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Our complete set of customized site files for new dotproject customizers

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For all the dotProject newbies out there, this is the kind of thing I wish I’d had when I got started – it would have saved me a lot of time. I’m posting all the files for a dotproject site I manage, since it seems it may help people get started in customizing dotProject.

Download Files (5.8 mb zip file)

To find my changes, search across all the files for the phrases “ellen added” or “ellen changed” in various comments.

One note of caution! I am not an expert in php or dotproject so the fact that something has been done doesn’t necessarily mean it is done in the best way, nor even that works. But these files should help to get you going. This is presented “as is” and I will not fix things for you or document things beyond what is in the articles I post here (Browse all my dotProject posts)

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dotProject Recipe: changing the tab names and content

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The Projects page comes with a set of tabs, based on a combination of the project status fields and whether or not a project is active or archived, and includes a Gannt chart tab.

We changed the values used for Project Status to

0|Not Defined 2|Pending Content 3|In Progress 4|In Review 5|Complete

(to do this use: System Admin: System Lookup Values:click edit icon next to ProjectStatus)

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dotProject Recipe: add a “Complete this task” checkbox to todo list

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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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