Looks cool and easy-to-use.

As with any update ever completed to Elance, there are programming errors. Example? Go QA your accounting section. You have a massive dataset that is not displayed. Did anyone check this thing out before you actually updated the live site?

Hello,

I have listed a few issues that are a major concern with regards to the new Elance setup.

1) Initially when we (providers) received a mail notification for any message posted by the client where the mail used to have a link. Clicking on the link would take us straight to the project message board.

This has been omitted from the present flow. Many providers like us have multiple executives to whose mail ids the PMB messages are forwarded. According to the present flow, only the email id registered with ELANCE, can directly reply back from their mailbox to a particular message. This is then automatically posted to the concerned PMB. The other executives who get the messages forwarded to their id cannot do this and will now have to log in to their Elance MY Account area, search for the particular project and then reply back. This entails investment of extra time and unnecessary confusion.

If only the project link is sent along with the PMB message like before, it makes it very easier and friendly for everyone (specially Providers with multiple people using the PMB)

2) Sorting messages has become difficult as mails now come with the subject line "Message from Elance Buyer about Simple Website with E-mail robot"
Please have the Buyername included in the mail subject line to enable easy sorting of mails.

3) In the Elance MY Account area, if we need to file a Fee Refund Request for a project which is, say 1 month old, we would have to approximately make around 30-40 clicks to land up on the page that has the project listed. This is because the pagination on the pages just gives an option to jump to maximum 2-3 pages at a time. Please have the pagination like it was before (i.e approx 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,.........14) and then when a person clicks on 14, the next set of 14 pages are displayed. This eases the project search process and reduces the time spent

4) Please add an option for text search for projects in the Elance MY Account area. For example, if I want to raise an invoice for a specific project which is around 50-60 days old, we would just have to type in the Project ID, Buyer Name, etc and the result would take us straight to the project page instead of we having to follow the pagination and keep clicking on the page numbers.

Regards,
Amit

Great enhancements; particularly I liked Status report and job tracker functionality very much and definitely will be using for my next projects.

just some comments on the new workspace
love it!
the collapsing feature, love the sorting features. That makes it so much easier for me to manage multiple things at once.
like the to do panel, like the feature in the 'working' workroom, to choose action and seeing an overview of the projects i am bidding on.

Active workrooms
would like to remove my active workrooms, I don't need completed projects there, so it would be nice to be able to remove them. some listed there are from a month ago or longer and are just there bc the buyer never left feedback, I may already be able to do that, but haven't jumped in totally to check out all the features.

only issue
I set up my preferences in my area, collapse all projects, sort by project, left the page, came back and it went back to the default. would be nice to be able to save the layout preference, but hey I can live with it!
Tracker..very cool

Awesome work elance, thanks so much!
Linda

Slow. I hope the speed of the new interface can be improved. I just want to get work done sometimes and the new interface is a lot slower.

I see Huge Problems with the " Archive" and current displays of work rooms. We have been on elance for past 8 years and with this "upgrade" we have lost ALL of our awarded proejcts data and client contact details. We had Over 300 " Awarded" projects and we now see only 20 ! Do you realise that It is Importamnt for Providers to have completed contact detaisl ( EVEN if they are 7 year old ) of ALL clinets we worked with via elance ?

2, The CLOSED projects : Again what is the rationale in " REMOVING" ALL projects we had bdi on in pas ? We had 150 - 200 pages of " Closed" Projects in our My-Elance and now we have only 2 pages !! We pay to BID on projects, we communicate on PMB and to remove whatever communication we had witha Buyer, is not good at all.

3. The Old " awrded" proejcts are not shoiwng in archive.

4. The " Search" s not working right.

Can you please restore ALL old project related data ?

Unable to now see email details for buyers. is this intentional? If so it's not helpful. Many buyers prefer to communciate by email or to send files direct if they are too large for the elance system...

Hi,

It looks good and easy but it's need one correction.

After login When you click on on your user name on top left it will direct you to your profile. The link " Back to My Elance " goes to old my Elance interface.

Please check.

Regards,
Ace Creative Technology

Can you please put my data back? Maybe next time you guys can test this stuff before rolling it out? ...just a thought.

Now I can't see the email addresses of buyers in my "Accepted Projects" (New "Working" tab). Please let me know how to send large files now. Most of my files are 4 to 18 MB and most buyers prefer the completed files to their emails (without PMB).

Please guide ASAP.

Welcome features

How do I get rid of the TO DO information that Elance put in ?
How do I turn off the Vital Statistics, I do not want them displayed either at 6 months or from the beginning.
Thanks Stan

Lets try again.
Please remove what ever you (Elance) put into my TO DO box. I don't even want one, especially if you put information into it. If it is my TO DO list, I should be the only person that can edit it. How do I turn off the vital statistics box, I do not want that open for anyone to see. Also, I agree with the others, the screens now take 3 or 4 times longer to process, the original was fine, this new one is horribly slow.

Thanks
Stan Carr

I can't edit my profile informations.
When I'm on the Provider Profile editing page, I can't upload a new image for my thumbnail. Now I have one image but I'd like to swap it. It's that easy but....
Uploading goes fine, the pop-up works but when I close that window, the main window begins to load and load and load... but nothing happens.
The status bar reads: transferring data from 03.presence.userplane.com (translated from italian), and this takes minutes!!!
Old thumbnail is still here.

Hi,

Thanks for the upgrades and enhancements to the MyElance page. As far as I can tell, everything's working smoothly.

I would like to throw something out for consideration though. Since the page uses modules (or call out boxes or whatever you call them) would it be possible for users to customize the content of some of them? Perhaps we could create an area that displays new projects, or displays specific projects posted in an area that I'm interested in?

Or maybe, you could add in an area that lists projects by title in the areas that I pre-determine, or that are available to me because of my account.

I realize that there's a window in the bottom right where I can click to and search projects, but a big part of my interaction with the site is looking for projects, as well as managing the projects that I have. It'd be a big help to quickly be able to scan what's available from the MyElance page as opposed to needing to click through three other pages.

Just a thought.

Thanks again for the new interface.

With the new "upgrade" is it possible to now request soemthing that should really be in the functionality anyway? I have invoicing issues.

If i bill a client for $100, and they for whatever reason decide to make me a one-off payment of $100 instead of making payment against the invoice, elance record the incoming payment but does not in any way marry it up with the outstanding invoice. Obviously you cannot make the assumptions you'd have to do to do this automatically, but if we could (2 options here first is best second would be an ok fix if no 1 is too complex...)

1. we MANUALLY link the receipt for $100 with the invoice for $100 so they credit one against the other and the unpaid status of the invoice becomes paid.

2. we have the facility to record on elance a ststus of "paid" against an invoice.

Please please please can this be fixed? I can't believe i am the only user with many many outstanding invoices that have in reality been paid, and what this does is renders the whole Invoicing/billing screens unusable for us, we have to work in the project invoicing screens which is not as easy.

Thanks
Julie-Ann

Hi Julie-Ann,
 
Thanks for the post. We understand and agree with the requirement. We are tracking this as a feature candidate for future release.  In addition, we are enhancing the existing "New Invoice" email notification sent to the buyers.  Buyers will be able to click a link from the email message to immediately see the specific invoice and make a payment against the invoice.  This will reduce the number of non-invoice payments. 
 
Thanks,
York
Elance Product Guy