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Tip: Invoicing companies with multiple addresses
When a business uses multiple billing addresses for various departments, for example, you can easily add the address of the department's contact person in Customers and Contacts or TimeLog CRM.
When billing the customer, select the relevant department’s contact person as the addressee. Choose “use contact person’s address” as the billing address, and the billing address will supply the contact person’s department address as the address on the invoice.
By maintaining billing addresses by contact person, it will be much easier to manage billing for multiple business departments.
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Tip: Updating Hourly Rates
Many companies use the new year to update their hourly rates. TimeLog works with two types of rates:
The Standard Hourly Rate is used when invoicing employees’ time registrations, and is reported in the employee’s main information in the System Administration.
Employee Cost Rates indicate the cost that each employee incurs per project, for every hour registered.
Get Ready for 2011!
Every new year provides an opportunity for a review of the past year, and preparation for the year ahead.
For TimeLog Project, some areas may need adjustment going into 2011.
- Should hourly rates and travel rates be regulated?
- Is the company’s holiday calendar updated, so that the flex and vacation calculations add up?
- Should the flex calculation be adjusted and international employees have their balances reconciled?
- Should new general projects be set up for internal work in the business?
Tip: Access for re-hired employees
When reinstating former employees, there are two possible ways to set up the re-hired employee’s access to TimeLog Project.
Print TimeLog Project reports in color
Many reports in TimeLog Project use shaded cells to give a better overview of tables.
To see shaded cells’ colors when using a color printer, your browser should be configured to support background colors.
How strong is your password?
We have previous emphasized the importance of using strong passwords for TimeLog Project. Now, a recent analysis of 32 million passwords conducted by security company Imperva, revealed that the most common password is 123456, while the 2nd most popular is the equally inventive 12345.
Adjust Flex Accounts and Projects at The Turn of The Year
2009 is nearing its end, and it is time to make any needed adjustments to the flex accounts and projects in general.
Make TimeLog Project part of your intranet
TimeLog’s API makes it possible to show data from TimeLog Project in e.g. the intranet. Thereby projects’ progress and financial development can easily and quickly be communicated out to employees.
Hotkeys in MacOS
I recently purchased a sleek MacBook Pro. It’s going well, getting accustomed to my new universe. It’s just like learning French – a horse is a “cheval”, and whatnot.
I had an issue, though, with the F-keys being occupied by hardware functions, when I needed them to navigate through TimeLog Project. A problem, but one which I have now solved.
TimeLog’s Super Search
TimeLog project contains a Super Search, which ensures a precise search from all windows in TimeLog Project.
Take advantage of the browser tabs
Whenever you need to update or review a range of items, you should open up all items in their own tab, update an item and then close the tab.
Learn how to use TimeLog Project with our new video guides
We’ve created six video guides to help you get started using TimeLog Project. The video guides are also available when accessing our TimeLog Project free demo.
The videos illustrate TimeLog Project’s flow, guiding in a clear, step-by-step format.
Whitepaper on payment plans
The coming version introduces payment plans as an entirely new concept in invoicing in TimeLog Project. In brief, payment plans are to a project’s finances what the task plan is to the activities of the project.
Integrate TimeLog Project with your intranet
TimeLog's API makes it possible to display data from TimeLog Project on the intranet. This enables communication of projects' progress and economy quickly and easily to employees.
Fully supported by Internet Explorer 8
TimeLog Project 5.0 has been tested and adjusted to optimize the viewing on Microsoft’s latest browser Internet Explorer 8. TimeLog Project 4.5 also works just fine in the new browser, but in version 5 various graphical errors have been corrected, and the new options in Internet Explorer 8 have influenced the adjustment of TimeLog project 5.0
Frequently answered questions
Do you have a question you need an answer to right now? Well, now we have compiled a list of the most frequent questions received by TimeLog’s support desk.
Google Chrome – welcome to a new browser
Google have now released their own web-browser. TimeLog Project has been tested using Google Chrome and TimeLog Project 4.5 runs smoothly using this browser.
How to Increase Security in a SaaS Solution
With simple means you are able to increase the security in an internet-application. The below mentioned advice and tips apply for not only TimeLog Project but all other SaaS solutions and most of the advice also applies for IT-systems in general.
1. Have a security policy
Have some overall guidelines for using the SaaS-solution and for handling security. Communicate your safety policy to all employees – and be sure to explain why you have these policies. Communication is especially important when having a strict policy, otherwise, employees might think of it as harassment of employees which can make them counteract the policy.
Keep the security policy as simple as possible and avoid long technical explanations. The most important thing to remember when it comes to security policies is that it should be easy to explain to the employees. A simple security policy is much better than a complex and technical oriented policy.
TimeLog Extranet Hints & Shortcuts
We have collected a few good tips from our support manager in our Help-Desk department, Thomas S. Gudmandsen. We hope that you can use these tricks of the trade to make the most of your TimeLog Project systems.Hot Keys in MacOS 2007
I've recently purchased a foxy MacBook Pro and I'm adjusting fine to the new world. It's just like learning French: Horse is called "cheval", and it's like that all the way.
My one great problem was that the F-keys are used for hardware functions, and I needed them to navigate my way through TimeLog Project. A problem I now have solved.
Continue where you left off
Increasingly more people are becoming aware of the advantages of web applications. One of the greatest advantages is that you are able to work from any internet-accessed computer leaving out depending on pre-installed software applications. Here is a tip on how to shift from one computer to another and continue just where you left off.
