We have over a 100 projects.
That means on the right hand site a long list.

There are only 5 project changes you see in the overview.
In practice that means if people come in in the morning and start adding stuff in over 10 projects, I (and the other staff) only see half.

Can’t there be more or that we decide how much we can see?
The page is anyway very long and there is nothing under these five.
I don’t want to use RSS since it is desktop based.
Online is a religion for me…

Any votes on this?

JPB,

There is a good greasemonkey script to collapse your project view which we use to great effect. It has been suggested elsewhere that having an ‘unread’ indicator of some sort next to a project’s name in the right panel would be a good idea as it would show where activity has taken place.

Big +1 for this if possible. I imagine it could use the same technology as the message list view but then I don’t know anything about coding!!

Thank you richallum,

I believe you made a lot of people happy in my company with that script.
I just mailed them the url. for others that need it, it is here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/9279

However I will have to wait before my need gets solved….. :-(

I know that 37s has talked about the Dashboard being a pretty intensive place on their server loads, thus why many of their design decisions have stuck for so long on that page. And when it comes to performance I can’t disagree with their decisions. However, I think you may have stumbled on a nice modification that may not impact that page as much. If each project could have an “UPDATED” or other flag, that might kill two birds. But then again, I know that they often work on things behind the scenes that are far superior to our suggestions. Great idea though.

If it is optional how many companies you can see on the page, most people will stick with the 5 projects so the impact of 10 projects would not be so big. I always find that it is the project that is not on the list that is the one that I want.

The above script is great if you are a Firefox user, but most of our company uses IE7. Any options for the rest of the world?