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Time Reports Plus uses your existing Time Reports and lets you summarize them by Project, Person, Date or Billing Status. You can select up to three of these parameters and can also see sub totals at each level. You can select multiple time records and batch update them right from the reports screen. There is no new icon to click or new page to go to. Time Reports Plus automagically enhances current time reporting screens – both at project level and globally.

• Learn More – story behind Time Reports, What it can do for you, Screenshot and more…
• Watch a video tutorial about time reports and making them more useful with Time Reports Plus
• Buy Now at $49

Grif – who inspired us to build this module, commented on quick tour video. And here’s what he said:

LOVE THIS !!! I have been waiting my whole ActiveCollab life for this. Sign me up.

I am really excited with this module! Look forward to your feedback.

Ever since we launched Quick Add Plus, we’ve been getting fan mails! People have said it added the missing piece to the puzzle, how it’s so intuitive and how it saved them hours of back and forth. Here’s an email I received yesterday.

From: Brian of RealisingPotential
To: Nirav Mehta
Subject:  Quick Add Plus is fantastic

Hi Nirav,

Talk about perfect timing. I came away from our management meeting today
with two of our directors saying that they found entering data, in this case
timesheet information, into AC was painful and slow. I promised that I would
look at this and purchased Quick Add Plus, installed it this evening,
created a quick sheet for them showing how it works and they are exceedingly
happy. This is a great add on and I would encourage all of your users to
give it a try, at $27 it is an absolute bargain!!

Best regards,
Brian

I sent a thank you email to him and here’s Brian’s reply after an hour.

Hi Nirav,

Happy to provide a testimony as this has saved me a lot of time,
even in the past few hours it has more than paid for itself. 
We are just restructuring our project templates and project
structures now that we have been playing with it for a few
months, the Planning Module is fantastic and the only thing
that I am missing tonight is one more indent to cover the
project definitions that I am working through but I can
overcome this :-)

Best regards,
Brian

I am very glad our products are saving you time and energy. That’s really our intention and it gives me joy to hear such stories 😉

Working on better time reports

So while we save you hours by making activeCollab more efficient, we are also working on an enhancements to Time Reports that will make it easier to review the time your team is tracking. Time Reports Plus will allow grouping time records by Project, Users, Date and Billable Status. You will be able to see a nested view of these, and can also quickly update their status / move them to trash!

Malay Ladu from our team is working on getting this to feature complete. We will then apply any finishing touches, prepare a demo video and post it for you guys!

Lot of other interesting things happening…

There is tons of things happening on my side. I am actually thrilled and will share more updates as we keep checking off items from our assignments list!

Wish you another productive day!

We are launching another module in our “Plus” series today – Quick Add Plus. Quick Add Plus makes adding plan items and time records a breeze. It’s super useful and you will wonder how you could live without it once you use it.

Hop over to Quick Add Plus page to read how you can discover a new level of productivity and watch the product video to see how it can help you and your team.

Click here to learn more.

We are so busy working on our products and taking care of customers that I forgot posting an update about our product updates here! Here are some quick updates.

• Planning Module 1.5.1 is out. Fixes a timeline related problem. It’s a recommended upgrade if you are still on 1.4 range.
• Reports Module 1.7.1 is out. Fixes a few issues with permissions. Recommended upgrade.
• Released Gravatar support 1.1. This is a compatibility release for activeCollab 2.3.2
• All our products are now compatible with activeCollab 2.3.2 release.
• Launched a new client section. Single place from where you can download all your purchases.

What are we working on these days? Some big ticket items on our current work list are:

• Overhauling acGarage so that you don’t need to share your FTP details with us. I think this is going to be a major improvement, but will share details once I have a test version.
• Pigeon work is slow for now, sorting out some technology decisions.
• Building activeCollab 101 online course. Again, more on this in a few weeks!
• Upgrades to PlannerX – multi user support, integration with OAuth system and feature enhancements

Our weekdays are busy and weekends are busier… I am keeping my fingers crossed!

Quick Test: Which image can you relate to more? A or B?

It’s always more satisfying to talk with people with faces. When you can put a face to a name, you suddenly feel related. This connection helps you collaborate better.

I have worked on hundreds of projects using activeCollab, Basecamp and other solutions. Many times I have not even met the client in person. Seeing their face just makes it so much more comfortable when I next call / email them.

activeCollab allows users to upload an avatar image, but most clients won’t bother doing it. This means you will see those dull, gray default avatar icons while you work with them on your projects.

Enter acHack – Gravatar. This hack will pull avatar image from Gravatar if none found on activeCollab. It’s a little hack that makes a lot of difference.

Click here to learn more about this hack.

Tickets is probably the most used aspect of activeCollab. Our latest offering – Tickets Plus – adds loads of productivity enhancements to Tickets module.

Benefits:

• Add Estimates and Start dates to tickets
• Track status of the ticket via Workflow Statuses – new, reopened, feedback, acknowledged, assigned, resolved, closed.
• Quick Update a ticket – change status and assign to a person
• Icons for ticket categories – makes it easier to review them at a glance
• Quickly jump to a ticket by entering its ID
• Enhanced ticket listing view – adds workflow status, one click description of the ticket, due date and more…
• Sort tickets list easily
• Quickly update status of tickets via batch update
• Track changes to a ticket better with full change log
• Jump to ticket edit screen right from tickets listing – save time
• Use estimates, start dates and statuses in template projects – they will all adapt to the new project’s dates

These hacks were available exclusively to Planning Module customers for over a year and we are now making them available to everyone. The hacks are available at $49 now.

Learn more, watch screenshots and buy this product from here.

We just released our latest product – Inline Pagination (for comments in activeCollab).

This module allows you to see comments from next page on current page for discussions, tickets, pages and files. You can now see all comments on single page. Quickly review them, make connections between what people said and take decisions. No back and forth / page reloads required.

This nifty little productivity enhancer will surely impress your team and client! We can promise that.

Learn more, watch a quick tour video and buy this product from here.

Here’s how Pigeon 0.1 looks.

Pigeon v0.1

Pigeon is currently in development and available only to our existing clients.

We are building a new product. We are calling it Pigeon and here’s an early mockup.

The product will be available exclusively to our current customers (only 100 on first-come basis) before official launch.

Ok, so I just sent out an email announcement about the latest release of Planning module – version 1.4. This update provides a lot of long pending (and eagerly awaited) features and fixes many issues. we strongly recommend all customers to upgrade. And if you haven’t bought Planning module yet, you should get it right away!

Enhancements:

• Print from Outline and Card views
• Full localization support. You can now even change names for Tickets, Milestones, Tasks etc in Outline / Card view
• Works with activeCollab Small Biz edition too
• Updated icons – added colors! Let us know how you like this!
  
• Tickets listing in AC can now show details with single click, assignees, due dates along with category icon, workflow status and a quick Edit link. Thanks to Frederik (Dwarf), mphillips, MarkOs, bean_nwfc and other contributors on activeCollab forum post
  
• Project selector now longer shows up at start up. Only when you click “Open”.
• Increased height of Project selector for readability with long list
• Alert boxes now show up near the top, making them easier to find
• Enhanced error checking during save and notification sending
• Created new project from template now advances Start dates too.
• Completed or Inactive projects too can be edited with Planning module now.
• Merged hacks and Planning module files for easier installation
• Other small fixes and performance improvements

Issues Fixed:

• Quick Update completes / reopens ticket correctly now
• Error on line 1066 in Planning class. Solved.
• Administrators did not get access to Planning module on fresh install.
• HTTPS gives error on IE7/8
• Very slow to load projects’ list
• Set mode to opaque, for pop ups to show correctly over Planning module
• Changing only Priority for tasks did not save
• Clearing a field deleted item in Outline view.

We plan to update our documentation and create some more tutorial videos for Planning module in near future. Will keep you posted!

And hey, we want to hear your feedback on this version. Please try it out and let us know your comments!

Thanks a ton!