Budget Intervals, ActiveCollab 8.0: Navigate Discussions, Edit Labels, Move Task Lists

By ActiveCollab Team 2 min read
Budget Intervals, ActiveCollab 8.0: Navigate Discussions, Edit Labels, Move Task Lists

Hello everyone,

Welcome to the latest recap of ActiveCollab’s updates! In May, we talked about user cards and discussions. The latter will also be a topic this time, along with budget intervals, labels, and task lists.

Budget Intervals

We’ve covered the new feature extensively in a dedicated blog post, but let’s go over the basics here as well. This new option should be very useful for those who work on a retainer.

You can now set up a target budget for each project and choose whether it’s valid for a week, month, year, or the whole project. You can also set up budget alerts so the app notifies you when you reach a certain percentage of the target budget.


The project costs will reset at the beginning of each interval, and you’ll be able to check your budget status in the Project info at any time.

At the turn of each interval, you’ll receive an email with an overview of its most important parameters.

This feature is now available in the current ActiveCollab version as well as version 8.0.

ActiveCollab 8.0: Navigate Discussions

Navigating through tasks in the new ActiveCollab version will be easier, as we’ve shown in one of our previous recaps. Now, we’ve applied the same feature to the discussions in ActiveCollab 8.0, so you’ll be able to jump from one discussion to the next in no time.


And to round up this feature, the avatars of those participating in a discussion will be easy to see at a glance.

ActiveCollab 8.0: Edit Labels

We’re sure you’re already familiar with task labels! They’re a great way to display important task information that let you overview their status.


We’ve improved the way you can manage them more easily in ActiveCollab 8.0. You’ll be able to add them to a specific project and use them only there or convert them to a global label that you can apply to all your projects. It will also be possible to edit labels quickly by changing their name or color.

In the meantime, in the current version, labels are updated in real-time throughout the app.

ActiveCollab 8.0: Stay in the Same Project When Moving Tasks and Lists

It’s been a while since we implemented the feature to move or copy entire task lists from one project to another. The novelty in ActiveCollab 8.0 includes the option to stay on the current page rather than being taken right away to the project where you’re moving the list to. This way, you won’t have to interrupt what you’re working on!


Uptime

ActiveCollab’s uptime in June was 99.93%. Some causes of previous downtimes have been fixed, so the app should be more stable than in the previous three months. If, however, you notice any lagging, feel free to contact us on Twitter or via email.


Coming up

During the summer, we’ll be working on recurring tasks on all three task views which we’ll cover in more detail in the next recap. Our plans also include improvements to notes and notebooks.

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Other posts in the series on ActiveCollab Monthly Updates

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

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