In many cases, the owner of a Worksnaps account is also the person who manages projects and places users into the projects. In other cases, an account owner might not be the same person who manages projects and users. For example, a finance manager creates a Worksnaps account and sets up the payment for the service, however the responsibility of setting up projects and users belongs to another person in the organization. In this scenario, the account owner can delegate managing projects and users to other people, while projects created by the a delegated person are still owned by the account owner therefore accounted towards the owner’s subscription quota.

Here is how to delegate managing projects to another user.

• Go to Manage >> Manage Users
• Edit the user whom you want to delegate
• Select Basic Info tab on the left
• You will see an option “Allow this user to create project on behalf of myself“. You can turn on the option.

Once this is done, the user (in the above example, Jane Stein) can create projects on your behalf. You can delegate up to 3 such users.

Here is how Jane Stein sees when she is trying to create a project. She will have a drop-down list to choose whether she wants to create a project for herself or for Jack Spear who allowed her to create project on his behalf.

Sometimes screen shots contain certain sensitive information and you want to have extra protection over them. Worksnaps now has a feature to allow you to blur the captured screen shot before being transmitted to the server. The blurred screen shot images will make it not possible to recognize the regular size texts, most typically texts with fonts of size 10-pt to 13-pt.  This provides an added level of security while keeping screen shot monitoring useful.

As a manager of a project, you can turn on the image blurring option for a user. The followings are the steps how to do it.

• Go to Manage tab and select Manage Projects.
• Go to Users tab, then go to User Settings in Project for a target user.
• In the middle of the User Settings page, you will find an option “Blur the screen shot images“. Check it to enable image blurring.
• Click Save Changes button to save the setting for the user.

Once this is done, the user will send the blurred screen shot images to the server.

Here is an example of the blurred image comparing to the original for illustration purpose.

Screen shot before being blurred

Screen shot after being blurred (and sent to the server)

We hope that you find this feature useful. Please send us any feedback or question and we always look forward to hearing from you.

We are currently rolling out the upgrade to Worksnaps client to our users. The new client provides enhanced functionality and better stability. Based on the current version that you are using, you might be required to upgrade. In such case, upon logging in, you will see a message that prompts you to upgrade Worksnaps client. The following is an example.

If you see such message, you can click the link in the dialog window and you will be brought to a page where you can download the newest version of Worksnaps client. You can simply download the new client program, uninstall your current Worksnaps client, then install the newly downloaded one. All it takes should be less than 5 minutes.

Here is a help link on how to uninstall a program on Windows:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uninstall-change-program#uninstall-change-program=windows-7

If you have any question, feel free to open a ticket or send your question to [email protected].

Webcam capturing has been supported for Worksnaps Client on Windows for quite a while. We are glad to announce that webcam image capturing is now available for Worksnaps Client on MAC. If you use MAC, you now have an option to turn on the webcam capturing so that a webcam shot is taken along with each screen shot and sent to the server. You can click on the Worksnaps icon on the menu bar (usually at the top right), a menu will show up. You can select “Preferences” to bring up the Preferences dialog. On the Preferences dialog, you will see an check box that allows you to turn on the webcam capturing. Here is an illustration.

Having a webcam image taken can provide further proof that you are working in front of the computer. It is completely optional and you can turn it on if it is required by your manager or you feel necessary to do so.

As usual, we look forward to hearing your feedback and opinions on this new feature.

We are happy to announce that Worksnaps now works with Trello. Trello is a dead simple and easy-to-use (and free) tool for organizing anything with anyone. With Trello, you can create boards to organize anything you’re working on. On each board, you can create Trello cards to keep track of your to-dos.

You can now import the Trello boards into Worksnaps as Projects and import Trello cards into Worksnaps as Tasks. Once you have done that, you will be able to use Worksnaps to log time against the Trello boards and cards. For those users who use Trello as their project management tool, you will find it convenient to use the best of Trello and Worksnaps, making your project management even more powerful.

To integrate with Trello in Worksnaps, you can go to “Profile & Settings” >> “3rd Party Integration“, you will find the Trello section where you can configure your Trello credential and link with your Trello account. Then you will be import your Trello boards and cards into Worksnaps and start tracking time against them.

For a detailed description on how to set up the integration, you can look up this help document.

We hope that you find the Trello integration useful and look forward to hearing your feedback.

We are happy to announce that Worksnaps now integrates with Axosoft‘s scrum tool. Axosoft provides a complete set of development tools including scrum, bug tracker, wiki and help desk. Its scrum tool lets project managers and developers visually see each task, requirement, defect and incident in the system on individual filing cards through the Scrum planning board.

Axosoft Scrum Tool

In Worksnaps, now users can import the following objects from their Axosoft projects into Worksnaps as tasks:

• Defects
• Features
• Tasks
• Incidents

Then users can use Worksnaps’ visual time tracking tool to log time against those tasks. This provides the convenience to manage the scrum items in Axosoft and log time against them in Worksnaps.

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We are excited to announce that Worksnaps now works with Teamwork, which is a highly popular team and project management system featuring updated designs, high end functionality, as well as easy to use applications. Teamwork easily works on most all devices and is becoming one of the most highly utilized applications to get work done all around the world. There are now over 100,000 Teamwork teams worldwide and over 1,000,000 projects running Teamwork.com. Continue reading →