スノーフレイク株式会社・snowflake

The calendar gets a neat feature update in todoyu 2.0.4.

To rearrange a scheduled meeting, just change it by drag-and-drop the event to a new day and time in the shared calendar.

We are happy to announce the first book published about todoyu. It guides a new user and demonstrates todoyu in every detail, starting with the installation, the system setup but includes also complex showcases based on practical examples.

The book is planned to be released in January 2011 in German language for EUR 19.90.

Reserve your copy today.

>> OpenSourcePress.de
>> Amazon.de

Filters are one of the most powerful feature to customize todoyu for your individual work environment. Filters can search in tasks and projects using a large variety of parameters and combine them with an AND/OR operator.

Once setup, you can save the search as a filter and by one click access the filtered list view in your personalized portal tab. Very efficient...

We added 8 more parameters:
7 project filter parameters for time management,
1 task filter parameter to search for customer names.

Are you a coder and not a scribbler? Then this is for you.

The detailed inline documentation (JavaDoc style) will be very helpful for you as a developer to dive directly into the code and have a close look at todoyu's architecture.

We also provide the full todoyu inline documentation (API Doc). As we are working continously on the documentation, please make sure you come back frequently. Enjoy!

>> todoyu Developer Documentation
>> todoyu API Doc

For your first steps with todoyu, we have created a QuickStart manual. In only 19 pages you can learn how to setup todoyu and create your first project.

The documentation is available as a PDF download and new also in OpenOffice format (.odt).

Maybe the open document helps, if you plan to translate the QuickStart guide into your local language. We are happy to publish your version on todoyu.com.

>> Download QuickStart Manual

Stefan Boos is a todoyu user since August 2010. He and his 3 colleagues are using todoyu to manage their website project. And he contacted us with a feature request: in a task, when typing an URI within the comments text-field, why not auto-create a link?

Good idea, and Stefan offered even to sponsor this development. So we did: todoyu 2.0.4 can auto-create links in the RTE.

Thanks Stefan for getting in contact with us and sponsor this feature!

Know a feature which makes your daily work more efficient? Contact us.

Linux User and Developer is the UK's only magazine aimed solely at Linux professionals and IT decision makers. Every month it provides the best in tutorials, features, reviews and inspirations to professionals.

todoyu was part in issue 89 (July 2010). Dmitri Popov has written an extensive tutorial about todoyu. Read it online.

Or if you prefer to have it in print, you can buy the issue 89 online at their website or also subscribe to the magazine.

>> todoyu Tutorial at linuxuser.co.uk

todoyu is all about working on projects in a team. In a global business world, team members but also clients can be located on several different locations. To also support such circumstances, we brought time zone support into todoyu.

The settings are made in two steps. In the todoyu installation process, you first set the default time zone of your system. Next you specify the time zone in the address field of a person or a company. If a person has no address but is connected to an employer, the time zone will be taken from that company record.

todoyu supports now the four major web browsers for a smooth operation: Safari from Apple, Chrome from Google, Internet Explorer from Microsoft and Firefox from Mozilla.

The styling for IE 8, Chrome and Safari are all set. Unfortunately not all of them support the nice interactions as Firefox does, but we tried hard to make the work with all browsers as smooth as possible.

Download Firefox for the best user experience

Thanks to the speedy translation made by Max N Kanadani from Brazil, we now already have Portuguese Brazilian as new language available. A third language beside English and German.

We also get to know, that other enthusiasts started their work to translate todoyu into even more languages. That's great news! Thanks for your efforts.

By default todoyu comes with the snowflake logo. We do very well understand, that is the first thing you would like to customize: to upload a logo and put the branding of your organization.

This is now available to administrators. Go to the Admin module and select "System Configuration". There you find a field to choose your logo and upload it as a jpg, png or gif file. And todoyu then automatically resizes it to the maximum dimensions of 190x60 pixels. So it always looks great, not streched. Neat.

Very positively surprised about translating efforts by the community, we switched todoyu 2.0.0 from simple translation to the more fine-grained localization method (L10N). We changed to two-letter codification (e.g. de -> de_CH).

Is your language still missing? Are you interested in working on a translation? We support your efforts. And by the way, you don't need necessarily to be a developer. We show you how it works. Don't forget that you will get listed as contributor on todoyu.com (if you want...)

Are you into translation? Then get in contact with us.

We have been asked by some of you, if todoyu will be free also in the future. Our clear answer is: YES. We are strongly commited to open source and free software. We guarantee you that it will stay free for you to download and use.

Our business model for todoyu is based on future todoyu extensions mainly for professional use (e.g. billing, resource planning). Also we are planning to offer hosting packages for users looking for a way to get todoyu without having to install and host it by themselves.

The software, the core of todoyu, is and will be free to download and use for everyone.

Together with the software release, we have also updated documentations:

The Quickstart Guide is for users and administrators alike to get to know todoyu. It's a PDF with 17 pages.

The other documentation is for developers. The API Doc is also available and updated. You find there in-depth information about data structure, classes and class hierarchies, data fields and lists of namespaces and files.

Discover the API Documentation (online)
Download the Quickstart Guide (PDF)

With the final release of todoyu today, we set the solid fundament for many more things to come. We already started working on a redesign of our website todoyu.com. It will become a modern and enjoyable place for you to experience all about todoyu.

Also we work on the todoyu Extension Repository (tER) as we have many ideas for more features for todoyu. You too? We want to create a place to showcase all add-ons.

Have you noticed that todoyu 2.0.0 already has 14 extensions included? There is also a button to install new extensions in the admin module. So with the tER, there will be an area to share and showcase all extensions at todoyu.com.

Beside free extensions, we also work specifically on two extensions targeted towards professional-use: billing and resource planning. We will bring these professional extensions first as a preview, also for you to understand our intension with tER, free extensions and professional extensions.

So stay tuned. And if a new feature idea comes up...

...leave us a comment at the message board