SM10: Assign People to Jobs

December 19, 2009 New Version

In Studio Manager 10, your employees and freelancers can be assigned to jobs so that they can track the jobs they have on their plate as well as the tasks they’ve been personally assigned. We have a nice little assignment screen shown below (click to enlarge) that makes assigning people a snap.
Now you can view [...]

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SM10: Find Contacts as you Type

December 15, 2009 New Version

With FileMaker 10’s script triggers, we can make Studio Manager 10 more responsive. On the Contacts table view, we give you a way to filter your Contacts by company or name. In the above example, I typed “jo” into the Filter by Full Name box and instantly my list shrank to 4 people. Saves a [...]

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SM10 Contact Address Summary

December 15, 2009 New Version

Just a little thing, but we got the idea from Address Book. Why show all the address fields all the time in Contacts? In Studio Manager 10, click the summary pane and you’ll get to the edit tab in one click. This will keep idle hands and minds from inadvertently editing data and gives a [...]

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SM10 Task Assignments go from 1 to 4 People

December 15, 2009 New Version

Now you get 4 slots for assigning employees and freelancers to tasks instead of just one. This becomes an advantage when you want someone who plays a lesser role, perhaps just oversight, to see the task in their personal task list.
We still like the idea of  designating a single person responsible for a task. You [...]

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SM10 Week View

December 14, 2009 New Version

When you click on the thin bar at the left of a week in the monthly calendar view, you are shown a week view. Even though we’ve cropped this shot, you’ll get the full screen height for a total of 12 possible tasks due on any given day. We made Sunday and Saturday skinnier to [...]

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Emailing Contacts Gets Database Power in SM10

December 14, 2009 New Version

Up till now, when you clicked the link in a contact record to send an email, you got a new empty email in your default email program. That is efficient but left any mission critical information in your email system, not in your database.
Not good enough for Studio Manager 10. So, now when you click [...]

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Studio Manager 10 Gets a Dashboard

December 8, 2009 New Version

In Studio Manager 10, you start out on your own dashboard. From there you see your jobs and tasks deadlines. To spice things up a bit more, you also have a compact timesheet right there. You don’t have to navigate Studio Manager’s various entry screens anymore to get your job done.
You get two big [...]

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Studio Manager 10 Coming Soon – Calendar!

November 19, 2009 New Version

We are in the final stages of releasing Studio Manager 10. We plan to launch the week of December 7. Watch this page for more information about Studio Manager 10. Or… Email Janet if you want to be notified on launch day!
Reveal #1: Monthly Calendar. We’ve created a powerful new calendar view for job deadlines. [...]

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The Wisdom of Whitespace, Part 2

November 8, 2009 Studio Manager

The quest for whitespace in an ever more complex technology environment is diametrically opposed to the ceaseless addition of features that preoccupies most software firms. When it comes to a database product, what you see with more features is usually more reports. I want to use this post to explain why suckering into a report [...]

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QuickBooks Integration is Possible with Studio Manager

October 30, 2009 Uncategorized

No, we aren’t announcing that we’ve integrated Quickbooks with Studio Manager. But we want you to know that if you want to use Studio Manager with QuickBooks and are willing to use Win QB and buy Productive Computing’s QuickBooks FileMaker plug-in, we’ll help you do it.
You may notice there were a number of ifs there. [...]

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