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Ideas / Email Thread

« on: November 28, 2008, 02:44:48 pm »

Since Email is still in beta, lets try to collect ideas and feature requests about email in one thread.

Webmail apps are pretty popular, so I would suggest checking out some GPL apps which can be added to the "goo" rather then trying to implement many missing features from scratch (IMAP, signatures, etc).  Has anyone looked at: http://roundcube.net ?  Does anyone know of any other PHP/MySQL GPL web applications?

On the other hand, the current email beta is a very good start; maybe it would be better to stick with what's already there?

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Feature requests / Minor (but important) suggestions for next release

« on: November 25, 2008, 07:14:40 pm »

After using Opengoo a lot over the past few weeks, here are some suggested fixes/features that I think are really important to address:

1. Proper tab order when inputing data.

2. Make it easier to set the "due date" on a task (due date and subject are the two most important fields, after all).  A way to add directly from the calendar (like an event) would be nice too.

3. Enable users to change the "Send email notification to user" in new tasks to default to unchecked.

4. short-cut keys (least important):
 - one for selecting the "all" workspace
 - one for each option in the (+) drop-down at the upper right (which I love, by the way)
 - one for each tab at the top

5. ical support (the code is already there!)

Thanks and keep up the great work!   

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Feng Office 1 / Contact added to workspace multiple times

« on: November 20, 2008, 10:20:19 pm »

To reproduce:

1) select a workspace
2) select a contact in that workspace
3) click "edit"
4) click "role"
5) make no changes and click save

contact now has the same role listed twice (or more) and shows the same workspace twice (or more) next to his/her name in the master contact list.

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Feng Office 1 / NULL values in the database

« on: November 19, 2008, 11:22:07 am »

Maybe this is not a big issue for other users (or for me, if we see an import/export for contacts someday).

I've been trying to get contacts into OpenGoo through either a script or CSV import (via phpMyAdmin).  A NULL value in any contact or company field causes OpenGoo to go berserk.

Should this be fixed on the code side so that NULL values are ignored or treated like empty strings?

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Applications / Billing

« on: October 07, 2008, 06:26:31 pm »

For your next addition to the "Goo" I would request looking at some billing programs out there to integrate.  I highly recommend keeping it simple; not an application with too many features (like inventory tracking, vendors, etc), just something basic which would allow tracked time to be converted to invoices.

One great solution out there is http://www.bambooinvoice.org/
It is GPL and simply does billing (and does it very well).  I have not looked at the DB structure but on the surface it looks similar in principle to OpenGoo.

Just an idea for post v1.0... I think it would make an excellent addition to the Goo! 

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Ideas / Quick Message Button

« on: October 07, 2008, 06:11:23 pm »

One feature that is really necessary for an office is the ability to create quick notes ("sticky notes") and then elaborate on them later by typing up quick memos to log a phone call or meeting summary.

There currently isn't an "activity tracker" like many CRM's which I think is actually <i>better</i> because messages + tags work just as well and are much simpler (anything more complicated you can just upload a document).

Anyway, my point is:
it would be nice to have a "quick message" button somewhere, maybe in the workspace toolbar next to "refresh".  It would bring up a "new message" dialog w/ the current selected workspace pre-selected.  You could then add some tags (phone call, meeting, note, etc).  If a follow-up is needed (due to a rush) you just flag as "important" (which, by the way, I don't see the "important messages" section in the workspace menu ).

How does this sound to people?

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Feng Office 1 / Cannot search contacts or link certain objects in .9

« on: October 07, 2008, 11:16:31 am »

I upgraded to .9 yesterday and now searches are not returning contacts, only other objects (workspaces, tasks, etc).

Also, the menu for linking an object does not properly list "companies" "documents" or "messages" (no error or log entry, the list  just doesn't update)

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General Discussion / SSL/TLS support (gmail) fix

« on: October 06, 2008, 05:30:19 pm »

Gmail requires SSL/TLS support to work properly and I am a faithful Gmail user.  I noticed a few other on here are as well.  So here is a fix to get Gmail (or another encrypted mail server) working with OpenGoo:

Download and install Stunnel (http://www.stunnel.org/)
It is a free program which will sit on your computer and download your email on command.  It supports SSL/TLS. 
Now edit your configuration file to look something like:

; Use it for client mode
client = yes

; Service-level configuration

[pop3s]
accept  = 110   
connect = pop.gmail.com:995

[ssmtp]
accept  = 25
connect = smtp.gmail.com:465

Now in OpenGoo put in your full email address for username and your password.  Set your Pop3 server to 127.0.0.1 and your smtp server to 127.0.0.1 with port 25.

It should now work!

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How To's / Companies as Clients?

« on: October 06, 2008, 05:18:25 pm »

I noticed today that in under "Administration" and "Clients", companies are listed even though they may not be users or an actual "client."  Is this intended or a bug?

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Feng Office 1 / View Company 500 Error [Work-Around & Fix]

« on: October 05, 2008, 03:45:49 pm »

Hello, when viewing a company one consistently gets a "500" error when debugging is false.  As a work around, one can enable debugging and things will work as though there is no problem (the error is silently logged).

The problem is that Contact::canAdd() at opengoo/application/models/contacts/Contact.class.php' on line 654 takes 2 arguments, but opengoo/application/views/company/view_company.php on line 5 is passing only 1 argument.

On a side note: are you using the sourceforge tracker?  Is there another tracker for reporting bugs?

Keep up the hard work! 

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Feature requests / Import/Export Calendar, Contacts, Files

« on: October 04, 2008, 01:04:39 am »

Hello:

First, this is a very impressive project!

I would love to use this project but I have many contacts and appointments; there needs to be a way to import them as it would take a lot of time to input them all by hand.

Likewise, I need a way to get my information back out once I'm using it.  Ideally this would be in CSV or iCal,  vCard and some sort of compressed file for files.

Additionally, I would also suggest checking out railscollab for inspiration; it's a ruby project, but is based on activecollab and is very well done.  For instance, it implements the Basecamp API so Basecamp compatible applications work with it, something I think would be great for OpenGoo.

Thanks for your hard work!