December 23, 2012

Ho ho ho ho!!!

Malay decided to become your Santa this year! And he’s brought you some gifts!!

Plus module updates…

Here’s the chronological list of module updates for December 2012…

Chronograph v3.0.1 [2012/12/06]
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Enhancements:
- Chronograph popup window opens on a click.
- Remove chronograph related data on disable/unistall of a module.

Fixes:
- Fix "call-time pass-by-reference" error.
- Timer value were display incorrectly.

Tasks Plus v3.2.4 [2012/12/03]
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Fixes:
- Added custom field support.
- Compatibility with activeCollab 3.2.3+
- Kanban print button duplicated.

Known issue:
- Kanban print button doesn't display in quick view.

Confidential Items 3.0.3 [2012/12/13]
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Fixes:
- Compatible with aC 3.2.4
- Email Notifications were not being sent for confidential items.

Planning module for activeCollab 3.1.4 [2012/12/17]
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Fixes:
- Actual hours were not displayed.
- Task was not complete/reopen if Tasks Plus module is loaded.

Reports Plus 3.2.1 [2012/12/21]
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Enhancements:
+ Added "People Report" in People Section
+ Added animation in charts.
+ Removed "Time and Expense Tracking" module dependency.
+ Date Formate settings applies in HTML version

Fixes:
- Arranged chart legends horizontally.
- Fixed tooltip flickering issue in FireFox.

Time Reports Plus v3.3.4 [2012/12/21]
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Enhancements: 
+ Show estimate in the report
+ Added quick view support for task

Hide People 3.1 [2012/12/06]
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Fixes:
- People icon doesn't display even user has permission to manage company people
- Compatibility with activeCollab 3.2.4

acGarage Plus 3.4.1 [2012/12/24]
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Enhancements:
+ Added SFTP support
+ Displays expired products in separate section

Fix:
- Was not able to upgrade products (Forbidden issue)

Enjoy!!

December 7, 2012

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…

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!

November 30, 2012

We just released updates to four modules – these releases are primarily to make them compatible with activeCollab 3.2.4 (3.2.3+ technically!)

• Assignments Plus
• Time Reports Plus
• Notifications Plus
• Communications

We will be releasing an update for Tasks Plus on Monday – 3rd December – and it will have support for Custom Fields as well!

You can download the updates from our My Account area.

You may want to use acGarage Lite or Plus to stay up to date on new releases!

November 9, 2012

We released two new modules yesterday – Chronograph and POP3 Authentication.

Chronograph: time tracking for activeCollab simplified

Ok, Chronograph is not technically a new module. It’s been on our roadmap for a long time, and even available for purchase pre-release. We finally made the first release yesterday!

Chronograph makes time tracking a piece of cake! You no longer have to guess how much time you worked on a task. You don’t even need to click around and locate the task within activeCollab to log time. Chronograph sits in the activeCollab status bar and is absolutely easy to use. We actually spent all this time redesigning Chronograph module such that it makes time tracking simpler, not tedious!

 

Learn more about Chronograph module →

POP3 Authentication: Simplest way to bring colleagues to activeCollab

Remembering another password for activeCollab can be troublesome. Creating new user accounts everytime someone joins your team is time consuming. POP3 Authentication module allows users to login to activeCollab with the same password they use to check their email! And everyone is going to remember that! Plus, your email server is already going to be integrated with LDAP or any other central authentication system you use. You may also have password policies implemented on your email server.

POP3 Authentication benefits from all of that and provides a seamless login / onboarding experience for your employees…

And yes, you can define what domains should use POP3 auth – so your clients won’t start hitting your mail servers!!

It’s quite nifty actually…

Learn more about POP3 Auth →

Diwali Vacation at Apps Magnet

Apps Magnet is based in Mumbai, India. And we will be on a brief vacation during Diwali days – 11th November to 14th November. Our response time during this period will be longer because we’d be lighting diyas and firecrackers with our families. Plus eating sweets and Diwali special delicacies.

We wish you the best festivities!

Product Updates

We’ve released a lot of product updates recently. We have many products plus we are always improving them. On top of that, activeCollab updates come frequently too. Plus we don’t really know what version of the product or activeCollab a user is using. It would be overwhelming for users if we sent emails / blogged about all updates!!

Recently, activeCollab 3.1.18 was released and Confidential Items module was not compatible with new code. We released an update quickly, but some users experienced troubles logging into activeCollab due to the incompatibility. Such critical issues are rare, but if customers knew of product updates, they can choose to upgrade whenever they feel like.

That’s why we strongly recommend using our free acGarage Lite to get product update notifications within activeCollab. You can also get automatic upgrades and a whole lot of other benefits with acGarage Plus if you wish.

New Tutorial Videos

We’ve added a public video about batch update of time records using Time Reports Plus here. Plus an exclusive video for Inner Circle customers on invoicing with Time Reports Plus.

 

Here’s to better projects!!

October 19, 2012

Woo hoo!!!

acGarage Plus can now backup your activeCollab 3 data to the cloud! The latest – 3.3 version – adds support for Amazon Simple Storage System – S3. This means you can now backup your activeCollab database and all files / attachments to a safe third party cloud location!

This is the second major addition to acGarage Plus this month. We release module auto upgrades last week and will add another important feature next week.

Remember, acGarage Plus price will go up to $99 next week. So take advantage of the lower, $79 while it lasts!

October 16, 2012

Confidential Items module for activeCollab fills a unique need – an additional level of security for items in activeCollab. There are many cases where you want a task or discussion or file to be visible only to specific people – not necessarily people who have access to private items, but anyone from the team on a specific project.

This is a very popular module for activeCollab 2 and we’ve been trying to port it to activeCollab 3 for many months. We did not want to do any core hacks and wanted to keep things simple and clean. We tried a number of alternatives, but were not happy with the results. But finally we cracked it!

Click here to learn more, read the current limitations and buy Confidential Items module for activeCollab 3.

October 16, 2012

Two product updates for today:

WHMCS Connector now supports Single Sign On. Users logged into activeCollab can get a WHMCS link on main left menu. Clicking on the link will automatically log them into WHMCS (without entering username / password) and take them to WHMCS.

BTW, if you use Quick Links module, you can even create a link that’s visible only to particular user roles.

Lightbox is updated to be compatible with activeCollab 3.1.15.

Both downloads are available under My Account area. If you use acGarage Plus, you can automatically update them as well.

 

September 28, 2012

We released 7 product updates today!! We are quickly improving our activeCollab 3 modules so that they let you work more efficiently.

Full changelogs follow:

Planning v3.1.3

Enhancements:
+ Added print support for Outline

Fixes:
- Start on date not saving while creating a new task
- Tasks were not included in CSV Export
- Default label not set after creating a task
- Tasks were reopened automatically
- Not able to scroll down to end of the plan

Lightbox v3.0.3

Fixes:
- Was not working with non latin characters

Tasks Plus v3.2.1

Enhancements:
+ Added priority indicator on tasks list
+ Automatically set position of a task, don't wait for reorder action.

Time Reports Plus v3.2.1

Enhancements:
+ Now invoice can be generated from Project level
+ Summarize by billable status
+ Summarize by project category
+ Summarize by task category

Fixes:
- Navigation between projects was not working properly when no time was tracked

Assignments Plus v3.1.1

Enhancements: 
+ Added "Group by Priority" option

Fixes:
- Assignments were not sorted correctly when grouped by dates
- "Failed to execute filter" error when Assignments were grouped by Milestone

Quick Links v3.0.1

Enhancement:
+ Restrict access to quick links by roles - you can now select which roles will
  see a quick link from Quick Links admin

Hide People v3.0.3

Enhancements:
+ Hide "Manage People on this project list" link and remove project people list 
  from project overview page

As usual, you can download the latest updates from our My Account area. We also recommend using acGarage Lite or acGarage Plus to be notified within activeCollab for available updates.

September 13, 2012

We released updates for Tasks Plus and Assignments Plus modules for activeCollab 3. Both of them bring a lot of enhancements – most of which you asked for!

Tasks Plus v3.2

The biggest addition to this release of Tasks Plus is workflow rule support for Sub Tasks.. Your workflow labels rules for Tasks now also apply to Sub Tasks. So sub tasks automatically close / open based on those labels too!

Enhancements:
+ Subtasks too adhere to Task Workflow rules ! And automatically 
  close / reopen.
+ Added ability to open a Task in a new window from the task list 
  (click on the outward pointing arrow on right)
+ Email notifications are now triggered when a task is reassigned
+ Labels are sorted by workflow position in admin panel now

Fixes:
- Adding new workflow label did not set positions correctly. Fixed.

Assignments Plus v3.1

Assignments Plus was only accessible to people with Project Management (and above) privileges so far – because it was visible only in the “Reports and Filters” screen. But now you can let everyone in your team benefit from the power of assignments plus by creating a homescreen tab for “Assignment Plus Filters”. You can even select a filter to apply.

Here’s the full changelog:

Enhancements:
+ Added ability to export assignments in HTML and CSV format
  (CSV format does not show grouping yet…)
+ Added ability to print assignments
+ You can now add Assignments Plus filters as a Homescreen Tab and use them 
  even for people who don't have access to Reports & Filters section

Fixes:
- Database query error about "start_on" field not being present
- "Failed to execute query" error when grouping by milestone.
- Some assignments were missing from the results
- Assignment labels did not display correctly

You can download the latest updates from our “My Account” section.

September 12, 2012

Communications module debuts on aC3

Today we released the first version of Communications module for activeCollab 3. Communications module provides instant live chat rooms and discussions. You can create such communications at global level or for a specific project – and can even limit them to specific people.

The aC3 edition is in beta currently. Final version will be released in near future based on user feedback.

Major Improvements in Time Reports Plus

Today’s Time Reports Plus 3.2 version adds mass update for job types / billable status, printable time reports, group level selection checkboxes and more!

Here’s the full change log:

Enhancements:
+ Time reports are now available at project level too! Just like aC2!
+ Selection checkboxes at group level - to select all children with one click
+ Print Time Reports
+ New sidebar for project overview to see time tracked by users
+ New in mass update: Change billable status labels of selected time records
+ New in mass update: Change job type of selected time records

Fixes:
- Total hours were not displaying correctly when number formatting included ","
- HTML export did not work correctly with non latin characters

activeCollab 3.1.12 compatibility for Search Plus

We are also releasing Search Plus v3.0.1 today. This makes it compatible with activeCollab 3.1.12.

Here’s the full change log:

activeCollab 3.1.12 compatible version.

Fixes:
- Show only one Todo list in search result