[XenCustomize] Project Tracker [Paid] 2.3.0

[Veer]

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[XenCustomize] Project Tracker - Track your projects with milestone-based progress, roadmap items, work logs, timelines, and more!

XenCustomize Project Tracker for XenForo 2!​

A beautiful, fully-featured project management & public roadmap system — built right inside your XenForo community.

Stop juggling spreadsheets and scattered forum threads. Project Tracker brings milestone-based...

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[Alpha1]

@pegasus does this have the functionality you need to migrate your vbulletin Project Tools to XenForo?

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[pegasus]

This seems really promising as a replacement for vBulletin Project Tools. However, there is one major issue that's been holding us back from converting our project tools installation to a XenForo solution. For XenCustomize, I see:

Per-project visibility: Visible or Private

Can these visibility options be changed individually per item within a project? And per reply within an item?

In the installation we're looking to migrate, we have situations like this:
- Public Project
--- Public thread
--- Private thread
--- Public thread
------ Public reply
------ Private reply
------ Private reply
------ Public reply

Private threads/replies can be viewed by the thread owner, the post owner, and mods/admins. I believe it's a separate usergroup permission (can view others' private posts). This is different and separate from moderation status, because the post owner can change the visibility themselves.

We have hundreds of individual threads that users have marked private within public projects, and hundreds of individual posts marked private that are in public threads. If this system can accommodate this without massive changes, we'll take a look.

Also, it isn't clear from the description -- are items posted within projects able to use XenForo's custom thread fields? Or does it at least have its own ability to create custom fields?

 

[Veer]

@Alpha1 @pegasus
Hi there, and thank you for the thoughtful questions. You are asking exactly the right things before planning a migration.

At the moment, this addon does not support mixed visibility (for example: a public project containing some private individual items/log entries).

Current behavior is:

1. Visibility is only at the project level (visible / private), not per roadmap item and not per work-log entry.
2. "Private project" access is controlled by a global usergroup permission (viewPrivate), not owner-based rules.
3. Roadmap/work-log access is controlled by global usergroup permissions (viewRoadmap, viewWorkLogs) plus project-level privacy, not per individual entry.
4. There is no "private reply" model in this addon. Work logs do not have a per-entry visibility field.
5. Roadmap items can optionally link to a XenForo thread via "thread_id", but items and work logs themselves are not XenForo threads/posts.
6. XenForo custom thread fields are not integrated into project items, and the addon currently does not provide a custom-field system for roadmap items/work logs (it does support custom roadmap item types).

Important migration limitation:

• Roadmap items and work logs are intentionally short-form:
  • Roadmap items: up to 150 characters
  • Work log entries: up to 255 characters
• They do not support attachments.
• So they are not designed to replace full forum-thread/post discussions or document storage.

What the addon is designed for:

• Short roadmap entries and concise dev updates/logs
• Progress/status tracking
• Watch/follow notifications
• Milestone/status activity alerts

Your use case is valid, and you are welcome to post it in our suggestions area. We can consider it for future updates, including:

• Per-entry visibility for roadmap items and work logs
• Optional owner-based access rules
• Migration-safe enhancements based on existing data structures

So in short: this specific vBulletin Project Tools mixed-visibility model is not supported out of the box yet, but it is a realistic candidate for customization/future enhancement.