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Ideas / Really-real-time editing and chatting
« on: May 24, 2010, 03:12:40 pm »
Google bought-out the developing team of etherpad www.etherpad.org to further develop its own googledocs and (interestingly enough) released the "before purchase" code as open source.  8)

I'm currently installing it under a tab, but I believe it would require a better integration in FO to be a real success (access credentials et all)

Interesting features:
Open and/or protected documents (perhaps we could use this feature to protect documents on a workspace basis and leave the open for all)
Chat Pad. It seems as in protected documents it is by-invitation-only, which could be a cool feature to have.

Drawbacks
Installation requires a good amount of tweaking on the linux server so perhaps having it as part of FO requires some additional steps/tools ???

BTW:
I called mine SharePad ...  :D


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Development / How to make flowcharts [WORKING]
« on: May 22, 2010, 04:51:25 am »
Description:
I have found this W.I.P. vector graphic editor that is really good for creating flowcharts, as well as any other graphics. It saves both .png and pure .svg

You can find more info here: http://code.google.com/p/svg-edit/

I have slightly edited the .css to match FO color scheme, cleaned a little the files and packed all in a zip file for easy installation. I chose the nightly build as it has many more features and it seems quite stable too.

Skills:
Minimal
Knowledge of the "Hello World" patch (search this forum if you are unfamiliar with it)

Requirements:
  • Fengoffice installed (1.6 and 1.7rc works well; I can't tell about earlier vers)
  • FTP access to your server will be enough although SSH terminal will be faster
  • The SVG-editor that you will find attached to the next post (I will update for newer rel.)
  • Firefox 3.6+ is the only browser that allows for insert/open local files

Howto:

  • Download the SVGeditor.zip
  • create a new folder in the fengoffice root (yourdomain.com/fengoffice/svgedit)
  • Upload and unzip the SVGeditor into the new folder
  • At this point you should have a fully functional installation of the SVG-editor at .../svgedit/svg-editor.html

The only thing left is to follow the instructions for the "hello worlds" to add a tab and get your the editor to work from inside FO.

I have added this block to mydomain\fengofficeroot\public\assets\javascript\og\layout.js:

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//The SVG edit tab
og.panels.lab = new og.ContentPanel({
title: lang('svgedit'),
id: 'svg-panel',
iconCls: 'ico-svg',
refreshOnWorkspaceChange: false,
defaultContent: {
type: "html",
notbar: true,
data: '<iframe style="width:100%;height:100%;border:0" src="http://mydomain/svgedit/svg-editor.html"></iframe>'
}

Good luck

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Development / How to add ZENphoto (gallery) to FO
« on: May 10, 2010, 02:12:50 pm »
I needed a bitmap viewer and now I have it.
Not only, I can play FLV files and a number of other formats using zenphoto.

Skills:
Minimal, believe me, if I can do it.....
Knowledge of the "Hello World" patch (search this forum if you are unfamiliar with it)

Requirements:
Fengoffice installed (1.6 and 1.7rc works well; I can't tell about earlier vers)
FTP access to your server will be enough although SSH terminal will be faster
Access to create MySQL database/user

Howto:
  • Download zenphoto here: http://www.zenphoto.org/
  • Familiarize yourself with the requirements http://www.zenphoto.org/2008/08/installation-and-upgrading/
  • Create the database with MySQL
  • Create a user to access the database
  • Create a new place for the gallery (I opted for a folder in the FO root .../zenphoto/)
  • Upload the files
  • Rename the file .../zenphoto/config.php.source to config.php
  • Edit the config.php file to include your own database details
  • Create an empty .htaccess file in the .../zenphoto/ folder
  • Create an empy robots.txt file in the .../zenphoto/ folder
  • Run the .../zenphoto/zp-core/setup.php and follow the instructions given by the resulting page (I had to run it many times before I got all green checks
  • Once all checks out, run the "GO" button to create the tables and finalize the installation
  • The setup will take you to create an admin account

At this point you should have a fully functional installation of the zenphoto gallery at .../zenphoto/index.php and you should have an admin access at .../zenphoto/zp-core/admin.php

The only thing left is to follow the instructions for the "hello worlds" to add a tab and get your gallery to run inside fengoffice.

Good luck

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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.







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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" 8))

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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Feature requests / ConradO, give us tasks dependency, please!
« on: March 04, 2010, 12:36:33 am »
In view of the great progres made by Allenlook, would it be ssoooo difficult to add task dependency to the database ???

--Wz

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Allenlook has found a solution and he is working hard to make it better and better, so skip this and go here:http://forums.fengoffice.com/index.php?topic=3826.0

BTW, if you are tempted to vote "A what chart?" read thishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart

--Wz

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