Done 1.1.0 — color, visible loading and the App Store

The first release came out big, so 1.1.0 is about something else: how all of it feels in day-to-day work. Loading data no longer means a blank white screen, long reports are easier to read as you scroll, and employees, teams and projects can now be tagged with a color. And Done made it into the Nextcloud app catalogue; more on that at the end.

Color for employees, teams and projects

The entity preview used to let you set an avatar and a symbol. Now there’s a color dot next to them: click it, pick a shade in the system picker, and the card gets its own marker. When you have dozens of these cards, color helps you spot the right one by eye faster than reading the name. And if you hover over the avatar, symbol or color, a tooltip tells you what the button does.

Loading you can see

Data doesn’t always arrive instantly: a big report, a form with dynamic fields, a table covering a whole year. In those fractions of a second the screen used to stay empty, and you couldn’t tell whether it was loading or simply had no data. Now, wherever a request runs, a spinner turns: in the common report and the per-project and per-employee reports, in statistics, in the create and edit forms, on the time-tracking pages. We made the indicator bigger so you actually see it instead of hunting for it. And a form with dynamic fields no longer flickers empty while it pulls the fields in.

Reports and statistics are easier to read

The level headings (year, quarter, month, week) now differ noticeably in size and weight, so it’s easier to find your place in a report’s structure. When you scroll a long table, the period heading sticks to the top: even far down, you can see what a row belongs to. Weekends are dimmed so they don’t compete for attention with working days. And a day in statistics that you can click gets highlighted under the cursor.

Done in the Nextcloud catalogue

The big behind-the-scenes event of this release: we got Done ready for the Nextcloud App Store. We set up release signing, added a dozen app screenshots (from adding a record and settings to the permissions matrix and reference tables) and updated the project links. Now you can install Done straight from the Nextcloud app catalogue, like any other app.