Ho ho ho! The latest release of Reports Module – version 1.6 – is now available for instant download. If you are an existing customer, download it using the link in your original purchase confirmation email. If you have not yet purchased it, and want to get insightful reports on your projects, people and companies, click here and buy it today.
So, What’s New?
A whole lot. Almost everything actually! We rewrote the whole system. Here’s a summary of what’s changed.
Reporting engine revamp
Reports now include checklists, tasks, milestones and tickets. Daily snapshots have higher accuracy and are in line with activeCollab’s access privilege system. The core reporting engine is robust and well tested.
Person Reports Card
Detailed People reports added
You can now keep track of your team’s activities. See detailed statistics about work activity, project assignments and compare people using the Activity Score. Assignment chart shows you items assigned to a person across projects while Hours chart shows the actual hours spent across assigned projects. You can filter people by name, role and company as well as see performance in given date range.
Company Reports added – including overview of projects for that company
Another major addition is Company Reports. You can now see project status summary for all projects of a company on one screen. Filter to see only Active Projects or All Projects.
Ability to send a reminder from within Reports module
Reporting without the ability to take action has limited use. You can now send a reminder / followup / appreciation right from Reports module. Appropriate person will automatically appear in the To field, and you can add any other user using intelligent auto complete system. You can do use this quick action system from all reports – Projects, People and Companies.
Printing improved significantly
Printing now works much better, and works for all three reporting screens. We have even included a summary at top.
Company Usage Stats
System usage statistics as part of company reports
There is no way to find out how many total, open and closed tickets you have in activeCollab. No way to find out disk space usage or number of users either. System usage statistics – available under Companies Reports – provide you detailed usage statistics about your activeCollab system. You can narrow down by client companies to see their usage patterns too.
Project status summary added to Project Reports, including forecast
Get a summary of project’s progress at a glance with the Project Status summary panel. You can see % completion, leader, group, next milestone and a pie chart indicating progress. Hovering over gives you additional details. Project’s Velocity (speed of completing items) is highlighted. And we have even added a forecast date for project completion. It studies the last few weeks’ items – opened, closed, reopened, added – and predicts a completion date.
HTTPS support
Reports module now works well over HTTPS too! Thanks to everyone’s patience on this!
Revamped interface
We are proud of user interface redesign in this release! We spent numerous hours getting the details right. We hope you will appreciate it.
Permissions and configuration for Reports from AC Admin section
You no longer need to edit PHP files to change settings. You don’t even need to go to System Roles to give permissions to view Reports. We have added a Reports Configuration option in activeCollab administration screen. You can configure permissions, date format, weights to use in activity scores and other settings from there.
Fine grained access control – rights inherited from activeCollab
Reports module now will only include those projects, companies and users that are visible to the currently logged in user. It will show reports according to access rights of current user. You can now rest assured that users won’t get access to any unauthorized information. Rights are inherited from activeCollab and you can also set permissions for the three types of reports from Reports module configuration screen in activeCollab administration section.
Possibly a hundred other small improvements!
There are many other enhancements! Lots of tweaks to make your reporting easier, faster and more productive for you. We have paid attention to the details so that you can focus on taking decisions based on these reports.
Wow, that’s a lot! Is there a demo?
We don’t have a live demo, but invite you to our short introduction video on Reports Module. It will show you all types of reports available and how you can use them. You can also see some screenshots from documentation page.
Looks good. I want to get insights on my projects too!
Sure. Go ahead, click here to purchase Reports module ($69) and download it instantly. Installation instructions are included in your download.
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Nirav – I just downloaded and installed Reports Module – awesome! This is exactly what we need – BUT (sorry) – what we specifically needed was a way to review tasks/tickets sorted by individual. While we can ask ReportsModule to show us up to 20 upcoming items – we have to scroll to actually see them in this tiny window…. and what’s worse, I had hoped at the very least that when we printed this – we’d see the full list of upcoming items…
The reason this is so important to us is we review these items in our weekly staff meetings – to cover each staff and all of their open items. Is there any way we can request to NOT SCROLL the tabbed ‘Recent Activities, Time Records and Upcoming Items’ – but rather show the full list? It’s a minor request that would make a very big difference for us, and if there were also an option to make the 20 tasks expand to ‘all’ – we’d love that also…
Thanks for your feedback Andy!
Seeing all activities for a user is in our wishlist!
The way we envisioned it was to jump to activeCollab’s assignments filter, showing all items assigned to this person. The jump will be through one outward pointing arrow to the right of the tabs, just like the arrow on the list of items.
The reason why we don’t have this in yet, is that activeCollab does not support arbitrary searches on assignments. The next version promises to have much better assignment filtering support. So we have postponed the feature till next version of activeCollab.
And yes, printing only prints what’s visible in the card.
:Nirav