Archive People activeCollab Patch – VArchive
Price: $9.99
This is a patch for the activeCollab to provide archive facility for administrator to archive users just like tasks and projects. It is very useful when you have some unwanted users with their active access. It does not remove the user from the system but mark them as archive which makes such user as deactivated for the system.
Such archive users stay in the system with their all details but can not login to the system as they are no longer required to access it. The patch has been developed in a way so that you can set such user as normal user by bringing back from the archived area.
This patch is really useful when you don’t want to delete a user as you might need to provide him access later on but on the other hand, you don’t want him to unnecessary have access to the system. It is further good for the security reasons as if your employee or freelancer has gone away and now you don’t need him/her to access the system as long as you don’t start the work again with him/her.
Here are few use cases to define it better:
Case #1:
You are an employer and you have all of your employees under your company’s account as persons. You will not have the same employees for ever as some will leave the company and some others will come, some others may return and so on, It is not good to have them all mixed together so it would be more useful to archive people that you are not currently collaborate with instead of delete them.
Case #2:
Almost the same with the above, you are a freelancer running a boutique-type business your partners may change in the period of time, it’s not nice to delete them from the system but instead it would be better to archive them. For example you work on a project lets say an ERP project, as a freelancer developer you start developing yourself or maybe with another coworker developer too but in the period of that development you may need some professionals to take care certain things on that project, for example you hire another freelancer designer to design the button icons of the software, when he finish the job you archive them (so he will not have further access to the system) so if you need him again you un-archive him.
Benefits?
1) You only see the current active people who work with and not people who worked with you a couple of years ago and you did not worked with them since then, as a result very clean view of peoples.
2) And probably the most important, you have a log of all the people you worked with, you have their names, emails, titles and log of the work that any people made so if you find yourself in a need of a freelancer or a person who could complete certain tasks for you, before you start searching from out-sources for a freelancer you first start searching in your in-sources for people who you already know and worked with and know their quality of work.
Upgrades:
Every package covers one year of free updates and technical support.
Special thanks goes to: Panagiotis Kosmidis AKA panosru from aviant™ for giving good ideas, bug fixing and quick review over the initial releases.
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