Welcome to Easy Projects .NET monthly newsletter!

In our August Issue:
  1. Version 5.0.3 has been released
  2. New Features Survey: Preliminary Results
  3. How to purchase or upgrade Easy Projects .NET
  4. Tip of the Month
  5. Current Promotions and Offers
  6. Testimonial of the Month
  7. Project Management Book of the Month


1. Easy Projects .NET new version 5.0.3 has been released


Easy Projects .NET Version 5.0.3 has been released and is available on our web-site for a download or as an online trial. New features and changes include (compared to 5.0.1):
  • New button: "reset role permissions for all project members" on the role details page
  • New option: "Allow tasks with duplicate names" in the installer during the upgrade
  • Ability to copy tasks to the same project
  • Billing report. Allow fractional tax value
  • Allow to delete a project with all tasks
  • And others - http://www.easyprojects.net/whatsnew50.asp

Easy Projects .NET 5.0.3 Download: http://www.easyprojects.net/downloads/
Easy Projects .NET 5.0.3 Online Trial: http://www.easyprojects.net/onlinetrial.asp


2. New Features Survey: Preliminary Results

Our annual survey for the features to be implemented in the next version of Easy Projects .NET is still under way. We've been asking you to tell us which features are the most important to you.

Here are the preliminary results for the top 3 features:
  1. Synchronization with Outlook Calendar
  2. Milestones
  3. Batch operations for tasks and projects
The survey will end this Thursday, August 23, 2007. If you haven't done do so, yet, please cast your vote at: http://www.easyprojects.net/survey51.asp


3. How to purchase or upgrade Easy Projects .NET

If you are interested in purchasing Easy Projects .NET, you can place your order at:
http://www.easyprojects.net/pricing

Or give us a call us 1-416-907-9944. We would be delighted to answer your questions and help in any way we can.

If you are our existing customer, please contact us at sales@easyprojects.net or at 1-416-907-9944 to find how you can upgrade to the latest version.


4. Tip of the Month

Q: How can I change the order my tasks are displayed in, if I don't want them to be sorted by ID or alphabetically?

A: You can sort the task list your own way by creating a custom field called "Order" and adding it to the Task List table by customizing the column list. Then the new field will appear in the list and you'll be able to sort your tasks by it.

More Easy Projects .NET tips can be found at:

Forums: http://www.easyprojects.net/Forums/
Knowledge base: http://www.easyprojects.net/KB/
Tips & Tricks Collection: http://www.easyprojects.net/Tips/



5. Current Promotions and Offers

"Refer a Friend" Offer
If you refer someone to us who becomes a new Easy Projects .NET customer, we would be happy to express our gratitude by giving your organization a choice between:
  • a $150-value coupon that can be used toward any future purchase of additional licenses, source code or upgrade, or
  • a $50 Amazon Gift Card


If you are interested in any or all of these offers, please contact us at: info@easyprojects.net


6. Testimonial of the Month

"...Before we acquired Easy Projects .NET, we were not keeping track of time properly and a lot time wasn't being billed.

Now when we want to know how profitable a project was we run a report and when it is time to do billing it is all right there. This was a big problem to us before and billing to took forever."

Kevin McNally
Founder
Interactive Palette, Inc.

Do you like Easy Projects? Do you want to feature your company in our newsletter?
Please send your testimonial to feedback@easyprojects.net


7. Project Management Book of the Month

Our project management book of the month is: "The Productivity Handbook: New ways of leveraging your time, information, and communications" by Donald Wetmore.

Review from Amazon.com:
"The Productivity Handbook reveals how true productivity doesn’t mean doing more things faster. It means being more effective–and this requires better ways of prioritizing your time, communicating with others, and absorbing information. In this concise and entertaining book, Wetmore offers powerful tips and techniques in these three areas:

Time–includes making short- and long-term plans, managing multiple priorities, and overcoming procrastination

Information–includes shrinking your inbox, writing effective notes, and improving your memory

Communication–includes networking, public speaking, and having efficient meetings"

Full Review at: http://www.amazon.com/Productivity-Handbook-leveraging-information-communications/dp/0375721142/

Do you have a favorite, must-read project management book? Let us know, and we will gladly feature it with your review in this newsletter!



This and the previous newsletters are available at our archive: http://www.easyprojects.net/newsletters.asp



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