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Version 1.5.3

Improvements

• (Win) Reduced flickering.
• (Win) Creating a new project now properly switches to that project
• (Win) No longer shows debug messages
• Job number no longer allows erroneous paragraph returns.
• Creating or editing a project properly selects project name for typing
• Negative expenses now export properly.

 

Version 1.5.2

Improvements

• Report pie graph now remembers that you hid it.
• Extra info is now shown in the Notes and Employee column as a temporary tooltip when appropriate.
• Remind Me feature no longer shows redundant confirmation.
• Cosmetic improvements to clickable links.
• File->New now suggests "OfficeTime Data" rather than your previous file name.
• Help FAQ window has cosmetic improvements.
• (Mac) Shrunk Windows can now be sized smaller.
• (Mac) OfficeTime no longer deletes sessions when deleted in iCal. This is to prevent accidental data loss. (If you modify the deleted session in OfficeTime, it will appear again in iCal if you set OfficeTime to send data to iCal.)
• (Windows) Stop / Pause menu items now better placed for quick access at the bottom of the notification area global menu.
• (Windows) Can now select time and duration and type a new time or duration to change it.

Bug Fixes

• Edit->Paste now works consistently when editing in the notes column.
• No longer occasionally complains when two or more copies of OfficeTime try to save to the same folder (such as on a shared network drive).
• Time editing arrows now properly hide when scrolling.
• Making an invoice based on Only Selected Sessions now works again.
• Sorting reports with a subtotal now properly removes the subtotal.
• (Mac) Guesses your local currency more accurately on first run.
• (Mac) Preferences window no longer strangely jumps up.
• (Mac) Spaces no longer shows OfficeTime as untitled application.
• (Mac - Snow Leopard) Reports now open as requested in Excel again.
• (Mac - Snow Leopard) No longer displays repeated messages in the console.
• (Windows) Invoice window no longer offers a non functional minimize button.
• (Windows) Create category window no longer has a nonfunctional minimize button.
• (Windows) Session editing arrows are better aligned and no longer occasionally disappear.
• (Windows) Delete key works again when editing notes.
• (Windows) No longer asks to open reports in Excel.
• (Windows) Now shows the proper cursor for resizing columns and editing notes.
• (Windows - Windows 7) Now reports as Windows 7, not Vista, in bug reports.

Version 1.5.1

• Edit->Paste now works consistently when editing session notes inline.
• No longer occasionally complains when two or more copies of OfficeTime try to save to the same folder such as on a shared network drive.
• Time editing arrows now properly hide when scrolling.
• (Windows) Stop / Pause menu items now better placed for quick access at the bottom of the notification area global menu.
• (Windows) Delete key works again when editing notes at the bottom of the window or the project notes.

Version 1.5

Improvements

• Now automatically checks for new versions. See the preferences to adjust settings.
• Cosmetic and functional improvements to Edit Categories window including ability to move and delete multiple categories at once.
• Cosmetic and functional improvements to Edit Projects window.
• OK button added to preferences window.
• Cosmetic improvements to main window including more legible status area and larger default window width.
• Can now use Delete, DEL, Backspace, CMD-Backspace/CTRL-Backspace to delete items.
• Warns if your data file is in the Trash/Recyle Bin.
• (Windows) Cosmetic improvements including better sized Cancel/OK buttons
• (Windows) More accelerator keys and better tabbing between items.
• (Windows) More intuitive menu layout when clicking notification area icon.
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixes duplication bug when an employee file is imported again after the employee moved a session to a different project.
• Improved data safety should prevent rare corrupt file issue in extreme situations.
• Job number settings are now displayed properly when re-editing a project.
• Fixed rare crash when tabbing between items.
• Fixed rare crash when reading corrupt data file.
• Time travel easter egg works once again. Whew!
• Clicking Cancel in the Edit Category window now works properly.
• Fixes rare crash on launch due to network access difficulty.
• (Mac) The play icon that appears in the menubar now reliably drops down when clicked on.
• (Mac) Fixed issue that could cause you to be unable to change the calendar a Project is syncing with.
• (Windows) The task bar now longer disappears when some windows are open.
• (Windows) No longer crashes when double clicking a data file when OfficeTime is already open.
• (Windows) No longer displays overlapping text at the bottom of timing windows if you exit OfficeTime with a window minimized.
• (Windows) Notification area icon, Open OfficeTime, works properly regardless of whether windows are minimized or hidden.

 

Version 1.42

 

Creating an invoice based on selected sessions only now works again.

 

You can now choose to invoice to a project other than the one the invoice/report is based on. For instance, if you had the following in your projects menu:
     ACME
     ACME - Web Site
     ACME - Brochure
...you could make a report for ACME - Web Site, press Make Invoice, and change the Invoice To dropdown from ACME - Web Site to ACME Inc. without affecting the sessions to be invoiced. (Yes, proper "Clients" are coming in a future release of OfficeTime.)

 

[Windows] Restarting a session no longer causes the date or time to jump to now. This was most noticeable when restarting a session from yesterday or before.

 

 

Version 1.4/1.41

Eighteen new reports! You can now easily summarize your time. See concise reports of the total time for each of your projects last month, what categories of time you worked on last week, or even which months were most productive this year. See the Reports menu. And remember, any report you make can be turned into an invoice. See page 2 of the invoice for your summary.

 

[Windows] Home and end should work as expected and move to the beginning and end of line respectively not the beginning or end of the selection.

 

Version 1.3.3

New Features

• Better safety with data integrity checking. OfficeTime checks what has been written on each save in case you are having disk issues or memory corruption.

Improvements

• Invoices now support just about any language and character set in common use. If you were previously having difficulties with currency symbols or extended characters, they should now work without difficulty.
• Improved preference screen icons. Icons now look more like part of a harmonious family.

Bug Fixes

• You can now correctly sort your projects by date in the Edit Projects screen.
• The preference window no longer moves up when first clicked on possibly obscuring the close button.
• Editing time in a report no longer causes the report to momentarily jitter.
• Fixes memory leak when opening multiple datafiles consecutively.
• Creating an invoice based upon only selected sessions now works again.
• [Windows] No longer shows empty debug windows when hiding/restore from notification area.
• [Mac] Removed the scrollbar from session notes field because it was visually problematic at small sizes.
• [Mac] No longer adds extraneous "\\ \\" symbols before commas into iCal during synchronization.

Version 1.32

 

Improvements

• New "blue sky" color scheme.
• Improved preferences.
• Reports, particularly those with subtotals, now substantially faster.
• Calendar integration from OfficeTime to iCal is now twice as fast. This will be most noticeable when integrating new projects with iCal.
• OfficeTime now quits twice as fast.
• [Mac] improved menu bar icon. Now fits in better with other Mac OS X icons.
• Converts user-entered option-space to regular space for category and project names which could have alllowed name duplication.
• OfficeTime datafiles now show the new OfficeTime logo.
• Does not suggest "company" as part of the invoice file name if there is no company.
• Menubar/Taskbar Quickstart icon section dividers are now more obvious and not selectable.
• [Windows] Changing subtotals now has substantially less window flicker.
• Damaged preferences recovery now uses your system username instead of anonymous or nil.
• [Mac] Improved bug reporting: now includes your system crash log.
• [Mac] Now warns 10.3 (Panther) users that .RTFD files cannot be used for invoices. ( Use .RTF invoice templates or upgrade to Tiger, Leopard or better.)
• Now always scrolls to the top of a comment when the session is selected which prevents apparently empty comments from showing when they are just scrolled too far down.
  

Bug Fixes

• No longer crashes occasionally when editing a session's notes. ( This combined with fixes in 1.31 should fix more than half of all known crashes. )
• No longer fails to show the last item of detail on an invoice if the previous report did not have a grand total showing. The invoice total time and money was always correct on the invoice. ( Broken in 1.31)
• [Windows] OfficeTime now remember the size, position and project of open windows.
• [Mac] Fixes a rare bug where the timer shows substantially more time than is actually timing. The timer always displayed the correct time when stopped and the bug was only shown while timing.
• [Mac] Fixes an occasional conflict on Leopard with other menubar icons.
• [Mac] Fixes a menubar icon conflict with multiple monitors when one monitor is placed on top of another.
• [Mac] OfficeTime datafiles now properly put the officetime extension (.OTD) on the end in Leopard.
• Fixes a memory leak when integrating with the calendar.
• No longer becomes unresponsive after editing a category for some users.
• No longer crashes when receiving rare bad, empty information from the calendar.
• Fixes very rare calendar integration problem related to computer's internal ticks wrapping around to zero.
• Stops any inline notes editing when resizing the window to avoid display problems.
• Prevents Reapply Rounding from applying to currently timing sessions which could, in rare instances, have unexpected effects.
• The Up and Down arrows can be used again to change the time on a session. ( Broken in 1.31)
• The graph legend now sorts properly for all international users.
• The comment text, at bottom, no longer shows in the category color when you first start typing.
• Backup Now backs up your current data, not your data of 1-2 minutes ago.
• No longer sometimes names invoices "company name.rtfd.rtfd."
• Invoices with only 1 session or expense now show the session or expense properly.

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Version 1.31

New Features

• Current project and duration displayed in menu bar. OfficeTime's global menu to start and stop projects from within any app just got better. Now you can see the current project and timer at a glance in the menu bar. See the preferences for menu bar customization options.
  
• Inline notes editing! Editing notes now works the same as any other editing in OfficeTime. Just select the row and click on the notes to edit. ( Or double-click an unselected row.)
  
• New [rate] placeholder in invoices. Now use the [rate] placeholder in the details section of any invoice to show the rate per hour for each session.
  

Improvements

• You can now choose where to save each invoice.
  
• Various session and subtotal color improvements.
  
• Subtle sound effect cues when creating a new session and expense.
  
• Press TAB to move directly from editing time to editing notes on any session.
  
• (Leopard) Can now copy from Apple's address book within the invoice screen.
  
• The forward delete key can now be used when editing and will not try to delete the current session.
  
• Exporting a report is now twice as fast.
• Reports exported to Excel now format the money column in a way Excel can do calculations on.
• Now displays a warning when opening a read-only file.
  

Bug Fixes

• (Leopard) The current project time is now displayed again in the dock.
• Fix for occasional crash while editing a session.
• Fixes a problem some users with unusual international settings had selecting the hour or time. The yellow highlight is now always accurate.
• Fixes a problem with some automatic rounding where stopping and resuming a session repeatedly can lead to a negative or inaccurate time.
• Reports exported to Excel will now always open in Excel, and not a text editor, when requested.
• Entering a rate with a currency symbol in place is now properly recognized in the edit category screen.
• Fixes problems with pasted multi-line project and category names in OfficeTime and multi-line calendar names in iCal.
• Fixed a problem with generating invoices based on only the selected sessions.
• Huge invoice numbers no longer display in scientific notation.
• Fix is a rare problem of not selecting AM/PM when tabbing in a report.
  

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Version 1.3

New Features

• Revamped calendar integration:
  (Leopard) Fast calendar integration now synchs in real-time both ways under Leopard. iCal does not need to be open.
• (Leopard) Deleting events in iCal will delete them in OfficeTime if both apps are open
• (Leopard) (Limitation) Can no longer create expenses in iCal for import. (Creation in OfficeTime and editing in iCal is still supported.)
• Many small calendar integration speed and stability improvements.
• Improved creation of event titles in iCal. The comment only appears in the title when appropriate and is more robust about editing.
• Can now have Project Smith read all "Smith" events, Project "Bob" read Bob events from a calendar and another project read the remaining events.
• Events read from the calendar are now rounded according to your rounding preferences.
• Will now wait until a calendar event has finished before importing it.
• Changing the calendar you are writing to now warns that it will move your sessions to the new calendar and accurately moves only the sessions in that project.
• (Tiger/Panther) Now writes out session comment to iCal even if iCal is closed.
• Edit->Reapply Rounding to Session. You can now change the rounding for any group of sessions by changing your rounding prefs and then reapplying the rounding. This can also be used to remove rounding. This will correctly apply the new rounding to your original time, not your current rounded time. (i.e. A time of 26 minutes rounded to the nearest 15 will round it to 30. If you then round it again to the nearest 5, it will round to 25, not 30.)
• New [job] placeholder in invoices. Use it to display the invoiced job number(s) on the invoice.
• File->Backup Now: Now create instant backups of your data to the location of your choice. Or use this feature to save a copy of your data to send to someone else. This can be used to supplement the automatic backup that OfficeTime does. (See the preferences.)
• Data safety: OfficeTime will now automatically offer to move your data file if it is located inside the OfficeTime application folder. (We don't recommend saving your data to the program's application folder as you might accidentally replace this folder in future upgrade.) OfficeTime by default suggests the Documents folder for all documents.
  

Improvements

• Report subtotals can now be based on only expenses or only sessions.
• Job Numbers: Now remembers last job number used even if you make projects in between with no job number.
• (Mac) Now uses the system currency symbol automatically for new users
• ESC key now closes the calendar pop up.
• Enter Expense window now warns about bad dates.
• Expenses entered with an old date now defaults to 1 PM, not midnight.
• Additional checking for file difficulty during saves.
• Now tracks stop time for use in reporting in a future version of OfficeTime.

 

Bug Fixes

• No longer loads a bad, empty document when your preferences are damaged.
• Fixes rare crash when changing categories.
• (Mac) Edit->Special Characters... works again.
• Adjusting a session's start hour by typing the hour now works more intuitively for systems that use AM/PM.
• Ensures demo data does not default to the application's folder.
• No longer shows [TimeFees] amount in [expense] placeholder if expenses are 0 and the invoice shows only subtotals.
• The rate in the edit category screen now displays properly for international users.
• Better at finding off-screen windows and moving them back.

 

Version 1.2.3

• (Leopard) No longer crashes for some users creating invoices in OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
  

Version 1.2.2

Improvements

• Now displays negative expenses properly. Create a negative expense to reflect:
  A payment of invoice,
  Retainer on file,
  Repayment of Petty Cash, etc.
• File->Export screen redesigned to be clearer.
• Edit Category screen redesigned to be clearer.
• Now uses Documents/OfficeTime as default for report saves, invoice saves if an OfficeTime folder exists there.
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixes bad iCal event date bug affecting some users outside of the U.S.
• The total at the top of the report screen no longer displays an obviously incorrect total time when displaying subtotals only. (Total time subtotal in report was always correct.)
• The total at the top of the report screen no longer displays an obviously incorrect total time when displaying only reported sessions and total is set to exclude reported sessions. (Total time subtotal in report was always correct.)
• No longer crashes when disk is full.
• (Windows) Minor visual tidy up.
• (Windows) No longer complains about a crash after logging out of Windows with Officetime open.
• (Windows) No longer complains about some trivial issues in the beta error log.
  

Version 1.2.1

New Features

• New Import Features: (See File-> Import)
  - Show imported projects/categories in all windows
  - Import empty project/category templates
  - Job numbers! Projects with the same job number will merge regardless of name misspellings and mistyping. Use Edit->Edit Project Name to add Job Numbers.
• Show Data File in Finder/Windows Explorer. (See File menu.)
• Easier bulk project editing: (See File -> Edit Projects)
  -Alphabetize a select group of project names
  -Bulk drag and reorder
  -Bulk archive
  -Bulk delete
  -Delete now requests confirmation
• Can now hide old invoiced/reported sessions from showing in the main project window. (See the preferences.)
• Windows Task Bar/Mac Menu Bar Quickstart menu now has a Exit/Quit command.
  

Improvements:

• Report Windows remember adjustments to your column widths from day to day.
• Remind Me Window remembers your preferred time, notes from day to day.
• Save As no longer suggests "OfficeTime Data Sample" as a file name if you are currently using the sample data.
• Save As won't suggest the application folder even if that's where your current data file lives.
• When opening someone else's file, you are offered the choice to make all sessions yours: Now reassigns all employees in the file (not just main employee.)
• Exporting to Excel no longer includes extra spaces in front of time field. (Excel can now easily convert a time like 3:22 to an Excel time format.)
• (Mac) Can enter a job number in the title of an event in iCal and will be recognized by appropriate project.
• (Windows) OfficeTime now comes to the front during Reminders and You've Been Away messages.
• (Windows) Shrink/Maximize windows now zooms to the last location.
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixes crash on first run for some users logged in without administrator privileges. (Version 1.2.1)
• Reports and invoices of subtotals only now show the total time and money. (For example, you can now create an invoice summarizing time by project by making a report subtotaled by Project, unselecting Show Sessions + Expenses, then press Make Invoice.)
• Time adjustment arrows no longer disappear when clicked if a report is open showing only subtotals.
• Fixes obscure crash involving weird categories.
• (Mac Tiger) Fixes rare iCal duplication bug. (Happened by renaming an existing project while set to read all events from iCal and iCal was running at the time.)
• (Mac Tiger) More robust about finding lost/changed iCal calendars.
• (Windows) Fixed crash on startup on some systems.
• (Windows) No longer shows splash screen or expires if you've bought and entered your serial.
• (Windows) Timing windows should no longer occasionally position themselves off the top of the screen when opening OfficeTime.
• (Windows) Fixes rare crash when OfficeTime tries to come to the front.
• (Windows) On first launch, no longer both asks if you want the sample data file and to locate your data file.
• (Windows) Reports no longer appear with invisible window borders on some systems.
• (Windows Vista) No longer crashes after sleep if timing.
• (Windows Vista) Keyboard shortcuts for changing time work now under Vista.
• (Windows Vista) Yellow editing highlight displays more accurately.
  

Version 1.11

Improvements

• The current timing sessions are now indicated with a green timing icon. One can right click (Command click on Mac) the small timing icon to pause a session just as you would the large play button.
• Edit This Project... added to project selector popup.

Bug Fixes

• No longer crashes after opening and closing the large pie graph and then changing the report.
• Using Add Another in New Expense window no longer occasionally creates an expense with the wrong date.
  Clicking New Session button with an Expense selected now creates a Session, not an Expense.
• The Grand Total is less likely to disappear in custom reports.
• Reminders show the the reminder text properly again. (Broken in V1.1)
• (Mac) Clicking the play button in an inactive window no longer accidentally double-clicks it.
• (Mac) No longer crashes for some users heavily integrating with iCal.
• (Win) Entering your serial number a second time no longer crashes.
  

Version 1.10

New Features

• Now Universal Binary. Works on both Intel and older Macs.
  Create sessions without starting the timer. (New button and menu item.) If you select an existing session first, your new session will default to starting where that one finished.
• New, improved interface:
  - No more metal windows.
  - Easier to select project menu.
  - New pie charts so sweet you'll want to lick them. (Don't forget you can choose your favorite graph flavors in the preferences.)
  - Collapsable pie chart to make more room for your data.
  - And many more improvements

Improvements

• The total time display can now include or exclude already invoiced/reported items. Click the total to change.
  Improved default invoice template.
• Export: can now mark exported sessions as Invoiced/Reported.
  Larger, more readable session box font.
• New Sessions and new Expenses can be made directly in reports. (Use the File menu.)
• Category color is now applied only to the category name and not the notes for increased readability.
• Select an existing session before making an expense and the expense will default to the same day.
• Drag to spin your pie charts. (Bonus for-fun feature for those that actually read release notes.)
• New users are prompted if they want to use sample data or not and asked to specify a save location.
• Expenses: can now add multi-line comments while creating.
  New Make Invoice button on report window.
• Expenses reports can now include or exclude already reported/invoiced expenses. (Just like sessions reports.)
• Invoices now display returns in the address and notes properly.
• Improved Quick Tips

Bug Fixes

• No longer shows an extra week consisting of only Sunday when subtotaling by week
• Selecting a date in a session highlights more accurately for some long dates.
• Creating a new project in the "You've Been Idle..." window now works.
• Pasted project, category + invoice fields better trim extra carriage returns from the name.
• Export of reports with only subtotals now works properly.
• Importing employee data, deleting the data and importing again now works better.
• Windows won't wander off screen when switching between multiple and single monitors.
• No longer occasionally shows stray or partial checkbox on report window.
• No longer has an invisible cursor when editing comments on a report window.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.

Version 1.03

• Fixes a crash when editing the projects menu if any of your projects have an extra space on the end of their name.

Version 1.02

• Fixes a crash on some computers running Panther (10.3) when the QuickStart menu is used.
• Fixes a cosmetic issue which sometimes showed a partial checkbox below reports
  

Version 1.01

New Features

• Sub-Totals by Day in all reports and invoices.

Improvements

• More responsive when doing some heavy reading from iCal.
• When automatically making a note that an invoice has been made, the amount of the invoice is now included.
• Export & Copy/Paste now replace carriage returns in your notes so that fields wrap better in programs like Excel.
• Export & Copy/Paste now include a Who column if multiple employees are included.

Bug Fixes

• Bug reporter consistently sends bug reports when asked
• Drawer window opens more consistently when clicking on SubTotal by Project, Category, Employee.
• Preference window no longer does extra CPU activity if left open.
  

Version 1.0

New Features

• Invoices:
  - Now displays [totaltime] in the format of 3h 22m instead of 3 hours and 22 minutes which fits better in most layouts.
  - Subtotals look better. They are shorter to fit better in the space, bold instead of underlined and have consistent extra space after each.
• Fixed possible crash when creating a new project from the Choose Your Project mini window.
• If you close all your windows, go to another app and come back, a regular project window appears instead of the Choose Your Project window.
• Prevented return characters from being added to Category names which would cause problems.
• Fixed rare case of backup files being written to the desktop.
• Fixed rare case of trouble saving because of a bad temporary file.
• Archived projects can now be drag re-organized in the project manager.
• Time travel (for supported computers), allowing you to go back in time and violate causality.
• Minor interface improvements.