How to Use Pivot Analysis (Part1)

• The Filter Header Area displays the headers of all the visible filter fields.

• The Data Header Area displays the headers of all the visible data fields. Data cells, total cells
  and grand total cells are displayed in the Data Area.
• The Column Header Area displays the headers of all the visible column fields and the Data Field
  Anchor (if present). Column headers that correspond to the values of the column fields, subtotals and grand totals are displayed within the Column Area.
• The Row Header Area displays the headers of all the visible row fields and the Data Field Anchor (if present). Row headers that correspond to the values of the row fields, subtotals and grand totals are displayed within the Row Area.

How to use measurement (Part2)

Measurement Item A

Item A Name
Measurement item A name. This name is inherited from the measurement item name A in the preferences. You can use this field to title item A. This name will be displayed in the time log, and guide user to input measure item.

For example, to review a document, you may want to get these measurement items: how many pages has been reviewed, how many bugs has been found, etc. All of these data can be collected in the time log. With these data, you can get a clear view of your productivity.

One task provides three measurement items to measure. If there are more than 3 items to measure, you need consider to choose the most important 3 items from them.

You can customize the name and hint of a measurement item in My Tasks view of Easy Tracker Lite or Tasks view of Easy Tracker Pro.

Item A Hint
Measurement item A description. it will be used as a hint in the timesheet entry tools, and help user to understand the measurement item A.

You can customize the name and hint of a measurement item in My Task view of Easy Tracker Lite or Task view of Easy Tracker Pro.

Item A Value
The value of item A.
Enter the data you want to collect, for example, how many pages has been reviewed, how many bugs has been found, etc.

After an activity, you can enter its measurement information in Time Tracker or Time Log view in General Category of Easy Tracker Lite, and view them in Measurement part of Time Log view.

Measurement Item B

Item B Name

The second measurement item. The meaning is the same as Item A Name

Item B Hint
The meaning is the same as Item A Hint

Item B Value
The meaning is the same as Item A Value

Measurement Item C

Item C Name

The third measurement item. The meaning is the same as Item A Name

Item C Hint
The meaning is the same as Item A Hint

Item C Value
The meaning is the same as Item A Value

How to use measurement (Part1)

Easy Tracker 2008 integrates measurement items insides.
With these measurement items, you can collect some data in Easy Tracker Lite easily and quickly.
For example, to review a document, you may want to get these measurement items: how many pages have been reviewed, how many bugs have been found, etc. All of these data can be collected in the time entries. With these data, you can get a clear view of your productivity.
One task provides three measurement items to measure. If there are more than 3 items to measure, you need consider to choose the most important 3 items from them.
Note: once a user has used the measure item to track a task, you should prevent altering the measure item name, otherwise the previous created time entries may use the wrong item names, and the reports or statistics may not correct.
Inheritance explanation:

• Time Entries <= Tasks <= Preferences


• Measurement Item Name and Hint of Time Entries inherit from Tasks.


• Measurement Item Name and Hint of Tasks inherit from Preferences.

You can enter measurement information in Time Tracker or Time Log view in General Category of Easy Tracker Lite, and view them in Measurement part of Time Log view.

The following table describes the fields of these three measurement items.

DateTime Calcualtor V1.4 released

eTimeInc Software has released DateTime Calcualtor. DateTime Calculator will let you easily add/subtract dates and time intervals, or compare two different dates/times. With just one click, you can add a value to a base date time, or subtract some intervals from a base date time, and get a detailed result.
Moreover, you can compare two different date time, and get the full report how many seconds, minutes hours, days, weeks, months, years, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Weekday, Weekend day, Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec, Day 28, Day 29, Day 30, Day 31 between them. While in the Ask section, you can get a list of The first/second/third/fourth/last Day/Weekday/Weekend day/Sunday/Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday/Friday/Saturday of January/February/March/April/May/June/July/Auguest/September/October/November/December in a specified date range, for example, the last weekday of Auguest between 2008.1.1 and 2010.12.31.
DateTime Calcualtor costs $19.95 and it is available from http://www.eTimeInc.com. You can download a fully-functional trial version from http://www.etimeinc.com/product/download/index.htm.
About eTimeInc Software:
eTimeInc Software focuses on the productivity software. It has provided products: Personal Time Manager, Easy Tracker 2008 Suite, and eReminder 2008 suite, DateTime Calculator, Auto Shutdown PC.
Contact:
Jack Woon, Manager of eTimeInc Software
eTimeInc Software
http://www.etimeinc.com/

Auto Shutdown PC V1.1 released

eTimeInc Software has released Auto Shutdown PC, a handy software that help you automatically shut down, power off, reboot, hibernate, suspend or log off computers at scheduled time you specified. It can shut down computer at scheduled time even when no user is logged on or the computer is in suspended power conservation mode. It gives you different ways to schedule the shutdown event for your needs, such as daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. Moreover, before the shutdown, you can specify to start some applications or MS-DOS batch commands to make some cleanup.
Key features:
1. Shut down, power off, reboot, hibernate, suspend or log off computers at schedule time.
2. Shut down computers at schedule time when no user logs on.
3. Shut down computers at schedule time when computers are in suspended power conservation mode.
4. Four different schedule ways to meet your needs.
5. Set password to avoid others changing your schedule configuration.
6. Customize alarm sound and countdown duration during shutdown.
7. Run programs and open files at any specified time.
8. Play mp3, wma, wav and flash at any specified time .
9. Log detailed shutdown events.

Auto Shutdown PC costs $19.95 and it is available from http://www.eTimeInc.com. You can download a fully-functional trial version from http://www.etimeinc.com/product/download/index.htm.
About eTimeInc Software:
eTimeInc Software focuses on the productivity software. It has provided products: Personal Time Manager, Easy Tracker 2008 Suite, and eReminder 2008 suite, DateTime Calculator.
Contact:
Jack Woon, Manager of eTimeInc Software
eTimeInc Software
http://www.etimeinc.com/

Easy Tracker 2008 - Track & Manage Time v4.1 released

eTimeInc Software has released Easy Tracker 2008 - Track & Manage Time. Easy Tracker 2008 is a full-featured time tracking suite designed specifically for schedule notification, project management, expense management, work measurement, timesheet entry and reporting. It's especially suited for professionals and companies who need to track time to improve personal and team productivity, to manage projects, to manage expenses and budgets, and to monitor projects as work is being done.
Easy Tracker Lite/Standard is especially suitable to one person, but Standard Edition provides more flexibility with Easy Tracker Pro and Easy Tracker Report features.
Easy Tracker Professional is designed for one person or a small team with several members, while Easy Tracker Enterprise is especially suitable to a large-scale team or a company.

Easy Tracker 2008 - Track & Manage Time has some distinguished features:
1. Provides multi-way to enter time entries: Time Tracker, Time Log, Time Sheet, My Calendar
2. Provides multi-view to analyze time entries: Time Log (General, Cost, and Measurement), Time Sheet, My Calendar, Gantt Chart, Pie Chart, Stacked Bar Chart, Line Chart
3. Provides multi-way to enter assignments: Project Wizard, My Assignments
4. Provides pivot analysis of time & expense entries. With this feature, you can have a glance of how much time have been spent in tasks/projects by week/month/quarter/year and how much money have been spent in categories/projects by week/month/quarter/year.
5. Provides friendly Welcome page to quickly configure Easy Tracker
6. Provides plenty of reminding ways: play music, execute application, send Email, speak the notification content, pop up a talking agent, reboot PC, etc
7. Provides agent configuration for reminding.
8. Keeps track of all types of recurring assignments, from birthdays to meetings that you have on the third Friday of every other month
9. Allows viewing all your assignments in a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly overview
10. Provides measurement items to easy of collecting your sensitive productivity data
11. Provides expenses tracking
12. Integrates with QuickBooks and Microsoft Project

Here is a list with all the important changes of this version:
1. Provide grouping kind in scheduler area.
2. Show balloon tips about the next reminder and the time-tracking status.
3. Provide Make Computer Hibernate, Make Computer Suspend in the Execute Application section as a reminder way.
4. Provide a different color to the necessary fields in all entry forms.

Easy Tracker 2008 is available from http://www.eTimeInc.com. You can download a fully-functional trial version from:
http://www.etimeinc.com/product/download/index.htm.
About eTimeInc Software:
eTimeInc Software focuses on the productivity software. It has provided products: Personal Time Manager, Easy Tracker 2008 Suite, and eReminder 2008 suite.
Contact:
Jack Woon, Manager of eTimeInc Software
Techsupport@etimeinc.com
eTimeInc Software
http://www.eTimeInc.com

eReminder 2008 - Easy Calendar & Reminder v4.1 released

eTimeInc Software has released eReminder 2008 - Easy Calendar & Reminder, a full-featured multi-resource calendar application designed specifically for planning, managing, and scheduling important dates and times. It supports to view the schedules of several resources at the same time, and lets find out what everyone's schedule is for the day, find out which of the company's conference rooms is free at a specific time, or find out which cars of clients are scheduled to wash next time.
eReminder runs in the background, sits in the system tray, and makes it nearly impossible to forget birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, appointments, meetings, and other important events. What's more, it provides plenty of reminding ways: play music, execute application, send Email, speak the notification content, pop up a talking agent, reboot PC, etc. In addition to one-time occurrences, eReminder keeps track of all types of recurring events, from birthdays to meetings on the third Friday of every other month. It allows to view all events in a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly overview and supports to-do lists. Drag&drop and copy&paste features allow to easily reschedule events, or change their duration.
eReminder provides an easy way to share data with Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Project/Project Server and Intuit QuickBooks, and powerful print function to present the calendar. Moreover, it can manage holidays, and add them to the calendar. It also supports to use display-private/all-filter to filter appointments displayed in calendar.
When have finished an appointment, you can flag it with completion. When you have a lot of appointments in calendar, marking those appointments complete can give you a clear view of which appointments you still have and which appointments you have finished, and let you have full control of your time.
eReminder 2008 - Easy Calendar & Reminder has some distinguished features:
1. When finish a task/appointment, you can mark complete it
2. You can filter display in Calendar
3. Use calendar to record your work log
4. Use calendar to manage meeting room reservation
5. Use calendar to schedule dates and times for your family members
6. Use talking agent as a reminder way
7. Share data with Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Project/Project Server and Intuit QuickBooks
8. Provide weather display tool

Here is a list with all the important changes of this version:
1. Provide grouping kind in scheduler area.
2. Change the getting mechanism of weather.
3. Show balloon tips about the next reminder.
4. Provide Make Computer Hibernate, Make Computer Suspend in the Execute Application section as a reminder way.
5. Provide a different color to the necessary fields in all entry forms.

eReminder 2008 professional costs $35 and it is available from http://www.eTimeInc.com. You can download a fully-functional trial version from http://www.etimeinc.com/product/download/index.htm.
About eTimeInc Software:
eTimeInc Software focuses on the productivity software. It has provided products: Personal Time Manager, Easy Tracker 2008 Suite, and eReminder 2008 suite.
Contact:
Jack Woon, Manager of eTimeInc Software
Techsupport@etimeinc.com
eTimeInc Software
http://www.eTimeInc.com

eReminder 2008 Special Edition with DesktopMates Agents v4.1 released

eTimeInc Software has released eReminder 2008 Special Edition with DesktopMates Agents.
This very special edition of eReminder Pro is every bit as exciting as it is full featured. We have not only upgraded the professional edition with great new functions and security features we have given it charm and made it a heck of a lot of fun to get yourself organized! Talking Agents from DesktopMates turn eReminder Special Edition into the private secretary you always wish you had! For the guys lovely Mandy pops onto your screen and beautifully brings important matters to your direct attention using the latest text to speech technology combined with lifelike feminine charm and an elegant English accent. For the ladies, Rick is chiseled, dressed to impress and at your service.
Never share your personal life again with web based calendars, or deal with password quirks at logon. eReminder Special Edition keeps your private data private - and on your own computer. Furthermore, you will never again risk losing all your important scheduling data from a hard drive crash because eReminder Special Edition automatically backs itself up to the media of your choice; per your pre-set scheduling.
Not only can you send yourself reminder emails - you can send automated reminder emails to other parties. You can even set them to go out on a recurring basis. Weekly, monthly - whenever. You can also easily integrate Microsoft Outlook into eReminder Special Edition and share data between the two. eReminder Pro has always been the most robust organizational tool available but now eReminder Special Edition is the most fun and charming as well. There's nothing like it anywhere else!
eReminder 2008 has some distinguished features:
1. When finish a task/appointment, you can mark complete it
2. You can filter display in Calendar
3. Use calendar to record your work log
4. Use calendar to manage meeting room reservation
5. Use calendar to schedule dates and times for your family members
6. Use talking agent as a reminder way
7. Share data with Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Project/Project Server and Intuit QuickBooks
8. Provide weather display tool

Here is a list with all the important changes of this version:
1. Provide grouping kind in scheduler area.
2. Change the getting mechanism of weather.
3. Show balloon tips about the next reminder.
4. Provide Make Computer Hibernate, Make Computer Suspend in the Execute Application section as a reminder way.
5. Provide a different color to the necessary fields in all entry forms.

eReminder 2008 Special is available from http://www.eTimeInc.com. You can download a fully-functional trial version from http://www.etimeinc.com/product/download/index.htm.
About eTimeInc Software:
eTimeInc Software focuses on the productivity software. It has provided products: Personal Time Manager, Easy Tracker 2008 Suite, and eReminder 2008 suite.
Contact:
Jack Woon, Manager of eTimeInc Software
Techsupport@etimeinc.com
eTimeInc Software
http://www.eTimeInc.com

eReminder Premier - Easy Calendar & Reminder Promotion

Hello! We're excited to announce that eTimeInc Software will soon be featuring eReminder Premier - Easy Calendar & Reminder on eTimeInc Software (www.eTimeInc.com), a software provider that focuses on the productivity software. eTimeInc Software will be offering eReminder Premier - Easy Calendar & Reminder on August, 2008 at the dramatically reduced price of $40.00. The normal purchase price for eReminder Premier - Easy Calendar & Reminder is $50.00!
If you have any friends or family members who might be interested in eReminder Premier - Easy Calendar & Reminder please let them know about this sale. We can't afford to offer this kind of discount often, and it will only be available on eTimeInc Software for one month. Just tell them to visit www.eTimeInc.com on August, 2008 to get eReminder Premier - Easy Calendar & Reminder for $40.00. If you visit www.eTimeInc.com right now you can click the 'Order Now' button and you'll be sure not to miss the deal!
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