Before now, Float would calculate utilization based on the amount of scheduled or unscheduled hours; but now we’ve refreshed the “date range insights” feature with the addition of seeing utilization by percentage at a specific period of time for your team!

To show utilization by %, select a date range from the drop down within the Schedule or by clicking and dragging the timeline to highlight the dates you want.

Watch this video explainer

You can also use date range insights on the Project Plan view to see what % of time each team member is allocated to across projects!

For example, imagine a scenario where your new client has bought 50% of your Senior Designer’s time across 4 weeks. One day, you log into Float and notice they’re at 40% utilization, this gives you the insights and flexibility to add additional allocations — making up for the 10% shortfall.

With this, you can see at a glance which projects you are under or over servicing, helping you make better planning and resourcing decisions.

Switch to date range insights by % now

We’ve improved how filters appear in Float 🎉 —so now, you can filter by a wider range of options based on categories such as role, person, client, project, phase, status, and much more.

Simply navigate to the category you want to filter by and choose from a list of options. This change improves the search bar UX by creating a visual separation between tags and filters. As much as we love color, we wanted to reduce visual noise and prioritize consistency. We've surprised ourselves at how much faster it's made the search experience.

This enhancement is designed to help you focus on the elements most important to your people planning and resource management needs. Try it out!

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The Single Project report has improved. Now, you only see this view when one Project is selected, making it easier to interpret Reports, providing details specific to a single project including:

With this latest update, you can now:

• Visualize report data for an entire project, or project to date
• Monitor the project and phase budgets
• Track logged hours if your team uses Time Tracking
• Drill down on each project phase

To learn more, check out this detailed support article.

Try it for yourself!

We’ve been listening to feedback on how customers use the Float API to interact with team data and supercharge project workflows.

Using the Float API requires some tech know-how, but if you can access the resources 😉 tailoring your workflows can cut down on error-prone repetitive tasks, which results in happier planners!

Our latest update focuses on how projects are set up and managed in Float via the API. Now, you can:

Create and manage project tasks directly on projects or phases
This allows you to bulk set up projects with tasks you need quickly. Plus, it shows which tasks are used on a project, so you can tidy up unused ones and keep task lists organized.

Filter your allocations, logged time, time offs, projects & phases lists by a modified_since date or timestamp
Extract only what’s changed since the last time you ran a query. 👌

Automatically see the calculated start and end dates of all projects in the response from projects
Now you can easily view the length of your projects or use the data in other endpoints like /reports/projects to ensure you're capturing the full project duration.

Manage your project team members even after the project is created
This includes setting, adding, and deleting team members with their hourly rates. The syntax for this is available in the API docs.

Float's customer API is intended to make simple CRUD operations for schedule data easy and accessible. We're always looking for ways to improve and encourage you to join our Float community in Slack to let us know your feedback! We also require any teams using the Float API to add your technical contact details in the user-agent header so that we can keep you updated of any changes.