Developer Blog

If you've been browsing through activeCollab forum, then you might have noticed the request that pops up frequently is a support for project templates. Some projects tend to repeat and we all know that there is nothing more frustrating than to input the same data all over again. And again... And again... It's just not productive. System already knows a lot about these projects, enough to copy the data and save you a ton of time.

While there is already a plugin that brings project templates to activeCollab, we wanted to create a built in system which does not require additional packages and just works, straight out of the box.

The whole thing is simple - when you create a new project, you can decide to start with empty project or to copy data from an existing one. This means that any project in activeCollab can be used as a template. activeCollab will copy people, milestones, checklists and tickets from template project into newly created project while preserving all assignments and relations between data.

For clutter free experience, you can additionally select project templates group. Only projects from that group will be treated as templates. This comes in pretty handy when you already have a lot of projects and want to keep things organized.

And finally, this great production booster will be part of both Corporate and Small Biz versions, meaning that all activeCollab users will benefit from it!

That pretty much sums up project templates, stay tuned for more updates about activeCollab 1.1

Creation of this weblog has been on my todo list for a long time, but there was always something “more important” or I had some “good reason” to postpone it’s launch, for example: “We just don't have anything we can discuss about the new release at this point”, or “We don’t have enough content to launch”, or “Providing support at this point is more important than writing” or “I just need to work on this idea of mine, or world is going to end today and that will be the end of the mankind.”

But, here we are now - activeCollab 1.1 is around the corner, we really have a lot of things to show and discuss, so I present to you Developer Blog. On this little blog we will discuss upcoming features, ideas we are playing with, our thoughts on software development, productivity and related stuff while, at the same time, trying to skip stories about pets (I do have a gorgeous husky that I like to talk about) or what we had for dinner.

Hope you'll like this new blog. See you tomorrow with an article about one of the most requested features ever since activeCollab exists.