Version History
2.0.1.9 (Mar 8, 2010)
Bug Fixes
- Resolved away time recording and logging issues experienced by a few users in 2.0.1.8
2.0.1.8 (Mar 3, 2010)
New Features
- Categorize/Uncategorize from Timestamps view\n-Manipulate away times from Timestamps view
- Categorize a specific Timestamp entry (not the entire activity). To use this, right click on a line item within Timestamps, and choose "Categorize Timestamp". Note: this particular timestamp will behave independently of other timestamps related to this activity.
- Expand/collapse All in Active Time, Away Time, and Timestamps. Find this option when right clicking on the blue title bar for Active Time, Away Time, and Timestamps.
- Implemented intelligent Microsoft Office dialogue grouping. All dialogue boxes (i.e. Save As, Print, etc) within Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are now absorbed into the appropriate document entries.
Product Enhancements
- Improved performance when user has over 2 months of data. Only the most recent 2 months of data are loaded at startup to reduce launch time. Older data is loaded on demand if the user chooses a date more than 2 months ago.
- Added warnings to "Clear Private Data"
- Resolved root issue behind Windows Vista/7 related data corruption (no more timetrackingbuddyseparator entries).
2.0.1.7 (Jan 22, 2010)
Bug Fixes
- Resolved "Log Away Time" display issue, where the pop-up occasionally does not appear when users right clicks on an away time entry and selects Log Away Time.
- Resolved away time reminder popup issue in 2.0.1.6, where occasionally the away time reminder popup fails to appear after user returns to computer.
- Corrected timestamps display of away time events lasting more than 1 hour.
- Corrected hourly total calculation in Timestamps to include away time durations.
2.0.1.6 (Jan 12, 2010)
New Features
- Supports drag and drop of categories in "My Categories".
- Expandable "My Category" panel: click on the upward arrow "^" next to the panel header to expand the panel to full height of the window.
- Saves user specified window dimensions across sessions.
- "My Categories" tree now sorts alphabetically in real-time.
Product Enhancements
- Away Time reminder pop-ups no longer disappear after 15 seconds.
- System tray context menu now behaves natively in Windows.
Bug Fixes
- Resolved Firefox tracking issue in Windows 7 (x86 and x64).
- Resolved license checking issue, where a few users saw the error "Your license code is already in use."
- Resolved tracking bug, where active time tracking halted when no internet connection was detected.
- Resolved issue where some users received an error related to MSVCR71.dll on application launch.
- Removed all dependencies to "places.sqlite" on local user's desktop.
2.0.1.5 (Dec 11, 2009)
Bug Fixes
- Resolved issue where some categorized entries appeared in Timestamps as uncategorized.
- Resolved license checking bug: select users received the following error message on startup: "license code is already in use."
- Corrected time summation calculations, durations of activities are now correctly aggregated when a date range is selected.
2.0.1.4 (Dec 5, 2009)
New Features
- Split away time entries into multiple pieces. To split an entry, right click on it and choose "Split Away Time".
Product Enhancements
- Improved Away Time tracking accuracy: Away Time calculation now includes idle PC threshold time. For example, if the user leaves his/her PC idle for 6 minutes, and his idle threshold setting is 5 minutes, the user will see a 6 minute Away Time entry when they return. Previously, the user saw a 1 minute Away Time entry (6 min - 5 min), with 5 minutes allocated to their most recent PC-based activity.
- Improved data refresh rate: Activity durations are now updated in real-time. As soon as you switch focus from one window to the next, Chrometa will instantly show an updated duration of the last window in focus.
- One click drag-and-drop for Away Time entries. User can select and drag an entry in one smooth motion.
- Improved multiple entry drag-and-drop functionality for Away Time. User no longer needs to hold down the Ctrl key to categorize multiple selections at once using the drag-and-drop method.
- Remove multiple Away Time entries at once by selecting the entries, and choosing "Remove Away Time" from the context menu.
- Categorize multiple Away Time entries at once from the right click menu.
2.0.1.3 (Nov 4, 2009)
Bug Fixes
- Resolves issue where Chrometa fails to launch for some users unless times.ttb, todaytimes.ttb, times.ttb.tmp are removed.
- Resolves file access conflict with IE 7/8.
- Clicking any part of an Active Time line entry now selects the entry.
Product Enhancements
- New one click drag-and-drop for Active Time entries. User can select and drag an entry in one smooth motion
- Improved multiple entry drag-and-drop functionality. User no longer needs to hold down the Ctrl key to categorize multiple selections at once using the drag-and-drop method.
- One click drag-and-drop for Away Time entries. User can select and drag an entry in one smooth motion.
- Remove multiple entries at once by selecting the entries, and choosing "Remove Activity" from the context (right-click) menu.
- Categorize/uncategorize multiple entries at once from the right click menu.
- Tracks Chrometa-related PC time. Now users can view administrative time spent within Chrometa.
- Categorize multiple Away Time entries at once from the right click menu.
2.0.1.2 (Oct 14, 2009)
Bug Fixes
- Prevents and resolves potential data collection issues related to Daylight Savings Time (DST).
- Resolves tracking and Active Time/Timestamps display problems related to Remote Desktop Connection sessions.
- Resolves tracking and Active time/Timestamps display problems related to Quickbooks.
- Resolves Internet Explorer entry/application association issues: all websites visited through IE now have the appropriate IE application icon in Active Time/Timestamps.
- Resolves tracking and display present in update 2.0.0.8.
Product Enhancements
- Time in Microsoft Office dialogue windows (i.e. Save As, Find/Replace) are now automatically associated with the active document.
- Faster loading time for Chrometa at startup.
- Active Time table preserves the state of expanded/collapsed items on screen refresh.
- My Categories table preserves the state of expanded/collapsed items on screen refresh.
- Timestamps view displays full file path of supported Office file types (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
- Active Time/Timestamps views support display of symbols.
- More concise display of Gmail entries. Number of unread messages for Inbox not shown in entry titles under Active Time/Timestamps.
2.0.0.6 (Sep 22, 2009)
New Features
- WYSIWYG Excel Export: You can now export all of your data — Active Time, Away Time, and Timestamps — directly into an Excel spreadsheet.
Instructions
After you've installed the 2.0.0.6 update, go to File > Export to Excel. Chrometa will automatically launch Microsoft Excel and load the exported spreadsheet.
To export aggregative data over a range of dates, select a date range within Chrometa, then go to File > Export to Excel.
To selectively export entries from a given category, first highlight that category under My Categories, then go to File > Export to Excel.
2.0.0.5 (Aug 28, 2009)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed reported application stability (crashing) issues by addressing memory conflicts between Chrometa and other active applications.
- Added measures to prevent data corruption, which previously caused some users to experience an empty main screen on startup.
New Features
- Added "Reconstruct Database" feature under Options menu to retroactively restore user data after the event of unexpected data loss.
- Added "Tag Application" feature, which allows users to tag all activities relating to an application to a category.
2.0.0.3 (Aug 10, 2009)
Bug Fixes
- Added scroll bar in Blocked Applications to support unlimited number of blocked applications.
- Firefox entries without a captured URL are now updated with the URL as soon as the URL is captured.
How to update to the latest version
Within the Chrometa window open, go to Help > Check for Updates. If an update is available, click "Download and Update" to download the updater.
Before running the updater, exit Chrometa first. To exit Chrometa, go to File > Exit or right click on the system tray icon then choose "Exit").
Do I need to uninstall Chrometa before installing a new version?
No. Simply run the updater/installer and it will take care of migrating you to the new version.
