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They are available from version 1.0.572.

Today we registered new TimeMaker domains:

• timemaker.cz - for our Czech customers
• timemaker.name - English version of timemaker.org
• timemaker.info - English version of timemaker.org
• timemaker.mobi - interface for TimeMaker sychronization with cell phones

To address difficulties in sending attachments when using TMmail, we recently increased the size of each e-mail capacity from 10MB to 20MB.

This does not mean that users can send 20MB attachments via TMmail. E-mail is quite ineffective in the sending of the files. When you attach a file to an email, the file is converted to a text form (base64). This text form increases the size of each attachment by approximately 30%. Because of this increase in file size, the maximum size of file you can send via TMMail is 16MB.

If you need to transfer larger files between TimeMaker users, you can use send them via a TimeMaker message instead of sending as an email. When sending via a message, you can send approximately 100Mb’s - and it will be sent quickly, even between many users.

TMmail

How does TMmail delivery work?

Let’s first start with some basic theory. You send an e-mail to x@domain.com. This mail is delivered first to your SMTP server, designated as Server1 in the diagram below. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol).

This server will separate the domain (x) from address (domain.com) and will determine to which server the e-mail should be delivered. This server (designated as Server 2 in the diagram below) is in the domain defined as MX record (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_record). It also is an SMTP server.

Your SMTP server (Server 1) will then deliver the e-mail to the server in MX record (Server 2).

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Authorize Date Move Request - The Concept

In TimeMaker, any Production Task, Command or Plan assigned to be executed has a Target Date. A Target Date is the date by which the task needs to be completed.

At times a task cannot be executed on time and the Performer should submit a Date Move request to the Owner of the task. A Date Move request acts as notice to the task’s Owner that the task may not be completed on time, and allows the Owner to approve or disapprove the request to change the Target Date and handle the consequences of the change.

Above is a simple situation. A more complex situation occurs when the organization is composed of multiple command layers.

Let’s take an example of a simple organization:

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ANOTHER TIME MAKER POWERFUL FEATURE EXPANDED

PLAN’S USER’S RIGHTS

Plan’s user rights define the rights a user or users has over a plan or part thereof. By default, the system will grant the user rights for a plan or part of a plan based on the user function in the plan however, the plan’s Owner or a senior may grant any of the rights to any user in the system.

The following are the TimeMaker’s Plans user rights:

Owner’s Rights - Owner’s Rights gives full control over the plan and its steps.

Sub Owner’s Rights - Sub Owner’s Rights gives Performer rights to the Plan (Performer can see the plan and perform Date Move request, Clarification request, Reject, Completion Report, Redirect as well as the basic actions - Data Interchange, Query). The Sub Owner’s Rights allow the user to act as Owner on the planss sub items.

Performer’s Rights - At the TimeMaker the Planss Performer is the Owner of all the Plan’s sub items. Performer’s Rights gives the Performer the ability to perform Date Move request, Clarification request, Reject, Completion Report, Redirect as well as the basic actions - Data Interchange, Query. A user with Performer’s Right can not insert, delete, activate or deactivate steps of the plan.

Read Only Rights - Read Only Rights gives the user the ability to only see the plan and its steps with no other rights.

Limited info Rights - Limited info Rights gives the user the ability to see the Plan’s subject only. The user will not see the Plan’s body and will not see the Plan’s steps.

Inherited Right - Inherited Rights is a kind of ‘restore default rights’ right. When selecting this right the user will be assigned the rights based on his function at the plan and its steps - the Owner will get Owner’s Right and the Performers will inherent the Performer’s Rights.

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NEWER, EXCITING AND EVEN MORE AMAZING IN TimeMaker - Leadership Software

SENIOR DATE MOVE FEATURE EXPANDED

THE PROBLEM:
In TimeMaker (like in life) Production Tasks , Commands and Plans have Target Dates and sometimes they need to be moved.

The mechanism for moving a Target Date is:
1. The Performer of the task realizes he is not going to complete the task by the assigned Target Date.
2. The Performer asks for a Date Move from the Owner of the task.
3. The Owner of the task may or may not approve the date move request.

At times it happens that the Owner of the task is the junior of the Performer and so the Performer of the task has Senior Rights (he can act as an Owner in regards to the task) and so has the ability to Bypass as Owner . In such a case, it sometime dose not make sense for the Performer (who is a senior of the Owner) to ask for approval to move the Target Date. The senior should have the ability to move the date without asking his junior for approval.

THE HANDLING:
As of version 1.0.1.293, TimeMaker allows the senior, as part of his Senior Rights options, to execute a Date Move without asking for approval from the Owner (his junior).

The mechanism for moving the Target Date in this case is:
1. The Performer of the task realizes he is not going to complete the task by the assigned Target Date.
2. The Performer uses his Senior Rights and uses Bypass As Owner option and executes a Date Move.
3. The Owner of the task receives a notification that the item’s Target Date has been moved.

In a case when the Owner wants to move the date of the task the Owner will execute a Date Move and the Performer (If diffrent than the Owner) will get a notice of the change in the target date.

All Tasks are assigned by an Owner to a Performer with a date for completion called a Target Date. At times, the Performer cannot complete the assigned Task by the Target Date. When this occurs, the Performer requests a Date Move to allow more time for completion of the Task.

To request a Date Move, the Performer clicks on the button . If the Task was assigned by an Owner other than the Performer, the Owner will receive the Date Move request. The Task remains in the Performer’s Inbox at the original Target Date until either accepted or rejected by the Owner of the Task.

When received by the Owner of the Task, the Date Move can be accepted or rejected. If accepted, the Task moves in the in the Performer’s Inbox in accordance with the newly approved Target Date. If rejected, the Task must be completed by the Performer prior to expiration of the original Target Date. If the Task was assigned by the Performer to him or her self (meaning, the Performer is also the Owner), the Date Move is automatically approved.

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