I’d been using 0.7RC2 for 2-3 weeks, the improvements are wonderfull, and the people love it. The release is stable but I found this minor bugs:

* no support for latin chars in RSS and e-mail’s.
* Notification by e-mail on Comments is not working.
* I’ve tried I-Cal with netvibes and the milestones are not reflected on it.
* Some overlapping/render problems in Firefox.

I’d open a ticket in the forum reporting these bugs, and I sent printscreens by mail, but I don’t see them in the list of things to be done.

Thanks,

Chenko

I set up aC 0.7RC2 demo on Oct 13, and it works well so far.

* RSS is working ( in Japanese) . I can check it with RSS Reader.
* no crash, no data lost
* I can receive e-mail notification with default settings

One thing that dissatisfies me is timezone problem (I reported in this topic ), but it’s not a big problem. Totally I feel very good.

Thank you for your great work, Ilija.

iCalendar is not working with microsoft office 2003.
When I double click ics file, it says: Cannot import calendar file.
And when I try to import it with import/export util., it says “input file may be corrupt”
The content of the ics file is:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Apple Computer\, Inc//iCal 1.5//EN
X-WR-CALNAME:FotoKritik calendar
X-WR-TIMEZONE:GMT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061022
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061023
UID:1
SUMMARY:Version 3.1 (FotoKritik)
DESCRIPTION:
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061130
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061201
UID:2
SUMMARY:Bilmemne toplantısı (FotoKritik)
DESCRIPTION:Deneme falan filan
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Hi folks,

How about an on-line demo of activecollab?...

Cheers,

Braza

I haven’t noticed anything other than whats already in the bug tracker.

I ran into a major problem
When I was dealing with file uploads.
I uploaded a file, that had been there awhile called hours.txt
I was trying to clear the amount of hour’s so I ended up doing a revision, or trying to.
When I did, I clicked change, uploaded another file in it’s place, put a revision note, and clicked submit. It just took me to a blank page. That was it, I tried it like 4 time’s and gave up, granted though I only tried it with that one, I haven’t had time to test it again.

I also have had troubles with the file upload. a 1.5mb pdf refused to upload. Also, would request that the file upload limit be something like 30-50mb. Designers on our team need to upload graphics files for other team members and customers to view and comment on.

Another thing is that we feel the tasks are a little too simple. It would be nice to be able to comment on tasks in task lists, prioritize tasks (high, med, low is enough for now). Also it would be good to have more detailed task status instead of just open or completed. A percentage completed box would also be helpful. The % completed could be added for each task list, then the task lists could be added to tell how much of the project is completed or outstanding. To make this work, we would obviously need some time or hourly based estimates for each task. Some of this is obviously for a future release but some should be simple and might be good for 0.7.

Overall a good start though. We look forward to 0.7!

Cheers
PW

Everything is great here.
RSS works well, but it could provide more information rather than just Who did What.

The user interface needs some work though. Instead of building up new features, please try to perfect the interface.

Email is not working for me… I have 0.7RC2

I get the following error in my log.php:

#1 ERROR: Error: mail() [a href=’function.mail’ function.mail /a ]: Bad parameters to mail() function, mail not sent. in ’.../activecollab/library/swift/lib/Swift/Stream/MailProxy.php’ on line 374 (error code: 2)

(of course the “a href” had brackets around it – I removed them here)
(also, I added an ellipse instead of the full path of my file)

on-line demo : www.blogsen.com (not associated with me at all)

I am just starting to get into the program, but I’ll keep you posted.

I haven’t had the time to install the 0.7 RC2 yet (only RC1) – but the only thing I’ve noticed so far is that I cannot delete a project. I get the message «Failled to delete project».

Hi,

I have problems with the Dashboard view that doesn’t show any activity when it should, and with the RSS feeds that are always empty when they shouldn’t neither (whatever the reader, I tried Thunderbird, Google homepage’s, Netvibes’... And whatever the feed, dashboard feed – obviously empty as the dashboard itself doesn’t show any activity – but also the projects feeds, where there should be some activity in the RSS feed).

Apart from those problems, everything works fine, keep up the good work on this wonderful little app !

Cheers,
Jean-Baptiste

simply beatiful

Hmm, Uploads doesn’t work at all (as posted in the old board).

It is recommend to install it very new, or is it ok to just upgrade the installation?

Excluding uploads, most things work fine.

Keep up the good work ;)

Thanks

Everything’s working great for me. My number one request is speed now. activeCollab is still really slow, especially when compared to Basecamp.

Thank you all for the info. Some mentioned bugs are fixed, some are still open but its good to have them all in one place.

Just to mention: when compared to 0.7 RC2 no new features will be introduced in 0.7.

@J Lane: I wrote a response but it got too big and a bit offtopic for this post so I posted it in a new topic on forums – activeCollab performance.

Just a correction on the HTML structure :

There are some missing span closed tags in the dashbord overviews tables (with class=”desc”).

Thanks ;-)

Using .7rc2, I noticed that after every 3-4 tasks I posted it would take me to the “complete these fields to finish installation screen”. If I fill out the forms and press submit I get a “Owner company already exists”. However, if I continuall press refresh (roughly 4-5 times), it will take me back to the tasks screen, losing the data that I had inputed. I’m not sure if this problem has already been reported, but it’s bothered me so I thought I’d throw it out there.

Since I know PHP, I adjusted some parts of code.

PROBLEMS:
#1 – Notification can’t be configured properly, I can’t disable it where I want it to.
#2 – In the lang file, “Comment ‘xxx’ on ‘xxx’ ”. Word “Comment” should be removed
#3 – deleting avatar does not work
#4 – font should be changed to “Tahoma 8px”, everything looks much easier to read
#5 – I changed the background on messages and comment to dark grey, with light grey border, it is much easier to read posts that way.
#6 – When you enter the project, and goto Messages, all this should be put to one line (Nov 04. 2006 12:58 | Member | Comments: 18 | Tags:—| Edit | Delete), much better readability that way.
#7 – ONE FEATURE (fairly simple to implement) – I want to see what the user is doing chronologically. A “dashboard” containing activity for a single user, for admin eyes only.
#8 – SEARCH does not search it all, only tags as I think. This is big flaw.
...

There is a lot of tiny details, but these are critical.

I am extremely satisfied with aC, once you try it nothing else is needed for complex team management.

Emailing seems to be an issue. From the Milestone setup, I should be able to email my entire team, or more than a single team member. Current setup allows only one member, selected from a dropdown.

From other notifications, clicking on my company name should email the entire team; currently it does not. If I click each member’s name (including my own) nobody receives a notification. (am I making any sense?)

Hi! Just installed activeCollab for our design studio, we really like it, great job!!

A few problems:
– The notification emails aren’t well formatted on Mac (Apple Mail and MS Entourage), no carriage return.
– We can’t find how to open the iCalendar with MS Entourage (on mac). Works well on Apple Mail.

One suggestion:
We would really like to be able to view tasks by users, for a project manager to view all assignated tasks of an employee. This would be very useful for us!

Thanks!

Recent activities is posted for the user that creates stuff but it doesn’t show for my client user. Is activecollab designed this way or is it a flaw?

pw

@pw: Its a bug that’s been fixed and that will be available in final 0.7.

Hi,

Unable to wait for localization, I translated all activecollab strings in french
(7RC2) (i just rewrote the content of the english files).

Unfortunately, as can be see in this screenshot, some strings with
accentuated characters are not properly rendered. The HTML entity
shows, instead of the accent.

This does also happens in RSS feeds and emails, which is unfortunate.

and by the way, i you want my french translation for future releases, i’ll be happy to send it.

@eric: Check out this topic for more details. To use special characters you should convert text files to Unicode (they are ASCII now).

I realize no new features in the next release, but I mentioned in a staff meeting your app compared to BaseCamp and no time tracking (we’re grant and donor based) is a big need for us. Look forward to the next release. Thanks,

dot.

6 features i’d wish for Christmas!

1: AdressBook – some way to import/sync with Thunderbird, or Gmail addressbook

2: Recurring Tasks & Milestones – would turn AC into a fantastic PIM

3: One Click Sync – from web based AC to my local Wamp/Mamp

4: Template projects – a simple way to place a blank template for new projects

5: posting Links – as well as file attachments in messages, tasks, etc..

5: Batch file ftp – for uploading numerous files to turn AC into a filling cabinet

6: One Click Backup – just to be on the safe side!

I still remain available for translations from English into French…

ActiveCollab is Fab!

Suggestion:
In RSS feed I would like to see something like:
* milestone: update website
* task list: abc.com development
* message: slogan?

Without the category-tags I think the RSS feed is a bit confusing. Hopefully I’m not the only one :-).

Loving activecollab so far!

@laurentsj:

hey, you’re a spoiled kid, ain’t you? all that for xmas? ;)

this bugs probably fixed by now, but i can’t submit content that has ” or ’ symbols in it, it cuts the message off at single or double quotes

One thing that is very important, and fairly easy to implement: in messages, I want to see who gave the last comment. IE.” Last comment: Steve”.

I’ve 0.7rc2 installed, and I can create clients, but they don’t recieve any mail with their password. So, they can’t access.
Is this a known problem?

keep up the fantastic work,

cheers,

rjm

Me again. I have a bunch of projects, which are generally grouped into 3 sections. IE.: “Sales Dell", "Marketing Dell”, “Customer support Dell", "Programming Microsoft”, “Human resources @ Microsoft”...

It would be great to, while waiting for subprojects to be finished, have some kind of grouping of projects. I create a group IE. “Dell”, and then create projects but I choose new project “Reorganisation” to belong to group “Dell”.

When admin goes to edit the group, there should be list of all projects with a “selectbox” in front of them, and the admin can check which projects belong to certain group. This way, one project could belong to more than one group which is excellent option (IE. “Strategic planning”).

Very simple yet practical solution for the “pain” I have :).

Something is wrong with the parsing of previous post I wrote:
“Sales (at) Dell, Marketing (at) Dell, Customer Support (at) Dell, Programming (at) Microsoft, Human resources (at) Microsoft …”

The name of the project should be combined of group and project name. IE.: ”(Dell) Marketing” which should be added to the name of the project which resides in the header of the project. I’m sorry for multiple posts.

The Admin panel trips some webhost’s (jumba.com.au for example) mod_security rules which causes apache to generate “406: Not Acceptable” errors.

Apparently it’s the redirect_to in URLs with some admin related stuff, an example below:

Example URL

Cheers

My tasks isn’t working for ‘client’ users, I got the following error:

SELECT * FROM `ac_project_milestones` WHERE `project_id` = ‘2’ AND ((`assigned_to_user_id` = ‘4’ AND `assigned_to_company_id` = ‘3’) OR (`assigned_to_user_id` = ‘0’ AND `assigned_to_company_id` = ‘3’) OR (`assigned_to_user_id` = ‘0’ AND `assigned_to_company_id` = ‘0’)) AND `completed_on` = ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’ AND `is_private` = ? ORDER BY `due_date`

All is OK for company users

I love the application and so far, it seems to work fine. I am looking forward to encouraging the use of ActiveCollab within our organization.

However, I am disappointed that you do not have whiteboards.

Also, it would be easier to realize that you can make comments, if there was a link to – edit l delete l add comments

Finally, it would be great if one could reorder the to do lists, and even better if one could take items from one list and put them in another.

I forgot to add that the Search function should be improved to enable the search throughout all of the components of the project.

Thanks!

@Arianne: Can you explain what do you mean by whiteboards? A graphic tool where people can talk and draw? Thats not an easy thing to make.

Also, search is going through all text based object in the project (except tags).