TeamDesk Blog

Visualizing relationships

Once you have more than one table in your TeamDesk application, the relationships become its core functionality. They allow you to pull and calculate the information from related tables.

To display the relationships TeamDesk provides two lists. One, accessible from the left side bar displays all relations in your application. And when you select the table and click on Manage Relations link on a main page, the list is filtered to display only the relations from and to selected table.

Good, but what's next? We tried to display essential relationship information in its name: table names, a key and reference columns. But there are much more; what are match conditions? which lookups and summaries are created on the relation? which view is used to display the details?

Browsers Moving to Standards

When Google announced they plan to release the new browser, our first thought was: what's the hell! Another browser, more compatibility problems. Luckily for us and our users, Google Chrome is based on the WebKit, the engine behind Safari we support from very beginning.

On Tools and Hardware

Some people ask us about the database behind TeamDesk, the language it is programmed etc. Well, it's not a secret...

• The servers are Dell Poweredge;
• The database is Microsoft SQL Server 2005 x64 edition;
• The computers are Dell Inspiron notebooks;
• Backend programmed in C# using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005;
• Customers supported via CRMdesk;
• Bug and Issue tracking performed in BUGtrack;
• Sales Management is done in TeamDesk as well as variety of internal projects;
• And we fly Lama V3 Helicopter in the office :)

Migration to x64 Platform

We are going to migrate to the x64 platform during the weekend. TeamDesk users may experience short interruption of the service and may be asked to re-enter their credentials after the migration.

Idea Exchange

If you are a customer, suggestions seem to drop into a black hole. "We want this" is usually answered by "We'll put in an enhancement request", and that is the last you hear about that until we implement your idea if any. We want to convert this into a dialogue between the product team and the customers.

Idea Exchange allows customers to suggest new product concepts, promote favorite enhancements, interact with product team and other customers, and preview what we are planning to deliver.