product Updates: June 27 - July 3

It’s a short week for us here in the US! We hope our American clients had a festive 4th of July weekend. While our San Francisco office was out celebrating our engineering team in Australia was hard at work pushing forward on our Scheduling, Purchases (currently in beta), and Public API work. We know some of you are waiting patiently for more updates on the Scheduling beta, so keep an eye on the Accelo Community for the latest updates - more coming soon.

With that, here are the minor updates and improvements worth mentioning this week!

Weekly Timesheet improvements: we’ve fixed the Timesheets "Detailed time entry" pop up box that could sometimes go off-screen, in addition to making the Totals footer more visible.

Projects Export improvement: now you can get a better sense of how project time is being spent, as billable and non-billable hours are broken down into distinct columns. We also updated the total hours column to reflect the combined billable and non-billable hour totals.

Projects & Milestones Overview improvement: the Projects’ Overview Milestone column should’ve been labeled Milestones & Tasks because tasks show in this view too - whether nested inside a milestone or added directly under the project!

Invoice Fields Improvement: when a lengthy description was included in an invoice template, or when a new invoice was manually created, the Notes field automatically expanded, applying a scrollbar as needed in order to view all of the content. However, when creating an invoice, if you picked an invoice template with a lot of default notes, the scroll bar wasn’t applied. That meant that all the text that fell outside of the visible area appeared to be missing - though it was still there! To fix this, we added a vertical scroll to customer/internal notes on invoices.

Our team also implemented a new merge field to cover the full contact address in a single merge field - e.g. [invoice.contact.postal.address] or [invoice.contact.physical.address] replaces the need to use the individual street, city, state, etc. fields!

Mobile App improvements:  The team have shipped a number of small improvements lately. Most notably, the ability to create an expense against a retainer (period) and fixing a bug with geofencing where the time between events (such as entering and leaving a client site) didn't add up correctly.

Email attachment size warning: Composing emails in Accelo with large attachments (in excess of 18MB total) wasn't giving users fair warning that their attachments may not be sent (due to most email servers having a 20MB limit on email attachments). We've improved the compose window so a clear warning message is now present when large files are attached. 

Change Assignee from Ticket List: A small but handy tweak here - the list tickets screen now includes an option to assign/re-assign a ticket in the 3-dot menu found on the right-hand-side of each ticket/row.

Cancel button improvement: when creating an issue within your inbox, your cancel option linked back to home rather than your inbox - slightly annoying we know! That’s now been fixed.