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Slife still needs to focus on Activity, not Application.
I posted a question earlier, about whether it's possible to put a job number into a longer file name, and have Slife track any activity on ANY file with that number in it. Since my question was actually unrelated to the posting title it was under, I thought I'd start a new one. So here's what I'm doing:
At my design firm, we assign projects to clients as job numbers, for example 8065. Many files will be associated with that job number, so i save all of them with 8065 at the end, for example: Client_presentation_v1_8065. So in Slife, I've been creating new activities with the name of the project, then under Web and Documents, I just add "8065" and checkmark that number.
For awhile, I couldn't get Slife to recognize the job number in my file names (even though I was told it would work), but then I upgraded. Activities now has 3 sets of options: Applications, Web&Documents, Goals. I thought maybe, I needed to specify which applications these particular files would run on. So I clicked almost all applications, just in case. Well, then Slife DID seem to track that particular job, but then I realized that, first of all, if you apply certain applications to one job, it unclicks those applications for a different job. This is pretty silly since I may have more than one image retouch that both use Photoshop, or more than one presentation that uses PowerPoint. Then I noticed that, even after closing my document with the job number in it, Slife kept logging time to that job number. So really, it was logging the amount of time that a particular application was open.
In conclusion, Slife still doesn't seem to be able to recognize job numbers in documents, and track how long I'm active on them. Unless i'm doing something wrong?
At my design firm, we assign projects to clients as job numbers, for example 8065. Many files will be associated with that job number, so i save all of them with 8065 at the end, for example: Client_presentation_v1_8065. So in Slife, I've been creating new activities with the name of the project, then under Web and Documents, I just add "8065" and checkmark that number.
For awhile, I couldn't get Slife to recognize the job number in my file names (even though I was told it would work), but then I upgraded. Activities now has 3 sets of options: Applications, Web&Documents, Goals. I thought maybe, I needed to specify which applications these particular files would run on. So I clicked almost all applications, just in case. Well, then Slife DID seem to track that particular job, but then I realized that, first of all, if you apply certain applications to one job, it unclicks those applications for a different job. This is pretty silly since I may have more than one image retouch that both use Photoshop, or more than one presentation that uses PowerPoint. Then I noticed that, even after closing my document with the job number in it, Slife kept logging time to that job number. So really, it was logging the amount of time that a particular application was open.
In conclusion, Slife still doesn't seem to be able to recognize job numbers in documents, and track how long I'm active on them. Unless i'm doing something wrong?
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Inappropriate?Hi - sorry about the confusion. We are currently working on the interface for activities setup and want to make it easier to configure documents and applications. You will see changes in the upcoming releases.
But back to your specific example. You can do this! In fact, your scenario is perfect because you already have a unique identifier for each activity - the job number.
Let's say you want to associate documents with job number '8065' in their titles with activity 'Client X'.
Here are the steps:
1. Go to the activities view and create a new activity. The activity editor window will pop out and you can enter 'Client X' as the name of the activity.
2. Select the 'Web & Documents' tab of the editor window and click on the '+' to add a new item. Set the entry to '8065'. Make sure the checkbox is checked.
That's it. It should work now. You don't need to check any applications (they should be all unchecked).
If you have any problems, feel free to email us directly at help at slife labs and we will be glad to help.
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