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Staff
Ilija Studen
on Jul 16. 2006. 10:49 pm
Here is the list of features planned for 1.0 (updated on May 2nd 2007):
On system level:
* Lower system requirements (PHP4 with MySQL4 will do just fine)
New and improved features:
* Extensibility through plugins and API
* Interface improvements (JS)
* Tool for collaborative writing
* Time tracking
* Project templates
* Improved tasks tool
* Reporting
* Better mailing support
... and more.
On system level:
* Lower system requirements (PHP4 with MySQL4 will do just fine)
New and improved features:
* Extensibility through plugins and API
* Interface improvements (JS)
* Tool for collaborative writing
* Time tracking
* Project templates
* Improved tasks tool
* Reporting
* Better mailing support
... and more.
activeCollab Team Member
Ilija,
I happy to see that time tracking is a priority for you (and your users). In addition to tracking time associated with a project (or task) I need to track expenses associated with a project or task. For example:
Time Tracking Entry,
Hours; Date; UserName; Client; Project; Task; Note/Comment; $Rate;
Expense Tracking Entry,
Expense; Date; ExpenseType; Description; UserName; Client; Project; $Cost;
I track time at the project level, not the task level. Although I see the need for task level time tracking, it isn't always necessary for small projects.
Thanks!
I happy to see that time tracking is a priority for you (and your users). In addition to tracking time associated with a project (or task) I need to track expenses associated with a project or task. For example:
Time Tracking Entry,
Hours; Date; UserName; Client; Project; Task; Note/Comment; $Rate;
Expense Tracking Entry,
Expense; Date; ExpenseType; Description; UserName; Client; Project; $Cost;
I track time at the project level, not the task level. Although I see the need for task level time tracking, it isn't always necessary for small projects.
Thanks!
Staff
Ilija Studen
on Jul 17. 2006. 4:48 am
Please create a new topic with Expense tracking feature request (PunBB does not support topic splitting!? isn't that one of the basic forum features?).
activeCollab Team Member
Staff
Ilija Studen
on Jul 17. 2006. 2:17 pm
Can't tell or promise anything. When we check off the list all of the features listed above :D
activeCollab Team Member
MatYadabyte
on Jul 17. 2006. 2:31 pm
I think if your going to do that you need some kind of Project management solution? Any ideas:P
Staff
Ilija Studen
on Jul 17. 2006. 2:41 pm
MatYadabyte:I think if your going to do that you need some kind of Project management solution? Any ideas:P
Trac (activeCollab would be hard to use as bugtracker and does not have a wiki). Need to hold up for a day or two for things to get stable with the new host.
Btw, I have aC on the localhost for personal organization.
activeCollab Team Member
Ilija Studen:Did I miss anything?
Export, ev. import of data?
While importing data from other web-apps (Basecamp was a common request in the forums), the ability to *export* your data may well be a killer feature, IMHO. By giving the possibility to your users to take away their data, you compell them to stay with you (or, in this case, with aC), knowing that whatever comes up at least they can recover their data. You could call this a backup, if you prefer, but it all boils down to the same.
Exporting our data in a big file (probably XML will be most useful here) would be, in my view, essential before calling a release 1.0, although some other great web-apps failed to deliver just this.
What do you think?
Staff
Ilija Studen
on Jul 18. 2006. 1:58 pm
For backup use DB dump and files backup. For interacting with the data you will be able to use API. It will support all data manupulations you can do when you are logged in.
After we implement that we'll see if there is enough interest for XML export feature. Currently can't promise it but I'm 100% for the idea that users own their data.
Can you tell me what for you would use XML export? Just to put the idea in a context and see if it needs to be added to 1.0.
After we implement that we'll see if there is enough interest for XML export feature. Currently can't promise it but I'm 100% for the idea that users own their data.
Can you tell me what for you would use XML export? Just to put the idea in a context and see if it needs to be added to 1.0.
activeCollab Team Member
Ilija Studen:I'm 100% for the idea that users own their data
Happy to ear that! :)
As for DB dump, of course it works well with phpMyAdmin, but later on (in a production environment, where I'm sure some of us will propose an aC installation to clients, e.g.), a more 'average-user'-friendly way of doing it would be much welcome.
As for myself, I could use the data, as said, as a form of backup or even for moving the content of an aC site from one installation to the other. As you said, a DB dump permits this, but not everybody has access to this or is capable of doing this.
I'm personnally probably not part of the public which could find such a feature interesting, but I'm trying to think from an end-user perspective here. BTW, 'how do I export my data' was the first thing a less web-savvy friend asked me when I showed him off aC. Just thought I woudl share this.
Anyway, aC is already very much usable, and this wouldn't be an essential feature per se, but it could really complement very well a 1.0 release ("look, you can do this, and that, and you have this easy way to check/backup/move your data, so no problem in just trying it out for a while" could be a selling point).
PS: Thank you for your hard and thorough work!
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