Project Management is Now Fun and Easy with Orangescrum

In any kind of business, project management is assumed to be a hectic and tedious process. Be it resource management or managing productivity, it is always a monotonous and problematic process for the project managers.

We are humans with no super powers. In order to be great managers you need have great task management capabilities, enormous patience and a high emotional quotient.

How will you manage to do so in your busy schedule?

Well, everything is now fun and easy with Orangescrum. Yes, Orangescrum can be your virtual assistant to help you to manage all your schedules.

It gives me immense pleasure to jot down the very special features of Orangescrum. Just check these below:-

• Customize your own workflow with Task Status Group.
• Missed sending your daily updates? Just set a reminder with Daily Catch-ups.
• Automated timer, user friendly, enhanced time tracking, track availability status of resource with Resource Availability feature and many more with Time Log Gold.

• Track assignment schedules of the employees or resources, analyze their usability and pay them right with Time log with payment.
• Tired of adding same default tasks to every project? Just add a Template to your project.
• No need to plan task schedules for your project in any kind of excel sheets. Plan with Orangescrum. Gantt Chart with help you to do so.

• Fearing that your accountant may forget to record your official travel and project expenses to your account?  Manage it with Expense Management feature.
• Tired of reminding your project member about a recurring task? Just create a task and mark it Recurring. Don’t worry Orangescrum will remind you.

• No need of whatsapp groups now. Chats with In-app Chat on Orangescrum. Send files, messages to your colleagues.
• Confused how will send invoices to your customer? Send it with Orangescrum Invoice. You can also set default rate, create recurring invoices with Invoice Pro.
• Manage your task in other applications with Orangescrum. Try out API add-on.
• Fearing confidentiality of your project? Manage accessibility of your clients and other project member with User Role Management and Client Management Add on.

• Analyze like executives with Executive Dashboard and much more….

And this is just a stage in our ever productive journey. We will be launching upgraded features such as weekend exclusion for tasks, mobile app push notifications & offline mode for our mobile apps very soon.

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Orangescrum Project Management Tool Is On IIS Server

Good News for Orangescrum Project Management Tool Open Source users specially IIS server users! 

Our R&D department constantly evaluates the installation process for Orangescrum opensource Edition and expand its outreach. We have now tested and documented the installation process for the IIS (windows) server.

The question is How to install Orangescrum on IIS server?

You need to rewrite your URL in CakePHP native code to install Orangescrum on IIS servers.

How to Rewrite URL on IIS7 (Windows hosts)? 

IIS7 does not natively support .htaccess files. While there are add-ons that can add this support, you can also import htaccess rules into IIS to use CakePHP’s native rewrites. To do this, follow these steps:

• Use Microsoft’s Web Platform Installer to install the URL Rewrite Module 2.0 or download it directly (32-bit / 64-bit).
• Create a new file called web.config in your CakePHP root folder. (in webroot folder) 
• Using Notepad or any XML-safe editor, copy the following code into your new web.config file                                             Read More

New “Recurring Task” Feature for SaaS Edition

Automate repetitive work and be productive with Recurring Task

We all know that Smart work is the key to productivity plus there is no fun in a work that is monotonous, time & effort intensive, impacts productivity and makes us look dumb!

No matter the industry, they all come with their own productivity dampeners – Repetitive work.

The most important thing about your to-do & recurring tasks list is they must be attended to regularly like daily, weekly – team/client meetings, reviews, reports, bill payment etc.

Sometimes we overlook these recurring tasks when some important tasks arise even if these are important to our business.

How great it would be to have them tailor-made and automated to make our lives efficient??

With Orangescrum Recurring Task, you can set a task to repeat at a specific time or date if it occurs on a regular basis in a project. This feature has been upgraded in our SaaS (Cloud) edition so that you can set recurring task at a particular date/week/month/year.

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How to Generate Invoice for your Customers?

Create, Download and send Professional Invoices with Orangescrum

We live in a digitally overwhelmed world where for every task we spin an app, a tool or whatever is available without realizing in the end it is “us” who has to manage them all.

And true to this, most organizations manage their time and invoicing in disparate tools at times with minimal interaction between the two.

Needless to mention the commotion this creates when it comes to maintaining transparency with your contractors, 3rd party vendors, partners, technology service providers and most importantly your customers.

How to Generate an Invoice in Orangescrum?

Unless you have visibility on your time spent, you cannot bill your clients. Simple!

Time log entries in Orangescrum are directly linked to the Invoice thereby auto- generating Invoices without missing a single billable minute. Every minute spent is linked to the cost and rightly so.

Orangescrum lets you define billable and non-billable work that augurs well for transparent invoicing. You can also have your clients be part of your project management in Orangescrum boosting customer confidence.

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How to install Node.js for Orangescrum In-App Chat

In our continuous efforts to simplify the installation process for Orangescrum, we’re constantly updating installation instructions for our users. 

In this article, I will guide you how to install the Node.js for In-App Chat add-on on your Orangescrum server.

What is Node.js? 

Node.js official document says “Node.js is a platform built on Chrome’s JavaScript runtime for easily building fast and scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices”.

Node.js is an open source, cross-platform runtime environment for developing server-side and networking applications. Node.js applications are written in JavaScript, and can be run within the Node.js runtime on OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux.

Node.js also provides a rich library of various JavaScript modules which simplifies the development of web applications using Node.js to a great extent.

Why we chose Node.js?

Following are some of the important features that make Node.js the first choice of software architects.

Asynchronous and Event Driven ? All APIs of Node.js library are asynchronous, that is, non-blocking. It essentially means a Node.js based server never waits for an API to return data. The server moves to the next API after calling it and a notification mechanism of Events of Node.js helps the server to get a response from the previous API call.

Very Fast? Being built on Google Chrome’s V8 JavaScript Engine, Node.js library is very fast in code execution.

Single Threaded but Highly Scalable? Node.js uses a single threaded model with event looping. Event mechanism helps the server to respond in a non-blocking way and makes the server highly scalable as opposed to traditional servers which create limited threads to handle requests. Node.js uses a single threaded program and the same program can provide service to a much larger number of requests than traditional servers like Apache HTTP Server.

No Buffering ? Node.js applications never buffer any data. These applications simply output the data in chunks.

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