Projects

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Running projects is what your business is all about, because projects generate revenue. VOGSY helps you organize your projects so they are efficient, methodical, informative, and repeatable.

VOGSY achieves this by designing the structure of the Project page around the work breakdown structure, which is a project management reference tool that divides the work of the project into manageable components. It creates a road map from objectives to outcomes. A project is divided up into deliverables from which all work-related activities and costs branch out and budgets are derived.

You can add labels to projects in order to organize and track them.

Time approval

By default, time associated with a project is approved by the project manager; however, if you would prefer to include the client in your time approval flow, this is possible by selecting the Enable time entry approval by client checkbox on the Project settings page in the back office.

Field descriptions

project items explained

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The FOLLOW button. This button has two states:

  • FOLLOWING means you are currently receiving notifications when significant events occur for the project.

  • FOLLOW means you are not currently receiving notifications.

There are three ways to follow a project:

  • Click Follow. Anyone can do this.

  • Members of the project team are automatically made followers of the project.

  • Users who follow an organization will be made followers of the organization’s new projects. Here 'new' means all projects that are created after you begin following the organization.

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The Action buttons allow you to do the following:

  • pencil Open the project’s configuration page for editing.

  • dots vertical Perform one of these additional actions:

    • Open the Project calendar.

    • Send planning notifications.

    • Create order confirmation.

    • Create draft invoice.

    • Create document from template.

    • Specify payment condition.

    • Show why project can’t be closed.

    • Copy to new opportunity.

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Customer logo, contact avatar, and the avatars of the project team members.

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Project status. You can set this on the project’s configuration page.

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Weather symbol. The progress status of a project, which can change over time, is based on the state of its deliverables. As long as the schedule (run time), budget, and completion rate are in balance, the weather, and thus your project’s outlook, will be good. Deviations might indicate problems.

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Project name and customer name, taken from the project’s configuration page. Click star outline to add the project to your Starred page.

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Financial statistics. Click the expander arrow2 expander arrow to view additional statistics and calculations.

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Navigation bar. These buttons give your quick access to the project’s associated documents in Google Drive and to the project’s planning page.

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Milestones panel. Click the expander arrow2 expander arrow to view the timeline.

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Deliverables panel. See Deliverables to learn more.