NetOffice recently released the Beta 2 version of 2.6.0 – with some nice additions. Milestones are the most useful new feature, and could be the basis of some useful (although not yet written) reports.
Whilst on the subject of reports, my only real gripe with NetOffice (and similar products) is resource management. So I’ve modified a couple of their reports to make that job a little easier.
Completed Tasks with Times
The first report changes the existing Completed Tasks report to also include both Estimated Time and Actual Time for each task. Useful for checking how good your estimating is! Also good for keeping a bit of an eye on how each employee or sub contractor is going.
Download Zip File (2160 bytes)
Simply unzip this file and save over the top of the old one in the reports
folder in your NetOffice installation.
Tasks with Estimated Times
With NetOffice’s inbuilt reporting, it’s not hard to see all the tasks you have allocated to someone. (Just choose their username, and then ‘open’ and ‘not started’ from the status.) This report displays the estimated time for each task instead of whether the task is published or not, which from my point of view is far more useful.
Download Zip File (3564 bytes)
Simply unzip this file and save over the top of the old one in the reports
folder in your NetOffice installation.
A word of warning…
Both these reports overwrite existing NetOffice reports, so back them both up first just in case you don’t like what I’ve done. Both are tested with 2.6.0b2, I don’t know how they’ll work on other versions.
Cheers!