Zoho Projects 'My Work Calendar' has iCal & gCal links at the bottom of the page. These links can be used to synchronize with external calendars like Google Calendar, iCalendar and Sunbird.

In this post, let us see how to synchronize with iCalendar,

• Go to My Work Calendar section and copy the iCal link
• Open iCalendar application.
• Click 'Calendar' menu and 'Subscribe' option from the menu list. 
• Paste the iCal link in the Calendar URL field and click 'Subscribe' button.
• Set the calendar properties and click 'OK'.

Some users would prefer to have their company logo and powered by logo instead of Zoho Projects logo, which is displayed by default in the login page i.e when you try logging-in via your portal URL.

If you are one among the users, who wish to change the logo, go to settings -- company profile -- upload logo section and upload your company logo.

Similarly, go to settings -- company profile -- upload powered by logo section and upload the required powered by logo.

Here's a small note for you. Make sure that the logo, powered by logo you are about to upload is as per the specified dimensions.

John.

Do you feel irritated creating the same set of tasks repeatedly from the scratch? Yes, you do. Then it's time to change the way you work.

There are quite a few options associated with tasks in Zoho Projects and we shall have a look at them.

Move a task from one task list to another

You can mouse over, over the required task and click the move task icon.

Select the required task list (from the 'Task Lists' drop down) and click 'Move Task' button.

Make a copy of an existing task including the task owner(s) and duration

You can click the 'Copy Task' option displayed below the last task under a task list,

Select the task (from the Tasks drop down) that has to be copied, enter number of times the task has to be copied and click 'Copy Task' button.

Have the tasks displayed in the way you would like to have them

You can click the 'Reorder' option displayed to the right of Copy Task option,

Drag and drop the tasks in a sequence you wish to have and click 'Save Order' option.

John

A new video has been added to the existing Zoho Projects playlist, which is about the milestone feature in Zoho Projects.

Need to watch other feature videos? Visit Zoho Projects Videos.

John.

Task Dependency View: Displays the tasks sorted by start date. Only the tasks created with duration will be displayed in this view.

Task Dependency Help: Gives the help on task dependency. Read this before exploring the task dependency feature

Add/Edit Predecessor: You can set dependency between tasks from this view. Click on the Predecessor column against any particular task, enter the parent tasks S.No and 'Enter' to save the dependency data.

Update Task's End Date: You can edit the task's end date from this view and all the dependent tasks duration will be updated automatically.

Modify Task Owners: You can change the task owner, by clicking on the task owner name and selecting the required user(s) from the list.

Task Dependency Tree View: You can view all the dependent tasks associated with a task, by clicking on the dependency icon ().

Modify Task Name: Task's name can be edited from this view. Click on the task name, enter the new task name and hit 'Enter' to save the changes.

Task Dependency Mail Notification: Task owners will be notified about the task dependency via mail and the below image is the mail sample.

Task Dependency Video:

Hope this is helpful!

John.

Of late, Zoho Projects customers have been inquiring 'how to import MPP files into Zoho Projects'

So, we decided to enlighten our customers about Import MPP feature, by posting the steps along with the images.

Import MPP option on the Home Page

Browse for the MPP file

Browse for the required MPP file, select the project to which the MPP file has to imported and click the Import MPP button.

Mapping Users

You can map the tasks to 'Any User', so that the project members can pick the tasks later or assign the tasks to the project members & click 'Associate Users' button.

Tasks in Zoho Projects

There you go! The tasks are now imported from MPP file into Zoho Projects.

Similarly, you can import MPX files into Zoho Projects.

John.

From the post title, you might wonder how easier is the document search in Zoho Projects 2.0. Let's rewind ourselves to the past Zoho Projects 1.0, just to know how the document search feature was.

You were able to search a file based on either the file tag or file extension only from the Documents section of the project.

file search based on file extension in Projects 1.0:

file search based on file tag in Projects 1.0:

At present Zoho Projects 2.0, Document search has been enhanced in such a way that, you can search files based on file tag or file extension or file name.

file search based on file tag:

file search based on file extension:

file search based on file name (New in Zoho Projects 2.0):

In addition, you can search the files not only from the document section, but also from other modules of the project and from the global search section of the portal.

file search from global search section:

Hope this is helpful! Your comments are much appreciated.

John.

You and your team members might be working on a couple of high priority projects.

All of a sudden, you might wonder Am I running out of disk space  and you would be keen to check for the used and remaining disk space.

Just go to the portal's Home page and you can find the allocated, used portal disk space.

In addition, you can also view the disk space used for each project from the 'Reports' section of the project. i.e go to 'reports' module, click 'upload stats by folder' option.

It's simple & easy. isn't it?

John.