AceProject will switch clocks back to Standard Time on Sunday November 7th, 2010. Depending on where you reside, you might be moving to Standard Time on November 7th or earlier, or may not be moving your clocks back at all.

Because AceProject does not automatically handle Daylight Saving Time, it is quite possible the application will eventually display timestamps that are precisely one hour off the accurate time in your geographic location. You would notice this discrepancy, for instance, in the “Created on” timestamp located just below the Details field when creating a new task.

If you notice AceProject timestamps are one hour off, you will need to select a time zone which is actually an hour ahead or behind your actual geographic time zone. Read the Complete Post

As you probably noticed, we added a set of icons named “Follow AceProject” on the login page lately. These are links to all our social media profiles (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube) as well as our RSS feed and our blog. Since we provide updates and other valuable information on these sites, we felt it was appropriate to share them with you on both AceProject’s website and login page.

If these icons are annoying for you and your users, it’s possible to hide the “Follow AceProject” section under “Admin -> Account Info -> Branding”. Read the Complete Post

Recurring tasks is one of the most requested features on our wishlist. Since this feature is rather complex to implement, and we have a lot on our plate, we have decided at this time to invest our energy on other enhancements like cost tracking. Recurring tasks will be added to AceProject someday, but not in the near future.

That being said, there is actually a workaround for creating recurring tasks in AceProject, thanks to the "Move/copy a task" feature. If you're willing to repeat the process periodically, you'll get recurring tasks without too much trouble. Here's how to:

Step 1 – Open the task that reoccurs and click the "Move/Copy" link at the upper right. Read the Complete Post

In AceProject, users may be given two statuses: "Can Login" and "Can't Login". The default option is "Can Login", which means that the user CAN access the application. On the other hand, "Can't Login" means that the user CANNOT access the application. In other words, the user is blocked. There are a two main reasons why an administrator may want this:

Block employees who no longer work for the organization

Usually, when someone leaves the company or gets fired, their access to the corporate intranet and other internal systems gets revoked. If they don't belong in the organization anymore, they don't belong in the internal systems either. Read the Complete Post

Document management is a very convenient feature in
AceProject. Documents can be associated with a task or a project. AceProject’s document management features include: Versioning, Locking and Public/Private Availability. Locking a document doesn’t hide it. Actually, anyone who can view the document can see it even when it’s locked. It’s simply put in read-only mode.

One might be interested in document management for storage, archiving and collaboration, among other things. Today, I’d like to focus on version control (a.k.a. check in/check out) which can be achieved using the locking feature in AceProject.

Locking a document protects it against deletion and overwriting. Read the Complete Post