Ideas, insights, and inside looks at how modern teams collaborate, manage work, and scale smarter – with a dash of product updates and stories from the trenches
Automating work has been a dream for managers worldwide for decades. Getting rid of tedious assignments such as creating the same assignments repeatedly, rescheduling them according to unpredictable circumstances, and fitting together regular activities with occasional ones is ActiveCollab's goal. We've ...
Product • • 3 min read
Everyone in software development keeps a long list of suggestions and feature requests in a file. Or two. But there are not enough hours in a day or a number of developers on a team to get them all done. That's why we need to know where to focus and which features to develop. But there's a much deeper ...
Product • • 6 min read
Our relationship with Gantt is a turbulent one. Looking back, it shows us more than just how to design a feature. It’s a tale of trial and error, evolution, and ultimately, success on our own terms.Powerful Enough to Plan a WarThe story of the Gantt chart started in the early 20th century, the army ...
Product • • 3 min read
Easier token issuing and authenticationWe're happy to announce that ActiveCollab API wrapper for PHP is hitting version 3.0, bringing easier token issuing and authentication. Token issuingThere are now two authenticators that make the authentication a lot easier. To grab a token for one of your ActiveCollab ...
Labs • • 2 min read
Why you shouldn't move your company blog to MediumWe moved our whole blog to Medium in July 2015. Now we're moving it back where it belongs - on our website. The reasons we're moving are strictly business related.Don't get us wrong, we love Medium and we'll continue to publish there. But here’s why ...
Product • • 4 min read
How a small, two-hour investment can save hundreds of hoursIt took me a couple of hours, but I managed to automate two big processes:Migrating extremely big ActiveCollab accounts (which can take more than 24 hours);Integrating with translation services.Before the automation, I had to manually migrate ...
Labs • • 3 min read
Mark Gjaltema, Chief Rebel from Rebel Projects, shares his storyWhen Rebel Projects started to grow a few years ago, we went looking for an online collaboration tool. Since we only work with freelancers and with no physical office, this tool would be the backbone of our company.We tried a simple setup ...
Customer Stories • • 2 min read
I was refactoring ActiveCollab’s datepicker and came across a problem: to close the popover, I’d always have to trigger one extra keypress event.Chrome’s debuggerCommonly, you’d use JavaScript to attach an event handler to do something when you click a button on a web page. You’d create a button ...
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We’re happy to announce the integration with TestLodge, an online test case management tool that helps you:create test plansinput requirements,create and manage test cases and suites,perform multiple test runs,generate reports.If you track bugs and issues with ActiveCollab, this integration will save ...
Product • • 1 min read
PHP7 has a release date set: it’s November 12. As always, some of our users will stick to PHP5 for a while before upgrading and others will switch to v7 as soon as it becomes available. To make sure that ActiveCollab is not broken on v7, we started playing with it a bit earlier.For performance and ...
Labs • • 3 min read
The auto-upgrade feature that we introduced in ActiveCollab 3.3 changed the way people manage their self-hosted installations.It also gave us the means to ship improvements and bug fixes without overwhelming our customers with excess maintenance work. Thanks to auto-upgrade we shipped a lot of releases ...
Product • • 2 min read
Written by Logan LindquistLegacy Beta provides value for customers by building engaging and dynamic web-enabled applications. With over a decade of industry experience, LegacyBeta has the knowledge to meet all needs. They’ve worked with several top 10 Fortune 500 companies, as well as leading United ...
Customer Stories • • 2 min read