Welcome to Projects 2.0. This page will help you quickly understand the new features in Projects 2.0. The screen shot tour below will help you get an idea of all new features available in Projects 2.0.
Completely revamped UI for easy & quick navigation
Dashboard
The new project dashboard with Activity stream, user status, team information & other project data.
Task & Milestone
The new task & milestone tab with more cleaner separation between tasks & milestones.
Group chat for instant decision making
Keep the communication with the team at a single place using inbuilt chat rooms.
Wiki for collaborating on project content
Maintain all the project related content in a centralized place where other members can contribute easily
User status
User status enables users to easily share information to other project members
Import from Microsoft Project ( MPP import )
Plan your project in MPP if you are used to Microsoft Project but you can easily track & execute in Zoho
the screenshots look nice!
regarding presentation, the font can be a sans serif one like arial or verdana. will gel well with the page's font. and the background theme can be changed. this is just my personal opinion though.
in the last slide, there should be a ? at the end. the 'Import from MS Project' slide can stress a bit on how Zoho Projects helps / makes the project more collaborative/social
Slide 12 - the wordings can be changed a bit. 'Executing a project is more fun now' or some such
Can you try taking snapshots with "Clear Type" Font settings in your system ? It might look better.
1. Only Milestones displayed in Milestones Graph View are plotted based on the task's start date.
2. The tasks displayed in Task Graph View are NOT plotted based on the task's start date. (and I am trying to find what the criteria is used to display the tasks ?). You will agree with me, that is not possible to work with this Task Graph View.
3. In Task Graph View, please change the color of the legend (scheduled tasks are not green, but red)
4. In Gantt Charts, it is very important to have an option to show together the MILESTONES bars and their TASKS bars. If it is not, the Task List do not make any sense.
5. Currently the Gantt chart mixture all activities and it is not possible to view the sequence (predecessors and successors), for the same Task List.
Another question: Can I turn-off the [ send notification e-mail ] when adding or editing the Tasks Dependencies. ???
About concepts:
Usually in Project Management the concepts are:
Project >> Phases >> Tasks >> Milestones.
Milestones & Tasks is therefore different from Phases & Tasks
Milestone is an Event = zero duration, which usually indicates a critical point or an strategic gate within the Phase.
What happened to the move task Icon. can I still move tasks between task lists?
@armando_charvet,
Yes, it's possible to move task from one task list to another in projects 2.0.
To move task, click "Move Task" option shown below the tasks --> select the required task and move it to the required task list.
Can I see the Total Hours invested in a Project, without having to add all of the hours invested by every single person involved in the project?
If I am going to use the same project template over and over can I copy the entire project or the milestone/task for each project?
Can't figure out how to import MS Project into Zoho? Do you need to have a paying account to do this?
@joshua_stempel@yahoo.com,
No, MS Projects import is available in Free Plan too.
Login to your (pre)projects account --> In Home page, you will find Import MPP option --> click the Import MPP option --> upload the mpp file --> associate with the required project members.
Once done the mpp file will be uploaded into Zoho Projects and users will be assigned to the tasks in that project.
@brian@colliegorg.com,
Currently, it's not possible to copy an existing project. But you can create a new project template and then use that template while creating new projects.
All the milestones/tasks/documents/forum posts/users in the project template will be included in the project, when the project is created with the help of project template.