Comments on: Concept Preview – Mizen – do less, get more done – for activeCollab

By: Apps Magnet

Apps Magnet — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 17:28:25 +0000

When you click on Mizen link, it should show you a list of your current Assignment Filters. Clicking on one takes you to the actual tasks list. If you do not already have them, create a couple of Assignment filters and then check what shows up in Mizen.

By: Laura B

Laura B — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 22:15:10 +0000

I seem to have a new Mizen link in the left nav column of AC since my last update, but it brings up an empty window with just the heading “Mizen” at the top???

By: Neil Duddridge

Neil Duddridge — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:23:34 +0000

Looks great. We have both clients and contractors requesting an ‘easier’ interface.

Would prefer as a separate module

By: Rachel C

Rachel C — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 04:51:50 +0000

I hear ya. I would love to have a way to drag items into a “this is what I want to work on today” list. The start dates and due dates are only part of the challenge in scheduling. Instead, I end up with a lot of new open tabs in my browser to try to keep track of the items that I want to keep on my to-do list.

By: Dale Youngman

Dale Youngman — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 22:18:11 +0000

Reporting what needs to be done next is a current frustration with AC. Assembling the various tasks and having it available for each employee to view would be awesome. Being able to sort the list manually to group related tasks from various projects would also be good. It would be come a to-do list.
I want to use the workflow in category tags to create a to-do list from tasks. The idea is the person responsible for a step changes the next one to good-to-go when they complete theirs. There is some frustration with permissions in the reporting.
We use both planning and tasks plus. This sounds like it is part of the tasks enhancement – would it work without tasks plus?
The video didn’t communicate.

By: Evan McDaniel

Evan McDaniel — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 15:37:50 +0000

Looks quite promising, though I agree that a much more in-depth preview would be needed to provide any valuable feedback.

Even better, a demo version we could play around with…

By: Apps Magnet

Apps Magnet — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:14:41 +0000

Thank you for your inputs Rachel.. It’s certainly cases like yours that we are trying to solve.

Will keep you posted..

By: Rachel C

Rachel C — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 12:55:54 +0000

That sounds good. I spend so much time trying to create filters to make lists for various ways to manage the flow of tasks. Then I spend time trying to go through the items created by my clients waiting for each item to load.

I most often work using the little “eye” preview feature to open a task from a list in a dialog so I don’t leave my list view, but the load times using AC when switching between items is very laggy. It takes 5 to 7 seconds sometimes to load a page (task). I hate staring at that “loading” popup all the time.

A page that looks like an email program and caches your filtered list so you can move quickly between items sounds faster and the filtering sounds more robust than the few ways you can filter in AC.

I use Tasks Plus, so if you added it there that would be great but I don’t mind supporting further development by paying for it as a separate module.

By: Apps Magnet

Apps Magnet — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 05:02:11 +0000

Email would be the perfect analogy… I’m so dumb for missing it…

And yes, we do intend to reduce the load time with caching and frequent polling for updates…

By: Rachel C

Rachel C — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 04:25:08 +0000

I see, so its sort of like using an email program with the list of messages on the left panel and the reading pane on the right panel for you to work in. That would be a lot faster than switching pages between projects.

One of my bigger frustrations with AC is the time I spend looking at the “Loading” screen at the top.

Would you have some sort of caching going on with all of the assignments that show up in the filtered list on the left so that it’s quicker to switch between tasks?