Milestones

Milestones mark important deadlines or phases in your project. For example, if you're developing a website, a Milestone can be an important meeting or a review, the initial design process, presentation to the client or launch date. A Milestone can be a single date (deadline) or a period of time during which a certain phase of the project is developed.

Project milestones are listed on the Milestones tab:

Milestones are sorted by the time they are due. You can also use the iCalendar feed to import a summary of Milestones into your favorite calendar application.

To get more detail on any Milestone just click on a particular one from the list to open the Milestone detailpage. This page shows all Milestone-related information and any other project items that are related to it. Project items that can be filed under a Milestone include Checklists, Discussions, Files, Pages and Tickets. Linking Milestones and other project items together in this way allows other members of the project team to easily see which part of the project their tasks relate to.

To create a new milestone, simply click on the New Milestone button:

Just add the Milestone name, a start date and due date and your Milestone is ready to go. However, if you wish, you can also add some notes, set a priority for the Milestone and add some tags to help describe it. If the Milestone is a single-day event, simply set both the start and due dates to be the same.

Unlike most of other elements in the project, Milestones can't be marked as private. Instead, all Milestones are visible to everyone involved with the project who has access to the Milestones section.

Sometimes of course it's necessary to reschedule a milestone and that's where activeCollab comes in really handy. That's because when any milestone is rescheduled in activeCollab, all successive milestones, related items and tasks can also be automatically scheduled relative to the new time range as well.

To reschedule a milestone, simply select the Reschedule link from the Options drop-down menu on the Milestone details page:

The Reschedule form gives you an opportunity to set the start and due dates of all successive Milestones. By default, activeCollab will not change the start or due dates of successive Milestones and related project items, but you can override this simply by choosing the appropriate options on the Reschedule form. If you decide to do this, activeCollab will then automatically reschedule all related Tasks and successive Milestones.