Here at Creative World we use activeCollab to manage and collaborate with client projects every day. It’s a great application and I don’t know where we’d be without it. Over the last few weeks I’ve been working on a new theme for it which I’ve decided to make available to the aC community.
This theme is called Access. Using web 2.0 influences, Access is designed with a soft, easy to view interface while still highlighting important events and actions to the user.
Features
- Wide layout – Access uses more of your screen space.
- Colours! Colours on recent comments, tickets, completed tasks etc. help view different activities.
- Streamlined dashboard – Improved to see more ‘at a glance’.
- Highlighted pined objects – Highlighted in red text to show its extra important.
- Plus LOTS more…
You can download Access theme here.
Screen shots
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Dashboard View
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Project Overview
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Ticket View
Update 17 Dec 2009
From today onwards our free Access Theme for activeCollab will be available for download via our new Members Area, and not via this page any more. We’re doing this because we will be better able to update and maintain this theme under our new ActiveCollab Themes section. I hope this won’t be of much an inconvenience.
Thanks, Leon.
Signup & Download the free Access Theme for ActiveCollab here
Tags: activeCollab, Themes
Awesome, awesome, superawesome!
Thanks for the comment Goran – glad you like it. Means a lot coming from you
Did you or are you incorporating a modified iPhone theme as well?
Hi Dan – I haven’t made an iPhone theme for Access… YET!
It’s something on the to-do list, but to be honest I don’t think an iPhone theme version of Access will be available until next year at the earliest. To my knowledge, activeCollab dosen’t support choosing themes for iPhone either – So if I made an iPhone version of the theme, it would be a complete replacement of the current iPhone theme.
Love the theme, great job!
FYI, the ‘status’ module doesn’t work in this theme.
@Clay
Can you let me know more about the issue you’re having with the ‘status’ module? The status module is working perfectly for me. Cheers.
Hi Leon,
I agree,.. this is a great theme for AC, and really enjoy using AC with this theme !! But, we too are having trouble with the status module.. when using this theme. The status module icons (archive and rss icons) are not inline until you hover of them.. so, they are stacked to the right.. then you hover and they move inline.. so they ‘jitter’ back and forth.. that is the only bug I can see.. == great theme !! Thanks again and let me know if you find a solution to this..
Love it:) this theme looks very awesome and much better than the old “acPRO” that Ive had. Thanks so much 4 it:) plus an iPhone theme would be very great
Best wishes,
Igor
@Igor
Today is your lucky day! Take a look at the Access iPhone theme.
Hi Leon,
Looks great – cheers.
Little thing; line 1174 (theme.css)… I’ve removed the “margin:0;” cos it makes the headings of the tickets squish up a bit in FF3.
HTH,
Cheers,
Jimbo
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Hi there,
I am so excited to have found this theme! Thank you! I do have one issue I am hoping to find a solution to. My dashboard does not look like the clips you have above. It still has the same organization as the default activecollab theme. Is there something I am missing? *Note: I am using the new ActiveCollab 2.1 corporate. Also note, I am not a programmer.
=)
Hi Mandy
The screen shots above are from an activeCollab 1.x install, and since the release of activeCollab 2.x there have A LOT of changes to the layout and functionality, which resulted in a lot of changes to the Access theme.
At the moment we have a beta version available of Access 1.0 which was quickly put together to ‘bridge the gap’ while we work on a more compatible version of Access to work with AC 2.x
Stay tuned!
Thank you! I am just now learning how awesome this theme is! I LOVE the look! Can I make a couple of requests?.. Take what you wish and blow the rest away.
* Is is possible to have the “manage” tabs look different from the main tabs? Ie. in the Pages section there are my tabs that I labeled and then there is the “Manage Pages” at the bottom. Can get messy with customers and clients flipping through the tabs. Maybe a faded grey would convey this is a different sort of tab.
* Somehow my customers and freelancers get a little lost from the main dashboard to getting to their project and finding which tabs to focus on. The hierarchy seems to not be suggestive enough if that makes any sense. I don’t know what this would look like.. but just my two cents.
Many thanx for adding to a wonderful application like ActiveCollab. This made my day today. I was spending hours trying to fumble around with my limited css knowledge – so MUCH appreciated.
xo
Happy to hear you’re enjoying the theme! Thanks for your suggestions too – they’re valid points and I’ll look at working them into the theme.
A small follow up – Mandy I loved the idea of making the manage tab look different – it’s present in the theme from Access 1.0 Beta 2. I also made small design updates to the other tabs too – hope it helps your clients navigate around activeCollab better
..one more “wish list” idea to add to the theme..
* The ideal situation is for my clients and freelancers being able to login and know exactly what is what without too much explanation. One thing I find not self-evident is the Ticket list looks one dimentional. I have to tell them to click on the name so they can see the subtasks. It needs some visual cue to let them know to click on it, an “expand” button would be even nicer.
xo
OK. Last one, I promise. I just posted my wish list on ActiveCollab and has said I couldn’t do these things. So here is a link to the list: http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/20355/#post20355 Take what you like and blow the rest away.
=) Mandy
Hi,
Great skin! We’ve got it running almost perfectly on aC 2.1.1
One thing though, the assignments.gif doesn’t show. Any chance of help?
Hi Doug,
Yes this is a bug – basically the spelling of assignments changed slightly between versions – To fix this, open theme.css file and around line 317
change
#menu_item_assignemnts
to
#menu_item_assignments
This bug is resolved in the next Access theme release
is this going to work on the old aC? 0.7?
forget it, i looked at the compatibility! thanks
Hello,
Just wanted to let you know, that the latest aC 2.2.2 update breaks the theme’s buttons for save/add etc. Any chance of fixing that?
Best,
Sebastian
Hey Sebastian,
Yes I noticed this just before too and just made a quick hot fix post on the activecollab forums.
To solve the button issue in Access 1.1 & AC2.2.2, ADD the following code to the public/assets/themes/Access/theme.css file
#auth_dialog button span span, button span span {background:none;padding:0;}(Updated 16 Oct 09 with additional style)
We’ll include this fix in the next Access theme release
Leon,
Thanks for the quick update and for the great theme!
Best, Sebastian
Hey Leon,
Remember in the early version of Access the different types of communication had the little color label indicating if it was a “ticket” “task” etc — would it be difficult to bring that back as an option in the admin area or alternative version of the new AC?
I’ve been missing those, it made following the recent activity a lot easier to view — I was thinking about tweaking my ACcess install to do it but since you’re the master I thought maybe you’d have a quick solution.
Thanks!
Hey Nathan – I don’t want to spill the beans but we’re already working on something that will address the points you mentioned
I’ll keep you posted. 
That’s great! Looking forward to it — you always have great surprises
If you need help testing let me know 
Hey Leon — While we’re chatting, I saw someone posted updates to the MarkOS ticket hacks, we’re finding a need for this functionality… I was trying to get an idea if Access already supports this… I know you mentioned in a previous release you didn’t have time to address it. Thanks! http://www.activecollab.com/forums/post/22416/#post22416
I am selling my copy of ActiveCollab if anyone is interested. I already contacted support and they said I could transfer my license. I still have 4 months left of updates. Selling for $390. If you are interested contact me at customerservice@localwebconnect.com.
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Hi Mandy,
Could you contact me if you see this, I have someone interested in your license.
Thanks,
Nathan
Love your theme, congrats!
Just a comment regarding the flow of the comments
I believe the comments flow should be this way:
First: The most recent comment
Second: The new comment form
Third: The previous comments (the most recent one at the top and the oldest one at the bottom).
Hope you can fix this.
Greetings from Mexico.
Thanks for the comment Rich – are you talking about the flow of comments on AC or here?
You got it right. That’s what I’m talking about.
I have been using this theme for a while now, it’s better than the default theme.
I did notice that some buttons are not displayed correctly, like the buttons for tickets.
Hi Michiel – Can you let me know which activeCollab and Access theme versions you’re using? Also, which browser/s are you using and a screen shot would also be helpful if possible.
My guess is that you’re using an older version of activeCollab with the newer Access theme, or vice versa. (There were some button issues around AC 2.2.2 and Access 1.1 – read more here.)
Thanks, Leon.
When was version 1.3 released?. How can I know what version am I using now?.
Thanks.
Access 1.3 was released around mid-December 2009 and currently is still the latest release.
Your version of Access can be found in the top area of this CSS file if you open:
/public/assets/themes/Access/theme.css