First, let me say how appreciative I am to the developers of opengoo, it is a significant project that does you all great credit!
I have put together some of my experiences, random thought and wishful ideas as a new user of opengoo, for the last month, in the hope that it may be useful. Some issues have been commented on elsewhere in the forums, so please take my comments as agreement with issues already raised. Some of my comments may be the result of my ignorance in how to set up opengoo to do a certain task and if so I would appreciate comments from others as to how I may achieve a certain functionality. Some comments are pure wish list suggestions, which may or may not be possible or useful to others.
Email
While it is not central to my use, I would have thought that a proper attachment functionality is critical to opengoo as a web office. I know it is being worked on and would hope it would have a very high priority. It would also be nice to have a spell check before sending functionality.
Double entries
In some circumstances in creating entries, of a variety of types, opengoo creates a double entry. Very, very annoying and likely to corrupt the accuracy of data.
Repeating calender entry by time span rather than date
It would be useful to be able to set a repeating task every two weeks, so it repeats on a set day, say every 2nd Friday.
Reporting
It would be helpful for testing if the reporting function was able to be turned on from the administration panel, perhaps with a warning about being alpha and a request for bug and development feedback to a specific thread. The ability to run ad hoc reports is a real feature for me in opengoo. An alternative may be to have a sticky Tips & Tricks section in the forum, or perhaps the new wiki, which makes the enabling of such functionality more obvious than buried here:
http://forums.opengoo.org/index.php?topic=302.0Reporting - Group pending tasks
Pending tasks are currently displayed in a report as a separate unworked pending task area. It would perhaps be helpful if a pending task displayed under its parent task, marked as 'Pending', or perhaps have a setting to select which view to use. This would enable a status type reporting that displays what is done and what is pending.
Complimentary functionality
I currently have OSSEC
http://www.ossec.net/main/ set up in an extra tab to monitor security. OSSEC is both open source and cross platform. Perhaps down the track such projects may be able to be installed from the administration panel as an 'extras' module, which compliment functionality, rather than integrate fully with opengoo. As an aside, OSSEC does not render its layout and images when setup as a tab via:
http://forums.opengoo.org/index.php?topic=421.0 At some later date I will have a look to see why, as I am interested in integrating it further into a page that covers other areas of system monitoring.
Tags
While I am aware that tags are deleted from the tag panel when what they relate to is removed, it would be nice to have a way to delete a tag from the panel as an administrative management option.
Task time allocation
At the moment the input for time billed to a task is only listed as hours, in many cases hours & minutes would be better.
Track birthdays
I work with many children and young people, where I would like the option to tick a box and track birthdays.
System wide settings
It would be helpful to have system wide settings for things such as time zones, with the alternative to change it. While I understand the flexibility point made here
http://forums.opengoo.org/index.php?topic=155.0 in my view individual entries are a very messy way to achieve it.
Backups
It is great to have the backup functionality. For clarity sake the brief instructions should perhaps mention that you need to delete the previous backup before creating a new backup. Down the track it would be great to expand the backup functionality to include multiple backups that are capable of being automated.
Once again, thanks for opengoo!
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, but does anyone have an idea what that may be?