We have been working on a lot of infrastructure improvements to TeamWork Live the last couple of months so we have not been adding as many new features as we usually do. We did have time to make a few improvements, however, that we would like to share with you.

Exact Search
TeamWork Live now supports searching for an exact word. Previously, if you searched for the word completed, the search engine would return documents with the word completed, but it would also return documents with the words complete, completing, and completion. Now, if you put the word in double-quotes (i.e., "completed"), only documents with the exact word will be returned.

Permission Icons
We have updated and color-coded the permission icons to make it easier to determine the permission settings for items in your workspaces. When you move your cursor over the new permission icons, a tooltip showing the item's permission will now appear. When we first updated the permission icons, we put the permission icons next to the action icons (edit, delete, etc.) in the milestones and tasks pages. This made it difficult to easily see the permissions for all the milestones and tasks at once, however, as you have to move your cursor over each item to see its permission. We have been informed by many of you of the importance of being able to easily see the permission settings of all the milestones and tasks. With the latest update, the permission icons are now always visible and appear where the bookmark icons used to be (the bookmark icons have been moved to the end of each row). This should make it easier for you to see the permissions for all your milestones and tasks at once.

The new permission changes resulted in the removal of the ability to change the privacy setting for an item by clicking on the lock icon. To make up for it, we have added the ability to bulk change the privacy settings for tasks from the bulk update tasks page. Some of you have private tasks list that you use as templates to create actual tasks. Now you can duplicate the tasks list and use the bulk update tasks page to change its privacy settings at the same time that you assign the new tasks to your team members.

Messages
1. The messages section of your personal workspace now includes messages from all of your project teams. This brings the messages section in line with the other sections of your personal workspace in that they now all show your items across your project teams. As a result, you no longer have to go to each project workspace one-at-a-time to view the new messages for each project.
2. The search functionality for messages has been moved to a separate search box on the left hand side of the messages page. The message search functionality used to use the site search box but this was confusing because the search box would search messages when used from the messages page but would search the entire site when used from any other pages.
3. When you save a draft of a message, it now remembers whether the "Alert recipient(s) of this message via email" was checked or not.

Notify Via Email
The users you selected to notify via email when updating a milestone, task, or document is now remembered. As a result, when you update the item again, you no longer have to reselect those users as they will be selected for you. The selected users are also saved when you save a comment as a draft and return to it later to finish it.

Bug Fix
We fixed a bug where related items were not appearing if the item being viewed was not editable by the person viewing it.