I’ll keep you posted as we get closer to rolling this out.

Anyway, the big news is that I’m working on a major overhaul of the system. I’m streamlining and revamping the interface so that WorkMelon will be easily usable on a Computer, smartphone, or tablet.

For businesses where you pay hourly wages, the way WorkMelon totals hours is being simplified tremendously.

There are also going to be some backend changes that will help me roll out future improvement much more easily. You won’t notice this much, except the app should run a hair faster.

However, you’ll still have all of the functionality that you now have, as well as a couple groovy new things here and there.

Testing screenshots and more info to come.

• login email is now case insensitive, so If you had an errant capital letter in there, it doesn’t matter.
• If you delete a user, you can now recreate him/her rather than having the system puke at you with a “User with that email already exists” message.
• Due to popular request, managers can now assign tasks to other managers, too.
• I cleaned up a few of the errant \’ errors when displaying info from a work order.

Thanks to Zac & others who have been patient working with me on these. If anybody finds anything else, let me know.

To see a location’s history, you need to use the search function.

On the search page just make sure you check the location box.

Then just start typing the name of the location, then choose the one you want.

When you click “search work orders” the search results show all the work orders for that location.

You can drill down the list further by checking one or more of the other search criteria boxes.

Just log in to your account, then click the “site settings” button.

Down at the bottom of the site settings page is the data export section. You can choose to download your entire work order history, or you can just get the open work orders.

The downloaded file is in .csv format, so you should be able to open it up in any spreadsheet program and check it out.

When you check the “Email to Assignee” box (see picture below), an email containing the information of a work order is sent to the assignee’s email address.

And as with the rest of WorkMelon, the emailed work order is as simple and functional as possible. It looks something like this:

bob,

You have received a new work order on 10/27/2010.

Location: Secret Bunker

Description: Wash the cat.
Nobody else wants to do it.
You can use the big clippers.

You can view this work order online by logging into your account at http://www.workmelon.com/app/900109167/

This email was automatically generated by WorkMelon.com. If you do not wish to receive these work orders via email, please contact your manager.

And there you have it.

If you’ve been waiting to try out WorkMelon, then wait no longer. WorkMelon is now live and ready for sign ups. So go check out the best work order software in the world.

I still have no idea why Chrome kept working. Or rather, I have no idea why Chrome was the only browser to withstand the teeny bug that crawled in.

Oh, well.

It’s all fixed up now and I’m even a little happier with everything as while I was tracking down the bug, I cleaned up a bunch of other code. I did some quick tests in Chrome, Firefox, IE, and Safari just to make sure I didn’t screw anything else up.

That being said, I’m going to switch the main page over today and open up WorkMelon for signups. There are sure to be changes as we move along, but all in all, I’m pretty excited about it all.

So I went back to the closet o’ supplies and dug around until I found a different solution. It all seems to be working well, so it looks like by the end of this week I should be able to unveil the new WorkMelon sight and enable signups.