Re: Workspace vs Projects (WAS Re: Forums)

"Michael K. Brown" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.opengroupware.discuss.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Helge!

>Well, I think you misunderstood me. IMHO all those things (project, 
>forum, workspace) are technically the same things, the only difference 
>is that people coming from different backgrounds expect different 
>labels to be able to understand what it can be used for.

Agreed.  The label of Workspace or project is more of an administrative or organizational tool than a functional one.  But if people decide to customize OGo, then having those project types in the db may help provide customized views of OGo data, for example.

>I'm not sure that creating 1...n different links in the UI is a good 
>solution to approach that issue. Eg this will raise the question in the 
>user what type of object he should create (quite difficult to answer if 
>they all do the same thing ;-)

True.  Site level customization can be one approach (admin decides).  "Tool tips" when you create a project or workspace can be another.  I think that most people would agree that a workspace is a good general purpose container, whereas a project is more a specific thing.

>The effort from the programming side isn't high (because those are the 
>same things ;-)

 I realize you're trying to reuse the OGoProjects code, which is good!

/Mike
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