Propel
Propel your projects into a reality.
WordPress is already a powerful website management system that not only allows you to manage your content, but have others interact as well. Most projects rely on several pieces of software. Perhaps you use WordPress as a development blog, Salesforce for CRM, and some other software for time tracking and project management. Propel aims to combine all of these into a single interface that is already friendly and comfortable – WordPress.
In it’s short lifetime, Propel provides many of the capabilities you’d expect to see from any standard project management solution. Currently, these capabilities include the following:
- Ability to create multiple projects
- Ability to create tasks and associate them with a particular project
- Track tasks by project
- Assign tasks to WordPress users
- A front-end visual interface
- A bug reporting system
It is highly anticipated this list will expand over time and under the direction of its users. If there is a feature you would like to see in the next version of Propel please request it below.
Support
If you are having issues with Propel you may submit a comment below or ask on the WordPress forum.
How do I display a projects status in a page?
You can use the [pl-projects] short code in any page or post to show the status of all your current projects. You can show the status of an individual project by using [ pl-projects id=x] where x is the id of the project.
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I like the short code but I wish there were other options like showing 3 out of the 10 different projects I have going on a page. Is that possible?
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Can I get the Quick Task and Tasks widgets to appear in a page or post? Hoping to allow users to enter task and create projects w/out having access to WP back end, possible?
Thanks
Mike
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Unfortunately the only way for users to create tasks/projects is through the backend. I will add this to the feature request list for future versions, but at this time, I cannot provide a time line.
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I would require a more fleshed out front-end before I could consider using Propel I’m afraid. I am looking for a solution for my Rotary Club. We do mini projects all the time – whether it is organizing a Work Party to do some community service, or arranging our annual fund raising event, or just the next pizza party at a member’s house.
We are organized into Committees – so really I’m looking for members to be able to create ad-hoc projects under each Committee (presumably I could use Categories for this), assign a selection of members to the project, assign tasks and track progress. You have a frustratingly large amount of these features, but what’s missing is…
1) ability to create projects and posts through the frontend (I’d want an ability to add the category to the shortcode, so the project would be automatically created under the right Committee, when placed on a Committee page)
2) A list of projects with their status (which you already have) but filtered by the category (so I could display under each Committee the projects for that committee
3) a front-end project page with a description of the project, list of tasks with statuses for that project, and maybe last comment posted for that task
4) a front-end task page showing the description of the task and all comments with ability to comment of course. (the drill-through destination for lists of tasks)
5) a list of tasks by project that the logged-in user was assigned to, with latest activity
6) WIDGETS:
a) My tasks (shortcode option to filter by category)
b) My Projects
c) All Projects (option to filter by category
Hmm – ok – that’s quite a list!!! On the flip side I might be interested in contributing if I can’t find another WP plugin which better suites my needs….CollabPress is another solution I’m looking at…
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I really like Propel. It’s fantastic. I am now curious about the gallery you’re using for the screen shots on your Propel page. Is it a wordpress plugin? I’d love to know! Hit me back when you have a moment and thanks again for such a great PM tool like Propel!
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Allen, I’m glad you like the plugin. As for the gallery, the images are just inserted into the post, and I use the plugin Fancybox by Kevin Sylvestre to achieve the “fancybox” effect.
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Great! Thanks!
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During he testing of your plugin, I noticed that when a task was reassigned to a different person, only the original person assigned the task still saw it. The only way I was able to “Re-assign” was to delete the task and recreate it. Is this designed behavior?
I have v. 1.7.2 of the plugin installed.
Thanks!
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No, this is not done by design. I will add it to the bug list and fix it in the next release. Thanks for the bug report!
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Hi,
In My tasks the columns are: Name, Project, Priority and %. There are some missing columns (user, start, end)? Also, My tasks view in Firefox is messy. I am using WP 3.1.4. Thank you for the support.
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Hi,
There is a conflict with the jQueryTools librairy.
If jqueryTools librairy is loaded, like in Graphene theme, we have a JS error : “b is undefined”.
So strange, but Propel is so in conflict with this theme… Do you know why ?
Thanks !
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Super cool. It works now. Thx for This ‘ simple but does the work’ plugin ( and the quick fix)
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I also ran into the same issue “i got error message:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in …/wp-content/plugins/propel/frontend/projects_new.php on line 22″ while trying to use.
Showing all projects works fine.
Can you please shed some light on this?
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I just pushed out an update. Please try now, and let me know.
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Hi John,
Thanks for your amazing plugin.
Currently i’m using it. For short code to show all projects, there is no problem. But, when i use [ pl-projects id=x] to the status of an individual project, i got error message:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in …/wp-content/plugins/propel/frontend/projects_new.php on line 22
Can you check it for me? Thank you in advance.
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I will look into this tomorrow and get back to you.
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I just pushed out an update. Try now.
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Whoa it’s working. Thank you
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1. How do I get the users within the site to appear as an option in the drop down menu when assigning tasks?
2. Are emails automatically generated to the users letting them know they have a new task? If so, is there a way to space out when the reminders are sent (if one project has 3 tasks/due dates)?
3. Is there an ability to establish Categories for projects?
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Hi Theressa,
1. Users should appear automatically in the drop down. If they are not, then it is a bug. Can you tell me a little more about your setup? Are you using WordPress multi-site?
2. Currently, no. The next version will have the option to dispatch an email when a task is created and assigned to a user. I will add reminders to the future features list.
3. With the current database structure, no. The next release (on track for a June 27th release), we are moving toward custom post types so Propel can harness more of WordPress' built in functionality such as categories. Although, I am not sure why you would categorize projects? Can you provide me a use case, just so I can wrap my head around the idea?
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Mine users aren’t showing either. I’m using Propel with WPMU and P2 theme.
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I will take a look at this over the weekend. I’m pretty sure it has to do with WPMU.
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John!
Thanks so much for your prompt reply..and please forgive my massive delay. We are using WP with multiple sites, all of our users are within crash.coop, while I’m just trying to test out this plugin on test.crash.coop…this is probably the reasoning behind it not showing users (I didn’t network activate – would that just be the easy fix for the users to then show?)
Excited the email reminders may work!
The categories are so users would be able to search…I’m thinking of it in terms of how our blog works that you can select just to view posts with a specific category and was trying to think in similar terms for the projects. Does this make sense, or am I confusing further?
Thanks again!
Theresa
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