New features: Milestones with Tickets, Exporting projects and many more!

Fred Oliveira on August 4, 2010, Comments (11)

These have been a few long days for the team here, but it was worth it, because we finally get to announce the latest features on Goplan - some of which I’m sure will make many of you happy. Here’s what’s new:

Tickets can now be associated with milestones: Since we first built Goplan, we allowed associating tasks with a particular project milestone. Many of you - quite correctly - suggested that we did the same with Tickets. So now we have. Milestones can have both tasks and tickets associated with them. Project managers now have more control over what needs to happen in order to hit a given project milestone.

Projects can be exported in XML: One of the questions we got more often in our support email was if it was somehow possible to export a given project, for archival or backup purposes. Our answer was always “you can always use our API, but we’re working on something better”. That something better is here. You can now click “Export” next to any project in your company’s projects list to get an XML formatted file you can keep. Being committed to letting people export anything they add to Goplan means we’re really happy we’re finally announcing this feature.

New credit card processing: We revamped our plan page completely, and now allow credit card payments - no more forcing you to create and maintain a Paypal account. If you do have a Paypal account you prefer to use, we’ll still let you do it - but if you don’t, your life is now much easier.

Better text input: We made it much easier to input correctly-formatted text into Goplan. You don’t need to use Textile anymore, or save a comment multiple times to get the format right. What you see when you’re typing in a new comment, a ticket description, discussion or task content will be exactly what you get after you save. Hopefully this makes it much easier for you to collaborate on Goplan.

Other tweaks in the code:

We also did a number of smaller tweaks in the code that hopefully will help you guys. For the curious, here are a few of those changes:

  • UI updates on many screens
  • URLs typed in comments now hyperlink automatically
  • Task due dates can be removed again
  • Fixed a typo in the document category screen
  • Comment box is now cleared after typing and submitting a comment
  • Fixed a typo in the subscription warning email

Keep sending us your feedback:

This update will hopefully make your lives a little better. We’re very happy about the new ability to export projects, new text input and better ways to subscribe to Goplan. We wouldn’t be able to do this if it wasn’t for your great feedback so keep it coming. As always, we’re listening to your thoughts on Twitter as well as our support email at [email protected].

Comments:

this is really great! I’ve been really looking forward to the milestones/tickets feature.

Really great changes!! The export feature is a nice improvement. In the next update, I would love to see the ability to check off completed tasks from the main dashboard (“my todo list”). This would be a lot easier than having to open each task and click “close task” (or check off from within a particular project).

Also, and maybe more importantly, I would love the ability to create tasks using an interface like Remember the Milk’s (thinking about the gmail sidebar app in particular). This app lets you create tasks and edit details from one interface rather than going through a series of different pages. I suspect this would require a redesign of the task feature in goplan, but I think it would be a really great change. I love that I can assign tasks to users on particular projects, but the need to cycle through a number of pages across projects to create, edit, and delete tasks really slows me down.

Again, great changes in this update!

<3 at credit card processing! great job ;)

Always nice to see updates, they are very welcome.

Here is my ‘want’ list

1) Ability to set deadlines for Tickets
2) Ability to set a “percentage complete” on tasks (and probably tickets)
3) Ability to assign tickets to categories
4) Ability to add your own ticket statuses i.e. i would like to add a “on hold” status
5) It would be nice to be able to customize what is displayed on the dashboard
6) When closing a ticket, it would be nice for the timer to automatically stop
7) Number of comments should be displayed on closed tickets

These changes are most welcome, über thank you.
My request at this time is still the same : mobility. ;-)

Apart of that, we now receive all the notification emails with plain html markup (with a lot of ‘s by the way) : that’s weird…

Very nice!
I’ve noticed a few changes, then came here to see what you’ve been up to lately :)

What I would really, really like is the ability to re-assign task’s parent. Like, drag a task into another task to set it as it’s child. (or at least, when editing a Task, there should be a dropdown menu where I could change it’s parent). Please make this possible, my tasks are kinda messed-up, and would love a way to re-arrange them properly.

All the best
:)

By the way, I prefer the old calendar to those dropdown menus (looks nicer, more user friendly)

1. How do you remove formatting from copied text? I don’t want to have to go into another text editor to remove formatting first

2. The calendar is useless now - it was much easier when you could see the calendar to pick a date

3. You promised the iPhone app months ago now and there’s still no sign of it…

After falling in love with GoPlan from the start, it has become a bit of a let down of late

Please add the indentation functionality back to the editor, it is impossible to add sublists etc.

All changes are good except for the WYSIWYG editor, mainly because it now has less functionality than it did before.

I work on technical projects, I want to be able to easily write properly formatted code snippets, and use proper headings. There is a good reason why formatters such as markdown and textile exist, it’s because they’re significantly better than WYSIWYG once you get the hang of them.

New changes are great, thanks for your work!
I just have one comment:WYSIWYG is ok for most situations, but textiles made it possible to make more advanced text formatting: is there the possibility of using textiles now within the new editor?

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