Wow, can you believe this product is almost here? I for one still find myself in a little big of disbelief. I wasn’t originally planning to ship the Release Candidate (RC) this soon, I wanted to ship out he third beta first. Problem came when I got caught up in new feature after new feature and found no reason to ship a 3rd beta. So without further ado lets list some of the new features.

• Customizable Invoices
  • This is a huge feature. Inside of your preferences you’ll see a new tab for invoices. From here you can now upload your company logo, change the invoice colors, and set the invoice number.
  • I’ve also made the “generated by TimeTable” logo less prevalent at the bottom. You’ll have an option to remove this when TimeTable 1.0 ships.
• Email-able invoices
  • In the previous builds this feature was disabled. This isn’t as perfect as I would like. The TimeTable email template is applied to the emails and I would rather the emails be sent in a more generic fashion. I’ll be experimenting with some options for this.
• Invoice numbering
  • Inside your preferences I’ve added the ability to set the invoice number. This number is displayed on the invoice below your name and address.
• Help
  • By popular request I have added documentation to TimeTable. From within the help menu you can learn about all the ins and outs of the application. It might be nice to search through this, but for the time being it is organized as is.
  • I’ll be adding more to this help over time. – feedback is more than welcome
• Inline work data deletion
  • In past builds the only way to delete work items was to select them and hit the delete key on your keyboard. In this release I added a button next to each work item and expense item so that you can easily delete them if needed.
• Resizing fields
  • I’ve fixed the regression with the multiline textfields. The “details” field and “notes” field from the project and clients section respectively both resize themselves if you go beyond the bounds of the field to prevent them from cutting off.
• Client address field
  • I’ve added the ability to set the client’s mailing address.
  • My original plan was to give users driving directions via google maps using either your current location or the location you’ve supplied in your personal preferences to the client’s address. I ran into licensing issues with Google maps. For this reason I have removed this feature from this release. If you’re interested in seeing a feature like this please let me know and I’ll work harder to get it integrated. The code is basically already in place, it’s simply a matter of licensing Google Maps for a commercial product.
• Mark clients as a company
  • If your client is a company not an individual there is now a checkbox for this. This will prevent the name order from changing on your company names if you have your preferences set to display the last name first.
• Label bubbles next to client name
  • In the clients list it now shows a little bubble next to each client name. This bubble can be set to show either the total number of projects for a client, the total number of incomplete projects for a client, or the number of urgent projects for a client (this is default).
• Upload Data files
  • You’ve been able to download TimeTable data files for quite a while, until now you could never re-upload them. One thing to note is that old TimeTable Data files will no longer work, you’ll have to download a new one.

There have of course been many bug fixes so I look forward to hearing your feedback. To send me feedback just use the feedback menu within the application, of you can tweet me at @timetableapp I’m not going to list any bugs for this release, bug please submit them as you see them. Remember that your feedback will give you a huge discount on the product when it ships. This will be one of the last release that will give you a discount on the product so keep it coming. The more feedback you send the greater the discount.

Thank you all for your support,
Randy