Glimpsing Into Collanos’ Future: What’s Next
January 28th, 2009 by Franco Dal Molin
We are constantly being asked about new features, if and when they would be incorporated into the solution offering. Additionally, we are getting also many great suggestions and features requests, posted directly to the user forum.
In the hope of relieving you at least partly from your anxiety, we decided to compile a “short list” of areas that we will very likely address in the next one or two Collanos Workplace releases.
- Calendar, including simple synchronization with popular web calendar(s)
- File system integration (synchronizing folders of the operating system)
- Search functionality across all your workspaces
- Organizing and grouping of all your workspaces with keywords-based tagging or categories
- Saving objects like Emails, Contacts and Calendar Events from popular Groupware applications
- More transparent synchronization, show content replication details and new options to influence
- Support of multiple devices with only one unique Collanos Name
- Workspace templates, incl. template Web publishing to exchange with others
- Further improvements in task and project management
- Additional contact management and user profile improvements
- Expand historical change logs, to include all system objects and user actions
Please continue to tell us what you would like to see incorporated next in our releases. Feature requests stemming from real, daily, and intensive practical use take precedence from long theoretical “wish lists” of possible features. In any case, any and all ideas, suggestions and votes are welcome. Please post directly to the feature request section on Collanos Forum. Thank you for your contributions.
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June 17th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
When is “whats next” happening?
June 20th, 2009 at 6:32 am
@Hannes:
You can expect a new release of Collanos Workplace for after the summer holiday season. It will contain a rich subset of above listed features. Some features like the “one unique Collanos Name” will not yet be included.
The release will also include some new features not mentioned yet.
As a Collanos Ambassador you will be able to test the new release as one of the first users! We will keep you informed.
Cheers
Peter
August 20th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
When’s the summer holiday over for you guys? Our college students are heading off to school this week.
I’d just like to see indications that this project is alive, well and moving forward.
Thanks,
Stew
August 21st, 2009 at 12:48 pm
I’m not sure what your plans are but I think the discussion tool needs improvement? It should support fully threaded (hierarchical) discussion items. Discussion items should be editable (not just held in the list after being submitted). It should be possible to include weblinks (already provided), simple pictures, and cross links to other workplace entries within a space.
Without these feature Collanos will always be restricted in comparison to other collaborative p2p tools.
September 16th, 2009 at 5:13 am
A few comments:
-Would love to see folder level permissions
-Also, can’t drag and drop mac mail emails directly from mac mail- which would be nice
-The task manager can be a little annoying. Maximum you can postpone a reminder is for 1 hour. You don’t necessarily have to be reminded every hour of a task due in 2 weeks!
Thanks
Brian
September 24th, 2009 at 12:14 am
@Stew - summer is over
You will soon get more details about the next release.
November 22nd, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Folder level permissions are very important to my opinion. This is key to a professional project management. You need this if you want to share documents with the three parties project manager, client and service providers.