Reports Module is one of the most successful activeCollab related products developed outside A51. Creators of the reports Module are Nirav Mehta and his crew from the AppsMagnet company.
As the name it self refers to, this module’s basic purpose is to generate different kinds of reports based on the data you already have in your activeCollab.
After buying (for the price of $69) and installing (it’s simple, just follow the instructions from readme.txt), Reports Module will be available on the system level. Only people you allow to will be able to access and create reports that you let them to create.
Reports module can create reports based on three criteria:
1. Project
Project reports, for all projects, or some particular project, are displayed graphically as charts that shows:
Besides charts, you can see some general data related to your projects, such as the preview of opened and completed items, amount of hours spent, percentage of the closed items, upcoming Milestone and Velocity. Velocity is, according to Nirav, rate of completion of your projects.
An interesting addition are Most Active & Open and Longest open list of items. It can point you to some of the forgotten Tickets, or unfinished Checklists.
2. People
This criteria allows you to see individual reports for every person with an account in your activeCollab.
Displayed as report cards, this reports will enable you to see what that person is responsible for, how active she was, where exactly is she assigned and how much working hours has she logged.
This tool should help you manage people you’re working with and give you a close insight in productivity rate of your team.
3. Companies
In this section you can see full report for you Company related items in activeCollab. Here you can see how many projects you have opened, how many user you have, how many items you have opened and closed on the system level. Also, you can see some basic data for each of your projects here.
If you wish to list this information for one of the Client companies you can easily do that by choosing the Company you wish.
Reports module can be a very useful and handy tool, especially if you're working with clients and great number of people. Everything is accessible easily, available at one place, and simple to set up.
Another interesting module has been released by the members of our community. Andreas Schempp has just released Beanstalk Integration module, which adds some features to the Source module to integrate with Beanstalk.
Currently it allows to deploy to an ftp server using the beanstalk feature. This extension adds a new icon to the source repository list.
When you click that icon, you will see the smaller popup, where you can make all adjustments required.
Has anyone give it a spin yet? What are your first impressions on Beanstalk Integration Module?
Folks from Realnets released their Billings module for activeCollab. What makes this module special is that it is designed for companies who extensively use QuickBooks in their business, and want their project collaboration tool to be integrated with it:
This is their first release, based on their own needs as a company so they are also looking for feedback from the other activeCollab users.
Great folks at appsMagnet just released a new version of Planning module for activeCollab. If you are not familiar with Planning module, it's a module that adds features such is outline management of milestone, checklists, tickets and tasks (all from one screen), Gantt charts for one or more projects and much more.
Sounds interesting? Head over to Planning module 1.2 announcement post to learn more about the new release.
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