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(Aug 23, 2010)

Release notes: Bug fix and enhancements release. Enhancements: + Tickets Plus v1.1 included. Adds...

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License: Commercial
Works with:
  • activeCollab 2.1
  • activeCollab 2.3
Author: Apps Magnet - Nirav Mehta
Homepage: http://www.appsmagnet.com/activecollab-main/planning-module/
Planning Module is a breakthrough in project planning with activeCollab. It cuts down all distractions (no more jumping from one page to another) and lets you focus on planning.

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Customer Reviews
I must say – pure genius. More than I hoped for, better than I could imagine. Great job! – Landon Shipman

This is a great addition! I’m so excited to finally have integrated Gantt charts for my projects. – Mel

Planning module is the best selling and most loved module for activeCollab. More than 500 companies are using it already and extremely happy with it. We have a 30 day refund policy and promise you won’t be disappointed with it.

Here is what you can expect from the Planning module.

The Zen of Planning – avoid repetition, stay focused, get more done
Planning Module lets you work as you think. It removes distractions and makes it easy to carry out batch updates. Planning module shows your entire project plan in a single screen. You can review and update milestones, tickets, pages, checklists and tasks from the same screen. It is designed to boost your productivity with activeCollab. Our studies have shown 5X improvement!

Birds eye view of project plan
Planning module provides three view modes – a tree like Outline view, Cards view to focus on level 2 items and Timeline view to see the Gantt chart of your projects. You can focus on items you wish to work on and can edit any part of the plan.

Quick and easy editing
From within the Planning module, add / update and delete milestones, tickets, pages, checklists and tasks. You can even promote or demote item levels – e.g. convert a milestone into a checklist, or a task into a ticket. You can drag and drop items, complete / open items, change their priorities & visibility, add estimated efforts, assignees / subscribers, start and due dates.

Estimates, Workflow Status, Batch Updates, Category Templates and more…
Planning module adds a lot of useful (yet missing) features to activeCollab. Apart from estimates and start dates (available for all items), we have added Workflow Status to see the actual progress of tickets as they move from Open to Closed (New – Assigned – Acknowledged – Resolved – Closed etc).

We have even added category level templates for Tickets and Pages. This lets you add a predefined structure to your descriptions. Batch Update allows you to edit multiple items at once and is full of smart tricks to save you time!

Designed to save your time and money
We added lot of smarts to Planning module to save you time and money! Estimates, Assignees and Dates will auto expand, Completed and Overdue items will show differently, Text Import allows magical plan creation by typing or pasting text, Options allow you to restrict what fields show up, Filters allow you to narrow down work items. We encourage you to explore and discover these little gems!

Now also supports – Printing project outline – Full localization support – Useful ticket module hacks – Multiple projects in Gantt chart – Branding removal – Administration from activeCollab – Managing subscribers – And lot more…

Requires activeCollab 2.1+ (SmallBiz or Corporate) & PHP5

Price: $149, One year upgrades free

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Comments

avatar Rob Napier 2009-08-28 9:11
Does Planning Module make Workflow Status available in the underlying Tickets pages, or only in the Planning Module interface?
avatar Apps Magnet - Nirav Mehta 2009-10-27 8:04
Hi Rob,

Sorry for not replying to this. Did not notice your question.

Planning module comes with Ticket module hacks that show the workflow status in the underlying ticket pages within activeCollab. So you can update the workflow status (among other fields) from both Planning module and Ticket pages.

Thanks.

:Nirav
avatar john 2009-12-07 8:57
Is it possible to create an invoice from the planned hours as a way of creating estimates for clients?
avatar Apps Magnet - Nirav Mehta 2010-01-15 1:26
Sorry John. It’s not yet possible to send an estimate / quotation using hours estimated in Planning module.
avatar Becky 2010-05-24 10:59
I’ve noticed a problem with security in using the planning module. I have a user that has no access to milestones, tickets etc. However, by accessing the planning module, they are not only able to view these, but make changes.

Is there any way to turn off the planning module for specific users?
avatar swendel 2010-05-28 10:44
Nirav,

Are their plans to add better printing support to this? Using the built-in AC printing for things like timelines is pretty much useless. The Outline is barely useable for a small project.
avatar claudiocalvao 2010-06-09 3:22
This printing support is something really important for the planning module.
avatar Apps Magnet - Nirav Mehta 2010-07-24 1:29
@Becky: You can disable access to Planning module to certain roles from Planning Module Administration. This is available under activeCollab admin panel. You can decide what roles have read access and what roles have write access.

@Swendel, Claudio: Planning module 1.4 has improved printing for Outline and Cards view. The outline print is excellent actually! We are working on improving Timeline printing.

Thanks!
avatar CSBox 2010-08-15 11:04
Is this a Flash based module or does it use Javascript?
avatar Apps Magnet - Nirav Mehta 2010-08-23 6:14
This uses Flash. The frontend is in Flash and backend is PHP.

:Nirav

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