Over the years, we have received many requests for porting Planning and Reports modules to HTML / JavaScript – and moving away from Flash. Today we released the first beta of HTML / JavaScript based charting in Reports Plus. This is available for activeCollab 3 only, and also only for Project Reports and Companies Reports.

Here are two screenshots…

Project Reports – click to enlarge

Company Reports – click to enlarge

Our existing users may ask – but what’s the difference between the Flash version and the HTML version? They look almost the same?

Why HTML5 / JS?

The Flash version of Reports Plus works flawlessly. It’s got excellent usability, superb charts and has been working solidly for nearly four years.

But the HTML / JS based version will allow us to do things we couldn’t with Flash. For example, we will be making these reports viewable on mobile devices in a future version. Or that we may allow embedding some of the reports on a project’s main page.

We didn’t want to lose the usability edge,  so we went great lengths to ensure the new version looks and works just like the Flash version.

Hopefully you’ll like it!

How to get your hands on this version?

Today’s release of Reports Plus includes HTML5 / JavaScript based reports. You can download it from our My Account area, or perform automatic upgrade using acGarage Plus.

Once installed, you will see another icon next to Reports Plus icon in activeCollab Reports section. Click that to access HTML version of the reports.

And once you’ve tried it, do give us your feedback! Post a comment below or contact us via our support desk!

What’s next?

Over the next few weeks, we will be releasing a few more updates to Reports Plus. These updates will cover:

• Support for People Reports in HTML5/JS
• Mobile view support
• People Leaderboard and ability to show it on project’s dashboard

So stay tuned!