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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
We just released Reports Module 1.8.1. This fixes an issue with Recent Activity list not showing in People reports when you are using a non-English language with activeCollab.
Suggested upgrade for people you use multiple languages with activeCollab.
Planning Module is our most loved, most recommended, best selling product. 892 clients and getting stronger every day!
Top feature requests for Planning Module are better printing, editable Gantt charts, resource management and task dependencies. Now these are major items and while we are putting forces behind them, I wanted to get one release out that fixes some odd issues and adds subtle, but very useful enhancements.
So we released Planning Module 1.7 today. Here’s list of all changes.
Friendly and Numeric Hour Formats
Finely Crafted Permissions in Planning Module
You can download the latest version from our members area. If your annual support / upgrades plan has expired, you can renew from within the members area to get access to the latest version.
What do you think about the latest version of Planning Module? How have you been using it? What would you like to see in future? Post your comments here. We are listening!
Reports module was our first activeCollab module. It’s been hugely beneficial to 692 organizations that have adopted it so far. It’s a very solid product and helps clients stay on top of their projects.
Because it is so useful, people want to use it more and more. So when people realize that Reports module updates its data every day, they sometimes get disappointed. Reports module gathers data for every week in one slot, much like an iteration, and takes a snapshot via the daily scheduled task within activeCollab.
Now there are two reasons to update reports daily:
But many clients told us that they would like to get up to the minute reports. The latest 1.8 release of Reports module will please them! We have added a “force update on access” option in admin. Turn it on and Reports data will be updated every time someone accesses Reports. This may take a while if you have lot of updates but will get you latest burn down, hour logs and work summaries.
Update Reporting Data On Every Access
Here’s a list of all changes in this version.
Enhancements:
All Dates in Smart Date Selector
Added “All Dates” to the smart date selector.
Bug Fixes:
Now there is something else that deserves some mention here.
We got a few feature requests that we did not include. Here are those requests and why we have not included them.
The argument was that it is items under milestones that contribute to project’s current plan. The project as it stands today is defined with milestones. So completing these items, and tracking their burn down is most important. Client also suggested keeping this as a per project option.
We did not do this because we believer items without a milestone are equally important for a project. We are interested in completing the whole project, not just a few milestones. Most projects slack in the last 10%. Items lingering without a milestone slow the project down. They are the items nobody wants to do. They are the items that are merely “wishes” and not “requirements”. They are the items that need to be dealt with – processed, deleted or deferred.
Unless they are visible, they will not be dealt with. So we decided to keep them around.
Client mentioned that Reports module includes Pages / Discussions in the burn down chart and that should not be the case. Pages or Discussions can’t be completed, so they should not be included in Burn Down.
And that’s right. Pages or Discussions can’t be completed (OK, Pages can be archived and Discussions can be Locked). And the Burn Down should only include anything that’s completable.
Fact is Reports module already works like that. Burn Down will only include items that can be completed. So it does not include Pages / Discussions. But it does include Tasks attached with Pages. Because they are work items too. activeCollab too works in the same way.
One client mentioned that they don’t use time tracking, hence would like to remove the Hours Chart from Reports module.
This is a good reason actually. We believe in reducing clutter and if one is not using time tracking or estimates, removing the Hours Chart makes sense.
But hours are used in a lot of places. Certainly on the project reports, but also on the people reports, in people’s activity scores, and also in company reports. Removing hours chart wouldn’t be sufficient. We will have to remove everything that is depended on time records. This is a big change, so we have deferred it. If there is enough demand for it, we will build it! 
Many clients have asked to show project specific categories in Work Summary chart.
This is useful, but easier said than done. Work Summary chart shows a trend of open / completed items in different categories over a period of time. Project categories can change any time. So we need a consistent reference point to show the trend. Which is why we use Master Categories to plot the Work Summary chart. Everything that does not fall under any Master Categories, goes to Others.
Similarly, a client said they don’t use the “Others” category so it should be removed.
Unfortunately, it can’t be removed since it’s the “catchall” category.
You can download the latest version from our members area. If your annual support / upgrades plan has expired, you can renew from within the members area to get access to the latest version.
What do you think about the latest version of Reports Module? How have you been using it? What would you like to see in future? Post your comments here. We are listening!
Confidential Items module for activeCollab v1.3 is now available.
This is a compatibility update. Confidential Items now show up correctly in File Attachments, Recent Activity, Assignments and Time Reports. We also fixed an issue with file uploads.
Our customers have been asking for these features for a while. We were waiting to see if activeCollab 3.0 was coming soon. Because then we could update according to the new structure. But since activeCollab 3.0 is taking longer than anticipated, we thought of pushing an update that provides these often requested features.
And if you haven’t yet read the post about creating confidential global documents, you can read it here.
We recommend you upgrade and look forward to hear your feedback!
As usual, customers can download the latest release from our members area.
We just released an update to Time Reports Plus. It packs even more power and I believe everyone should take advantage of it
All customers can download the latest version from our member’s area.
I just released Tickets Plus version 1.3 and Planning Module version 1.6.1. Both are important bug fix releases. I recommend you upgrade – especially if you did not upgrade to Tickets Plus 1.2 or Planning 1.6 last time.
Here’s a list of fixes for your reference.
Tickets Plus Module v1.3
Planning module v1.6.1
Thank you for your continued support and awesome participation in the Get Satisfaction community
Wishing you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Regards,
Nirav Mehta and Apps Magnet Crew
PS: I am working on another product – an add-on for the popular WP e-Commerce plugin for WordPress. Just like Planning Module, it can boost productivity by 10X. We have reached version 0.5 there, and I just opened first cut of the sales page today. You may want to check it out and give me feedback: http://www.storeapps.org/
PS2: Thanks again!
Upgrading to Planning Module 1.6 (or Tickets Plus 1.2+) requires some extra work – apart from the standard “upload the ‘for-upload’ folder and install module from admin” procedure. Since we have decoupled Planning module and Tickets Plus, and that Tickets Plus is now a module, we need to bring the installation back to a cleaner state before uploading Planning module / Tickets Plus files.
Here’s what needs to be done:
activecollab/application/modules/planning folder from the server.config/tickets_plus_config.php file as well.activecollab/application/modules/tickets/helpers folder: function.object_category_icon.php, function.select_assignees_box.php, function.select_box_redirect.php, function.select_workflow_status.phpfor-upload folders from Planning and Tickets Plus module .zip files.compile and cache folders from your server via FTP / SSH.You may see Smarty Error and Fatal error: Call to undefined method Tickets::getWorkflowStatuses(). They may come from a file in Planning or Tickets module. Both can be resolved if you follow above instructions.
Please note that we only support activeCollab 2.3.2+ now. Our products may work with earlier versions (they generally do) but we won’t be able to support activeCollab compatibility issues if any.
We don’t think so. This undefined method problem is the only one we anticipate. If you notice any other issues, please report them on our support forums.
tickets_plus_config.php. How do I apply them again?Copy over planning_config.php from activecollab/application/modules/planning (if you are using Planning module only) or tickets_plus_config.php from activecollab/application/modules/tickets_plus as config/tickets_plus_config.php. Now make changes to this file. Your updates will be used by both Planning and Tickets Plus modules.
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