This month, we've released a few changes to make it even easier, faster and more accessible to navigate around Aphex.
We're also excited to introduce our improved rules and appearance of promised work - after the initial change to promising, a lot of you shared your valuable advice with us.
We listened, we agreed, and now these new changes are here all because of you!
A couple of weeks back, we made changes to Promising so that teams could have more control on when tasks required a status. Since then, we’ve heard from a bunch of you that it’s tricky to spot Promised tasks, which is leading to a bit of confusion when plans are updated.
If work is Promised, the Task Bar on the Gantt will appear hatched. If the 'Start Date' or 'End Date' Gantt column is open, the calendar icon will be purple.
To give you more flexibility and control with Promised work (and Smart Status) we've introduced these new rules:
Some of you told us that you had accidentally Promised work while creating a Publication. We don't want anyone to be tripped up by this moving forward, so we've switched the default option from Promising On to Promising Off.
We know a lot of you spend the most time in Planner, so we’ve shaken up the Homepage to give you instant access to the stuff you care most about.
Now, instead of your Planner Projects being hidden behind a button, you’ll find them in the middle of the Homepage, the moment you log in.
To make it easier to spot which Organisation you’re viewing, we’ve cleared up the list of your Organisations on the left, and tidied everything into the Organisation selector at the top of the page.
Instead of the the app navigation controls being buried at the bottom of the Sidebar, we've shifted them to the top right of every page.
If you click your User Avatar at the top right of the screen, you can:
We've also been tinkering away at a few small changes - even though they're nothing groundbreaking, we think they'll make your planning life a bit better.
Gone are the days of trawling through the Users list to confirm your Project Role! This is now clearly stated next to your Project Title in Planner.
The Overlays button has moved from the bottom right of the Gantt, to now sit above the Gantt next to the Structure controls. The Day, Week, Month zoom button has moved from the top of the Gantt and now lives in the bottom left-hand side.
We were alerted to the fact that some of you were having trouble successfully marking your work as Ready. So, we've changed the menus and made it more obvious once the submission has been completed. We've heard there's now a fun celebration each time you mark your plan ready 🎉
If you’ve been paying extra attention, you may have noticed there’s something cool on the horizon for Locations. Gearing up for this, we’ve introduced updated Map types and Map Layers.
Now, when you go to create a Location, you’ll choose from the following options:
In our continued effort to make the most reliable platform for you, we’ve been pedal to the metal eliminating some key bugs in the tool.
Most of these were caught by some of our eagle-eyed users - thanks for helping us keep Aphex as robust as possible!