June 6th Release Notes

Here’s what’s new in Rypple for the week of June 6th, 2010.

Usage Reports

Managers and admins often ask us how they can answer the question “how are my people using Rypple?”. Wonder no more! This week brings the Rypple Usage Report that outlines exactly that:

If you manage a team, you’ll find this report for your team on the right side of the Team tab:

If you’re a domain administrator, you’ll find a similar section on the domain tab:

Activity Reports

The second most popular question we get asked: “what happened this week?”. Our highly esteemed Question Answering Dept. is going to have to find a new line of work, because this week also introduces the much anticipated Rypple Activity Report. Managers and and domain administrators can now see a list of activity in a selected week for everyone they coach or administrate:

Action Due Dates

You guys have been all over the actions feature in Rypple, tracking things left, right and center. That’s awesome, but we did hear a few existential murmurings even as the actions got tracked, discussed, and completed. “What good”, they said, “are actions without due dates?” (a.k.a. if a tree falls in the forest…). Good news questioners: actions now have due dates! Due dates appear on your actions page like this:

You can quickly set a due date on a new action as you’re adding it to your worksheet:

You can select a due date for an existing action by clicking the due date label on the action item:

Action Priorities

Up until this week, actions were listed in the reverse order you added them (i.e.: with the newest action at the top). That’s great for remembering when you originally remembered that you needed to do something, but not super useful for prioritizing. You’ll now see a little grabby strip on the left edge of actions, which you can grab and drag to re-prioritize:

Give Us Feedback

We’d love to know what you think of this week’s features. Give us feedback using Rypple.