Foreign law support
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Is AppColl planning on supporting foreign law deadlines?
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@RichardS3059 I second IP Manager (ugh). I too managed a medium sized law firm docketing group and while the updates were nice, the firm's portfolio was made up of a mixture of foreign and US. As you said, the effort to keep those rules current if quite a commitment. One thing we appreciate about AppColl is the affordability. I think by not having foreign rules certainly helps with keeping costs low.
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@jonah-soundhound-com I meant in lieu of providing us with supporting foreign law deadlines, if foreign deadline support is not on the road map. Giving users the ability to create more of their own custom matter fields, which tasks can be based on might be a workaround to programming foreign law. Takes the onus off of AppColl to maintain rules associated with foreign law, but still allows non-US-based users to tailor AppColl to their jurisdiction and others.
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I think that the original post is a request for Task Types that create tasks with deadlines set by the laws of various countries other than the US.
@TarC6989 I don't understand how custom fields would help. Are you thinking of matter custom fields or task custom fields? Can you explain more detail?
Or, feel free to delete the post if it was posted to the wrong thread.
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Simply adding unlimited (or at least greatly increasing the number of) Custom Fields available to users would be a (easy?) compromise.
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@joe-appcoll-com Eventually, maybe. But I've not seen anything like a roadmap saying when. As a solo with clients who only work in a small number of countries, I can create my own rules fairly easily. But AppColl would have to spend a lot of resources to cover the world and all of the possible updates that have to be made from time to time. I managed a docketing group for a large firm for a while that used IP Manager (ugh), and the number of updates the vendor made--90% of which probably were of no interest to our clients--was huge.
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@joe-appcoll-com In my mind, this is by far the greatest weakness of AppColl. Doing it right is a huge undertaking, however.
