New Projects Page, Convert Chat Message to Task, Webhooks Improvements

By ActiveCollab Team 2 min read
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Hello everyone,

Welcome to the October edition of our monthly updates. In our previous post, we had some exciting news. The new&improved projects page was delivered to our Early Access Program users, the in-app Chat was enriched with reactions and email notifications, and company-wide days off were implemented in the mobile app. This month, we'll talk about:

New Projects page

In mid-October, all our users got the new Projects page. You can read all about the changes we've made here. They include: a more organized look overall, new filtering options, grouping as well as collapsing and expanding lists, better sorting, and a more accessible label changing.


Since then, we've added the option to sort by a project's progress, meaning you'll have an overview of all your projects' completion percentages. Hover over the progress bar, and you'll see the number of open, completed, and total tasks.

We're also working on filtering options for completed projects, but more on this topic next month.

In-app Chat: updates

After implementing reactions, our Chat is gaining more and more options to play with. Now, you can @mention people and entire teams within a conversation!

If you're in a fuss and have received important messages that you just can't deal with at the moment, you can mark them as unread, so they don't slip away in a stream of information.


But the most interesting feature we're presenting this month is creating tasks out of chat messages! Select one or as many messages as you like and transform them into a task. They will become the body of the task, while any files or photos will be turned into attachments. We hope you'll find these new features useful!

Webhooks

We've been updating how webhooks are handled, as some of our customers use webhooks to connect ActiveCollab with their internal tools. If you're not familiar with the term, webhooks are how ActiveCollab notifies external systems about important events. For example, when you create a new task, ActiveCollab can tell Zapier to automate various actions like adding a line in Google Sheets.

All works well when end-points that webhooks are sent to operate properly and receive and process webhook payloads in a reasonable time. But sometimes, these end-points get deleted, disabled, broken, or slowed down. So, if we expect the delivery system to run smoothly, it needs to be pretty defensive, and ActiveCollab now has two main defensive measures: delivery priority reduction and webhook disabling if the webhook is not working properly for a prolonged period of time.

Uptime

Our uptime in October has been 99.87%, as we've had a short outage due to network issues. Make sure you follow us on Twitter and contact us via email if necessary when you notice something's not right!


Coming up

Improvements on all fronts. The Projects page will be additionally refined, the in-app Chat and the mobile app enriched with more options. Don't hesitate to give us your feedback, and stay tuned for more updates!

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. Upgraded Editor, Activity Grouping
  17. ActiveCollab 8.0: Virtual Users and User History
  18. November Recap: ActiveCollab 8 Rollout, Calendar, Task Reports, and Invoices
  19. ActiveCollab 8.0: Assignments Dashboard, Estimates, User Profile, Teams, and Trash
  20. ActiveCollab 8.0: My Work and Estimates
  21. ActiveCollab 8.0: People Page and Subtasks
  22. ActiveCollab 8.0: Subtask Due Date and Batch Edit
  23. Subtask’s Due Date, People Page Improvements, Comment to Task, and Duplicate Notes
  24. Default Tax Rates, Invoice Taxes, Comment Time&Date
  25. List View and Task Filtering
  26. Group Tasks by Start Date, ActiveCollab 8.0: List View
  27. Improved Search Bar, ActiveCollab 8.0: List View
  28. Storage Info, ActiveCollab 8.0: Time Indicators
  29. ActiveCollab 8.0: Upcoming Early Access Program
  30. ActiveCollab 8.0: Improved Search and Task Navigation
  31. Self-Hosted Upgrade, ActiveCollab 8.0: Enhanced Search Page and Subscribers List
  32. ActiveCollab 8.0: User Card, Pin Discussions
  33. Budget Intervals, ActiveCollab 8.0: Navigate Discussions, Edit Labels, Move Task Lists
  34. Managing Recurring Tasks and Notes
  35. Recurring Tasks on Workload and Custom Availability
  36. Custom Availability and Time Tracking Limits
  37. Two-factor Authentication and Time Tab Improvements
  38. Intuitive Task List Reorder, New Task Filters, Magic Link Login
  39. Task Filters, Batch Editing, Project Progress Bar, Overview of Completed Tasks
  40. Template Start Date, New Project Header, Mobile App Stopwatch, Notification Scheduling
  41. Apply Template, G-drive & Dropbox Attachments Previews, Quick Chat Reactions
  42. New Project Icons, Increased Mobile App Speed
  43. ActiveCollab Annual Updates: 2021
  44. Completed Projects Tab, Clickable Timesheet, Mobile App Reminders
  45. New Projects Page, Convert Chat Message to Task, Webhooks Improvements
  46. New Projects Page Header, Chat Reactions, Company Days Off
  47. In-app Chat Launched, Mobile App People Page
  48. Past Workload, Attachment UI Improvements, In-app Chat EAP
  49. New Mobile App Launched, In-app Chat Custom Groups
  50. In-app Chat Improvements, In-app Reminder Notification, Mobile App Beta Testing
  51. Browser Notifications, Task Dependencies Improvements, In-app Chat EAP
  52. ActiveCollab Annual Updates: 2020
  53. New Mention Types, New Task Menu
  54. July Recap: Daily capacity overview, AI-generated tasks and subtasks, and AI expense logging
  55. ActiveCollab 8.0: Batch Edit Time Records, Early Access Program
  56. New Comment Options and Time Estimates’ Visibility
  57. Improved Invitations and Expense Tab

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