What's New - 2018 & 2019

The user details section is now enhanced to show skill set, work status summary, gamescope scorecard, and planned vs actual hours spent on work.

Enter time logs for tasks directly from the classic and plain view. 

We have introduced two new custom fields: Multi Select and Multi User pick lists that will let you select multiple options from the available list.

We have updated the task reminder. You can now set reminders based on due dates or at a specific date.

When a task is created using a task template that has a Blueprint associated with it, the Blueprint will be applied to the new task.

We have introduced sorting in Project timeline Gantt. The chart can be sorted by start date, end date, or project creation date.

You can now add multiple tasks to Zoho Sprints in one go.

Our project budget feature has evolved. We have introduced task and issue based billing, forecasted cost, milestone based budget, and tracking for planned expenditure in fixed cost billing method.

Zoho Projects now supports phone, email, and URL custom fields in task layouts.

We have updated the Timesheet feature. You can now allow users to log time for closed tasks and issues.

You can now dissociate blueprints from your tasks at a project, milestone, or task list level.

Kanban status view now lets you reorder tasks within the status.

You can schedule daily, weekly, or monthly digest on specific days, dates, and time.

We have introduced new custom field types. Add phone, email, and URL fields to your projects layout.

Recurring tasks now have an option to retain comments from the original task.

Project completion can now be calculated based on task percentage completion.

Apply blueprint when you import tasks from MPP, CSV, XLS and JSON files.

Bill your customers based on a fixed cost.

Set a threshold for your budget and receive an email when you reach the threshold or exceed the budget.

You can now apply blueprint selectively to a project, milestone, task or task list.

Apply task custom views from the My Tasks widget in dashboard to filter out tasks across projects.

You can now activate or deactivate the portal-level client users.

Export project and client report from the My Timesheet module in your portal home.

You can apply custom views from a particular task list.

Configure view permission for tasks and issues with the new “Related” option. Users can view only their related tasks or issues. 

Blueprints are now grouped based on the project layouts. You can clone blueprints and enable or disable them.

You can now enable or disable the issue links in Customization settings under Issue Tracker. 

Portal level permissions for managing deleted or archived projects, project groups and layouts & fields are now available.

Start conversations regarding the task or issue updates directly from the task or issue details page. Also, you can add more participants to your conversation. 

Add custom statuses for your projects and track progress. We now support sections in project layout. Add new sections and group your custom fields.

Now you can change your task duration from days to hours from the task classic view.

You can now search for tasks using their prefix while setting dependencies.

We have updated our Zoho CRM integration. Add existing tasks to Zoho CRM while editing them.

Set recurrence and reminders for tasks in a project template.

You can copy all closed tasks in a project as open tasks when creating a new project template.

Timesheet approval is made easy. Approving or rejecting time log(s) is just a click away.

You can now create multi-day events and view them on your calendar.

Now add closed tasks from existing projects as open tasks to the project templates.

Zoho Projects now lets you add documents on the Global Feed. 

Select and add task lists and their dependencies from project templates to your projects.

View task completion date and track if you are ahead or behind schedule. 

When creating a project with a project template, the same dashboard layout of that template will be carried over to the new project.

​Zoho Projects now supports import from Basecamp 3.

You can now add notes to your weekly timesheet entries.

​User roles can be @ mentioned in status and comments.

​You can now import milestones when you are importing tasks from xls or csv files.

Select closed tasks in bulk and delete them or change their status.

​You can now resize project columns in the project list view.

Set task dependencies not only between tasks in the same project but also for tasks from different projects in the portal.

​You can now bulk update the billing status of your time logs.

Tasks, issues, milestones, and events can be filtered based on status or assignee in calendar.

View your upcoming work items for the next 30 days in the project dashboard.

You can now select multiple tasks and delete them in bulk.

Export Task, Issue, and Timesheet reports as a PDF file.

Before you could add task as events in Microsoft Office 365 calendar. Now you can add tasks and events separately.

You can now back up your portal data in CSV format from Settings.

You can now view project hierarchy in milestone gantt chart under Global Reports.

​Kanban view now displays the images associated with tasks.

With the newly added Age criteria, customize your view to display tasks by days since created or days past due.

Activate and deactivate users from your portal without removing them permanently.

Now you can create more multiline and user pick list custom fields.

When using projects templates, the overview is copied to the new project by default.

Post a forum as a Q&A session and comment on it with queries or answers. You can also post a reply to a comment. ​

You can now schedule games at any time of your choice and with the new delete option, you can delete the completed games too. 

You can now reorder your milestones by numbering them. ​

Task reordering in task list view resulted in the reordering of tasks in the project template. This has now been fixed.  

Milestone reordering in Gantt synchronized with the milestone reordering in the project template. This has now been fixed and reordering can be done distinctly.