The first thing that you’ll notice within the updated Files module is the new and improved listing of files. Now you have icons displayed for all common file types. If you upload an image, then activeCollab will create a thumbnail and use it instead of icon so you can have a quick preview of the image right there in the list:

One of the common requests we used to receive is to also include the attachments from other project areas and show them in files list. We did so, and it looks great. Attachments have a little paper clip next to download button so they are easy to spot.

Another big improvement over the old Files module is the way files are uploaded. Upload files form in activeCollab 1.1 lets you upload more than one file at once:

 

You can select the milestone to put these files to, you can put them in categories and tag them. To make sure that people get notified about them being uploaded, just select desired users in Notify People field. After you set all details you want, just hit submit and let activeCollab handle all the details.

Each uploaded file has its own details page where you can check older and upload new file versions, you can discuss about it with your team and clients, subscribe to receive email notifications on any update and more:

These are the most important changes we made to Files module, but there are also many more smaller ones that will make everyday use of this module pretty much easier. We hope you will like the changes we made, and help us to finish activeCollab 1.1 as soon as possible by testing beta builds that we post regularly in our community forums.

First you click on Send Reminder link:

In the popup window, select who you want to notify and insert optional comment:

When you hit the submit button, an email will be sent to the selected people, and next time they log in they will have this ticket reminder highlighted in “Things that require your attention” block at the Dashboard.

This feature will help you improve the communication with your team members or clients in only 3 clicks. We at A51 already find this simple tool extremely helpful and hope that you’ll like it as much as we do.

Reminders are coming to both Small Biz and Corporate version.

And here is what we are working on for activeCollab 1.1:

Changes are small, but the entire page looks much better - there are less borders, better structure and it looks much cleaner. On top of the visual changes there are a couple of new things displayed: 

1. In activeCollab 1.1 system shows last time when user was active. This is frequent “small things” request that gets posted on our Feature Request forum. If user never logged in you’ll be able to see it and contact him or her to check out if they received welcome message.
2. Users role is shown to administrators and people managers. New permission system we are working on lets you set role for every user in the system, not just members of owner company, and you can see it right on the company details page.

This is just the first iteration. There are a couple more ideas to improve this page even fruther, but I hope you like it already.

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.