What's New in Wrike – February 2025
Our first 2025 edition of What's New in Wrike is all about new releases from the past weeks: Timesheet updates, Calendar improvements, AI, and more.
Available on Business plus and higher plans. Submission rules are available on Enterprise Pinnacle plan.
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Timesheet Reminders are innovative automated alerts designed to prompt your team to submit their timesheets punctually. These reminders are invaluable for maintaining accurate time tracking and adhering to payroll, billing, and reporting schedules. By reducing the necessity for manual follow-ups from managers, these reminders enhance your team's productivity and ensure compliance. Timesheet reminders can be set up via the new Reminders tab. For comprehensive setup instructions, please refer to this Help Center article.
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Timesheet Submission Rules are designed to enhance control, ensure compliance, and streamline the timesheet approval process.
Now, rules can be tailored to specific work schedules, with validations for daily or weekly submissions. Organizations can choose a hard restriction to prevent timesheet submissions if hours exceed or fall short of configured capacity or opt for a soft restriction, which prompts users for confirmation if their hours don't align with set capacities. These features provide a structured yet adaptable approach to ensuring compliance and oversight.
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Timesheets - Work Schedule Integration. The new enhancements in Timesheets aim to align more closely with Work Schedules for a consistent work tracking experience. Here are the updates:
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Managing Non-Working Days: View Admin-marked public holidays and indicate personal non-working days directly from your Timesheets.
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Visual Indicators: Non-working days will appear greyed-out on Timesheets, with icons for easy identification while maintaining the option to log time as needed.
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Approvers (Available for Enterprise Pinnacle): Exception days are now accessible for review on both list and detailed views within Timesheets for streamlined approval processes. Learn more in this article.
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Available on Business Plus and higher plans.
The new features in Wrike Calendars are designed to elevate your planning capabilities. It will enable you to manage and visualize your projects with greater precision and foresight. Here’s what’s new:
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Multi-Year Mode: Plan long-term strategic projects with a new 5-year view, perfect for extensive roadmaps.
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Enhanced Milestones: Identify key project phases effortlessly with our updated milestone display.
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Improved Navigation: Experience seamless browsing across quarterly, yearly, and multi-year timelines with our advanced relative navigation in the timeline view.
Available on all plans except Team plan.
We have introduced several new mass actions in the Table view to optimize your task management capabilities. Here’s a closer look at the new updates:
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Switch Assignees: Easily reassign a batch of tasks or projects from one specific assignee to another without disrupting assignments to other team members.
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Shift Dates: Efficiently reschedule tasks or projects by a specified number of days, weeks, or months, either backward or forward.
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Convert to Milestone: Leverage the mass-action feature to transform tasks into milestones for better project tracking.
Available on Enterprise Pinnacle plan.
Enjoy simplified navigation for extensive lists, such as regions or inventory items, with new sorting and searching capabilities in the form picker. The form submission process is now simplified with our improved picker, designed for seamless interaction with up to 100,000 items. This intuitive interface transitions from linear checkbox lists to multiple chips, and reflects Datahub database interactions within Wrike views.
Available on paid plans.
Introducing a new feature that empowers you to ask questions and receive answers related to the data housed within Wrike items. This feature is particularly beneficial for navigating extensive collections of information, such as knowledge bases and documentation within Wrike items.
Part of the Work Intelligence Preview Labs bundle, this feature requires the main Generative AI functionality to be enabled in Account management.
Available on paid plans.
You can now ensure a seamless onboarding experience by setting dashboards as welcome items for user groups, so that new users engage directly with relevant data.
Admins can share dashboards with all users within a group. These dashboards get pinned for easy discovery, allowing new invited users to start with them, enhancing engagement and early adoption.
To set up, admins can go to Settings > Users > User Group > Group Settings and add a project, folder, space, or dashboard. More information is available in this Community Post.