ActiveCollab 8.0: Improved Search and Task Navigation

By ActiveCollab Team • • 2 min read
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Hello everyone,

Welcome to the latest recap of ActiveCollab’s updates! Last time, we talked about how your changes will be synchronized with the current version if you’re trying out ActiveCollab 8.0 and vice versa. This time, we’ll discuss new search options and easier task navigation.

Perhaps you didn’t know about this feature before, so we’ll let you in on a little shortcut. You can open the Search box by using Ctrl+K on Windows and Cmd+K on Mac, even in the current ActiveCollab version. The new interface in ActiveCollab 8.0 opens the same window that you can use to look for everything everywhere by term, whether you use a keyboard shortcut or click the search icon.

If you open a project and try to search for something, you’ll see the option to look for tasks, discussions, or notes within that project only.


You can also find tasks and invoices by their ID number. When you type in a hashtag and a number, they’ll pop up in the search box.

And if you keep searching for the same tasks or links, you can pin them as shortcuts in ActiveCollab’s sidebar! Add tasks or useful links, so you don’t waste any more time trying to find them!

Task Navigation

We mentioned this feature in our previous recap, and now it’s ready to use in the Early Access Program! You can open a task within a project and navigate quickly up and down to the next or previous one. The same option is available when you open a task individually, making it easier to hop from one task to another.


Google Login

We’ve enabled a faster way to log in to ActiveCollab. When you visit our website, you’ll find a button allowing you to log in with your Google account within seconds!

Uptime

ActiveCollab’s uptime in March was 99.96%. Noticed the app is slower than usual? Hit us up on Twitter or send us an email! Our Support Team is there to help you with any issue you may come across.


Coming Up

Our plans for April include an improved way to handle the list of subscribers on a task and to unsubscribe or subscribe yourself to a task in one click.

We’ll be working on user cards that you’ll be able to access from the People page, Search, comments, and anywhere else in the app where you find someone’s avatar. They’ll be expanded in time with helpful user information, like their upcoming time off and assigned tasks. Stay tuned for more updates!

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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