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Mostly good, has a nice interface, easy to install, reasonably easy to learn. In its current form, this cannot really be considered a project management system. More of a deluxe TODO list. It has a fixed five-level hierarchy: "projects" are at the top level; "milestones" have a project as their parent entity; "task lists" have a milestone as their parent entity; "tasks" have a task list as a parent; "timetracker" events (i.e. individual work intervals) link to a task. There are some limitations in the hierarchy, for example it is easy to see task lists with the tasks grouped under each list, but difficult to see which task lists are grouped under which milestones. It feels a bit incomplete in this respect. Other project management software shows a nice tree view which can expand and collapse however you like. You can set a due-date for each task, but you can't plan ahead with a start-date on the tasks. As far as I can discover there's no way to link the tasks so that starting one task depends on finishing an earlier task (e.g. you can't set user acceptance testing to require the release to be complete). Does not support local holidays, overtime, travel time, nor is it suitable for resource allocation. Many modules are available as proprietary plugins for purchase, so possibly the GPL framework has been left a bit spartan to provide space for modules. For example, if you want a Gantt chart, that's a module to purchase. I'm sure you could write your own modules or pay the original author to put together what you need, if it came to that. The reports are a bit limited too, trying to figure out how much workload falls on each worker is difficult. When you export the time tracker to CSV it gives you the task name, but does not mention the higher categories each task belongs to (i.e. task list, milestone, etc), which is going to make it difficult to produce a project overview. As a project data entry tool and general time tracker it could be good, you would have to slurp that data out of MySQL and feed it into something more advanced to do real project management.

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Its a good project management software, I think it is going to be real good on future releases from upcoming v1.1 To be fully great you have to buy the plugins that adds gantt views, tasks, comments, etc. At the moment it has some cosmetic bugs, and the projects dont have an editable start date, so if you have the gantt plugin you see the start dates always on the start date of the main project. Sometimes is confusing the use and general navigation, not a problem but for low knowledge users it might be difficult to get used to. There is no manual to give to users, so you have to prepare a manual to explain the system workflow/use The gantt plugin wont let you configure its looks (colors/width and height for it) I will wait for Collabtive future updates, but meanwhile I still looking for another online project management solution.

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haroonafzaal03 Posted 2017-03-01

hello! hope u are fine i'm doing my term project on open source for reviewing architecture diagran , can you add your design document ? thank you regards haroon afzaal haroonafzaal03@gmail.com
koko3785 Posted 2017-01-08

Hi all, Help me. I'd like to install it. But I don't know how to create table of database. Koko
bonisoft Posted 2015-01-31

Best free open source project managament tool coded in PHP
topmentos Posted 2014-11-30

Muy bueno para el manejo de proyectos en linea. En velocidad no es tan rápida pero tampoco no lenta, respecto a usabilidad es intuitivo. Gracias
sebadamus Posted 2013-07-08

Its a good project management software, I think it is going to be real good on future releases from upcoming v1.1 To be fully great you have to buy the plugins that adds gantt views, tasks, comments, etc. At the moment it has some cosmetic bugs, and the projects dont have an editable start date, so if you have the gantt plugin you see the start dates always on the start date of the main project. Sometimes is confusing the use and general navigation, not a problem but for low knowledge users it might be difficult to get used to. There is no manual to give to users, so you have to prepare a manual to explain the system workflow/use The gantt plugin wont let you configure its looks (colors/width and height for it) I will wait for Collabtive future updates, but meanwhile I still looking for another online project management solution.

2 users found this review helpful.
angelinagrom Posted 2013-05-28

Thanks very good project! +
t-tendys Posted 2013-05-16

Mostly good, has a nice interface, easy to install, reasonably easy to learn. In its current form, this cannot really be considered a project management system. More of a deluxe TODO list. It has a fixed five-level hierarchy: "projects" are at the top level; "milestones" have a project as their parent entity; "task lists" have a milestone as their parent entity; "tasks" have a task list as a parent; "timetracker" events (i.e. individual work intervals) link to a task. There are some limitations in the hierarchy, for example it is easy to see task lists with the tasks grouped under each list, but difficult to see which task lists are grouped under which milestones. It feels a bit incomplete in this respect. Other project management software shows a nice tree view which can expand and collapse however you like. You can set a due-date for each task, but you can't plan ahead with a start-date on the tasks. As far as I can discover there's no way to link the tasks so that starting one task depends on finishing an earlier task (e.g. you can't set user acceptance testing to require the release to be complete). Does not support local holidays, overtime, travel time, nor is it suitable for resource allocation. Many modules are available as proprietary plugins for purchase, so possibly the GPL framework has been left a bit spartan to provide space for modules. For example, if you want a Gantt chart, that's a module to purchase. I'm sure you could write your own modules or pay the original author to put together what you need, if it came to that. The reports are a bit limited too, trying to figure out how much workload falls on each worker is difficult. When you export the time tracker to CSV it gives you the task name, but does not mention the higher categories each task belongs to (i.e. task list, milestone, etc), which is going to make it difficult to produce a project overview. As a project data entry tool and general time tracker it could be good, you would have to slurp that data out of MySQL and feed it into something more advanced to do real project management.

1 user found this review helpful.
sebi2020 Posted 2012-11-08

Nice, but has an Bug in TCPDF.class.php ... Line 20436... $webcolor should be specified as global $webcolor in the constructor of class TCPDF...
postpres Posted 2012-10-25

Great software, simple and easy to install.

1 user found this review helpful.
dopmedartio Posted 2012-06-06

Great work folks!

1 user found this review helpful.
retertoresp Posted 2012-06-06

Good tool. Thanks.
healdmopostlar Posted 2012-06-05

Very useful, a must-have program. Great job!
resgoreres Posted 2012-06-04

The best suite basen on free apps!
nkeepnonszapmu Posted 2012-06-04

Awesome project!
oid-3831012 Posted 2012-05-02

Project uses VarChar(255) for date time data... That is just poor database design...
oid-2695938 Posted 2011-11-09

1 year using collabtive, and really with this
jmolinaso Posted 2011-10-14

Uau, I call that efficiency!! Great job!!
oid-3450804 Posted 2011-06-29

This is a very good project. Really amazing!
geosig Posted 2011-03-17

Très pratique, ergonomique, bonne continuation ne vous arrêtez pas en si bon chemin !
clebig Posted 2010-11-30

Very useful, simple, all what I need to manage our projects.
gusdecool Posted 2010-11-24

Alrady use this.. simple and meet my requirement