#projectworkflow

Small teams thrive when tasks, timelines and collaboration sit in one place. That is exactly what Integrated Project Management helps achieve. For businesses looking to streamline daily operations, this approach keeps everything moving with better clarity and fewer delays. Commence Corporation offers a smart system that brings planning, scheduling and tracking together so projects run with less friction.

Integrated Project Management gives teams a central workspace. Every task stays visible, and updates reach the right people at the right time. This cuts confusion and keeps progress flowing. With improved coordination, teams finish work faster and make informed decisions without digging through scattered notes or emails.

Commence Corporation makes this even easier with tools that help track milestones, monitor deadlines and align team responsibilities. This brings structure to complex workflows and helps small businesses deliver projects on time. Whether managing client work, internal tasks or long timelines, the system keeps everything predictable and organized.

Teams also benefit from better accountability. Everyone knows what to do next, and project managers get a clear overview of progress. This boosts productivity and reduces missed deadlines. With an organized process and reliable updates in place, small businesses gain better control over work and deliver consistent results.

Deleted a local copy of a project you previously published to Blend? Don't worry - we got your back. You'll now see an option to Restore it from the project page!

But that's not all, you can also use this to restore your local version to the published version, but you'll need to rename the local folder to avoid a name conflict. (Adding something like "backup" to the name should work.)

Starting today, we are using a new method for naming folders for pulled projects. Previously, when you pulled a project on Blend, it would appear in your Blend folder in this format: 

blend-source-patrick-estabrook-say again

Going forward, folders names take this form:

[pulled] Say Again (from Patrick Estabrook)

We think you'll not only find this more manageable and readable, but it also makes it easier to tell pulled projects apart from your originals, especially when sorted by name in which case pulled projects get grouped on top. In addition, this change makes it much easier to track back-and-forth collaborations. When you pull a different version updated by the same user, the new folder name will be:

[pulled] Say Again (from Patrick Estabrook 2)

As we continue to enhance collaboration workflows and project file management, we still believe that producers should maintain full access and control of merging different versions, if and when they choose to do so.

Note: This change does not affect existing projects and requires no action on your part. Projects pulled before today still have the old naming convention, but can be easily updated by hitting "Re-Pull" on the source project.

So you've published or pulled a project, then made some changes to it. Now what? Well, Blend knows that those files were updated but until now didn't do a great job of showing that or helping you thorough the next step - actually publishing the update.

We're thrilled to report that we've completed overhauled this flow and so that you'll clearly see which of your projects have local (on your computer) changes so that you can easily publish them.

To see this in action, log into Blend.io and check out the navigation on the left. You should see a new option:

Click on a project to go to the detail page from which you can publish the updates. You can also select to "Ignore this update." which will remove that project from the list shown above until you make the next change at which point it will prompt you again. Its should be noted that none of these actions have any effect on your project files - you remain the master of those!