Let’s assume, you are adding a calendar event on the Calendar page and while you are adding the event, you wish to add a task for any of your team members , you need not navigate out of the page.

You can simply, click on the “Add Tasks” link (just left to the “Quickies” link). Assign the task to your team member by selecting the required project and task list from this Add Tasks window.

Similarly, you can add & assign tasks from all the pages of your DeskAway account.

By using this feature it will save lot of time of navigating from one page to another to add a tasks.

Sometimes, we may have projects that have similar tasks e.g. maintaining social media campaigns for 15 clients. Besides creating a template (to save time when creating new projects) you can also copy tasks from one project to another.

Use the “Copy” link beneath each task and then select the project you want to copy it to.

Oh, and by the way, task copying is completely permission-based so that you can only copy tasks to projects that you are assigned to.

Some tasks are things that get completed once. Others need to be done again and again - for example, taking a backup of your computer.

In DeskAway, you can set this task as ‘recurring’ so that the system remembers that the task needs to be performed again daily, monthly, quarterly or yearly.

On doing so, a new task of the same name & description will be automatically created on completion of the parent task with a new deadline.

This past weekend we released a simple timer feature to track time within your projects automatically. Fire up the timer popup, start it and let it record time as you work on your tasks. Once you are done, stop the timer, add your description and log the time worked. This feature should be great for freelancers and designers working on clients projects. As a bonus, you can also update your status (what are you working on?) from the timer itself!

The Timer can be started in 2 ways - Clicking on the global ‘Start Timer’ link on the secondary navigation (visible from all sections of DeskAway) or clicking on the ‘Start Timer’ button within the timesheet section of any of the projects.

Hope you like it and as always, do send us your feedback!

A few small fixes…

Fixed: Monthly recurring tasks date issue
Tasks were not recurring on the set monthly deadline. This is because we were calculating months as a fixed 30 days so this issue came up when months had fewer than 30 days (Feb) or had 31 days. Now, if a monthly recurring task has a  deadline of 31st October then the new recurring task will be 31st December and not November - this works the same way as Google Calendar monthly recurring events.

Fixed: Upload Files in the Issue section
Files are properly uploading to the issues section of each project. Earlier, there were issues with certain file types and names.

Fixed: Wrong deadline for GMT -5
For this timezone the deadline would come back 1 day earlier.  This has been resolved and tested with other time zones as well.

Fixed: Adding time to Tasks
The time clock icon would not show up when time was added to a task unless a page refresh was forced.

Fixed: Google Apps login help
We have added some more help and informative error messages on the login window for the Google Apps login.