New features, smarter workflows, and insider tips to get the most out of ActiveCollab.
ActiveCollab 1.0 was released more than twelve years ago, and we have documented a detailed list of changes for almost all releases since then. Despite that heritage and experience, it has become tough to map a particular set of changes to a particular version in the past couple of months.Our development ...
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September is an exciting month this year for ActiveCollab! We haven’t been sitting on our ears. Instead, we’ve listened to your needs and requests carefully, and tidied up. Maybe you’ve been using our timer so far to track your billable and non-billable hours. We’ve got some news for you! Now ...
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Tl;dr we have a dark theme now.For you who enjoy reading, worry not.As the Cambridge Dictionary defines it, neon stands for a chemical element that is a gas with no smell or color, does not react with other chemicals, and shines red when an electric current goes through it.Here at ActiveCollab, we define ...
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Oh, no!Your Lead Dev just won an all-expenses-paid trip to the Bahamas.Your Project Manager finished an Ironman (the triathlon, not the movie trilogy) and won’t show up at work for a week.The ground starts shaking, your hands start sweating.It sure feels like all hell broke loose.Fortunately, those ...
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A brand-new ActiveCollab is finally here! Bigger and better in just about every way possible, with a whole slew of awesome new and enhanced features.It’s been over a decade since the first version of ActiveCollab came out. What began as a humble two-person venture, soon grew beyond our wildest dreams ...
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For those of you who’ve been looking to collaboration, this is going to be a great day. The Reactions are up and running in ActiveCollab 5.15.0! We are bringing you a new way to make your day-to-day communication more expressive and engaging.Not all comments are created equal. More often than not ...
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Is it better to use self-hosted or cloud version of ActiveCollab? They both have the same features so the decision depends on the structure of your company.Self-hosting is great if you plan on using ActiveCollab for more than a year and/or have a lot of team members.If on the other hand you don't want ...
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What is self-hostingSelf-hosting is when you download some software, install it on your own server, and access it from the URL and the server that you own.There are desktop apps, mobile apps, web apps, and hybrid apps:Desktop app is installed on a computer and only the person using the computer can access ...
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New Zapier integration in ActiveCollab 5.13The biggest time waster in every company is moving data between apps and updating records manually. But there's an easy solution: automate the boring stuff with Zapier, a service that lets your apps talk to each other.ActiveCollab is now integrated with Zapier.ActiveCollab ...
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New update Brings Less Email Notifications and Better File ManagementNow everyone can choose how much email they want to receive from ActiveCollab, plus preview files inside ActiveCollab and attach documents from Google Drive and Dropbox.Notification SettingsAre you receiving too much email from ActiveCollab ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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