Application Programming Interface (API), Explained
An application programming interface (API) is the interface that allows two independent software components to exchange information. Let's take a look at how the small but mighty API can be used to connect virtually any processes.
Drag Milestones to Easily Shift Your Project Schedule
Life interferes with even the most perfect project plans, so sometimes you may need to adjust the team's schedule. With our recent Timeline update, you now can shift a project's deadline and all attached project tasks will be rescheduled correspondingly, saving you time on manual task-by-task changes. To shift your project schedule, just drag the milestone
When Does Your Week Start? Select the First Day.
Each day, Wrike welcomes new customers from all over the world, and we are working hard to make it a perfect workplace for all of you. Today international users can change the local time for receiving to-do e-mails, adjust the date format and configure the start day of their week according to their country’s local
Set Hours in Task Duration
Besides project discussions, another feature often asked for by many of our users--estimation of task duration in hours--is now live in Wrike project management platform. To help you build a more precise schedule, we’ve added the ability to set task duration to minutes (1). Examples of valid entries in the duration field: "2h 30 m", "5d", "3h",
Important Enhancements in User Management Engine
Besides Wrike’s new, cost-effective pricing model, you will also be pleased with the enhanced Wrike’s user management engine. 1. The new engine lets you have many user administrators in one account (1). User administrators can create new users (2) in the account, as well as redistribute subscriptions and additional features among the users (3), but they
New Exciting Project Management and Collaboration Features!
Wrike is a project management software provided as a service. Every day we work hard to make our service even better and more valuable for you. On top of small enhancements every week or two, today, we are glad to introduce a significant system upgrade that will bring a great productivity gain to you. Today,
Tip of the Day: Assign Tasks with Drag-and-Drop
Here’s another handy tip to save more of your precious time. If you like Wrike's drag-and-drop support, don’t forget to use it when you assign tasks.Here’s another handy task management tip to save more of your precious time. If you like our drag-and-drop support, don’t forget to use it when you assign tasks. The ability to assign tasks with
New Automation: Assign the Right Project, Team, and Schedule from Inbound Requests
Now, you can set Request Forms to trigger the right project template based on a requester's specific need, captured in a dropdown response. The new project can be aligned with the requester’s preferred start or end date, and you can set the form to add assignees, owners, or folders based on drop-down or checkbox field selections.
Your Top Five Contacts: Assign a Task with a Mouse Click
Now, when you want to assign a task or share an item, the first five names in the drop-down menu will be your “top” colleagues from your closest working circle, while the rest of the names appear in the habitual alphabetical order. Thanks to this update, you can assign and share tasks way quicker, as
Managing Tasks, Projects, Issues, and Documents... How About Books?
It’s always great to know how many different and interesting use cases of Wrike implementation are there in your organizations. But could you imagine that Wrike might serve not only as your irreplaceable assistant in task and project management, but also as a librarian? With a sizeable collection of books in the office, it may be
Links to Tasks Are Now Available At Wrike
Now there is an easy way for you to send someone a link to a task. You simply right-click on the appropriate link in the right upper corner of the task details and select “Copy link location.” Once you get a link to the task, you can send it to a person or insert the link
How You Can Email a Task into a Subfolder
We are often asked ask about how to email a task into the hierarchy in the Wrike workspace. There is a very simple way, which some of our users intuitively use. If you want to email a task into a subfolder with the unique name, you can simply add the folder's name to the subject line
Android App Gets New Push Notifications
Wrike has gotten some great new updates to email notifications lately, and we've extended that to our Wrike app for Android™. Enable push notifications for Wrike on your Android device to be instantly notified of task changes. You'll never lose track of project progress. With the update, the Wrike app for Android now gives you more
Wrike iOS App Updated with Dashboards & Starred Folders
Real-time access to your work while on the go has always been the goal of mobile work apps — it's become a necessity with organizations demanding agility and workers using their own mobile devices to get things done. Today we’re happy to announce an update to the Wrike iOS app which will assist you in staying productive from any location.
Presenting Inbox: A New, More Robust Notification Center
Wrike Inbox makes team collaboration even faster by showing you all your new assignments and @mentions, without mixing in general work updates. When you visit your Inbox tab, you can quickly go through all new notifications and reply to comments, reschedule or add tasks to My Work, or place tasks in the appropriate folders/projects.
Use the Timer to Create Benchmarks
“What does that play button do?” “It starts our integrated timer, so you can track how much time you spend on tasks.” “Oh, well we don’t bill for our time, so we won’t use that feature.” I have this conversation all too often, and it’s undermining the real value that time tracking provides in any project: actionable data. When a
Shout-Out for Astrid Users: Wrike is the New Home for Your Tasks
Should someone among your friends, family or colleagues use Astrid task management tool as their to-do app, you will want to let them know about our exciting update! Recently it was announced that Yahoo! is acquiring Astrid. However, Yahoo! has not revealed what their plans are for Astrid after its acquisition. We suggest that Astrid users ensure
Please Welcome the New Wrike
We promised you the big news, so here it is. The last week was marked by several very special events. First, we participated in the Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco, the biggest and the most popular conference in our industry, and had fantastic success there. Second, we are proud to let you know that our
Announcing Wrike Requests - a Simpler Way to Manage and Prioritize Work Requests
Wrike Requests speeds up the process of accurate work intake and provides complete control over prioritizing, managing, and tracking work requests. With this new feature, you get the right information every time.
Wrike Deepens Microsoft Office 365 Integration With Outlook Actionable Messages
work with Wrike projects and tasks without having to leave Office 365, by way of Outlook Actionable Messages. Just officially announced at Microsoft Build 2017, actionable messages enable users to take actions on external applications from within Outlook emails.
Prevent Unwanted Changes to Your Projects with New Folder Permissions
Working on a project together is all about balancing collaboration and control. You want to enable everyone to contribute, but at times you may want to limit who can add others or move the project. For example, if you're working on a confidential new product launch you need the launch team to be able to
All Team Members Can Now Invite New Users
We always try to make your collaboration within team, across departments and with partners even quicker, smoother, and more efficient. Based on feedback from many of you, we added a great new feature that allows any user to immediately add new members to your Wrike account in an easy and secure way. These new user
Make Email Notifications Specific to Your Interests
Love staying on top of task updates, but wondering how to tailor your email notifications for specific changes in the tasks you follow? Now you can change your email notification settings to suit your individual needs and monitor only the updates you care about. How is this useful? Say you're on the marketing team and need
New Mass Action Options: Faster Task Handling
When editing multiple tasks at once, the Mass Action tool is a practical timesaver. It allows you to quickly change tasks: mark them completed, set them as backlogged, tag them, move them to a different folder, reassign them, reschedule them, or delete them. And now the mass-action panel has been updated with new options to save