Messages

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General Discussion / Customization, customization, customization

« on: May 07, 2010, 11:17:49 pm »

I have installed and removed FO about 10 times, every time thinking I missed something just to find out that I can't get past the first few days of use.

So I spent the last few weeks looking at alternatives to fengoffice and trying to better understand what's that bottleneck that seems to be blocking me to use FO and I found it: customization

I can't even report on custom properties!
Sure I can list them, but not make totals, let alone any other form of analysis. There is no currency field, no cascading, not even calculated fields!!
Not to mention make/modify modules (applications).
The only thing I can do is use it as it is:  An arrogant approach, in my point of view.

So I have installed and tried a number of web apps, Tine20 and SugarCRM just to mention but a few and they ALL provide ways to customize/add core modules.  As a result their communities are much more active in providing plugins, new modules, themes, and all it is needed to really get them projected into fast development.

Conrado:
have a look at tine20 they will leave FO in the dust if you don't move fast.

I'm looking forward to seeing a definitive change of course.

32

Ideas / Re: Discussions

« on: April 13, 2010, 04:26:03 pm »

Different user: different use.
I agree that's a nightmare to satisfy us all.
That's when (I believe) one needs to give them the tools to take care of themselves.

Even a major money maker as salesforce.com had to bow to the power of the community to be able to expand its features.

I honestly see a great potential in FO, but it needs to speed-up development not to be left behind; and IMHO that can only be done with the help of the community.

See the example of the Gantt Charts:
Years of request and you would (could) not deliver, but the community (well not really, just one member of it) got it to a point that I hope you can take it to the core now.

But there are not many members as capable as Allen, so you may have to lower the bar and allow for more contributors to help.

As far as the core and which direction to take.. I made an attempt to get us to tell you how we use it, I hope it get you some good data.

... just with the hope of helping.

33

General Discussion / How do you use FengOffice? Let's help them to understand us

« on: April 11, 2010, 08:44:07 am »

I'm seeing the lack of a public(able) road-map from FO as a mirror into the community. We all have different needs and we all want different features, but still reading through the forum I can't figure it out how is FO implemented by the community/users.
Would you care to share? Here is us:

Who we are
Start-up, new technology, engineering

Primary use
Project management spanning 3 nations in two continents
(as I'm traveling a lot, I also use it as our "family calendar" )

Work scenario
The managing team is in USA. The R&D team is in Italy, and the manufacturing in Brazil. Potential clients are all over the globe.

Day-to-day activity in FO
Project Management
Collaborate in writing contracts, procedures and manuals
Managing activities (tasks) and monitor progresses
Reporting to stakeholders (Gantt charts)
General file repository
Mail client
Calendar

What's missing
Gantt Chart Thank you Allen
Task dependency
Better, more detailed Task Management
TO-DO list to send to our mobile phone


Now is your turn....

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Ideas / Re: Discussions

« on: April 11, 2010, 07:27:24 am »

Oh, no CRM you said?!?!
Are you trying to make it a do-it-all before you do-it-good?

For the sake of your own product, listen to the community and give them a module builder (they will implement CRM if they want to) then stick with expanding on the collaborative project model.

Please!
M

35

Feature requests / Re: GTD-esque features!

« on: April 11, 2010, 06:55:16 am »

+1 here.

I would definitely use it.

36

Ideas / Re: Ability to Add Modules

« on: March 22, 2010, 09:33:59 pm »

+ 1

37

Feature requests / Re: Mobile devices - Sponsorship opportunity - Questions

« on: March 22, 2010, 09:21:54 pm »

Ready to sponsor too, but what's the ROADMAP? and the ETA?

Cheerz,
Wz

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How To's / Re: How to create my custom widgets to dashboard?

« on: March 11, 2010, 04:12:22 pm »

I am very interested to see where this leads and what is possible here.

Leading nowhere, like all other questions about plugins!
So disappointing, as the community is slowly vanishing for the lack of a truly open achitecture.

Sad, .... really sad!

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Community Contributions / Re: How to Add Gantt Charts (JSGantt) to Feng Office

« on: March 09, 2010, 02:48:34 pm »

........

The final result may unfortunately include more SQL from the PHP side or temporary tables, but we will do our best to not have to do that...

please don't get me wrong here, I'm far too code-challenged to give you directions!  just brainstorming.... in the jsGantt site, they mention feeding the data through an XML file, would that be any easier?

--Wz

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Community Contributions / How to set up the tab to host the Gantt chart application [NOT YET WORKING]

« on: March 09, 2010, 02:37:59 pm »

Any help to figure it why it will not display the chart in the tab when it actually works as direct url?

Here are my settings as per 'Hello world" application:
The new file  /application/controllers/GanttController.class.php:

Code: [Select]

<?php

class GanttController extends ApplicationController {
function __construct() {
parent::__construct();
prepare_company_website_controller($this, 'website');
}
function index() {

}
}
?>
the new entry in /public/assets/javascript/og/layout.js

Code: [Select]

og.panels.gantt = new og.ContentPanel({
title: lang('gantt'),
id: 'gantt-panel',
iconCls: 'ico-gantt',
refreshOnWorkspaceChange: true,
defaultContent: {
type: "url",
data: og.getUrl('gantt','index')
}
})

My tab list in /langage/en_us/lang.js:

Code: [Select]

/* tabs */
'overview': 'Overview',
'messages': 'Notes',
'contacts': 'Contacts',
'calendar': 'Calendar',
'tasks': 'Tasks',
'web pages': 'Web Links',
'documents': 'Documents',
'account': 'Account',
'administration': 'Administration',
'search': 'Search',
'webpage': 'Weblink',
'message': 'Note',
'gantt':'Gantt',

My icon call in /public/assets/themes/myTheme/stylesheets/general/layout.css:

Code: [Select]

.ico-gantt {
background: transparent url(../../images/16x16/Gantt.png) no-repeat scroll 0 3px !important;
}

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Community Contributions / Re: How to Add Gantt Charts (JSGantt) to Feng Office

« on: March 09, 2010, 01:50:21 am »

You don't need to integrate it as a tab, though, can you just load the index.php file in a new window and see what it gives you?  eg, not from within Feng Office?

OK it runs perfectly stand-alone, but still have problems from the tab.
Thank you for the pointer, I'll investigate further and let you know...

--Wz

42

Community Contributions / super privilege probem

« on: March 09, 2010, 01:48:06 am »

I had the same problem with super privilege.

My MySQL is in a server but is set under one of the domains. The user has full privileges, but when I access the database through the domain I get the error.

So I access the database directly from the server and I was able to get rid of the error.

TRy to access your database via the WebControl in your server control panel,  NOT from the domain.... It worked for me.

--Wz

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Community Contributions / Re: How to Add Gantt Charts (JSGantt) to Feng Office

« on: March 08, 2010, 03:28:17 pm »

Under Account / Edit Preferences / General, I am curious if you have Initial Workspace set to All?  Mine is set to Remember Last.

Also, I had a problem like this once and I had to click "Reset User Interface" just below that...  Can you try those two things and let me know what it does?

No luck unfortunately. (Tried one at the time)
I'm on 1.6.1 if that makes any difference...

--Wx

44

Community Contributions / Open-flash-charts

« on: March 08, 2010, 11:58:46 am »

Got in touch with John Glazebrook at Open-Flash-Charts who pointed me here:
http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart-2/adv-shapes.php

Not sure if it is worth the trouble, though.
--Wz

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Community Contributions / Re: How to Add Gantt Charts (JSGantt) to Feng Office

« on: March 08, 2010, 11:55:16 am »

Does it switch to the Overview tab (literally) or does it display the contents of the Overview tab in your new Gantt tab?
[/quote]

The 'submit' button fills the current tab with the content of the Overview .
The 'Do this in a new window' button opens the Overview tab.

Thank you for the help.
Wz