Today we are glad to announce our first contest in 2012. Become our first Winner by helping us improve AceProject!

How to Participate

1. Like us on our Facebook Page
2. Click the Nexus 7 image to access the contest zone
3. Submit your most wanted enhancement as a Comment

Contest Rules and Winner

The contest ends on August 31, 2012. The winner will be announced on September 5, 2012.  The winner will be determined based on the number of “likes” the idea receives, but also on the clarity and level of detail provided.

Prize

The author of the chosen idea will win a Google Tablet Nexus 7 (8GB)

Since last Friday, you probably noticed that “Help” links now point to FAQs. These FAQs are actually part of our knowledge base, which represents a more efficient way to get your questions about AceProject answered. Thanks to a powerful search engine, you can easily find answers to your questions.

We’ve kept the major help pages such as “Time Tracking” and “Task Dependencies”, but got rid of all contextual help pages. We’ve organized all the information in 11 categories (Projects, Tasks, Documents, Time, Expenses, Reports, Admin, Access Rights, Mobile, Intranet, and Miscellaneous).

We extracted the essence of each and every contextual help page and made a “Best of” out of it. Hence, we don’t re-explain every menu item every time and don’t repeat the “See Also” and the “Troubleshooting” either, like we used to.

Make sure you bookmark this link: https://www.aceproject.com/blog/kb/, or click any “Help” link in the application.

That’s the link to the knowledge base. It may come in handy at times.

We are excited to leverage a new concept for communicating with our customers.  We’ve decided to create audio/video presentations in the likes of a radio show with images.

Here’s the first show about Recurring Tasks. What do you think of this new concept?

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It's been a couple of weeks since we launched our new design. Our customers are pretty thrilled about the "New AceProject". We received lots of comments and many of them helped us tweak quite a few things, fix bugs and add elements to our roadmap. We are still working on the documentation, so please be patient. All help pages will be updated in the foreseeable future.

We are extremely proud to announce the official launch of the biggest enhancement in AceProject’s history, that is, a complete redesign of the interface.

The new interface was initially launched as a private beta. Then, a couple of weeks later, the beta was made public. Now, here we are, the new interface is now the official one for all AceProject users.

AceProject never looked so handsome! We are proud of the whole AceProject team. Each every team member was involved in the process.

Among other enhancements, the new interface includes:

• Multi-project tabs that let you open as many projects as you want.
• A global search box that lets you search among all tasks you are allowed to see.
• A search box at the project level that lets you search tasks within a specific project.
• A side bar in edit forms.
• Sections in edit forms and search filters can be shown/hidden in accordance with your needs.
• “Remember filters” option in task lists and easier-to-find actions.
• Enhanced overall speed and more functional screens.
• And much more…

Here are three screenshots of the new interface:

Please note that the system will be migrated to the new interface (currently on beta) on Monday, October 3. No action is required on your part and no data will be lost during the process. The switch will occur at around 5 am Eastern Time and we anticipate 30 minutes of downtime, at worst. Should any of your users be logged in during the migration process, they will lose their session.

It's been a couple of weeks since we released the new interface in private beta. Things are running smoothly and the comments we've gathered so far have helped us significantly improve usability, among others elements.

Summer time is great for taking care of things we have been waiting to accomplish for a long time. This year, we have not slowed down at all and decided to take on a huge project, that is, revamping AceProject's interface completely. We are not talking about color changes and a couple of new fields. Actually, several interface have been either eliminated, rethought or added.

AceProject in the New York Times.

Throughout the week, we are moving all AceProject databases as well as SQL Server on brand new servers.