Two years ago Apps Magnet offered two modules and two hacks. Today, we have 9 modules, 5 hacks. A new module (assignments plus) is nearly complete and we’ll have another module for our desktop/mobile client for activeCollab.

We keep improving our products. New versions add features, solve bugs and reduce our support requests as well. And we’d love for our customers to use the latest versions of all our software.

So I felt if there was an automated system to check for latest versions of activeCollab and installed modules, it would come in handy for our customers.

At the same time, we’ve been running acGarage for almost two years as well. acGarage is our expert service where Apps Magnet staff upgrade your activeCollab installation to the latest versions as and when they are available. acGarage also included all our modules (except Planning, Reports and Communications). It’s a superb value for money, and acGarage customers are extremely happy with the service.

Not everyone has signed up for acGarage though! But everyone wants to keep their systems up to date – as much as possible!

So here’s a gift for you!

acGarage module

acGarage module will automatically check and notify you of available updates to activeCollab and other installed modules. And, it’s a free download for you!

acGarage System Status Screen - core updates, module updates and new modules available

Click here to learn more and download acGarage module…

We hope this helps you maintain your activeCollab setup better. Hope it saves you time and energy that you can spend on something important.

What happens to existing acGarage customers?

All existing customers will continue to receive managed updates from Apps Magnet team. We plan to migrate current acGarage services as “acGarage Pro”, and when we do that, you will be migrated to that as well. You won’t be at any loss – we will ensure that.

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We just released Tickets Plus 1.5.4. This is a small bug fix release.

Fixes:

• “Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated” in PHP 5.3. Fixed. Thanks to Philip for reporting this issue.
• Display pagination header twice in aC 2.3.4. Fixed. Thanks to Jutin, csBox for reporting this issue.

You can download the latest version from our members area as usual.

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.