We would like to alert you some significant changes that we have
made to TeamWork Live over the past 2 months. These changes are
intended to simplify TeamWork Live—making it easier for new users
to get started with it—and decrease confusion over how best to use
certain features in TeamWork Live.
Reorganization of the Personal Workspace
The personal workspace has been one of the most problematic and
confusing area for new users to TeamWork Live. While the features
in the personal workspace were useful, calling it a "workspace" was
confusing as it was functionally different from the project
workspaces. For example, the calendar in the personal workspace
shows all the calendar items for a user, while a project calendar
only shows all calendar items for a project. New team members would
often add tasks and documents to their personal workspace instead
of a project workspace, which would cause problems because their
team members would never see them.
As a result, we have reorganized the project workspace while still
retaining the functionalities that made it useful. The following
changes have been made:
1. The overview page for the personal workspace has been completely
removed. The page was redundant with the dashboard.
2.
The sections of the personal workspace are now accessible
from a drop-down menu from the dashboard tab. This will
remove their association with the "workspace" label so that users
will not think that they are functionally similar to the
corresponding sections in the project workspaces.
3. The sections have been renamed to make it clearer that they are
for the current user only. For example, "Calendar" has been renamed
to "My Calendar", "Folders" have been renamed to "My Folders",
etc.
Membership Plan Changes
As part of the simplification process, we have decided to
remove the per-user plans. Having both per-user and group plans was
causing confusion. Additionally, we have learned that most
administrators like to centralize management of their membership
plans and that the per-user plans were too cumbersome. The per-user
plans were mainly being used by people with 3-5 team members as
there was a gap in the group plans for that team size.
To address the gap, we have decided to introduce a 5-person
"Starter" plan for $39/month. This plan saves money for most of our
per-user plan members, makes it easier for plan administrators to
manage their users, and gives them access to the branding and
customization features found in the other group plans. Users
currently on the per-user plans can continue on them but they will
no longer be available to new users.
Color Coding of "My Calendar" by Project
You can color-code your personal calendar by projects instead
of by type and status (i.e., upcoming milestone, overdue task,
etc.). To do so, select "Project" from the "Color calendar by"
selection found below the calendar (see screen shot below). This
view makes it easier for you to see which calendar entries are for
which project.
Open Items Report Improvement
Now, when you sort the open items report by milestones, the
tasks are grouped under their respective milestones to make it
easier to see which tasks belong to which milestones.
Project Team
The invite team members window now only list users that are team
members of yours in other projects. Likewise, the invite clients
window only shows users that have been previously invited as
clients in your other projects. This will make it less likely for
users to invite people into the wrong role.
Thank you again for your continued support and we look forward to
making TeamWork Live even more useful to you in the future.
