http://www.activecollab.com/forums/topic/3427/ Recent posts on topic: Search Feature: How does it work? en-us Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:45:25 CET http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/31246/#post31246 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/31246/#post31246 Matthew P. not one person put search by company in here? We have 6 pages of customers and it would have made more sense to search the user and company fields in the db both at once, not just users. A lot of times my staff knows the company name, or part of it, but not the contact.

May I also suggest an easy click A, B, C, D list for company name. the pagination thing is a bit weird.

May I also suggest a complete listing of users just like companies? when you click people, you see companies and have to click on companies to see people. kinda backwards.

]]> Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:21:42 CEST http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/31169/#post31169 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/31169/#post31169 Fei Yan @smico: your scenario looks to me you need a process management suite rather than a collaboration suite.

]]> Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:46:41 CEST http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/30965/#post30965 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/30965/#post30965 willemn Effectively there is no search at all currently. just simply being able to find something in the documentation (Pages) section is impossible, and makes the whole Pages feature useless. Anything else you may be looking for returns less than helpful results.

This appears to be something that should be addressed system wide, meaning that no developer outside of AC will likely be willing to tackle it. Looks like one of those issues that needs to be resolved by someone willing to hack the system themselves.

We are pretty close to doing just that, since we are embedding the pages of (some) projects inside another software solution by directly querying the system and displaying it via an Ajax solution. (User guides)

]]> Thu, 19 May 2011 16:19:47 CEST http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/30946/#post30946 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/30946/#post30946 Anton C. I agree that the search function is terrible and has become a real issue of late as the amount of information we store and rely on in ActiveCollab has increased.

Does anyone have any further suggestions on how to improve this? Nirav's feedback is great but not too keen on hacking ActiveCollab in case it breaks something.

]]> Wed, 18 May 2011 22:41:20 CEST http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/25622/#post25622 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/25622/#post25622 smico Hi tekt.

I will post it here, as it might help others in similar situation.

We process data from many data providers, and to do that we have built some 20 group of processes scheduled at various frequencies, total of about 100 daily processes, and each of it can raise exceptions. Every exception have to handled, with tracking etc...
We used to use AC to:
1. Document solutions
2. Keep track of exceptions, with how-to documentation
3. Manage new development

In order to manage high frequency entries, with low frequency entries, we have created some fake hierarchy with names of project groups, but it became very hard to find specific entries in large database and get info without browsing through many many results of the search.

I will take a look at Appsmagnet, but I don't think it will help me with the narrowing down the search.

Thanks,

Miroslav




Thank you

]]> Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:05:33 CEST http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/25619/#post25619 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/25619/#post25619 Nathan S. Miroslav -- I'd be interested to hear more about the challenge you had, and how the search feature would have helped you specifically. I personally understand the search feature needs improvement but your specific mention of "who did what when" makes me curious if maybe another feature or module would have helped your ActiveCollab experience.

Have you tried the Assignments Filters or the Reports Module (from Appsmagnet) --- if you'd prefer not to talk about it here, please send me an email... maybe there's a creative solution to your frustration...

]]> Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:01:04 CEST http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/25618/#post25618 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/25618/#post25618 smico As of last week we officially no longer use Active Collab, it's just imposible to track who did what when as the number of entries grew...
I reverted to emails until, hopefully, we get some useful search engine within Active Collab.

Regards

Miroslav

]]> Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:47:45 CEST http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/25493/#post25493 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/25493/#post25493 Ilija Studen Moderation Note: Comment on assignment filtering and time reports has been moved into a new topic (Time Reports and Assignment Filtering without Creating a Report or a Filter).

]]> Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:32:40 CET http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/25453/#post25453 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/25453/#post25453 Ilija Studen There's no due date set for the next release (we never discuss due dates or upcoming features until release gets into beta).

]]> Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:25:31 CET http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/25448/#post25448 http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/25448/#post25448 roehl hi Illja, do you have any schedule for next release? We have more and more problems with searching tickets.

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