Meet the Full Set of Task Dependencies
Project management is unthinkable without milestones and dependencies. Even if you occasionally plan tasks on the Gantt chart, these tools help you keep your product releases, website launches, editorial calendars, advertising campaigns and many other important activities on track and on time. Project management is unthinkable without milestones and dependencies. Even if you occasionally plan tasks on the Gantt chart, these tools help you keep your product releases, website launches, editorial calendars, advertising campaigns and many other important activities on track and on time. Creating "finish-to-start" dependencies on the Timeline (Gantt chart) has been a matter of a mouse move in Wrike for quite some time now. You simply hover on a predecessor task and drag the arrow from its right side to the left side of the successor. Recently, many of our customers started asking for the ability to build more complex relationships between tasks in the same quick and easy manner. We've accepted the challenge, and starting today, Wrike became even more professional, allowing you to create all possible dependencies between your tasks! New Types of Task Dependencies Start-to-start (B can't start before A starts) If you plan to publish some article with images, there is no use in making visuals unless you start writing. Here the start-to-start dependency will work the best for you. Join the left sides of "write article" and "make pictures" tasks with an arrow, and it is set! It's not necessary for these tasks to start at the same time. Thus, if needed, you can easily move the second task forward this way, creating a task date constraint. Finish-to-finish (B can't finish before A is finished) If captions are the finishing touch on your banner, use the finish-to-finish dependency. You can instantly create it by joining the tasks' right sides with an arrow. Start-to-finish (B can't finish before A starts) This dependency type is often used for just-in-time scheduling. For example, you need to transfer paper from the warehouse to the printers in order for printing to start. However, the printers have limited storage capacity and you do not want the paper to arrive until it is needed ('just in time'), so the start of printing drives the delivery of paper. If the start of printing changes for some reason, so will the end date for getting paper to the printers. Probably, you already know how to set up this type of relationship. Hover on the left side of the "start printing" task and move the mouse to the right of the "deliver paper" one. What dependencies are the most desired for your projects? Are any of them completely new for your team?
Wrike is being represented at Le Web 3
I would be glad to have an opportunity to meet you at the Le Web 3 on December 11th & 12th, 2006. “Les Blogs conference” for entrepreneurs, bloggers and web2.0 players around the world is taking place in Paris for the third time. The event seems to be sizable: since we decided to join the conference the number of participants has at the least, doubled. There are over 800 participants who are expected to be there. We are going to make a short presentation of Wrike as a web 2.0 start-up on December, 11th at 10 a.m. We will appreciate your attention and are open to face-to-face contacts and feedback.
A pack of new features
The Wrike team often dreams of a sticker on their screens with a short message: “Vacation”. Nevertheless the inner necessity to develop the best collaboration tool drives us to be consistent with it. It will soon materialize in a burst of new features. This time we won’t feed you with drops of small innovations. The upcoming changes are somewhat revolutionary – in the context of displaying and managing the tasks and projects you work on together.
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User rights in Wrike
Wrike supports an open and collaborative environment. From its beginning, Wrike has embraced an open and collaborative environment. Collaboration makes your team more agile, helps you to adjust to ever-changing market conditionsand brings you better results. That is why Wrike is a very powerful platform for managing small and medium businesses that encourage team members’ initiative, aiming to obtain more for less time and money. You can collaborate with people from different accounts. You can easily collaborate with your business partner who already subscribed himself and his team to Wrike. You also can easily collaborate with team members to whom you granted a professional subscription to Wrike. Likewise, You can easily collaborate with your spouse, who has a free Wrike account. You also can invite your friends to collaborate on your shared tasks. Apparently, you will be able to collaborate with your friends, whether they decide to keep their free accounts or upgrade to the professional version. No other project management software offers such an opportunity to you. Our software, Wrike, is more like email where people’s accounts may be registered with different companies, but they still can email each other. Share exactly what you want with exactly who you want. Wrike allows you to manage the access rights of your associates within every part of your plans. Depending on your needs, these rights can be managed on the level of a concrete task, a folder with tasks or an entire project. You have one workspace, no matter how many tasks or projects you are involved in. You can share one task with your partner, another task with one of your clients and your support team, and a third task with your HR manager and project leader. This gives you unique visibility of all of your projects in one account. Permissions in Wrike are based on the Wiki model. Taking into account all the above comments, it becomes evident why Wrike’s permission system is not complicated by granular rights, such as view, edit, delete, etc. Granular rights would create formal boundaries on contributing to projects and add a level of complexity for people who share tasks. Therefore, in Wrike, there is one type of sharing. Either an item is shared or not. If you share the item, the user gets all the permissions (view/edit/delete). If you do not share the item, the user has no permissions (no view, no edit, no delete). This model is also used in wikis. If you give a person access to the task, a person can easily update it. Wrike's permission system is very easy to use and convenient, especially when backed up by a revision history and e-mail notifications. You can get the best of project collaboration with Wrike. Thanks to Wrike, your business will become more flexible, mobile and transparent. Transparent business means openness to customers, openness to new markets, openness to new techniques and openness to learning. Your organization becomes empowered and more competitive with Wrike. Also read: Ultimate Benefit that You Obtain with Wrike.
Time tracking to improve accountability
Update: the time-tracking feature has been released. The next important improvement that we are currently working on is the time tracking feature. This feature will give you even better team accountability. Additionally, time tracking will help you to improve communications with clients, giving them clear time reports. It will also help with agency and consultant staff, with consultant hours tracking made easier than ever. With the time tracking feature, you will be able to: add time entries for tasks, keep track of the hours spent on a task or a project, quickly create reports and see what tasks people work on and how much time they spend on each task. Do you have any preferences regarding the time tracking feature? We’ll consider implementing them with the next update.
Wrike App Gets a Bold Redesign for Android 5.0 Lollipop
Wrike's app for Android™ has been redesigned for the latest Android OS update, Android 5.0 Lollipop. Because we want you to be the first to benefit from the latest innovations in the mobile space, the redesigned Wrike app now boasts the same bold colors, fluid animations, and simplified layouts that characterize Lollipop. What's distinct about the Lollipop OS and the design principles it was built from (Google calls it Material Design, we call it "awesome") is its emphasis on simplicity and on being able to know where you are in the app at all times. These characteristics are now front and center in Wrike. ?ere's a quick rundown of what's new in the updated Wrike app: - Gorgeous new design: Round avatar photos, and a redesigned task list and task view so you get a clearer look at your tasks. - Better navigation & performance: Whether you're viewing your task list or your Activity Stream, navigation is now improved and more fluid. - NEW! App Notification Center: You won't miss any @mentions or new assignments with this latest mobile addition. And don't forget, we just released three all-new features for Android: Multiple Dashboards, Time Tracker, and 3 new Android home screen widgets — Stream, Task list, and Add new task. If you haven’t downloaded the app yet, get it on Google Play and send us your favorite screenshot of the Wrike Android app in action. We’d love to see how you Wrike on the go!
Wrike + Salesforce = Happier Clients and Teams
You live in Wrike and your Sales team lives in Salesforce, but you still need to work together. Now, you can collaborate without having to jump back and forth between tools or bombard each other with email. Today we're announcing our integration with Salesforce to help you manage your customers and your tasks all in one view. Wrike's Salesforce integration makes collaboration between Salesforce users and other teams in your company faster, easier, and more accountable. Salesforce users can create and assign new Wrike tasks directly from Salesforce, and also check the latest status of all tasks you've associated with your Salesforce pages. Meanwhile, you can work in Wrike and any changes you make are instantly reflected in Salesforce. This eliminates time spent reiterating information in Salesforce and Wrike, avoids dropped handoffs, and saves you from toggling between systems. Wrike’s Salesforce Integration lets you: Add a Wrike Tasks module to any record type in Salesforce such as Leads, Opportunities, or Cases Create and view Wrike tasks without leaving Salesforce Instantly reflect in Salesforce any changes made in Wrike How might you apply this to your team? Here are some common use cases, but of course these are just a few of many: 1) Implementation teams – Often winning a new deal is just the beginning. For teams who work on post-sale implementation projects, client consulting engagements, or other fulfillment work, managing these projects in Wrike is easier and more effective. Now these projects can be linked to the client records in Salesforce for quick and easy reference by your account teams. 2) Marketing teams – You support Sales with campaigns, pitch materials, and competitive analysis. Now Sales reps can submit requests as a Wrike task directly from Salesforce — forget about emailing! You can easily communicate and share files directly from Wrike, and you have a full record of all the support you’ve provided Sales to quickly report on the impact of your work. 3) IT help desk – The Salesforce integration isn’t limited just to Sales teams, it works with any Salesforce Object. Let’s say your IT Help Desk uses Salesforce Cases to track tickets such as lost computers, network issues, and new employee setup. Now you can easily manage any tasks or projects related to these cases in Wrike while keeping Salesforce as your record system for cases. Getting started: Salesforce Integration is available to Wrike Enterprise accounts. Ready to give it a try? If you're on Wrike Enterprise, contact our Support team for the installation package. If you’re not on Wrike Enterprise, start a free trial and then contact our Support team and ask for the Salesforce Integration to try it out. Any other questions? Reach out to our Support team! They're standing by and ready to help. More great integrations are coming soon, so stay tuned with Wrike! Subscribe to our blog to stay in touch with all the latest product updates.
Helping You Reach the Mythical Inbox Zero
Take back control of your work with Wrike’s new Inbox on Android. Let’s face it, we all get a lot of communications these days. Some we need to respond to right away, some we need to come back to later, some that aren’t important at all. For most of us, it’s difficult to keep track of everything that still needs to be done because immediate to-dos, FYIs, and "I'll-respond-to-this-later"s are all mixed together in our inbox. Not anymore. Wrike’s redesigned Inbox on Android helps you quickly get to the bottom of your messages and keep your Inbox clean. The new card design makes messages easy to scan and sort. Swiping right archives messages you’re finished with; snooze temporarily hides those you need to come back to later. (Don’t worry, you decide when you want them to pop back into your inbox.) Now, you can empty your Inbox without losing track of important things you need to do later. The new Inbox combines all of your Wrike messages and notifications in a single view, consolidating the former Activity Stream & Notification Center into one. Update your Android app today and find the mythical Inbox Zero. Don’t have the Wrike Android app yet? Install it here. For our iOS users, you’ll already find a new Inbox for your messages in the app, and we’ll be updating the design and adding archiving and snooze in the near future. Keep an eye out for the update!
The Power Behind a Click: Duplicating Folders
We all have projects that reappear from time to time: similar customer contracts, feature releases, regular trade shows, etc. And when a new project with basically the same milestones starts, we all would love to have a one-click way to set it up. As so many of you voted for adding a feature for qui?k duplicating of folders in Wrike project management software, today we are excited to roll it out for you! The template folder will be copied with its subfolders and milestones by default, but you also have the option to copy the tasks (1) with their descriptions, attachments and assignees (2). The last checkbox (3) in the dialog lets you adjust the new project's schedule. You set the start date of the first task in the folder, and the other tasks are rescheduled accordingly. They keep the same sequence, durations and time intervals between them as in your template folder. If you leave this box unchecked, the tasks' dates will be identical to the schedule in the original folder. The next time your prospective client calls you to tell you've won the project, you'll set up and customize a new project in just a few minutes. Then share the plan with the client or simply e-mail them an image of the project Gantt chart – you’ll look super-efficient! We invite you to try the power of instant folder duplication and share your experience with us! If you are looking forward to having more new, handy features, let us know about them on our feature voting portal!
The New Way to Embed Images into Task Descriptions: Do It Right from the Attachments
Whatever the task is, be it the new website design, fixing a bug or updating your company’s social media profile, the use of images definitely helps your team to get things right. Adding visuals to tasks is absolutely not a problem with Wrike, and today we made this process even easier. Now you can insert them into task descriptions right from the attachments. Whatever the task is, be it the new website design, fixing a bug or updating your company’s social media profile, the use of images definitely helps your team to get things right. Adding visuals to tasks is absolutely not a problem with Wrike, and today we made this process even easier. Now you can insert them into task descriptions right from the attachments. Imagine your team is discussing interior design for a new customer. After considering tons of variants, at last you are ready to engage 3D designers. The best way to do it is to show them the scheme you successfully finalized. Oh, no… someone accidentally removed the necessary picture from the description. Don’t worry! You can still easily fetch that picture from the attachments. You’re probably wondering how? As usual with Wrike, it won’t take you much time and effort to learn to use the new feature. Just click on the picture icon, then choose the ‘insert from uploads’ tab and tick a checkbox in front of the file you need. Press the insert tab, and that’s it! The description is instantly illustrated with the right visual. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Do you agree? Try it with Wrike’s new feature!
When Numbers Are Not Enough: Add Comments to Your Time Entries
When you click on the "hours spent" link in the task details, you will see the text box right below the field for entering hours. You can use this text box to specify what exactly you have done so far. In the time report, you will see not only a list of time entries for each task, but also have a clue about what the time was spent on. This way, you can always provide your clients with a thorough report of what you are billing them for and ask the same from your contractors. More new handy features are on their way to come before Christmas! In the meantime, if you have ideas of what can make you more productive, please let us know at our voting forum.
Being always up on
[12.13.2006 Updates] This sticker has changed into a message bar. If I'm online and logged in to Wrike, sooner or later I will notice a message bar on my screen. It informs me about any changes that were made to the tasks that I created; are shared with me or I'm responsible for. I can easily check current state of any task clicking its name (that is in blue color). The best thing about it is that I don’t need to refresh a page to receive a new message. All the messages are accumulated on the same bar, and I can move it to any location on the screen. As I view every changed or added task, it disappears from the list. You have a chance to quickly react, when you are able to promptly receive the necessary information. We develop Wrike to help you be well informed of what is going on with activities you organize together.
Guess Who? Now You Can See Who Is Editing Files in Tasks
Looks like it’s document management month in Wrike! Before you could say wow, we’ve added one more file management feature on the heels of our recently launched Dropbox integration. Now, when someone is working on an MS Office document right from Wrike without downloading it, you can instantly see who exactly is doing this. Your colleague’s name appears next to the file title in the task’s attachment list. Let’s see when it can be helpful for you. Looks like it’s document management month in Wrike! Before you could say wow, we’ve added one more file management feature on the heels of our recently launched Dropbox integration. Now, when someone is working on an MS Office document right from Wrike without downloading it, you can instantly see who exactly is doing this. Your colleague’s name appears next to the file title in the task’s attachment list. Let’s see when it can be helpful for you. Imagine you finalized a report on the latest banner campaign and asked your colleague, Jack, to review it before you share it with your boss. For some reason, your boss suddenly wants to see it ASAP, and he also asked for a diagram that you haven’t prepared yet! In Wrike, now you see that Jack has this document open on his computer. It looks like he started reviewing it before he went away for an urgent meeting with a contractor, but you have no idea when he’ll be back … No worries, you can stop Jack’s session with the file by hovering over his name and pressing the “Unlock” button. The document is all yours now. Add and edit whatever you wish! When your colleague gets back to his PC, he won’t miss the update, as it’ll be reflected in the task’s activity stream. If you face a similar situation, remember that there’s this small, yet useful feature to help you through!
New Report: How Wrike Affects Your Bottom Line
Until now, working efficiently and communicating effectively has always been a nice to have. However, with the demand to scale, rise of remote work, and the climate of chaos becoming a normality, inefficiencies are becoming costly. It's more crucial than ever to make healthy work management and collaboration a priority.
Wrike Wins the Tool of the Month Award!
Software testing and quality assurance engineers -- the target audience of the Clever Tester Network – are tough judges for any software tool! This makes the award even more valuable. This fantastic victory also proves that Wrike is a great match for the needs of software development and quality assurance teams. Thank you for choosing Wrike! You can learn more about the award and read an extensive interview with Andrew Filev, Wrike’s CEO, at the Clever Tester Web site.
Android App Updated with Dashboards, Time Tracker, and New Widgets
In the effort to make project collaboration on the go even more efficient, we recently empowered the Wrike app for Android™ with three important features that many of you requested: the familiar multiple Dashboards and time tracker, as well as three all-new Android widgets. 1. Multiple Dashboards: Just as in Wrike's desktop version, you can now create multiple Dashboards in the Wrike app for Android. Instantly scroll through to see project statuses, meeting updates, and your most important tasks. 2. Time Tracker: We've adapted another powerful desktop feature to bring it to you on your Android device. Track the time you spend working on tasks while you're on the go. Keep accurate time logs no matter where you are by clicking the familiar time tracking button. 3. Android Widgets: This is an exciting, all-new feature specifically for our friends using Android devices — you can now add three different Wrike widgets right to your home screen: + Add new task. This simple widget has a plus button that allows you to create a new task in a pre-defined Wrike folder. Perfect for those times when you need to capture an idea and don't want to log all the way into the app. + Stream. You can display Activity Stream updates for the whole account or for a particular folder, and apply your chosen filters. Staying on top of all your updates is now as easy as glancing at your home screen. + Task list. Like the stream widget, you can also choose to display a list of tasks from within a specific folder. You can keep track of: tasks for a particular project, your own to-do list, or tasks you've assigned to someone else. If you haven't downloaded the app yet, get it on Google Play and send us your favorite screenshot of the Wrike app in action. We'd love to see how you Wrike on the go!
Improvements to Google Apps Marketplace: Wrike Goes Side-by-Side
As you might’ve heard, today Google launched an improved experience for the Google Apps Marketplace™. We're excited to announce today that Wrike is taking the lead as one of the first vendors to be a part of this Google Apps Marketplace experience! The updates are aimed at improving the entire user experience. One example of this is that third-party applications (like Wrike) are now available right from the Google App admin console. There are lots of other great improvements, as well. Wrike has been a part of Google Apps Marketplace for a long time. We’ve gathered tons of positive reviews from Google apps users and became one of 10 Top installed apps among hundreds of other tools. Besides popular Wrike features like interactive Gantt charts, Workload views, and task timers, Wrike offers a set of features that Google apps users specially will appreciate, like our Gmail gadget and integrations with Google calendar and Google Drive. So if you or your friends are looking for a Project Management tool integrated with Google Apps – Wrike is definitely the way to go. And don't forget to add your review to the Google Marketplace to help others harness their productivity with Wrike.
Dropbox Chooser and Wrike: Fantastic File-sharing Experience
Just a couple of days ago, Dropbox announced the release of a cool new feature called “Chooser”. The idea behind this update is to facilitate sharing Dropbox files through other apps. Integrating with this popular sharing tool has been on our roadmap for quite some time, so we were overjoyed by the announcement! Right after the feature was announced, we jumped at the opportunity, and today you can already enjoy the convenience of attaching Dropbox files directly to tasks and folders in Wrike with a few mouse clicks. Right after the feature was announced, we jumped at the opportunity, and today you can already enjoy the convenience of attaching Dropbox files directly to tasks and folders in Wrike with a few mouse clicks. The Dropbox integration lines up perfectly with the Wrike’s approach to file collaboration: You can access the most up-to-date file version without a time consuming re-uploading routine. Combine that with online file editing and Google Docs integration, and you have 3 powerful ways to relieve yourself from file version confusion. How does it work? In the task, right under the task description, click on the “Attach from Dropbox” link and choose the desired file. A built-in photo gallery and search function is particularly handy in finding the right file. Even if you update the file in your Dropbox every couple of minutes, your teammates will access the most up-to-date version in Wrike. We hope this update will make your file collaboration in Wrike even more convenient!
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Zapier's New Digest Creates a Shareable Summary of Wrike Info
With Zapier's new Digest feature, you simply select Wrike (and over 500 other tools), tell it what information you want to gather, and it then collects that info, assembles a summary, and delivers it to the platform of your choice.