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I have just set up activeCollab for a big organization working to rebuild New Orleans. We are liking it very much, and are looking forward to growing with it.
We have set up a project for each area of the organization (what we already call projects) and then created members who overlap into different projects.
We are now trying to figure out a way to allow any member to take a look at what is going on in other projects. If we allow them viewing privileges for every project it clutters their dashboard, and makes "my projects" not accurate.
Can anyone suggest a better way to allow people to look at other projects occasionally, but keep their own projects at the priority.
thanks!
We have set up a project for each area of the organization (what we already call projects) and then created members who overlap into different projects.
We are now trying to figure out a way to allow any member to take a look at what is going on in other projects. If we allow them viewing privileges for every project it clutters their dashboard, and makes "my projects" not accurate.
Can anyone suggest a better way to allow people to look at other projects occasionally, but keep their own projects at the priority.
thanks!
I htink you gave the answer yourself - a department or company does not equal a project.
Projects are solution focused temporarily organizations (with members of different departments/companies). They are not a regular long-lasting organizational structure.
As far as I see it now you can just define the departments as companies and assign the members of these to the projects you need to rebuild NO (with varying rights). There is no possibility now to change the fact that every change in any assigned project will change the dashboard log - and this shouldn't be changed IMHO.
Can you set up your communication needs with other channels - like an "overall project" where status reports and other information will be posted?
Projects are solution focused temporarily organizations (with members of different departments/companies). They are not a regular long-lasting organizational structure.
As far as I see it now you can just define the departments as companies and assign the members of these to the projects you need to rebuild NO (with varying rights). There is no possibility now to change the fact that every change in any assigned project will change the dashboard log - and this shouldn't be changed IMHO.
Can you set up your communication needs with other channels - like an "overall project" where status reports and other information will be posted?
Ryan Cross
on Feb 9. 2007. 11:07 pm
I agree that this functionality for departments isn't the targeted use case for aC. However, I do agree that there should be a way for the "higher ups" to be able to look at the progress of various projects without the need to be assigned to those projects. I think the best way forward is to add an additional security option where you have system administrators and project administrators... project administrators are basically the same thing as what admins are currently, but they don't have access to the site configuration settings. Also, the system administrators don't need to be explicitly added to every project, but instead when they go to the administer projects page (not my projects) they get a list of all projects on the site not just the ones they are part of. This would allow some flexibility to do what this person does and also not cripple the first admin account to only being used for maintenance. Does anyone else agree?
Hi,
I'm very new to aC and found this thread. I have to agree with Ryan Cross about having the ability to have my Project leaders view their project managers and their team members tasks across the board.
One solution I was considering, which I have to investigate, is the use of aC milestones and posting to google calander service. It seems google calander allows one to add "friends calanders" to your own private calander.
(I'm new to google calander as well so don't hold me to it).
This might help with the need to have the overview of the entire project development process although minus detailed information as google is event based.
Any thoughts?
I'm very new to aC and found this thread. I have to agree with Ryan Cross about having the ability to have my Project leaders view their project managers and their team members tasks across the board.
One solution I was considering, which I have to investigate, is the use of aC milestones and posting to google calander service. It seems google calander allows one to add "friends calanders" to your own private calander.
(I'm new to google calander as well so don't hold me to it).
This might help with the need to have the overview of the entire project development process although minus detailed information as google is event based.
Any thoughts?
To follow up I found this in the forum:
http://www.activecollab.com/forums/topic/1219/
Which takes you to an excellent tut by tj singleton on how to sync aC milestones and google calander
http://www.focusedtutorials.com/2006/12/29/sync-your-activecollab-with-your-google-calendar/
http://www.activecollab.com/forums/topic/1219/
Which takes you to an excellent tut by tj singleton on how to sync aC milestones and google calander
http://www.focusedtutorials.com/2006/12/29/sync-your-activecollab-with-your-google-calendar/
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