New Features (Version 0.91)

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Posted: Dec 16th 2009

Well as an early Christmas present to you all I thought I'd upload some new features. Some of which are things you have suggested and others are my own ideas.

This update is a minor update but it paves the way for the big update that I'll be working on in January, yes you guessed it - Collaboration!! But you'll have to wait for that. For now you can read on for the full change log.

Invoice template changes

As you requested, the invoice address has moved to the left so you can print the invoice and use it in envelopes. Also I have tidied the display a little and enabled Euro character support in PDFs.

Invoice description

You can now add a description to your invoice which displays underneath the Date and Reference on the right.

Custom message when sending invoices

You can now customise the message that displays when you send an email to your client. You can also over-ride the email address it goes to (by default the client), and choose who it is CCed to (by default your company).

Default currency

In the My Details page you can now specify a default currency. This currency will get automatically used when you add projects, so when you come to adding your billable time and project costs it will use your default currency, and not Australian Dollars (which was the default!).

Most recent task

You can now update the time spent on your most recent task from the Dashboard. If you have an active, open project, and an active task inside that then you will see your most recent task on there. This can be useful if you are working on the same task often and just want to log in and start the timer.

Smaller logo when logged in

There is now a smaller PB logo and more space when you are logged in. It was difficult using Bubble on laptops apparently and now with the smaller header you can view more projects on a page without so much scrolling.

Billable time tidied

The billable time now doesn't show zeros. So you only see time if it's relevant. This applies to Projects, Tasks and Invoices (permalinks and PDFs).

Easily close projects

You can now just click a link to close a project, instead of having to edit the project and select the drop-down. Also the delete link is less prominent (because deleting will cause you lots of problems!).

New currencies

Norway Kroner and Poland Zloty added.

Various bugs fixed

Various bug fixes including the edit task from a closed project bug, plus the invoice totals not displaying properly bug. Thanks for spotting them, special thanks to Mike Branskie for your detailed bug reports!

That's about all for now. Don't forget the Christmas Competition.



Posted by Stu Green
Stu is the founder of Project Bubble and manages his own web application development company called Haloweb Ltd, based in the UK.




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By rgregory on Dec 18th 2009

Thanks, I'm very excited about collaboration! It will turn you app from a neat, great idea into a VERY usable tool that I'll become a huge fan of.

Keep on truckin'

By Stu Green on Dec 18th 2009

Yeah I'm excited too! Will be working on it over the Christmas holidays, you guys are gonna love it.

By Peter Jaraczewski on Dec 19th 2009

Hey Stu,
you're doing a very nice job with your application. This software saves me a lot of time. I can't wait to get an premium account! ^^

Are there any considerations regarding the multilanguage support? Do you plan to use .xml or .po files? Could you provide us with an english-language-file which we could adapt to a different language then?

This way translation could be much faster :)

By Leland Zaremba on Dec 21st 2009

Yes, thanks a lot for your hard work. Any chance you will give us testing people a break on the first years membership costs?

By Stu Green on Dec 21st 2009

Hiya, yeah I'm sure we can work something out. There will be a Beta program for premium features which you can sign up to, more details soon.

By Mike van Hoenselaar on Dec 21st 2009

http://www.projectbubble.com/manage/tasks/[id]
Making delete at the end red is a bit more usable ;-).

Keep it up. I'm testing the UI and user-friendliness as you read this.

PS: Did you know you Captcha is already cracked? Don't you get any spam already?

By Stu Green on Dec 23rd 2009

I've just released a minor update: TXT files now supported, PNG logos supported, as well as Hi-resolution logos in PDFs.

By Stefan Brauchli on Dec 28th 2009

Love your stuff... are you planing to make it multilangual?

By Alex Dyba on Jan 5th 2010

Great toll
I would like to ask 4 Czech Krown (a PayPal native curency)
+Invoice description is not UTF8 (task descriptions are just fine)

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