Collabtive
Encyclopedia
Collabtive is a web-based project management software
published as free software
.
It strives to provide an open source alternative to proprietary tools like Basecamp
or ActiveCollab.
Their main design goals included simplicity, clean design, and visual beauty.
-based user interface.
It is multi-language capable, supporting more than 30 languages.
Collabtive integrates with other webservices
via an XML
API. It also provides for importing functionality and data from other applications.
It allows the user to work with to-do lists, milestones, files and to track the time worked on a task-by-task basis.
Client-side:
Project management software
Project management software is a term covering many types of software, including estimation and planning, scheduling, cost control and budget management, resource allocation, collaboration software, communication, quality management and documentation or administration systems, which are used to...
published as free software
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
.
It strives to provide an open source alternative to proprietary tools like Basecamp
Basecamp (software)
Basecamp is a web-based project-management tool developed by 37signals and launched in 2004. The Ruby on Rails framework was extracted from the Basecamp project.-Features:...
or ActiveCollab.
History
Collabtive was started by Philipp Kiszka and Marcus Fröhner in November 2007.Their main design goals included simplicity, clean design, and visual beauty.
Characteristics
Collabtive is written in PHP5 and uses an AJAXAjax
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-based user interface.
It is multi-language capable, supporting more than 30 languages.
Collabtive integrates with other webservices
Web service
A Web service is a method of communication between two electronic devices over the web.The W3C defines a "Web service" as "a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network". It has an interface described in a machine-processable format...
via an XML
XML
Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....
API. It also provides for importing functionality and data from other applications.
It allows the user to work with to-do lists, milestones, files and to track the time worked on a task-by-task basis.
Features
Main features- to-do lists
- milestones
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- calendaring
- file management
- role-based user permissions
- timetracking
- tagging
- search
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) - importing from Basecamp XML
- multi-language interface
Requirements
Server-side:- PHPPHPPHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
5.1 - MySQLMySQLMySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...
4.1 or 5.x
Client-side:
- JSJavaScriptJavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles....
/DOMDocument Object ModelThe Document Object Model is a cross-platform and language-independent convention for representing and interacting with objects in HTML, XHTML and XML documents. Aspects of the DOM may be addressed and manipulated within the syntax of the programming language in use...
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See also
- Project managementProject managementProject management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals. A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end , undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value...
- List of project management software