Excel yourself with ActionThis

Posted on 31 January 2008 by Ed Robinson

Last week we quietly added a useful new feature to ActionThis: the ability to download ActionThis project data into Microsoft Excel.

The concept is a simple one: You work in ActionThis and use it to manage you and your team’s tasks for a particular project. You want to report on the status of a project and its tasks and add your own information, such as costs or other project-related metrics; you also may want to slice and dice the data a particular way, or simply want a report you can carry round.

Introducing the ActionThis Client for Excel.

Once installed, you have one-click access to the ActionThis service from within Excel. Enter your login details, select a project, and Excel does the rest, downloading all of the action items for a particular project into an Excel spreadsheet. Once downloaded, you’re then free to play around with the data, and any changes you make won’t affect the data in the ActionThis system. We even provide a template to get you started, featuring a collection of graphs.

 

This feature is available to premium members of ActionThis and works with both Excel 2007 and Excel 2003.

To find out more, download the software by going to Setup |Downloads within the ActionThis application. You can also read the User Guide to get started.

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