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We are proud to present the new 30-days trial version, featuring a fully dedicated installation with all our powerful professional extensions preinstalled for free testing! Also you'll get an easy step-by-step documentation to invoice predefined projects. Of course you can also enter all the data you need for testing your specific requests. Your Installation will be instantly ready after a few seconds!

Maybe you'll call me a real geek, but honestly, the more I work with todoyu the more I love her it.

 

Ok, there is place for improvement and it is not (yet) perfect. But I have learnt in the last years that's the case with every love...

I love working with todoyu because it really let's me do my work the way I want: With the powerful filters and the new sorting possibilities I can organize my daily business very efficiently. Any time I know what I have to do and how I have to plan my next days and weeks. The reportings give me all the information I need to manage my team protectively and to find out which project run smooth and which one was a mess. So todoyu helps me to do a good job.

In the past I have realised the following: When people start evaluating todoyu, they not always see the real power and beauty of this project management system. So it is hard for them to fall in love with todoyu. This might be due to the lack of nice videos showing the system (yes, we are working on this). But mostly it is due to the fact that the real power is only awaken as soon as one sees the system in full "operating state". To be able to show you a system which reflects a real live example we have worked hard on an improved demo installation.

Try the new demo installation for YOU with lots of data

In the demo installation we now have a real working example. We have more than 2'000 projects, about 115'600 tasks, around 13'720'000 minutes of tracked work and several thousands invoices. We have a few hundreds persons and companies available,12'688 comments and 1'391 of them are waiting for feedback and we have more than 134'000 meetings and other agenda entries in the calendar.

With this huge data set you have a great playground for trying it out.

See professional extensions in action

To show you the full functionality of todoyu we also have integrated a bunch of professional extensions which are usually only available if you buy them: Project Billing, iCal Export, Reports, Burn Down Charts.

We not only implemented them, but also configured them the way we believe they demonstrate you the best the power of this open source project management system

Additionally we have added the module Resources which is just a proof of concept. It works, but it is not fully translated and the styling is just quick. But it will give you a rough insight of what we are currently working at.

You'll like todoyu with all these great features.

Play with different and roles

To show you also the elaborated rights management we implemented several roles: Administrator, Project Manager, Employee, Customer. Play with these roles to see how easy it is to fine tune todoyu to your individual needs.

Time to give it a try and fall in love

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For a limited time only, all todoyu professional extensions are on sale with a 50% discount. You save ~US$ 300 when purchasing all 3 extensions together. Isn't this a great Christmas special deal?

Check out our special offers in the add-ons section for details!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of us at todoyu!

The official todoyu handbook is published in German. You can order the todoyu user guide on amazon.de for € 19,90,- (free shipping).

The book is published within the FOSdoc-initiative and is under a free License. With the purchase of the book you support the project.

The book contains everything you need to know while working with todoyu as a user, but also with sections for sys-admins, power-users and developers.

Enjoy!

For everyone selling working hours...

...and project leaders managing sparse and valuable human resources.

One powerful feature of todoyu is time tracking. todoyu has a timer already built-in and every task has a tab called "time tracking". Depending on the status of a task (yes, if the task is already set and done or even invoiced... no more time tracking!) the assigned team member can start the timer. The work time for completing the task is then tracked in the background.

Start working
Well, I give you my personal example today. My colleague Adrian - the todoyu Community Manager - has set me a task with a deadline of April 15, 2011 to write this blog post. And here I go... I am working on this task to write the blog post about how to use time tracking in todoyu.

After opening the task with a click, I went to the "time tracking" tab and hit "Start" to get the stop watch running.

opened task in todo list shows tab "time tracking"

opened task in todo list shows tab "time tracking"

So far, so good. But I just got a call from my client and need to interrupt this blogging task to work for another todo I have open for my client. I was browsing to the task of my client and hit there "Start". My blog post task has automatically stopped and I was answering the clients questions on the phone. Perfect, he was happy. So back to Adrian's task for blogging... I click again "Start" and the timer continues to count the time of my writing.

How much time I have left?
I wasn't anymore sure, how much time Adrian allocated me to get the task done. The best way to check is by using the time tracking icon in the header section (or shall we call it headlet?). Have you noticed the red recording dot within the icon? Cool... I know with one quick look already that I have the timer running for a task. But which one? And how much time I have left to finish?

Status of the task I am currently working on

Status of the task I am currently working on

I clicked on the time tracking icon and todoyu shows me for which client on which project I am currently working on and more important (therefore in bold) on which task.

Adrian estimated 1:00h to get this blog post done and I have now worked 17 minutes and 29 seconds on this, or 29% of the time I've used so far. The bar is at about 1/3 and still in green. Good... so let's then get this task done.

Time sheet

Naturally, the working hours of all tasks of today would be my time sheet. In todoyu, the time sheet is located within the left column of the main areas "Portal" and "Projects". This gives employee an up-to-date overview on how much time they have worked today already and your staff can check at the end of the working day if the time sheet meets the required working hours of the day.

And by clicking the "time sheets" button, the employee get access to his or her monthly journal with daily summaries, including details of each task (tick to show all details).

Journal of the daily time sheets

Journal of the daily time sheets

Summary

With the built-in timer in todoyu for time tracking, you can:

  • capture time, also fragmented work time
  • effortless time tracking
  • auto-generated time sheet for all staff
  • control progress of a task
  • compare the estimation and actual time needed
  • track work time of all your team members and use data for reporting and invoicing
  • give outsourcing partners and freelancers access and let them also track time for their duties

And the best of all... it's free: time tracking belongs to the basic feature set in todoyu.

Extend todoyu for invoicing

Now, as you have your client's address, the project and its todo list, the status of each task, the work time used for completion... wouldn't it be handy to simply create an invoice out of all this data, double check the amount with the project supervisor (e.g. CFO, client account manager) and print out the bill to send it to the billing address of your client?

Yes, there is a tool for that. No... not another software. It's in todoyu: the professional extension "billing". Extend your todoyu system with invoicing features for only $499.

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  • Kay28.09.2011

    Hi Sergey, this varies from system to system, but i added an example into the post.

  • Sergey14.09.2011

    Could you,please, give an example how cron config file should look like?

  • Dominic12.08.2011

    ... then stop eating these little pills your brother gave you...

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