Wednesday, September 5, 2007

TPAssist Key Feature 2: Structured Activity Journal Management with multi-map support.

Tracking is crucial if are you to be effective at seeing what has been done, what has to be done and in what order. TPAssist 2007 automatically records your activities as well as changes you make to topic task information. [See the Demo]

Take the pain away from tracking your activities: TPAssist 2007 automatically records or "journals" your actions and task configuration changes in a semi- structured format with- in the topic and parent topics to which the action relates.

  • TPAssist Console & Journal Tab for recording activities: The TPAssist Console is a comprehensive path to all TPAssist features. The Journal Tab shown here is used to capture task status details and your task activities.


  • Activity notes are logged in a semi-structured format: Notes that you enter to record your activities are firstly logged with- in the topic to which they relate. The log entry will include your Journal Tag and the activity notes in a semi-structured format that is compatible with Outlook, MS Project and portal devices like Smart Phones.

  • In addition to the notes you entered, TPAssist 2007 also tracks changes made to task information. As shown here the Start Date has been updated and a journal entry has been created to reflect the change.



  • Activity is reflected in parent topics to record progress at goal and project level:
    The fact that an activity took place is also reflect in each parent topic for a given topic. In this way you can easily and quickly see where effort has been put towards individual goals or projects with-in your map.



See your achievement for any given day: TPAssist 2007 also builds and maintains a Journal summary tree. This tree tracks your activities by date and is grouped by year, month and day.


Track your activities with-in any number of sub maps: TPAssist 2007 is multi-map enabled supporting task status rollout and also tracking of task and activity progress.

  • Activities in Sub maps is automatically populated into parent maps: TPAssist automatically recognises hyper linked maps and ensures activity logging and task status changes are reflected in the parent map.



  • Parent maps show child map task status and journals: Linked topics in parent maps show sub map task information. Linked topics also contain summary journal entries of activities with-in the sub topics.



  • Parent map Journal Tree contain full context: The Journal Tree with-in the parent contains a fully qualified summary of the activity.



  • Automatically populate sub project status: Status information defined in sub maps is automatically populated to parent maps.