Spring has sprung in our corner of the world bringing warmer weather and signs of new life with the leaves starting to appear and the grass getting greener. With Dovico Timesheet’s Spring Release just a couple weeks away, let’s dig in and see what else will appear on May 20th.
Calendar Link
As we were prototyping ways AI can help make time entry easier, the idea of a calendar link was proposed. Although the link is not using AI, the following image shows how, with the click of a button, you can easily pull calendar entries into your timesheet from popular tools like Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, and Apple Calendar.
As a Premium customer, you can access this feature by clicking on the Add My Calendar Events button in My Timesheet as shown in the following image.
Using this link can save you time when filling out your timesheet by removing some of the guesswork. To learn more about this new feature, the following article goes into more detail: https://timesheet.dovico.com/blog/2025/04/24/dovico-timesheet-calendar-link-feature/
Stay tuned because we’re continuing work towards incorporating AI into Dovico Timesheet to make things easier for you.
Document Attachment Links
Document attachments have been on our wish list for quite some time and we’re pleased to announce that the first step of this feature will be part of the Spring release.
As shown in the following image, as a Premium customer you can now include links for Clients, Projects, Employees, Regions, Groups, and Task Templates.
In a future release, we plan to add in the ability to upload files. For the upload, our current vision is to provide a way for you to specify where you’d like the files uploaded to so that your files are always in your control. Target locations could be SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, and others.
Task Management
Tracking your time is important for things like billing and costing so consistency and accuracy helps your company stay profitable. At the same time, however, this is extra work for the employee who’s already under pressure to meet deadlines and tracking their time doesn’t help them complete their tasks.
One of our goals for 2025 is to start adding some task management features into Dovico Timesheet so that employees have tools to help get their work done and managers have a way to monitor progress.
As a Premium user, this release will allow your employees to mark tasks as complete and allow managers to see the status of each task quickly.
As shown in the following image, when editing a project, administrators can see the status of all tasks at a glance thanks to a colored underline in the Assignee column. A gray underline indicates that the task is incomplete while green indicates that it’s done. A tooltip is also displayed to indicate the task’s status if you mouse over the cell.
If need be, an administrator can adjust a task’s status, from the task view, when editing a project as shown in the following image.
In My Timesheet, employees will now see some of the selected task’s details like its name, description, who’s assigned to it with them, and the task’s end date. As shown in the following image, employees will also be able to mark the task as complete.
We plan to do more around task management in the coming releases but there are a lot of possible features. Let us know your thoughts around task management in Dovico Timesheet because your feedback is important to us and will help us decide which features to pursue first.
Accessibility
As part of our continuous improvement effort around Dovico Timesheet’s accessibility, we’ve been hard at work making improvements throughout. This release includes fixes for the final WCAG 2.1 A issues identified by the axe DevTools, including additional improved keyboard support.
One example of improvements around keyboard support with this release is the addition of a bypass section on the menu bar as shown in the following image. When you first navigate to a view, pressing the Tab key brings up a bypass link and pressing Enter will bring you to the view’s content. This saves you from the need to tab through each menu bar item just to get to the view’s content.
As shown in the following image, another example of the keyboard improvements in this release is found in the My Timesheet view. It’s now possible to jump between an active cell in the grid to the details section using Alt + Shift + D (option + Shift + D on a mac keyboard) and back to the active cell in the grid using Alt + Shift + G (option + Shift + G on a mac keyboard).
Our Quality Assurance department has updated the VPAT report based on the changes completed so far. If you’re interested in viewing the report, you can access it here: DovicoVPAT.pdf
We’re extremely happy to have reached the WCAG 2.1 A milestone. Stay tuned because we’re going to start looking into improvements around the AA items for future releases.
Projects – Costing & Budget tab adjustments
Up until now, when editing a project, the Costing & Budget tab’s Bill this project using dropdown would allow you to choose the type of rate you wanted. You could also choose to specify a fixed project amount as shown in the following image.
With this release, all of the existing rate choices still exist but the initial choice is now Hourly Rates. As shown in the following image, when you choose Hourly Rates, a new dropdown is displayed allowing you to choose the type of hourly rate you need.
The main reason why the downtown values were changed was to keep the list from becoming overwhelming because we added a new fixed project amount option. Now, as shown in the following image, choosing the new Fixed Project Amount/Display Rates option makes it possible to have a project that uses both fixed costs and billing rates.
Other changes
Custom Fields
The Custom Fields view has been modified to display the Additional button for Tasks as shown in the following image. This allows you to limit a task custom field to only the tasks belonging to the selected projects.
QuickLink tool
We have a QuickLink tool that allows you to send time and expenses to Intuit QuickBooks desktop. With this release, we’ve updated the tool to work better with Dovico Timesheet when you have multiple tasks with the same name.
Unicode support
Unicode is a text encoding standard designed to support the use of text in all of the world’s writing systems (definition from Wikipedia). Beyond the characters for different languages, Unicode also includes many emojis that can be used to help make that item’s name and purpose stand out.
We’re on track to reach our goal of having all areas of Dovico Timesheet support Unicode by the end of 2025. With this release the following areas now support Unicode:
- Time entry descriptions
- Expense entry descriptions
- Budgeted expense descriptions
- Security Group names and descriptions
- Expense Category names, unit descriptions, and descriptions
API
With every Dovico Timesheet release, we aim to expand the API towards a goal of matching Dovico Timesheet’s capabilities. With this release, the ability to delete the following items has been added:
- Clients
- Projects
- Tasks
- Employees
- Expense Categories
The API documentation will be updated to include the new endpoints when Dovico Timesheet is released in May: timesheet.dovico.com/developer/API_doc/index.htm
In Conclusion
As always, we hope the changes coming to Dovico Timesheet in this release make your lives a bit easier and help improve your productivity.
Stay tuned for more news as we strive to improve Dovico Timesheet’s accessibility and ease of use with each quarterly release.
We value your input. If there is something you’d like to see in Dovico Timesheet, or something you feel could be improved, let us know: timesheet.dovico.com/contact
You can also reach out to our support team if you have any questions or concerns: timesheet.dovico.com/support
If you’re not yet using Dovico Timesheet, check out our pricing page where you can sign up for a free 30-day trial to see if it’s right for you: timesheet.dovico.com/pricing
Gerard Gallant,
CIO of Dovico Software
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