Projects & portfolio
13Define delivery records clearly, then find, sort and review the whole portfolio.
- Create projects with a name, description and colour.
- Set Planning, Active, On hold or Completed status.
- Set Low, Medium, High or Urgent priority.
- Record project start and due dates.
- Assign a project owner from the member list.
- Use generated project codes in task references.
- Search projects by name or code.
- Filter the directory by project status.
- Sort by update time, creation time, name, code, due date, priority or status.
- Switch between grid and list views.
- Move through paginated project results.
- Archive and restore projects without erasing their history.
- Reopen a completed project when delivery resumes.
Tasks, boards & lists
17Break delivery into actionable records and work with them in the view that fits the moment.
- Create and edit tasks inside a project.
- Record a title and detailed description.
- Set task priority, start date and due date.
- Assign as many as 50 project members to one task.
- See a human-readable project code and task number on every task.
- Work in List, Board, Gantt or Calendar view.
- Add subtasks, tags, custom fields and Blocking / Waiting on dependencies.
- Repeat a task on a schedule and set task reminders.
- Drag tasks between stages on the board.
- Reorder tasks within a stage.
- Load long stage columns progressively.
- Search task titles and descriptions.
- Filter by stage, assignee, priority, due state or date range.
- Sort and paginate task lists.
- Move a task into a Done stage to complete it.
- Soft-delete tasks and restore them when needed.
- Open a task directly from a shared project link.
Custom project workflows
12Shape each project board around the way that delivery team actually moves work.
- Give every project its own workflow stages.
- Add and rename stages.
- Choose a colour for each stage.
- Mark stages as Not started, Active or Done.
- Reorder stages to match the delivery sequence.
- Hide a stage without removing its history.
- Remove an unused stage.
- Choose a replacement stage when removing one that still contains tasks.
- Move affected tasks to the chosen replacement stage.
- Keep at least one visible open stage and one visible Done stage.
- Create up to 20 stages in a project workflow.
- Protect simultaneous workflow edits with revision checks.
Views, plans & templates
11Start from a template, then plan and review the same tasks in the view the moment needs.
- Start a project from built-in templates, including construction and interior work.
- Save any project as your own template.
- Choose Kanban, Scrum or Waterfall as the project's method.
- Plan on a Gantt chart by day, week or month, with an Unscheduled lane.
- See dated tasks on a Calendar view.
- Group tasks, filter by team and save a view for later.
- Track Milestones, shown on the Gantt.
- Run Scrum with a Backlog, Sprints, Epics, story points, burndown and velocity.
- Log bugs and snags in a separate Issues tracker, then convert an issue to a task.
- Rename Task, Issue, Milestone, Sprint and Epic — for example call tasks Tickets, Requests or Snags.
- Group and pin projects in the projects directory.
Timesheets, timers & approvals
10Fill a weekly timesheet, run a timer while you work and send the week for approval.
- Fill hours in a Week or Day timesheet grid.
- Add work rows by project and task.
- Copy last week's rows, with or without their hours.
- Start and stop a timer on any row, with optional rounding to 5 or 15 minutes.
- Mark hours billable and add a note to any cell.
- See daily totals against the expected hours.
- Submit the week for approval, recall it, or resubmit after changes.
- Get a Friday reminder to submit your timesheet.
- Approve or reject weekly timesheets, or reopen an approved week.
- Review every entry under Time Logs, filtered by billable and approval status.
Budget, reports & automation
9Watch hours and cost against the plan, and let rules handle the repetitive moves.
- Set a project budget in hours or amount, from scratch or from task estimates.
- Get an alert to the owner and managers when spend crosses a threshold.
- See budget against logged time by member and by task list.
- Reports for workload, overdue tasks, time logged, status distribution and planned vs actual.
- Customisable Projects dashboard and project Overview.
- Workflow rules that set fields, assign, comment, notify or call a webhook when tasks change.
- Macros that apply a saved set of changes to a task in one click.
- Blueprints that control which stage moves are allowed, who may make them and which fields they require.
- An execution log for every rule and macro run.
Construction & interior projects
13Optional commercial and site sections for building, fit-out and interior work.
- BOQ by trade or room, with a quotation and budget from it.
- Contract value, billing milestones, running bills and retention.
- Change orders with cost and time impact, approved by the client.
- Material requests, purchase orders and site consumption.
- Subcontractor work orders and measurement bills.
- Daily site diary: weather, labour, equipment, hindrances and safety.
- Progress photos with before / after compare.
- Drawing register with revisions.
- RFIs and submittals.
- Inspections, snag lists and handover readiness.
- Rooms with FF&E selections, room budgets and client approval.
- Mood boards per room.
- Turn any of these sections on per project under Settings → Features.
Client portal
5Share a private link so clients follow progress and approve decisions without a Scalar360 login.
- Create a private link per client, with an optional expiry.
- Choose what the client can do: view progress and photos, approve selections, change orders or running bills, and message the team.
- Clients approve or reject by typing their full name to sign.
- Client messages appear in Activity and notify project managers.
- See when each link was last viewed, and revoke it at any time.
Assignments & My Tasks
11Give every member a focused queue across projects while managers retain the wider picture.
- See assigned work from every project in one My Tasks view.
- Group assigned work into Overdue, Due soon and Later.
- Search the personal task queue.
- Filter by project, stage or priority.
- Filter for overdue, due-soon or undated work.
- Sort by earliest or latest due date.
- Sort high-priority work first.
- Sort by recent updates or title.
- Move through paginated personal results.
- Open the exact task in its project workspace.
- See open and overdue work by member on the project dashboard.
Task checklists
8Keep the smaller completion steps on the task instead of creating a second planning system.
- Add checklist items to a task.
- Edit checklist item text.
- Check and uncheck items as work changes.
- Reorder checklist items.
- Delete checklist items.
- See completed and total checklist counts.
- View checklist progress from task cards and task detail.
- Protect concurrent checklist changes with record versions.
Comments, mentions & watchers
11Keep delivery conversation close to the work and make the right people aware of changes.
- Add comments to a task.
- Edit an eligible comment.
- Delete and restore comments without losing the thread.
- Mention project members in comments.
- Notify mentioned members.
- Watch or unwatch a task.
- See who is watching a task.
- Notify watchers about relevant task activity and comments.
- Notify assignees when a task is created or updated.
- Send targeted deadline notifications for due work.
- Calculate comment edit and delete permissions for the current viewer.
Task files & storage
11Keep delivery evidence on the task with controlled download and organisation-level storage visibility.
- Upload attachments to a task.
- Use object-backed storage for project files.
- Enforce the 10 MB attachment limit in the project interface.
- Retain filename, content type, size and uploader.
- Retain file creation time and attachment version.
- Calculate and retain a SHA-256 checksum.
- List the files attached to a task.
- Download through a generated file link.
- Delete an attachment when authorised.
- See used, available and total project storage for the organisation.
- Clean up deleted attachment objects in the background.
Project time tracking
12Record the hours behind delivery with enough context to support review and billing.
- Log time against a project or a specific task.
- Record hours in quarter-hour steps in the project interface.
- Choose the date of the work.
- Mark an entry as billable or non-billable.
- Add a description to the time entry.
- Set an hourly rate on an entry.
- Use the project's default hourly rate when an entry has no rate.
- List all time recorded for a project.
- Filter time to the current task.
- Retain the member, task, hours, rate and calculated amount.
- Delete eligible unbilled time entries.
- Protect invoiced time from later editing or deletion.
Customer & billing context
11Carry approved delivery time into invoicing without rebuilding the work record elsewhere.
- Link a project to its bill-to customer.
- Set a default hourly rate for the project.
- See total, billable, unbilled and invoiced time.
- See unbilled and invoiced amounts.
- Review time-entry counts alongside billing totals.
- Generate an invoice from unbilled billable time.
- Group invoice lines by task and hourly rate.
- Create service lines with hours and rates.
- Mark the included time entries as invoiced.
- Open the resulting invoice from the project workflow.
- Require both project-edit and invoice-create permission for invoice generation.
Progress, activity & control
15Review delivery health from current totals down to the individual change that moved the work.
- See active and archived project totals.
- See total, open, completed and overdue task counts.
- See work due this week and the overall completion rate.
- Review progress for each active project.
- Review due-soon and upcoming tasks.
- See member workload with open and overdue counts.
- Calculate project progress from completed and total tasks.
- Read a paginated project activity feed.
- Filter activity to one task.
- Retain the event, detail, actor and timestamp.
- Refresh visible project data after organisation-scoped live events.
- Prevent stale edits from silently overwriting newer task changes.
- Make completed and archived workspaces read-only until reopened or restored.
- Control project overview, creation, editing, task editing, deletion and wider access separately.
- Gate the Projects area through the organisation's enabled module access.