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Apollo now has a powerful API!

When you write software, some features are very visible in terms of what your users see: we got a huge response when we added tags and tag management to our contacts sections, for example.

When we started to focus on our API, people wondered if Apollo's development had slowed down. The answer was obviously "no": we were simply focussing on something that users simply couldn't see.

We have now completed that work: I am happy to announce that Apollo's API is now available.

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News from Apollo: improved file uploads, improved bulk edit of time entries, and categories for logged time

If you used Apollo for a while, reading the title is probably enough to go "Oh wow, that's good news". If you are reading it much later than May 2012, then you are probably reading old news... but still worthwhile knowing!

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Bulk editing of time entries in Apollo!

Yes, Apollo finally supports bulk editing of time entries. You can now go to the project area, click on "time", run a detailed time report, and edit several entries at the same time (or, delete them):

As you can see from the screenshot, you can change the status of your entries after ticking the right ones. You can also select them all.

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Log time, and report time, on a contact with Apollo

Time reports is one of the top feature requests in Apollo. While we can assure you that we are working on bulk actions on time reports (so that you can mark several of them as billed, for example), we are also enhancing the time reporting abilities in Apollo.

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Attach a contact to a project in Apollo

We were often told that most projects belong to one of the contacts in the address book. That's why one of the most requested features in Apollo was the possibility of creating a link between a contact in your address book and a project.

This is now possible.

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File revisions in Apollo projects

Files are a really important part of a project. In Apollo you can upload files to comments, messages and projects; this feature is critical as sometimes — as they say — a picture is worth a thousand words.

However, files attached to projects tend to change and evolve.

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Apollo's affiliate program is here!

Some things slip. Programmers are not perfect, and with just so much going on with Apollo's development, sometimes we make mistakes. Well, the "Affiliate" entry in the Settings menu was a bit of a slip.

When that entry appeared, we had a lot of enquiries about the program. Users seemed to be most worried about the program being available only to US people, or having complicated forms to join.

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Shifting milestones in Apollo

Hello there,

Milestones are a central part of Apollo. Sometimes I feel that we should discourage the use of specific dates in tasks, and highlight the fact that the "real" deadlines in projects are set by their milestones.

For example, users forget that tasks might not have a date set for them, and therefore won't appear in the calendar. On the other hand, milestones always have a deadline, and always appear in the calendar of users assigned to that project.

Since milestones are very important, and projects normally have several milestones, we have now added the option where changing a milestone's date will also shift subsequent milestones in the same project.

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Adding tasks quickly – or, your task inbox

Hi Friends!

Using Apollo makes you feel excited about your projects.

Sometimes, when you create tasks for your project, you are not entirely sure which task list they will belong to. Or maybe none of your existing task lists is the right one. Sometimes, all you want to do is jump on a project and quickly type 4 or 5 quick points, maybe while you are on the phone with your customer.

This is why we implemented a very quick way of adding tasks to Apollo:

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My Tasks in Apollo: more filtering options

Hello friends,

When you create a program, you expect some parts of it to be very popular and wildly used by your users. Then you release it, and... discover that some sections were just not as important as you thought they would be, while some others become absolutely critical.

My Tasks in Apollo is one of those sections: in the initial drawings, it was meant to be just a list of personal tasks. As design went on, it was obvious that it was more important than originally thought as it should obviously display personal and company tasks as well. When Apollo went live, My Tasks proved to be "the" spot where a lot of our users literally lived!

So, to make the long story short: we have recently improved My Tasks quite dramatically. You can now slice and dice tasks in a more flexible way, or filter out the noise and only concentrate on what matters.

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