Send clients directly to project dashboard on login

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avatar Simplex Studios Pro Dec 4. 2009. 11:54 am #11
+1 for this. the easier it is for clients the better! Thanks
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avatar mark Pro Jan 5. 2010. 4:20 pm #12
Pleasssseee do this as soon as possible! We need it bad. It's not intuitive at all and hits the user in the face with a big mess of scary, intimidating items as soon as they login.
avatar Ben Pro Feb 17. 2010. 2:17 pm #13
When can we expect a new release of AC that will include this tiny, yet HUGE feature? Hopefully you guys haven't been stumped with this for 4 months now. :D

Seriously, though ... when can we expect a new release?
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avatar Ilija Studen Staff Feb 17. 2010. 4:45 pm #14
Ben:
Seriously, though ... when can we expect a new release?


There's no due date set for the next big update, but it will be as big as activeCollab 1.1 and 2 were. Such releases take time and activeCollab grew significantly since v1 so we are talking months here, not weeks or days. There will be bug fix releases in 2.3 branch, but no new features will be added.
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avatar Ben Pro Feb 17. 2010. 5:43 pm #15
Ilija - the topic covered in this thread is a major usability issue, as many people here have agreed. I've basically stopped having my clients even log into aC because this issue involves WAY too much explanation to get clients to their project.

Hopefully the aC development will become more nimble as time progresses and the release schedule won't be driven by which month has the largest number of expiring support contracts (oh ... did I just say that?). If I were you guys, I'd push this one feature out in an update since it makes the product essentially useless and confusing to many of your customers customers.

Don't set your goals too high for each release, or it will become like Duke Nukem Forever. Focus on a certain number of bugs and new features that allow you to have a new minor release every 2 to 4 months. Just my $0.02.
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avatar Ilija Studen Staff Feb 18. 2010. 5:48 am #16
Hello Ben,

Thank you for you input on importance of this feature and advice regarding release cycles.
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avatar specialopssecurity Pro Sep 23. 2010. 9:35 pm #17
I came back to this thread to see if anything new had been posted in the year since the topic came up. It's sad to see that this minor feature has been held over to version 3. I spent a few hours today looking through the code and I think this might be a decent workaround (at least for me).

/activecollab/application/modules/system/SystemModule.class.php

change line 45 from:
$router->map('homepage', '');

change line 45 to:
$router->map('homepage', '', array('controller' => 'dashboard', 'action' => 'active_projects'));;


WARNINGS: Your mileage may vary. No warranties on this workaround and this is at your own risk. This may break future versions. No support is provided on this workaround. If this works for you, comment on this thread and let me know that I'm not crazy.
avatar Nathan S. Dev Sep 24. 2010. 9:59 am #18
Great news guys.... this functionality already exists in a 3rd party module called Auto Join --- I think the name may be a bit confusing because it's intended for users to be able to setup the configuration from their own profile not to be configured by the admin but if you use it in combination with ShadowViewer or login as the user you can setup your users login to redirect to any project either indefinitely or for a set period of time.

Check out the module here http://www.uswebstyle.com/ac_modules.html

Hope you find this helpful, I have suggested to the developers that a future improvement would be to make this editable by the admin user for each person --- maybe they will consider adding that functionality if requested by others as well. But if you buy their full bundle at $175 --- you'll have Shadowviewer which allows you to easily login as the user from the People tab anyway so this works great.
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avatar biscuitstudios Pro Sep 27. 2010. 4:10 pm #19
+1 ... this hasn't been implemented, right? currently using 2.3.2 Corporate and have clients always wondering what to do once they login (even when you give them instructions on how to select their project)... just didn't see anything in the admin area and thought i might have overlooked it... thanks!
avatar Ilija Studen Staff Sep 27. 2010. 4:26 pm #20
biscuitstudios:
+1 ... this hasn't been implemented, right? currently using 2.3.2 Corporate


This feature is not part of activeCollab 2.3.2, so you haven't overlooked anything.
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