Feature Requests:
Additional Project Fields

1. •  
     CommentAuthorMichael
   • CommentTimeMay 9th 2008

    
   We recently received the following feature request:
   

   The project functionality offers limited options to categorize it. I am looking some additional fields to populate data such as Project Sponsor, Project contact name, project complexity (high, medium, low), project type (new enhancement, new development, maintenance, support, admin)--it should be a user-defined field like the Module field but attached to the project. In addition, I would like to see a field for project class (Strategic, Non-strategic, capital intensive, business as usual).

   
   Intervals currently does not have a lot of project specific fields to try and keep creating new projects quick and easy. The project description field is the catch all for any supplemental project related information, but that information cannot be sorted or used for reporting.
   
   I'm curious to get thoughts on this from others. Too much complexity? Would this benefit you or add too much?
2. • CommentAuthorjnhearne
   • CommentTime6 days ago

    
   Project contact name isn't that already the client? I have asked in the past that intervals include multiple contacts under one client. This could improve employee recoginition, and reduce the number of clients added from the same company. So I could see how this could benefit us but it should go in the client section. Not project section.
   
   Project Sponsor. is this different from Project contact?
   
   Project complexity. I could see how this would be helpful to class your project types for quick project creation. But it does seem like extra info that for me personally would just be an extra field that would or would not get used.
   
   Project type. seems like that is what modules is and that is what he has associated with it. Modules are already attached to the projects.
   
   Project class. As I write all this down I get the feeling that many of these would be repetitive and managers would get confused. I would need to give some serious classes to what the differences would mean.
   
   Overall I do like the notion of being able to create projects with default stuff that is the norm of (the companies) projects. Quick and Easy.