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Community Contributions / Re: Added tasks to iCalendar export

« on: May 03, 2010, 12:27:47 pm »

I downloaded and checked the files - they seem to be complete and are the same as what I have in my install which works without any errors.

But I neglected to mention that this was for 1.6.2!  I wonder if that's what's causing the errors for you guys running RC1.7x? 

I am sure it's not perfect and might be buggy.  Will be happy to help troubleshoot.

Gary

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How To's / Re: Calendar Export Of Tasks

« on: March 20, 2010, 05:21:52 pm »

See http://forums.fengoffice.com/index.php?topic=3938.0

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Community Contributions / Added tasks to iCalendar export

« on: March 20, 2010, 05:21:01 pm »

I love the iCalendar export feature.  I use it to add my Feng calendar to my Google Calendar, then all my Google calendars gets synced to my Palm Pre. It works great.

The problem is that the Feng iCalendar export does not export tasks.  So I hacked it to do so.  Hopefully this might find its way to the core.

Two files are updated and attached:
application/controllers/FeedController.class.php
environment/classes/event/CalFormatUtilities.php

Since tasks have no start/end times, they export as date events with no time. In Google Calendar they show up on the top of each day.  This is nice in that it shows me what I am supposed to be working on from day to day without crowding my calendar time slots.

To use it, simply get the iCalendar URL like you normally do, and add the parameter "&p=1" to tell it you want project tasks exported as well.

For example, the URL might be:

http://projects.xyz.com/index.php?c=feed&a=ical_export&n=Gary%20W&cal=0&t=abcabcabc5420657bbe7b70191a9e4d582f634881c&isw=0

You just have to change it to:

http://projects.xyz.com/index.php?c=feed&a=ical_export&n=Gary%20W&cal=0&t=abcabcabc5420657bbe7b70191a9e4d582f634881c&isw=0&p=1

Oh, and you can change the display name of the calendar by simply changing the "n" parameter. So instead of "&n=Gary%20W" I changed it to "&n=Projects%20Calendar" and it shows up on my Palm Pre as "Projects Calendar"

Hope someone finds this useful.

PS This is not fully tested so use as your own risk.  I hope all pulled the project tasks correctly!

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Feature requests / Re: Is Feng Office going anywhere?

« on: March 20, 2010, 05:05:03 pm »

I am compelled to add my opinion...

Amejat has some valid points, even if it was a bit overly harsh (IMHO).  Developers are expensive, even having a couple on payroll is a huge expense.  This marketplace has some serious competition, so it's obvious that sales is harder to come by.  But to stay afloat, Conrado has to make sure he's selling and making money.

When I first was introduced to Opengoo, I was very impressed with how it compared with others. But now, almost  2 years later, the competition admittedly has more features.  But I still think Feng can compete by adding just a few more features. 

Let's take a quick look at competition amejat referred to...

Zoho - big time competition. But they try to be all things to all people. Feng competes with their "Zoho Project" offering, but in order to use features like Timesheets you have to upgrade. Basically, they nickel and dime you.  For people looking for just a project management software with doc sharing, time sheet, and BILLING (hint hint), Feng is better IMO.

EyeOS - Are you serious?  Start a beta account and in 5 mins you'll turn it off and won't come back. It's not even a proj management tool.  Might be of interest if you simply want to share documents in a cool new "cloud desktop".

Thinkfree - again, not project managent, but document collaboration and sharing.

Real competitors would be Copper Project and Basecamp.  Copper is a great tool but on the high-end of pricing.

To me, Feng has a real good thing going with the "workspace" feature.  Even though it may seem like a fancy word for Project filter, it's actually very unique in how it manages resources and access.  Conrado - if you were in the U.S. (you're not, right?) you can probably patent that! (In the U.S. you can get them to patent just about anything).

Conrado I think this is a great product, please don't give up. But more progress has to be made to features in order to complete with the others.

I look forward to seeing 1.7.

Gary