Custom Availability and Time Tracking Limits

By ActiveCollab Team 2 min read
Custom Availability and Time Tracking Limits

Hello everyone,

Welcome to the latest news on ActiveCollab’s updates! In our previous post, we talked about recurring tasks and custom availability. This time, we’ll show you how we incorporated the custom availability feature throughout the app and created a better way to control time tracking.

ActiveCollab 8.0: Custom Availability

In the current version, when an employee is on vacation or sick leave, they’ll be marked as unavailable on that day when mentioning them or assigning them tasks.

In ActiveCollab 8.0, setting a person’s availability to 0 hours will mark them as unavailable on that day, and now, we’ve implemented that feature to @mentions and the date picker.


When you try to mention a team member on a day their working hours are set to 0, you’ll get a heads up that they’re not available. The same will happen when choosing a due date for their assignments.

Time Tracking Limits

We’re introducing some new options that should lessen the possibility of making mistakes when tracking time. You can already limit the period of time to add or edit time records in the current ActiveCollab version.


This option should give the managers more control over logged time. For example, by limiting the ability to add time records to five days and editing them to two days, you’ll ensure that the timesheet can’t be modified after one week without the direct involvement of your management team.

We’ve also added internal hourly rates to the new version, so you’ll be able to keep defining the hourly rate for each employee.


In ActiveCollab 8.0, you’ll be able to choose the available job types for each individual. This option should limit wasting time correcting wrongly logged records.

Uptime

In October, the uptime was 99.99%. If you notice ActiveCollab is slower than usual or down, let us know! You can contact our Support Team via email or X. They’ll be more than happy to give you every information you need.


Coming up

The upcoming month will keep us busy working on security enhancements for your user accounts. Our teams will also be working on time listings in ActiveCollab 8.0.

Stay tuned for more updates!

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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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