AceProject 4.6 is full of customer-requested improvements that are sure to make project management easier and smoother.
  • Active and Inactive Project Templates – AceProject now has both active and inactive project templates.
    • An active template is a project you can use as both a template and a project to work with. Its entire structure can be copied. Its tasks are displayed in task lists, such as “My Tasks”.
    • An inactive template is a project you can only use as a template. Its entire structure can be copied. However, it cannot be used to work with as its tasks are not displayed in task lists, such as “My Tasks”. No email notification is sent for inactive templates.
  • Document Management Enhancements – There have been many improvements to the documents feature.
    • File Attachments are now Task Documents Same function, new name. We wanted to make AceProject more uniform throughout its interface. We simply renamed File Attachments for Task Documents.
    • Public Documents – AceProject now allows you to share a document with someone who is not logged in to AceProject (even non-users). When you set a document as public, you can send its link to anyone and they will be able to see the document. When you send a private document’s link to someone, they need to log in to AceProject to see it.
    • Document Search – We created a document search page, where you can look for Task Documents and Project Documents. Document Search is available at the project and at the administration level.
    • Deleted Documents – When a document is deleted, where does it go? Now, it goes to the Deleted Documents page, in the Administration section. Deleted files will remain available for 30 days after they are deleted. You can open and save those files on your computer. If they were deleted by mistake, you can then upload them back to their project or task.
  • Email Notifications – Two new email notifications settings are now available.
    • You can turn on email notifications if you are the creator of the task. This is useful if you are the project manager and would like to know what your team is up to. If you create tasks but do no manage the project, turning off email notifications on tasks you created will reduce the amount of unwanted AceProject emails you receive.
    • You can request email notifications when you can start working on a task that is part of a dependency chain. If your task can only start once another is completed, AceProject will email you when the task’s predecessors are completed.
  • A New Help System – Because we wanted to explain things in a way that couldn’t be clearer, AceProject’s help system was completely rebuilt to improve usability and readability. We added images, screenshots, and now show every field in the system.
  • Other Changes
    • We changed all date filters in AceProject to make them more readable. Instead of a mathematical symbols such as < , you will now see “is earlier than.”
    • Save a task without closing it – We added an option to the task update menu: Update + Leave Task Open. This option enables you to perform additional changes on the “Edit Task Information” page immediately after saving. We’ve added this option to the “Edit Project Information” and “Edit User Information” pages as well.
    • Task comments have changed – We improved the look and usability of the task comments box, so that more width is allowed for the text in the comment thread. We also widened the comment box.
    • The “Open this project…” drop-down is now sorted by project type. This should make finding your project in a long list much easier.