One more week and more features on EmForge.net!

Including:

• Simplified navigation;
• Reworked Task Management;
• Project Invitations.

Improved navigation

We changed a little bit navigation on the site. Now it is quite easy for user to come into own home-page via link "My Home".

There is list of user's projects available now on  user's home-page - you can simple navigate into any your project.

To edit you account data - click "Edit" on the summary (under the photo) - there are basic properties available as well as link to "My Account" provided.

I hope all of these will make your live in EmForge.net more comfortable

Reworked Task Management

Task Management become to be one of the most important tool on EmForge.net - so, we are going to improve and improve it with adding new features. During this week we started to work on it:

• Added new fields: Description and Type;
• Changed navigation to the tasks;
• Added permission checking - now only team members may edit tasks in project;

As result currently Tasks tool provided basic functionality. Users can create task in some project (on project's Tasks page) as well as create own private tasks (on User's Tasks page). Project tasks may be assigned to project users, personal tasks may be assigned to friends.

During next week we are expecting bookmarkable links and many more improvements.

Project Invitations

Now it is possible easily to add more users into your project (without going deep into Liferay Control Panel!)

Project Manager (currently it is person created the project) may invite on the project's "Team" page somebody from friends into project, as well as some user already registered in portal (user-name should be provided).

Social Request will be created and sent to invited person - social requests displayed on user's home-page. As soon as user will accept invitation - he will become a part of Project Team.

There is another way to add users into project. Some user may "ask" to join into project - it is possible by clicking "Join Project" on project's Home-Page. Social request will be sent to "Project Managers" and as soon some of them will accept request user will become a part of the team.

Future plans

For next week we are planning to continue improve Tasks tool. I hope new features will be added every week.

Also during next week I'm going to improve default project configuratino (for newly created projects):

• 2 Forums Categories (for users and developers) will be created with required permissions;
• Setup correct permissinos for blogs and wiki by default;
• Improvement in Summary portlet (for both  - user and project) to include more information.

I hope very soon emforge.net will become stable andusable enough and we will enable projects registration for everyone!

Until that time you can play in Sandbox or ask any questions in project forums