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How To's / Re: File/Document Name - Maximum number of Characters?

« on: April 24, 2011, 08:06:57 am »

Hi Markus

Thanks a lot for your reply..That solved the trick!

Cheers

Robin

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How To's / File/Document Name - Maximum number of Characters?

« on: April 15, 2011, 01:43:42 pm »

Hi

I just noticed that FO truncates filenames with more than 100 characters (roughly).

How do I go about increasing this limit from 100 to say 200, as we have larger filenames in our organisation.

I am a coder so any pointers into the source code would be appreciated if the need be.

Best Regards

Robin

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How To's / General Timeslots vs Task Timeslots

« on: March 02, 2011, 12:40:49 am »

Hi

I have been playing around with timeslots for a while, and think that it is a really powerful feature. I understand that General Timeslots are meant as timeslots for Workspaces and Task Timeslots are meant for tasks. However, I can't seem to understand the advantages of General Timeslots (in the Time tab) over the Task Timeslots and vice-versa.

It would be great if someone with experience in using the two types of Timeslots could explain to me when and why to use each type of Timeslots.

Best Regards

Robin

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How To's / Re: Empty Date Fields Possible?

« on: February 28, 2011, 11:14:07 pm »

Thanks for the reply. Will do...

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How To's / Object Type removed when Task Recurs

« on: February 26, 2011, 11:37:25 pm »

Hi

It's me again 

I created a recurring task and assigned it an Object Type (subtype). However, when the task is marked complete, and the task recurs, only the NEWLY created task which recurred has the Object Type assigned to it, the original completed tasks no longer have any Object Type assigned to them (i.e. they become unclassified). This is easier to visualise when tasks are grouped by Object Type.

I think this destroys the whole purpose of Task Object Subtypes, since recurring tasks don't seem to KEEP the Object subtype.

Is it a bug or it's meant to be like this?

Thanks

Robin

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How To's / Empty Date Fields Possible?

« on: February 26, 2011, 12:19:24 pm »

Hi

I created some custom date fields for contacts/companies (e.g. date client's business started/ended). Now, obviously, sometimes we don't know a particular client's business start date or the business has not ended yet. So, we would like to "not" specify any date for specific clients. However, when nothing is entered in the date fields, and the contact/company data saved, the field saves the date automatically as today's date, which is wrong really. We would like to "not" have any date when "not" specified.

Is this possible somehow, or should I revert back to text fields for the desired result (which destroys the purpose of the beautiful date widget really).

Best Regards

Robin

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How To's / Re: Move multiple tasks between workspaces

« on: February 26, 2011, 12:09:25 pm »

Mate, I think the only way to move tasks between workspaces, at the moment, is to move EACH task INDIVIDUALLY, which is a shame really since all other items in FO have drag n drop support, which would have made it possible to move multiple selected tasks around. Or you could use SQL, which I wouldn't suggest unless absolutely required.

Robin

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How To's / Re: Searching Contact Metadata

« on: February 22, 2011, 09:53:42 pm »

Thanks for the reply Francisco!

By 'adding some notes inside as contact', I mean just that. When creating/editing a contact, one can add notes to the contact as well (i.e. note inside and part of a contact, NOT a separate note linked to the contact). I hope you understand what I mean now. Otherwise, just edit a contact and click on "Notes" hyperlink on the row just below the contact name and email address fields.

It would have been great to have search results find text entered in 'contact notes' as well, as otherwise the notes inside contacts are pretty useless IMHO..

Regards

Robin

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How To's / Searching Contact Metadata

« on: February 17, 2011, 12:40:09 am »

Hi

I created a contact and added some notes inside. However, I couldn't get FO to search and find the notes I added inside the contact. It, however, does find seperate notes from the Notes module when searched (but not notes inside a contact).

I also made some custom fields inside contacts - tables. I use table custom field in order to add bank account details of clients. However, FO again doesn't seem to return any search results from this table custom field.

I have tried to change Search Engine to "Full" but that doesn't help either.

Am I missing something or this is how FO works?

Regards

Robin

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Feature requests / Re: Folders to categorise uploaded documents

« on: February 04, 2011, 11:48:32 pm »

By labels, are you referring to Tags?

Tags are not very convenient for some reasons:

1. All tags are visible in the tags panel regardless of the items in the current workspace i.e. if I have 50 tags, all will be visible even if I go to a workspace with only 10 items, which really makes browsing documents inefficient using tags. If tags in tags panel would filter down to only those tags currently associated with items in the current workspace, it would make sense to use them for categorising information. Think about it - what's the point of showing tags which are not associated with any of the items currently visible? And this gets worse as the number of tags increase.

2. If you have a large number of documents in a workspace, sometimes you don't want all of them to be visible at once. Folders allow logical information to be grouped together.

I think tags are quite handy for quickly searching certain items. However, they should not replace folders, as both have specific uses.

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How To's / Re: Link a document to a task

« on: February 03, 2011, 12:44:53 pm »

You should ask questions in the Questions sub-forum, not in the Feature Requests sub-forum!

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Feature requests / Re: Folders to categorise uploaded documents

« on: February 03, 2011, 12:42:43 pm »

I also agree..Otherwise it becomes a mess if there are a lot of documents within a workspace..and needless to say, it provides even better categorisation.

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How To's / Re: Cannot View/Edit/Add Tasks anymore!

« on: January 25, 2011, 08:44:51 am »

I'm using version 1.7.3.1

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How To's / Re: Archiving Workspaces?

« on: January 25, 2011, 08:44:09 am »

Got it...Thank you!

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How To's / Re: Cannot View/Edit/Add Tasks anymore!

« on: January 23, 2011, 03:20:41 pm »

Hi

I have managed to get a temporary workaround after analysing the query string and mysql database entries.

The query generated is:
SELECT * FROM `og_project_tasks` WHERE `trashed_on` = '0000-00-00 00:00:00' AND (`is_template` = 0  AND  `object_subtype` = 1:1  AND `completed_on` ......

The `object_subtype` = 1:1 should have been '1:1'. In the database, I opened the table: og_user_ws_config_option_values and change the value of the record containing 1:1 with '1:1'. And it WORKED!

The source code for filtering tasks filtered using object_subtype should somewhere accommodate for the single quotes around the value. The source code is quite a bit for me to figure it out in one go, especially because I'm really busy these days. I would be great if a developer would correct this mistake.

If you need any help, I'm happy to assist.

PS: I have reported this bug in the bug tracking application.

Best Regards
Robin