project-extranet launches recruitment specific extranet apps

We know that the project-extranet platform allows businesses of all types to operate more efficiently internally and improve the service offered to customers externally and with our ability to create bespoke Apps we have created some truly unique offerings for customers.

Now we have brought that thinking to the recruitment sector with project-extranet for recruitment agents. We have long believed that recruitment agents could seriously improve the service they offer by making use of project-extranet shared workspaces. For each position being filled, create a project and populate it with the candidates being put forwards. Use all the collaboration tools to arrange interviews, stimulate discussion about candidates and manage candidate databases.

So by working closely with a number of recruitment agencies we have developed a series of Extranet Apps designed specifically for the recruitment business. These both improve internal operational efficiency and significantly enhance the service you offer your customer.

• Candidate Wall: Post your candidates to a shared workspace to allow your clients in to access, rate, review, download cv’s, request interviews, short list and reject, all at the click on a button.
  
  
• Candidate Database: Manage your candidates in one central location. Capture their history, store documents, keep track of their status.
  
• Task management: Process driven interview, rejection, shortlisting and follow-up tasks help your staff stay on top of their job and help you get more done with less.

More information about project-extranet for recruitment agents as well as a 30-day free trial can be found at www.project-extranet.com/recruitmentagency/

project-extranet upgrade live

The latest update to project-extranet has now been applied and normal service has been resumed.

If you find that your extranet is exhibiting funny behaviour, calendars, folder lists not showing their contents, etc please try refreshing the page using your browsers refresh function. It maybe that you are using an old copy of some of the files required to run project-extranet correctly.

Over the next few days we will be publishing guides and how-to’s explaining each of the new extranet features in detail and how you get the best out of them.

Meanwhile, the first couple of guides are already up. These explain how to set-up your User Groups (Getting Started with User Groups) and Calendar synchronisation, which allows you to sync your project calendars with Microsoft Outlook, Apple iPhone/iPad, gmail calendar and more. Setting up Extranet Calendar Sync.


Need help
If you have any problems or have any questions about the extranet we now have an online chat facility that is available to your extranets administrator users. Scroll to the bottom of the extranet and click the chat button.

Planned maintenance

We are currently applying an upgrade to project-extranet.com. There maybe some service disruption during the next few hours.

We will post again here when normal service has been resumed. This should be around midday.

project-extranet update coming this weekend

The BETA testing phase for our latest and greatest update to project-extranet was completed today meaning that our scheduled rollout will occur this weekend. 

As usual all extranets will receive this upgrade, free, as part of the service. We plan to start this work from 9am Saturday and are aiming to have every extranet upgrades by the end of the day. There will be periods during this upgrade where your Extranet will be unavailable. We will keep this disruption to a minimum, but we’re sure it will be worth it!

Quick a reminder of some of the new features coming:

Calendar Synchronisation - Outlook, iPhone, iPad, Android, Gmail

RSS News feeds. See your project news feed on your desktop or mobile phones.

User Groups - enhanced/improved user management.

Search as you type - and many other user interface improvements. 

project-extranet v3.5 upgrade complete

The next upgrade to our extranet platform was today marked feature complete and handed over to our test team.

V3.5 brings some great new features and a whole host of refinements that we’re really excited and pleased to be bringing to the Extranet platform. Calendar Sync, RSS feeds, improved user management, refinements to our App Model as well as usability enhancements such as search while you type, to name a few, are all built, baked in and ready to go.

So now we enter our BETA and testing phase, which typically will last around three weeks. This gives us a go live time of around the 1st November, and as always this update will automatically be applied to your Extranet, free, as part of the service.

In the run up we will publish blogs and how guides for the new features, but if you would like to get your hands on a BETA account, either to help us out with testing, or just to get a preview of the new features please just get in touch.

Steve Jobs. 1955-2011

Steve Jobs departs leaving us with a vision of how a technology company can combine style, form and function, of how good products can transform peoples lives and the world. His leadership, taking Apple to become the worlds most valuable company, has been a lesson and inspiration to all of us in the technology business. His legacy will be with us for many years to come. 

Thank you Steve

The Team, Project-Extranet Ltd

I pronounce you ... project-extranet v3.3

The build up to the royal wedding may have dominated the news this week but here at project-extranet we have been distracted by our own celebrations; our latest update to project-extranet is now live! We’d like to think all the up coming street parties and the Friday bank holiday are all in celebration of this latest update, but as they are not, we thought we’d join in the fun and name this update ‘project-extranet v3.3 Wills & Kate’; souvenir mugs available.

And a right royal release it is too! You will find that your extranet has a whole host of new features. Some that expands the extranets collaborative capabilities and some that are designed to make your lives easier. Thank you to all who contributed the suggestions and ideas that have moulded this release; our aim is to continue to make project-extranet the best extranet product around so hearing about the way you use the product and getting suggestions is invaluable to us. Please keep them coming!

Inbox - Email filing

We’re pleased to announce that email filing is now included in your extranet, a feature we think will really help you and your users get the best out of the extranet during day-to-day use.

You will find that you now have a new section, titled ‘Inbox’. Each user has a unique filing email address. Any emails, including their attachments, sent to the unique address will be stored here allowing you later to choose where to store them in to your projects. You can even convert the email body to pdf file.

We think this is a great additional way to keep you organised via your extranet as you can fire of files, forget and deal with later.

Full details of email filing can be found here or simply log in to your extranet and try for yourself.

Your new email filing inbox

Choose the location to save your attachments or convert the email body to pdf and save

Custom folder permissions

We have also enhanced the control your have over your file permissions. Added to the current folder permission options you can now choose ‘custom permissions’ and ‘inherited from parent’. So you can now set folder permissions on a folder-by-folder basis giving you much finer control over your document management options.

To help you make sure you have correctly configured your folder security you can check the handy ‘who has access to this folder’ report, available when viewing the folder.

You can set exactly which project members have access on a folder by folder basis

Use the handy 'Who has access' report to keep track of your settings

Folder colouring

You may have already spotted it in the previous screenshot but you can now colour your folders. Banish those dreary yellow folders and brighten up your extranet by choosing from blue, black, green and red folders (Ghost folders remain as hidden).

Use different colour folders for different phases of a project, or perhaps for different document groups. How your business uses folder colouring is up to you, but using colour provides a quick and intuitive way to organise information in your extranet.

Changing the Login options

Last but not least we have been working on improving the login process. Your extranet now has as ‘lost password’ option which works in the usual way by allowing users to look up their details via email.

For those of you who are happy to sacrifice a little usability for extra security we have also included the options to turn the lost password lookup and the ‘remember me’ checkbox on and off. For more information see disabling the login 'lost password' and 'remember me' options.


As usual there are a host of other minor enhancements and bug fixes. As always as we add features new ideas spring forth and get added to our development list. If you have any ideas, or would like to comment on or ask a questions about new or existing features please do not hesitate to get in touch either via your account manager or via our extranet contact pages.

Otherwise, we hope this latest update makes your life just that little bit better.
Gerry