Apply Template, G-drive & Dropbox Attachments Previews, Quick Chat Reactions

By ActiveCollab Team • • 2 min read
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Hi everyone,

Welcome to another edition of ActiveCollab's monthly recaps! In our previous post, we talked about the project page header and the mobile app's progress. This month, we have an interesting topic: templates! Also, we'll talk about the mobile app and our uptime during February.

Apply a template

However exciting and diverse our modern jobs are, there are always some elements that repeat themselves in every process. We understand our users need different types of templates on each project, and now we've enabled a more flexible use of project templates.

You'll find the new option "Apply template" under the three-dot menu in a project. Choose a previously created template, and its tasks will be added after existing task lists.


Here's how we see it: you could have one template for daily tasks, another for weekly, and one specific for project managers, for example. Project A could incorporate Templates 2&3, while Project B needs Templates 1&2. This way, you could automate your processes significantly, using templates as pieces of a puzzle and assembling them as needed.

Mobile app

We hope you find the in-app Chat on the mobile app useful! Since last month, we've made some improvements to that feature and some more:

  • G-Drive and Dropbox attachments preview support
  • Improved iPad support
  • Managing participants in group chats improved
  • Quick Chat reactions: double-tap for thumbs up
  • Long press reactions to view who reacted to messages and comments
  • Quick switch between accounts


Uptime

ActiveCollab's uptime in February was 99.99%. If you ever spot non-optimal app performance, feel free to contact our lovely Support Team via email or Twitter. Also, give us a shoutout if you're happy with our tool, we love hearing our users' feedback!


Coming up

We're looking forward to rolling out the new header on the Project page. The new design will be neater and hopefully improve your experience. The mobile app will be enhanced with the option to schedule notifications. For example, if you'd like to receive notifications only from Monday to Friday, from 10 am to 4 pm, you'll be able to customize your preferences. The Stopwatch is also already under work and will be released soon so that you can track your time on any device!

Other posts in the series on ActiveCollab Monthly Updates

  1. November Recap: ActiveCollab 8 Rollout, Calendar, Task Reports, and Invoices
  2. ActiveCollab 8.0: Virtual Users and User History
  3. ActiveCollab 8.0: Assignments Dashboard, Estimates, User Profile, Teams, and Trash
  4. ActiveCollab 8.0: My Work and Estimates
  5. ActiveCollab 8.0: People Page and Subtasks
  6. ActiveCollab 8.0: Subtask Due Date and Batch Edit
  7. Subtask’s Due Date, People Page Improvements, Comment to Task, and Duplicate Notes
  8. New Comment Options and Time Estimates’ Visibility
  9. ActiveCollab 8.0: Batch Edit Time Records, Early Access Program
  10. Two-factor Authentication and Time Tab Improvements
  11. Custom Availability and Time Tracking Limits
  12. Recurring Tasks on Workload and Custom Availability
  13. Managing Recurring Tasks and Notes
  14. Budget Intervals, ActiveCollab 8.0: Navigate Discussions, Edit Labels, Move Task Lists
  15. ActiveCollab 8.0: User Card, Pin Discussions
  16. Self-Hosted Upgrade, ActiveCollab 8.0: Enhanced Search Page and Subscribers List
  17. ActiveCollab 8.0: Improved Search and Task Navigation
  18. ActiveCollab 8.0: Upcoming Early Access Program
  19. Storage Info, ActiveCollab 8.0: Time Indicators
  20. Improved Search Bar, ActiveCollab 8.0: List View
  21. Group Tasks by Start Date, ActiveCollab 8.0: List View
  22. List View and Task Filtering
  23. Default Tax Rates, Invoice Taxes, Comment Time&Date
  24. Intuitive Task List Reorder, New Task Filters, Magic Link Login
  25. Task Filters, Batch Editing, Project Progress Bar, Overview of Completed Tasks
  26. Template Start Date, New Project Header, Mobile App Stopwatch, Notification Scheduling
  27. Apply Template, G-drive & Dropbox Attachments Previews, Quick Chat Reactions
  28. New Project Icons, Increased Mobile App Speed
  29. ActiveCollab Annual Updates: 2021
  30. Completed Projects Tab, Clickable Timesheet, Mobile App Reminders
  31. New Projects Page, Convert Chat Message to Task, Webhooks Improvements
  32. New Projects Page Header, Chat Reactions, Company Days Off
  33. In-app Chat Launched, Mobile App People Page
  34. Past Workload, Attachment UI Improvements, In-app Chat EAP
  35. New Mobile App Launched, In-app Chat Custom Groups
  36. In-app Chat Improvements, In-app Reminder Notification, Mobile App Beta Testing
  37. In-app Chat Introduction, Default Client Visibility, Stopwatch Project Name
  38. Browser Notifications, Task Dependencies Improvements, In-app Chat EAP
  39. New Mention Types, New Task Menu
  40. Upgraded Editor, Activity Grouping
  41. ActiveCollab Annual Updates: 2020
  42. New My Work Launched, Red Dot Browser Notification
  43. Refurbished My Work, Notification Bell EAP, Invoice QR Code
  44. My Work EAP, Storage Add-on, Self-hosted ActiveCollab 7.0
  45. Default Budget Alert Percentage, Task Improvements
  46. Column View Improvements, Budget Alerts, Availability-based Date Picker
  47. Refreshed Column View, Project Stopwatch, Get Paid Free Tryout
  48. Target Project Budget, New Column View EAP
  49. Default Billable Status, New Project Budgeting Types, Duplicate Task Lists
  50. 90-Day Trial, Time Tracking Enhancements, Uptime
  51. Personal Timesheet, Time Report Custom Date Range
  52. New Time Reports, Sidebar Collapse, Timesheet, Internal Hourly Rates
  53. ActiveCollab Monthly Updates: December 2019
  54. Timeline View Improvements, Future Workload Planning, Project to Template
  55. Improved Invitations and Expense Tab
  56. Project Timesheet and Stopwatch

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