Visual Customization for Projects and Team Members in BigTime Foresight

Overview
Profile Pictures
     Technical Requirements
     Setting Up Your Profile Picture
     Setting Up Your Staffers Profile Pictures
Project Avatars
     Technical Requirements
     Uploading Project Avatar
Project Color Coding
     Configuring Your Project Colors

Overview

In professional services firms, setting employee avatars, project logos, and color codes improves report clarity, making it easier to identify individuals and projects quickly. This allows managers to monitor performance and profitability more effectively while reports become more intuitive to interpret. Additionally, these visual elements support cross-departmental communication and reduce the risk of errors.

To better illustrate these benefits, here are five key ways that visual customization in BigTime Foresight enhances project and team management:

Enhanced Report Clarity: Using employee avatars, project logos, and color codes in BigTime Foresight helps make reports clearer and faster to interpret, enabling easier identification of individuals and projects.

Improved Monitoring: Visual customization aids managers in effectively tracking performance and profitability, providing at-a-glance insights on key metrics.

Streamlined Cross-Departmental Communication: Visual identifiers support clearer communication across teams by reducing confusion and highlighting project status or ownership.

Reduced Error Risk: Implementing recognizable visual elements decreases the risk of misidentifying projects or team members, enhancing accuracy in assignments and reporting.

Customizable Project Prioritization: Color coding allows firms to assign colors based on project priority, ownership, or status (e.g., green for high-priority, red for urgent), improving visual organization.

Profile Pictures

Technical Requirements

Maximum size: 2MB

Maximum resolution 2048x2048

Setting Up Your Profile Picture

You can set a profile picture on your manager and staffer accounts.

A profile picture set in My Settings on the manager and staffer accounts is visible to all managers within the organization. If someone tries to create an assignment for a staff member who has set a profile picture, they will see the profile with the chosen image.

Setting Up Your Staffers Profile Pictures

You can ask your staffers to set their profile pictures, but you also have the option to do it for them. To set a profile picture for one of your team members, follow the instructions below:

Project Avatars

Technical Requirements

Maximum size: 2MB

Maximum resolution 2048x2048

Uploading Project Avatar

To set a project logo, follow the instructions below:

Project Color Coding

A company can internally define the meaning of project colors to easily customize a visual system that works for you and your firm.

For example, green might indicate high-priority projects, blue could represent long-term initiatives, and yellow could mark projects in the planning phase. Red might be reserved for projects requiring immediate attention due to potential delays or issues. 

Additionally, project colors can signal ownership by assigning a specific color to each project manager. For instance, all projects managed by one project manager could be coded in purple, while another manager’s projects might be consistently marked in orange. 

This color-coding system clarifies project statuses and makes it easy to see who is responsible for each initiative at a glance.

Configuring Your Project Colors

To set project color coding, follow the instructions below:

After changing the Lemon Tree Project color, we can see assignments in it displayed in the Projects Calendar like below: 

It applies to the Team Members Calendar as well: