Use Project Templates

In activeCollab every project you've ever created can be used as a Project Template for a new one. This feature enables you to quickly set-up projects with all Milestone, Tickets and Tasks already created.

To do this when creating a new project, simply choose an existing projects to be the Project Template, and all Milestones, Tickets and Task, along with Assignment data and due dates, will be copied into the new project:

When the start date of a new template-based project is set though, all due dates (for Milestones, Tickets and Tasks) in the new project will be recalculated using the same number of days between due dates and the project's new start date.

Given that any project can be used as a template, the list of possible templates on the New Project form can become really long over time as you keep adding projects to activeCollab. This is why we have introduced something called the Project Template Group. When this group is selected in Administration > General Settings page, activeCollab will list only projects from that group in the drop-down menu on the New Project form:

As you can see, the Project Template Group is a nice, easy way to keep the list of templates clean.

To prevent this from confusing things we recommend you to create a few projects that represent the most common kinds of projects that you typically work on. You can then select these projects as your Project Templates Group. Once set-up we suggest that you don't work on anything in these projects, instead leaving them as fresh templates that will always allow you to create new, fully set-up projects with just a few clicks.