This was busy week and result is third activeCollab 1.1 beta. If everything goes as planned this is the last beta so we will have one or two release candidates and finally launch v1.1 in the next couple of weeks. Here is what's new in beta 3:

1. Many bug fixes - companies not showing, checklists pointing to milestones in other project when created from template, fixes for IE, stuff like that.

2. starts_on field for projects. This is important for templates because starts_on is a reference date when calculating due dates for objects in new projects. Time difference between due dates for objects and date when project is started will be preserved in the new project. This makes templates flexible and time independent.

...and me feeling like a fool because I have hard time explaining such a simple feature :) Can somebody please help me out here and explain this in plain English?

3. New setting for assignment filters. Now you can also show only tasks you are responsible for.

4. Minor calendar tweaks. It uses new permissions now, lists all objects and you can complete tasks directly from calendar when you "zoom in" on a day.

In the initial beta announcement post you can find all the necessary instructions - installation, upgrade, how to provide feedback and what's new.

If you are upgrading from older beta to beta 3 upload:

/activecollab
/public/assets
/public/captcha.php
/public/index.php
/public/restore.php
/public/thumb.php
/index.php

Clear cch_ files from /cache folder and all the files with weird names from /compile folder. This is STRONGLY recommended because you may end up with weird problems due to old cache or old compiled templates.

and execute following queries against your database:

ALTER TABLE `acx_project_objects` CHANGE `due_on` `due_on` DATE NULL DEFAULT NULL;
ALTER TABLE `acx_assignment_filters` CHANGE `user_filter` `user_filter` ENUM( 'anybody', 'logged_user', 'logged_user_responsible', 'company', 'selected' ) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'logged_user';
ALTER TABLE `acx_projects` ADD `starts_on` DATE NULL DEFAULT NULL AFTER `default_visibility` ;

KNOWN ISSUE!!!

If you get this type of error: "Fatal error: Call to a member function getId() on a non-object in activecollab/application/modules/system/functions.php on line 16" when creating or updating user profile open /activecollab/application/modules/system/models/users/User.class.php and around line 923 replace:

clean_user_permissions_cache($user);

with:

clean_user_permissions_cache($this);

Mobile interface was tested on iPhone, Symbian S60 and Opera Mini. It should also work with any mobile browser that supports HTML, including BlackBerry. We'll see to get one BB device and test, but there should be no problems because we are using basic markup and style.

Reply to my own post:

I had to comment out both ENVIROMENT lines in the defaults.php in order to do the upgrade and had to uncomment them afterwards.

@Guy:

Your standard activeCollab URL + /m. Like http://activecollab.dev/index.php/m or http://activecollab.dev/m if you are using this .htaccess tweak to have clean URL-s.

It does? Goran will be glad to hear that :)

We haven't tested on BB, but we did on many other smart phone platforms. Please report any problems or inconsistencies.