Hi Karl, bevia,
Sorry for the late reply.
@bevia, additional "dimensions" are available on the Professional and the Enterprise Edition.
As a matter of fact, we are working on a framework for the Enterprise Edition to allow the creation of dimensions by the administrators of the system. Right now we have a collection of dimensions that we can add to the Enterprise Edition.
Community Edition dimensionsCommunity Edition dimensions include:
Professional Edition dimensionsProfessional Edition dimensions include:
- Clients and Projects (Which can now be separated into two different dimensions)
- Workspaces
- Tags
Enterprise Edition dimensionsEnterprise Edition dimensions include:
- All of the above
- Client stages
- Client status
- Client sectors
- Project status
- Project types
- Project managers
- Suppliers (Vendors)
- Vendors
- Product types
- Countries & Locations
- Financial sources
- ...and many more I don't recall right now
Also, as mentioned, in the near future we will enable an additional plugin for the Enterprise Edition to create as many dimensions as needed for helping businesses organize their information perfectly tailoring the system to their needs.
Going back to @Karl's question, we typically use Workspaces to model business divisions (Administration, Development, Sales, Marketing, Operations, etc), and Clients and Projects for managing that: clients and projects.
Businesses structured in this way most frequently want to know -for each particular task or file- to which area of the business it relates (is it a marketing or a development task?) and to which client (or clients) it affects.
Some tasks or documents do not relate to any specific client - and that is OK. But when they do, it is great to know who it affects.
Another very cool feature is that you can configure your Feng Office to have the classifications of objects manage permissions differently. I'll explain.
By default, if you create a document and you classify it in both a project AND a workspace, only the people with permissions to access BOTH the project and the workspace will be able to access that document.
But with a quick system settings change, you can make it so that people can access the document by having permissions to EITHER one of them (either the project or the workspace).
Does that make sense?
I hope it helps. I love this feature and we should definitely do better at communicating how powerful this is. It is one of the big goals for this year.