What’s New in Orangescrum SaaS Project Management Tool- June 2019

Its summer! And we continued with our efforts to make our customers’ work more fun so that they make more time for vacation and family time. 

The May Mega month saw release of 3 masterful features with an overwhelming response so far. 

Enabling collaboration, ensuring project data confidentiality, personalization and smooth navigation within Orangescrum was the focus of the month for our SaaS edition.

Let’s us review what’s out there and how you can experience it firsthand!

Cloud Edition Updates:

1. Custom Themes & Personalization

Orangescrum didn’t have the theming concept since its release and I’m happy to announce that we do now. The best part is that we’ve heard your feedback since we released the latest new UI.

How to change the theme color of your Orangescrum account? 

To change your theme color;

1. Login to orangesrum.com

2. Click on the setting icon below your profile image

Check the step by step guideline to change the theme color of your Orangescrum account.

2. A Real-Time, 2-Way Sync between Google Calendar and Orangescrum Cloud Edition:

Google Calendar lets you organize your schedule and share events with team members and friends. With Google’s free online calendar, it’s easy to keep track of your daily schedule.

Its ease of use and Google Calendar integration was the most requested feature that came out of feedback from our users, and we decided to build it with our Project Management Software.

With the integration, you can sync all your projects & tasks with Google Calendar. Similarly, if you create any event, or you make any changes in Google Calendar those will instantly be reflected in Orangescrum – SaaS Project Management Tool and vice versa.

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Hello Orangescrumers!

Good news for all of you. We’ve released the Intuitive Project Overview Dashboard for all our SaaS (Cloud) users; a new way of project, task and resource monitoring.

How to view the Project Overview page?

Once you have created a project, tasks, and allocated resources, you can start monitoring your project status and progress on the “Project Overview” page.

To navigate to Project Overview page,

• Click on Projects from the left menu panel
• On the project page, click on project title
• Or on the Task List page, hover on the icon, right to export and below settings icon and click on Overview of the options

What is New in the Project Overview? 

First Layer:

The first layer of project overview contains the following information:

• Project Status (Started, On Hold, Stack, Completed)
• Real-time project progress status: It shows in percentage of total closed tasks against total tasks in the selected project
• Project Name
• Edit Project: Click on the edit icon to edit the project metrics or names, modify as your requirement and click on update
• Instant project start and end dates

Second Layer:

These are all the important project metrics every Project Managers wish to have in real time. In this layer you can know:

• Total Number of Tasks of the project
• Total Time Entry
• Total Number of Activities
• Real Time Task Status report;
• Total Number “New” tasks
• Total Number “In Progress” tasks
• Total Number “Resolved” tasks
• Total Number “Closed” tasks
• Total Number of tasks
• Time Log report in terms of Total Billable, Non-billable hours and total time spent on the project
• Team Member’s information with Total Task assigned, Overdue Task, Billable Hours and Non-Billable hours of each resource

Click on “+” icon to add a new team member/resource to the project or click on – to remove the user from the project

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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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