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Features & Requirements

Features

General Features

  • Web-Powered: PP is completely web based
  • Easy: PP is focused on simple concepts and usability to provide an easy to use solution
  • Organized: PP organizes your projects into Milestones, Messages, Tasklists, Tasks and Files.
  • Everywhere: E-mail notifications for new milestones, tasks, messages and comments mean that your users can stay in the loop without checking the site.
  • Free and Open: ProjectPier is open source and Free Software, and will always be free as in speech and as in beer (Honest Public Licence, modified GPL)
  • No Restrictions: PP allows an unlimited number of Projects, Clients, Users, and every other object. ProjectPier wants to help you get things done, not get in the way.
  • Extendable: PP supports plugins enabling organizations and individuals to extend PP to suit their needs.

Administrative Features

  • Multi-client capability lets you manage projects of different clients simultanously
  • Complete flexibility regarding allocation of users to projects
  • 3-Level rights management:
    1. Administrator
    2. User of owner company
    3. User of client company
  • Possibility to limit rights of client users per project
    1. Manage messages
    2. Manage tasks
    3. Manage milestones
    4. Manage tickets
    5. Manage pages (wiki)
    6. Manage time
    7. Upload files
    8. Manage files
    9. Assign tasks to members of owner company
    10. Assign tasks to members of other clients
    11. Change milestone status
    12. Create project (as a non-administrator)
  • Messages and task lists can be linked to milestones
  • Projects can be part of a hierarchy of projects
  • Versioning can be used to manage revisions of uploaded files.
  • Tags can be used to categorize messages, tasks, milestones, and files
  • Fulltext search per project covering messages, tasks, milestones, and files
  • Privacy: Messages, tasks, milestones, files, and comments can be flagged as 'private', hiding sensitive information from clients
  • Simple form generator (forms can be used to create tasks or comments)

Requirements

  • Web server with MySQL, GD and SimpleXML extensions (Apache 2.0 or newer recommended)
  • PHP5 (PHP 5.2 or newer recommended; ProjectPier is not PHP4 compatible)
  • MySQL with InnoDB Support (MySQL 4.1 or newer recommended)

Good Work
Submitted by Kreativedesignes on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 14:05.

Really Good Work.
Keep it up.

InnoDB
Submitted by poinck on Fri, 11/27/2009 - 21:41.

Why is InnoDB so important? My provider does not support this. /:

For database integrity
Submitted by Ryan on Fri, 11/27/2009 - 23:44.

It helps with database integrity. There are posted hacks to get around this, but it risks errors and data loss.

DSO and SuPHP
Submitted by jrxpress on Tue, 03/22/2011 - 06:36.

I am only able to setup projectpier script on a server running as SuPHP and I continue to get a blank screen once the server is running as DSO.. What can be done to fix this issue?

DSO and SuPHP
Submitted by albatros88 on Tue, 03/22/2011 - 07:58.

Look at the cache/log.php
and put here the error