aC forum: Questions about capabilities http://www.activecollab.com/forums/topic/2869/ Recent posts on topic: Questions about capabilities en-us Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:13:13 CST http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/14179/#post14179 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/14179/#post14179 Post #17 by harveycassidy harveycassidy
harveycassidy:
Ilija Studen:
Sorry, it is not possible. All demos, free and paid, use same resources so changes cannot be applied to a single demo.

harveycassidy:
Also, just to verify, no one will be able to edit anyone else's profiles due to this hack correct?


Correct. Hack I am proposing does not change any permissions related settings. It only remove company filter from Select Users dialog.



Sounds good with me. I'm going to re-create the entire environment today and present it again tomorrow.

Thanks for the quick response!


Two things

#1: How long would the work-around take to create? I imagine it would be in the neighborhood of less than one day?

#2: Can we make a request?

While the global address book project would work, I believe it would only work inter-company. Once we involve outside clients that may need to be in more then one project it could get tricky. Giving the client access to everyone else's information via an address book could be "bad". We would not want two rival companies to see each other.

If we have 1000 users, and user A does not find the correct person (user B) in the address book then they will try to create them. When they create them, they will receive an error that they belong to another company (due to the email address being in use). What about if aC offered to include that user on a project, and then you selected the project?

Would that be possible or time consuming? Also, if we did have a request such as this what is y'alls policy on them? Something you include in the next update....or is it something you try to work out on a case by case basis?

Again, sorry we're not intending to use aC in the manner y'all designed it for. Using aC for project management is definetly an idea we're throwing around, but if we could use it for this current project then that'll make everything that much better for us.

Thanks for all of your help, despite myself being the only one who contacts you there are a lot of other people who are thankful :)

]]> Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:41:43 CDT http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/14145/#post14145 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/14145/#post14145 Post #16 by harveycassidy harveycassidy
Ilija Studen:
Sorry, it is not possible. All demos, free and paid, use same resources so changes cannot be applied to a single demo.

harveycassidy:
Also, just to verify, no one will be able to edit anyone else's profiles due to this hack correct?


Correct. Hack I am proposing does not change any permissions related settings. It only remove company filter from Select Users dialog.



Sounds good with me. I'm going to re-create the entire environment today and present it again tomorrow.

Thanks for the quick response!

]]> Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:12:14 CDT http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/14144/#post14144 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/14144/#post14144 Post #15 by Ilija Studen Ilija Studen Sorry, it is not possible. All demos, free and paid, use same resources so changes cannot be applied to a single demo.

harveycassidy:
Also, just to verify, no one will be able to edit anyone else's profiles due to this hack correct?


Correct. Hack I am proposing does not change any permissions related settings. It only remove company filter from Select Users dialog.

]]> Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:05:51 CDT http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/14142/#post14142 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/14142/#post14142 Post #14 by harveycassidy harveycassidy
Ilija Studen:
Sorry, my bad - members of client company can add ONLY people from their own company to projects. They cannot add people from other companies. This can be easily hacked (you need to change one line of code in a proper file) if this feature is an absolute must have for you.



Could you do this and have it incorporated into our demo? /demo/12469

After they discovered the two flaws they want to see them fixed before they purchase this. I was really hoping to demo this tomorrow if possible.

Also, just to verify, no one will be able to edit anyone else's profiles due to this hack correct?

]]> Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:57:28 CDT http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/14105/#post14105 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/14105/#post14105 Post #13 by Ilija Studen Ilija Studen Sorry, my bad - members of client company can add ONLY people from their own company to projects. They cannot add people from other companies. This can be easily hacked (you need to change one line of code in a proper file) if this feature is an absolute must have for you.

]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:38:41 CDT http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/14104/#post14104 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/14104/#post14104 Post #12 by harveycassidy harveycassidy
Ilija Studen:
harveycassidy:
So I had an idea, create a project that would be a "global address book". This would be administratively handled. If everyone is on this "project" (within our company, not clients) then they should be able to see everyone on this list (with your logic). This would be ideal, but I cannot seem to work our the details. Would this hopefully work?


Users can see only people they already worked with before so having one project with all employees added by administrator will solve the problem you have. There is no system permission that can prevent this.


I will have to look into this further, I'm still receiving an error.

I have tried to set it up the following ways:
People are together in an closed project
People are together in an open project
People are together in a global project

But still, no dice. It gives me the following screen when I try to add people in a project.

I'll fiddle around some more and try to figure this out. I feel I have a decent understanding of the program now, so hopefully I can get this :)

Thanks!

]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:20:04 CDT http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/14103/#post14103 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/14103/#post14103 Post #11 by Ilija Studen Ilija Studen
harveycassidy:
So I had an idea, create a project that would be a "global address book". This would be administratively handled. If everyone is on this "project" (within our company, not clients) then they should be able to see everyone on this list (with your logic). This would be ideal, but I cannot seem to work our the details. Would this hopefully work?


Users can see only people they already worked with before so having one project with all employees added by administrator will solve the problem you have. There is no system permission that can prevent this.

]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:48:52 CDT http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/14101/#post14101 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/14101/#post14101 Post #10 by harveycassidy harveycassidy
Ilija Studen:

That will pretty much cover what you want to do. Your employees will be able to manage details of their companies (because manage_company_details is set to Yes) and add guests to their companies. If they need to work together on a project administrator can arrange that first time. Later on they will be able to see each other in a project because they worked together already.

Please let me know if you have any additional questions.

PS: All role permission default to No. Set only ones I've listed to Yes.


That worked out really well for people being able to manage their own (and only their own) company.

The only problem is they still cannot add other people from another "Company", even if they're on an active (or closed) project together.

So I had an idea, create a project that would be a "global address book". This would be administratively handled. If everyone is on this "project" (within our company, not clients) then they should be able to see everyone on this list (with your logic). This would be ideal, but I cannot seem to work our the details. Would this hopefully work?

Is there a certain permission set either system role or project role that would prevent me from doing so?

I'll attach a couple screenshots to show the "setup". I have two companies. Kevin Bork and Ron Bryant. Kevin and Ron both of "Employee Permissions". I administratively added Kevin to one of Ron's projects. So when I create a project with Kevin, and try to add Ron, he is not showing up on the list.

]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:04:33 CDT http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/14074/#post14074 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/14074/#post14074 Post #9 by harveycassidy harveycassidy Purchased another demo to try this out. Thanks

]]> Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:34:44 CDT http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/14064/#post14064 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/14064/#post14064 Post #8 by Ilija Studen Ilija Studen If you want to have 500 instances of activeCollab running on 500 different URL-s you'll need to purchase 500 licenses.

Here is how you can set up what you described in previous post. Create a new role for employees of your company, name it ACME Employee and set following permissions:

- system_access - Yes
- add_project - Yes
- manage_company_details - Yes
- can_see_private_objects - Yes

This will be for employees. For people they bring on (Alice's mother) create a new role, name it Guests and set following permissions:

- system_access - Yes

Set Guests as default role (hover over it in Administration > Roles and click on Set as Default link that shows up).

That will pretty much cover what you want to do. Your employees will be able to manage details of their companies (because manage_company_details is set to Yes) and add guests to their companies. If they need to work together on a project administrator can arrange that first time. Later on they will be able to see each other in a project because they worked together already.

Please let me know if you have any additional questions.

PS: All role permission default to No. Set only ones I've listed to Yes.

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