Category Archives: Tips & Hints

Use Project Templates to Plan Backwards!

Previously you had to plan from earliest due date forward, but now you can also plan from last due date going backwards. If your source project’s latest milestone or task due date is set to 15 Jan 2016, and you

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Fine tune notifications using your email client – comments only

Most email clients these days are pretty sophisticated, underused tools. Users often have very different requests about how to get one kind of notifications but not the other from these systems. Eventually, we will add some customization but from our

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Calendars now have filters you can save

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Now you can filter your project calendars and global Calendar and save your filters to quickly switch context. Please click animated gif file below to zoom in. You can also filter by application. We currently display tasks with due dates

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Shortcuts in Freedcamp

We have added shortcuts! We find this tool handy to quickly add items that you are involved with in a project, but want to handle later. Shortcuts are also good to collect items to discuss during your next team meeting. Check out the GIF

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Update by email now supports attachments and inline images

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As you may know, we are working* on adding ability to create new tasks, issues, discussions and upload new files to Freedcamp by emailing them in. However, our feature allowing you to update Freedcamp by replying to Freedcamp’s email notifications

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Free subtasks upgrades

Now you can reorder free subtasks and convert tasks to subtasks and subtasks to tasks with drag and drop. To convert a task to a subtask (when Subtasks Pro add-on is not enabled) a task must have only title and

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How to use new Saved Searches

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For all of you who had ‘Hide Completed’ tasks filter on we created a similar saved filter replacement. Here is an instruction as to how to create one from scratch. Now we will create ‘My tasks due next 7 days’

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Honey, I shrunk the Kanban columns

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You can switch between three types of views in Kanban from very brief to detailed. Also, all three Kanban columns can be expanded and collapsed by clicking on its header. If you noticed that all of your tasks become very

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How advanced subtasks work in Kanban view

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You can use drag and drop to move subtasks around. However moving subtasks from one column to another means that you also detach them from a parent task. If dragged and dropped subtasks can become a top level tasks well.

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Import Tasks from XLS

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You can bring tasks from other systems or move your XLS projects to Freedcamp now. Expand Settings in Tasks application to access Import from XLS. We added an option to download template (1), which is specifically generated to help you

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