How do you use aC?

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avatar Overture Pro Oct 11. 2006. 3:47 am #11
bloom:
I second the global milestone calendar. That would be fantastic in our University install where we've got several dozen projects going on at any time between departments. It's the only thing that isn't included in the current install that was on our requirement list...here's hoping it's implemented.

As soon as the plug in API is done I'm sure it'll come out quite shortly if it's not an official feature.

You can still sort of a make a global calendar, you just have to add the feed for each one (using google calendar for instance). It's a bit of a pain if you have a large user base, but until we have something else it still works!
avatar Roberto Oct 12. 2006. 12:34 am #12
Overture:
bloom:
I second the global milestone calendar. That would be fantastic in our University install where we've got several dozen projects going on at any time between departments. It's the only thing that isn't included in the current install that was on our requirement list...here's hoping it's implemented.

As soon as the plug in API is done I'm sure it'll come out quite shortly if it's not an official feature.

You can still sort of a make a global calendar, you just have to add the feed for each one (using google calendar for instance). It's a bit of a pain if you have a large user base, but until we have something else it still works!

Hi, maybe it is simple but I would appreciate if you can briefly describe how to add the feeds of each member to a single google calendar. Thanks !
avatar dobersch Oct 12. 2006. 2:31 pm #13
Roberto:
Hi, maybe it is simple but I would appreciate if you can briefly describe how to add the feeds of each member to a single google calendar. Thanks !

You could log into the different aC accounts and add the different users iCalendar-URLs to your Google Calendar as you would do with your own, which is described here.

Rhetoric question: Why would you want to do that? Not enough milestones in your own? ;)
avatar Ilija Studen Staff Oct 12. 2006. 9:12 pm #14
One note: if you subscribe to calendar of one person and that person changes password old URL will not work any more. You'll need to ask for the new one.

iCalendar does not uspport authentication so special token is appended to the URL. If that token does not match users password whole URL is invalid.
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avatar Roberto Oct 15. 2006. 9:03 pm #15
dobersch:
Roberto:
Hi, maybe it is simple but I would appreciate if you can briefly describe how to add the feeds of each member to a single google calendar. Thanks !

You could log into the different aC accounts and add the different users iCalendar-URLs to your Google Calendar as you would do with your own, which is described here.

Rhetoric question: Why would you want to do that? Not enough milestones in your own? ;)

Thanks very much for the details, the idea behind is monitor the milestones of a group of people without being included in the project.
avatar tjsingleton Dec 29. 2006. 3:59 pm #16
Roberto:
dobersch:
Roberto:
Hi, maybe it is simple but I would appreciate if you can briefly describe how to add the feeds of each member to a single google calendar. Thanks !

You could log into the different aC accounts and add the different users iCalendar-URLs to your Google Calendar as you would do with your own, which is described here.

Rhetoric question: Why would you want to do that? Not enough milestones in your own? ;)

Thanks very much for the details, the idea behind is monitor the milestones of a group of people without being included in the project.


We wanted the same functionality, and outlined how we achieved it. Once the plugin api is written, I'll rewrite it so it's externalized. See the disclaimer on my post.
avatar Feb 26. 2007. 1:34 pm #17
We use aC for our creative solutions company to track projects, who is working on them, and where they stand. Haven't brought in clients yet.

Have a question though, our team of designers each work for themselves, is there a way to add them as a member without associating them to our company?

I agree on the calendar, that would be handy. A chat function would be handy, but not critical.

Great software Ilija, thank you!
avatar Ilija Studen Staff Feb 26. 2007. 1:49 pm #18
User is a member only when he is associated with owner company. In any other case he is considered client.

You can create client companies from them if you want to avoid relation between your company and them but in that case there are numerous limitations on what they can do (they cannot access administration or start new projects, they can't assign stuff to members of owner company and so on).
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avatar Apr 15. 2007. 1:41 am #19
I just discovered AC while looking for ways to organize a video production crew at a mega church. We've found that shooting emails around the building to say, hey you're going to shoot this, and then pass it off to whoever to edit and they'll give it to someone else to add graphics and then finally give it to another person to have it reviewed by group requesting and then output just gets way too confusing.
some people reply to the emails saying ok, or making small changes to the flow, and then others dont see it.

has anyone used AC to actually organize a production department? i see graphics departments using it, can anyone give me a typical setup of the project in AC? including due dates, milestones, everything? I have played with the setup a bit, but i dont understand why there are tasks vs milestones, even though i read the post where someone explained it..

a little help please?

thanks!
Erik Mitchell

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