Tag: customizing

dotProject Recipe: speeding up DotProject

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I run a dotproject site on a hosted server. Once more than a few people began using the site at once, we found that peformance was dropping enough to warrant looking into optimization possibilities. So far, it seems that there are two main steps to take: turn on caching, and add indexes to several tables in the database.

1. Turn on caching in gacl.class.php

In the file gacl.class.php, change the following settings to TRUE and FALSE as shown:

/** @var boolean Caches queries if true */
var $_caching = TRUE;

/** @var boolean Force cache to expire */
var $_force_cache_expire = FALSE;
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dotProject Recipe: add a “Complete this task” checkbox to todo list

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completionCheckbox.jpg

To allow one-click completion of a task, we added a checkbox to each row of the task “to-do” lists in dotProject.

Usually I try to borrow functions from other places in the application and adapt them to the new location. In this case the completion function was borrowed from the “progress” drop-down menu, on the add-edit Task screen.

The check box submits the same values as if 100% were selected from the drop-down menu.

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