Re: SugarCRM?

Helge Hess <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.opengroupware.discuss.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jan 5, 2005, at 15:46, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> By 'workflow' I think he means the ability of tasks to progress through
> various statuses beyond, or more specific than, created, processing,
> done, and archived.

I think Olivier really wants to have a full workflow engine. And this 
isn't out of scope, just not relevant in this discussion (since it is a 
pretty big addition and probably not provided by existing OpenSource 
solutions anyway).

> SugarCRM uses: pending input, deferred, completed,
> deferred, and in progress.  And the status can be moved back and forth 
> -
> this seems to me like it could be done with an extended attribute.

Exactly. It just seems to be a status field, just a regular popup with 
preconfigured labels.

> The ability to move a task from Done back to Processing would be a 
> useful
> feature in OGo by itself.

File an enh-request. Might be something to be planned for 1.2.

> You can also [in SugarCRM] associate a task with a contact.

You can in OGo as well by using a project - its just more generic and 
flexible. In fact company contacts already have a pre-defined project 
assigned (the "fake" projects).
So the solution is easy: for the task list on the contact form just 
show the task list of a special attached project.

> OGo currently has the Accounting Information, Associated Companies, and
> Associated Contact fields but these are just free form text fields and
> not really useful associations (they are used by Zidelook?).

Yes, this is just Outlook information exposed. Tasks also have 
obj-links which already can be used to connect persons and tasks. But I 
think I would prefer a special project to do this.

Greets,
   Helge
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