Sunday, September 12, 2010

Quick overview of Quantifie’s progress

by Roman Leinwather

For those of you interested in my upcoming collaboration/project management application Quantify here is the quick overview what is going on.

I have been quite busy recently with client work but still found the time here and there to make a good progress on Quantify. So here is the list of features Quantify can do today.

- Anyone can register as Administrator
- Administrator can create users
- Administrator can create projects and create categories for the project as well as give permissions to users for the specific project
- Administrator can edit and update the project details
- Administrator or user can create task. They can set title, description, deadline, choose category and assign the task to user.
- The task details can be edited and updated by administrator, user who created the task and user who the task is assigned to
- The task stores information who and when updated the task as last
- The list of tasks can be filtered by these criteria Open/Yours/Closed and the list can be further sorted by Priority/Deadline/Alphabet
- Administrator or user can create comments.
- The comments can be later edited or deleted by the user who created the comment.
- System tracks unread comments inside the tasks and displays it to every user who has access to the project
- WYSIWYG is implemented for task description and comments. It allows you to drop images and links as well as formatting the text.

iPad and hover event

I have done a quick test on iPad and realized two tings. I can replace the hover event with “slide event” ( I only need this for one type of functionality but hey, it’s pretty cool) and the second thing is a bit pain. The WYSIWYG do not work on iPad as the Safari browser on iPad is missing one type of functionality to achieve this. But never mind, you will be able to add comments just not be able to make bold headers and so on. Not a big issue.

What I am working on right now

I am currently implementing the users profile. User will be able to change his/her personal data, set time-zone and administrator will be able to block users and cancel the whole account.

What is left before the first launch

Before the first alpha launch I need to handle the SSL certificate and implement the payment system.

As you can see there quite a big job has already been done and I would say it is about 75% of the work needed for the alfa version.

What will be implemented in the beta?

I am planing to implement time tracking and file uploading for the beta version. There are also other plans and interesting features in my mind for the future but I will keep those as secret for now ;)

If you have not signed in on the pre-launch page you can do it right here.