Topics created by joe_appcoll

@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.

https://support.appcoll.com/import-prior-art-references-from-a-spreadsheet

You would contact AppColl Support to implement this change.

the other thing you could do is to expose the actualcost column in the main matter view, find the matter and click the actualcost field...that will show all billing items for that matter

https://support.appcoll.com/billing/generate-ledes-files-1998b-and-20?from_search=86965916

AppColl automatically generates both LEDES 1998B and 2.0 invoices every time an invoice is saved. Please note: LEDES invoices require a Tax ID number (which can be added to your law firm contact record) and an explicit Start Date in the invoice. In other words, the Start Date field in the invoice cannot be blank.

@MelissaT3398 Currently we don't have a way to show a created date field that allows for showing a table of contacts and their dates. The only way to do with would be through the transaction history. Search for "added contact" and the name and look at the transaction date.

When a page is locked, it means someone else is currently accessing the page. This is done to prevent two people from simultaneously editing the same page. There is an option shown by the page lock text to send an email to the person using the page. This option sends an email that someone else is trying to access the page.

https://support.appcoll.com/matters/email-conversations-tab?from_search=86965089

Available for AppColl PM Plus, the Conversations Tab allows another view for the emails that are sent into AppColl for a particular matter. Now when an email comes to a Matter's Intake email, AppColl will display the message on the Conversations Tab in a similar way as your email inbox. With this feature, you can easily download attachments, view, and reply to messages sent to the Intake address for that matter.

For most item details pages, there is a "Show History" link in the upper right corner. Clicking the link opens a vertical pane on the right side of the screen showing all the history for that specific item.

https://support.appcoll.com/general-information/show-item-activity-history?from_search=86960832

The limit is 4000 characters.

This can be done by reaching out to AppColl support.

https://support.appcoll.com/matters/add-custom-user-defined-fields-to-matters

You can add custom fields in the matters module - up to 16 string fields and 4 date fields - to store information associated with a matter that is unique to your account. These custom fields appear in matter detail pages around the middle of the page.

When setup, these fields have identical functionality to the built-in fields. They can be added as columns to the main matters page and used in filters. They can also be imported and exported via CSV spreadsheets.

I think that I once saw somebody, elsewhere, suggest that it would be nice to have a bulk task closure feature available within the Matters view. Maybe I just imagined that, myself.

I like the idea, though I can picture the GUI starting to get crowded with quite a few buttons.

Perhaps one approach to providing that feature while minimizing clutter would be to have tick boxes in a narrow leftmost column in the list of tasks and have a section of buttons on the left related to manipulating tasks, but have those task manipulation buttons become visible only when one or more boxes is ticked and become invisible as soon as no box is ticked for any shown task.

Can I stop auto-generation of the review tasks, or are they needed to auto-generate other tasks?