Problems with Google Docs

After finishing up some work on the Easy Export feature in schedule-my-employees.com, I did some more testing, sending schedules to Google Docs and ran into a couple problems.

First off, every schedule sent never showed up in Google Docs. After poking around for a few minutes, I discovered that Google had changed my assigned import e-mail address with no warning or notification of any kind. No too user friendly. So after updating to the new address assigned to my Google Docs account, small schedules (2 employees) started showing up.

Now for what appears to be an even bigger problem with Google Docs. No matter what I do, bigger schedules (26 employees) never show up in Google Docs. I know schedule-my-employees.com is working because I send a copy to a Yahoo e-mail account and that works every time.

So, while Google Docs looks like a great small business tool, it would seem it suffers from some serious issues. Not sure if Google is blocking the bigger schedules and changing import addresses by design, oversight or some kind of bug, but it leaves me hesitant to recommend Google Docs to my users. When users run into problems, I would have assume they would lay blame on schedule-my-employees.com rather then the much better known Google.com.

Happy Scheduling,

schedule-my-employees.com