What's new in version 3.0?

Xpert-Timer Pro

Activity report
  • You can now enter a location for your activity report
Configuration
  • New option in the configuration and in the drop down menu of the start button in the project manager: Project to start retroactively with Ctrl + project selection in case you forgot to switch the project.
  • New option in the configuration: When you press "Stop" in your time recording, a so called "Stop project" can be started automatically to prevent idle times and assure a complete time and attendance recording
  • New option in the configuration: When you press "Pause" in your time recording, a so called "Pause project" can be started automatically to prevent idle times and assure a complete time and attendance recording
  • New option in the configuration: Automatically hide the timeline after x seconds
  • New option in the configuration: Avoid overlapping timestamps
  • New option in the configuration: Optional warning option, if the project estimate was exceeded
Database
  • MySQL does no longer need any ODBC drivers
  • SQLite is now supported
General
  • New feature: Starting a project once with the option to enter a comment, rather than editing this setting in the project properties
Invoice
  • Headlines, free text, lines and sub sums can now be entered in the invoice.
  • The hourly rate can now be edited in case your timestamps base on different hourly rates.
Project manager
  • Quick Start Projects: By pressing the quickstart button, Xpert-Timer will create a new project and start it immediately. On stop you can decide what to do with the recorded time and the project
  • By right clicking on a column entry in the Project Manager you get the option to change this entry
  • Saveable views of the project list, task list, time stamp list
  • Sort project list by columns
  • Multiple selection of projects to assign status, progress etc. easily
  • Direct input of text using F2 in the project manager
  • Grouping, filtering and prioritizing of projects is now possible in the project manager
  • Intelligent Fast Entry (smart entry function) for tasks, projects and time stamp. e.g. Timestamp fast entry: 0800-1000 Phone conversations
Reminders
  • You can activate a reminders, if no project is running for a certain amount of time
Tasks
  • New hierarchy level: Create timestamps on tasks
  • You can now entere an estimated time for tasks
  • Calculate the total project estimation based on the single estimates of the tasks by right-clicking on the total sum of the main project in the project manager.
  • Task packages can now be created and assigned to projects (used as a template). Assign the tasks to the package by draging and dropping it into the task template dialog
  • You can now enter en estimate for every task once you hit "Start" on the task. (Setting in configuration)
  • Running time stamp of the task is displayed on the timebar
  • You can now enter a comment to every task status, for example the reason of rejection
  • The subject of the task can automatically be written into the comment field of the timestamp
  • Run reports on your completet task timestamps
Times
  • In order to manually enter long timestamps. For example for a whole week, those 40 hours are now automatically distributed to timestamps on several days
  • Grouping option of the timestamps by comment
Users
  • New structure of access right groups
  • New structure of workgroups