Wanted to let everyone know that all our products are now compatible with activeCollab 2.3.4.

We updated four products for compatibility, the others will work without a change.

Products we’ve updated:

• Planning Module (version 1.7.3)
• Tickets Plus Module (version 1.5.3 – this also adds useful new features)
• Confidential Items Module (version 1.3.2)
• acHack – Gravatar (version 1.3.1)

All other products are already compatible with activeCollab 2.3.4

Customers can download these updates from our members area.

Release Notes

Planning Module v1.7.3

• activeCollab v2.3.4 compatibility version
• Items created by people who can’t see private objects will be normal now

Tickets Plus Module v1.5.3

Enhancements:

• activeCollab v2.3.4 compatibility added
• Can now filter tickets based on user – creator, assignee, responsible. (thanks to Dale Daguro of mercola.com for sponsoring initial work on this)
• Quickly update status and responsible person while adding a comment
• Now you can set the default sorting option for tickets list (thanks for your suggestion Damien)

Fixes:

• Status update notification email no longer goes to user who’s making the change
• Even if workflow status was not changed during an edit operation, it was showing in Recent Activities. Fixed.

Confidential Items Module v1.3.2

• activeCollab v2.3.4 compatibility version

acHack – Gravatar v1.3.1

• activeCollab v2.3.4 compatibility version

Enjoy!

activeCollab team released version 2.3.4 earlier this week. Changes in this version require updating some of our products. We are working on this and will announce updates in near future.

We released an update to Quick Add Plus module today. It’s a minor update for customers using both Quick Add Plus and Confidential Items Module together.

Fixes:

Confidential items did not show in parent selection drop down while adding task / time record. Fixed.

As always, you can download the latest update from our members area.

Today, we released minor updates to Planning, Reports and Time Reports Plus modules.

Here’s what has changed:

Planning Module

Fixed the unrecognized tag item_priority issue in printing the plan.

Reports Module

Will install even if Tickets Master Categories don’t exist.

Time Reports Plus Module

• Fixed Mass update required page reload to come back to Time Reports Plus
• Fix for incorrect user / project URL in time records

As usual, you can download these updates from our members area.

As an organization grows, it is very important to communicate and share its culture with new employees. Startups in particular often experience very rapid growth and need to make sure they keep their core values intact. To do this, you must keep the following questions in mind:

1. Who are we?
2. What are we doing here?
3. Why do we do it better than anyone else?
4. What makes us special?
5. What do we value?

Make sure that all current employees know the answers and that there is a mechanism in place to educate new employees. Whether it is a meeting with a member of the executive team or a discussion with the local team members, be sure to discuss your culture openly and with the seriousness that it deserves.

from Under Pressure And On Time, a classic on developing great teams and world-class software

We are on an update spree!

This week, we updated four products.

Incremental Backup Module

• Database backups can work even with low RAM now
• Incremental backups will not remove the backup folder even on errors, this will help resume faster
• Backup will also backup “brand” folder – saving your brand images
• Additional logging of the backup process when debug level is 2

acHack – Copy Pages and Discussions with Project

• Copied Pages and Discussions will be associated with copied Milestones as per their association in the original project

Quick Add Plus

• Compatibility release. Works with activeCollab 2.3.3. Will work with older versions as well.

acHack – Gravatar

• Compatibility release. Works with activeCollab 2.3.3. Will work with older versions as well.

All customers with valid support / upgrade license can download these updates from our clients’ area.

Thank you for your support!

The Problems

activeCollab shows all contact information users have entered to everyone who’s working with them on a project. But you do not always want contact information visible!

You have invested lot of money and time into activeCollab. You want your team and clients to use it. But they don’t use activeCollab and fall back on using email and instant messaging. Simply because they can see those contact details right within activeCollab.

You have people from multiple companies collaborating on a project. These could be your clients, suppliers, team members, sub contractors or other partners. These are your contacts. You do not want them to bypass you and contact each other directly. You do not even want them to know everyone’s email addresses – you don’t know who would start spamming them…

An employee is no longer working full time with you. She was on a project, and is still helping you with it. She may even work on future projects with you. She prefers using her personal email for communication now. But you don’t want to expose a “@gmail.com” address to your client – raising their suspicion.

The Solution

Our latest product – Hide People module solves these problems by hiding People icon in toolbar and People tab in a project from users without your explicit permission. Not just contact details, the complete people list will be hidden.

Learn more about Hide People module here.

People keep asking me about starting their own businesses. They have an idea, see its potential, but don’t know how to get started.

It takes four skills to be successful in business. Every successful entrepreneur has them, and I have personally applied them in my own businesses with great success. Nobody taught them to me when I started out 12 years ago. But I am going to show them to you. Today, I am going to reveal these four essential skills for business success. And I am even going to share practical actions you can take to master these skills.

This video was pending in the Second Anniversary series, and I am glad I finally completed it! Do let me know how you like it!

Click on the video still below to watch the video, download the transcript and participate in the conversation!

4 Essential Skills For Entrepreneurial Success - Video

Our popular Communications module for activeCollab now reaches version 1.3.

This is a minor release overall, but important one as well. Here’s what has changed.

Enhancements:

You can now set interval between two items in dashboard carousel from admin. Default is 2.5 seconds, but you can change that to anything that suits you. This was our top requested feature and we are glad we have it for you now!

Fixed:

• New Message notifications not working in some browsers. Fixed.
• Quickly pressing enter twice when sending new message duplicated it. Fixed.
• Some items visible to people who do not have access to them. Fixed.