[Vtigercrm-developers] Home page Matrix ..

[Joel Rydbeck]

Folks,
 
I'm on board with Josh's feedback here.  My users just made the transition into 4.2 and while 5.0 offers a lot of great features, I'd like to be able to keep UI differences to a minimum. As great as everyone thinks 5.0 looks, it is complex and intimidating to a newcomer.  I think its great to have this as an option, but I think we also need to hang on to a simple theme/interface that looks more like the Sugar's and Salesforce.com's of the world.
 
The fact that so many people are so tied to the 5.0 look is only a signal that themes really do mean a lot to the end user.  We should make certain that 4.2 users who really liked the theme, can continue to use what they prefer just like so many prefer the 5.0 look.  Personally, I would like a theme that looks a lot closer to Salesforce so that I could compete with them better --keep it more of an apples to apples.
 
Seriously, let's not become the open source project that has an over-bearing, overly complex, overly functional UI.  Let's keep it easy for the end-user who will only touch this for 5 minutes each day --in the end, they're the ones who need CRM the most.
 
- Joel

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From: vtigercrm-developers-bounces at lists.vtigercrm.com on behalf of Jorge Garifuna
Sent: Mon 4/17/2006 3:45 AM
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Subject: Re: [Vtigercrm-developers] Home page Matrix ..


vTiger CRM is obviously one of the best solutions I've seen out there in its class. I always recommended as one of my favorite solutions.
 
I have mentioned it on certain business forums and because people are always asking for CRM solutions, I wrote a little article about my experience with the different CRM applications that I've played around with:
 
http://theopenzone.org/viewtopic.php?t=5
 
For the rest of you guys, feel free to post your replies to that article showing your support for vTiger CRM, bacause I'm always referring people to that link and the more support they see about vTiger, the more that will decide on it. 
 
-- 
Jorge Garifuna
Professional Web Developer
"Your Web Solution Partner"
Garinet Global Inc.
http://www.GariDigital.com 

 
On 4/15/06, Brian Devendorf <developer at infointegrated.com> wrote: 

	I agree completely with Jorge, though I'd be happy with just being able to select the modules for the v5 release... drag and drop would be fantastic. Another future idea would be to either resize the modules (to double width, double height) or have optional modules that are at the larger size. Also, the option to choose how many items appear in the array (or have it based on screen size), 
	
	I must say this is the best home page implementation I have seen yet. Great work, Saint!
	 
	
	Brian
	
	
	
	
	I think the interface looks nice.
	I'm not sure if this is already in the plans, but it would be cool if it could be dragable so that the user can reposition it anyway he/she wants.
	- An example of dragable content can be found at the folloing link:
	http://dhtmlgoodies.com/scripts/arrange-nodes-2/arrange-nodes-2.html 
	 
	- I think that the number of items on the list should be customozable as well, so if the user just wants to see top 3 item of sales, he can easily change the settings.
	- the graphs should also allow the user to customize the date range so if the user wants to see an overview of leads for a given month (range) he/she can easily have that option.

	-- 
	Jorge Garifuna
	Professional Web Developer
	"Your Web Solution Partner"
	Garinet Global Inc.
	http://www.GariDigital.com <http://www.garidigital.com/>  
	On 4/14/06, Josh Lee jlee at zertis.net> wrote: 

		I like it.
		Just to give some "User" feedback, I thought that you all might be
		interested to know that I have a client whom I installed vtiger5 for. 
		He dislikes the homepage from 5 enough, that he is paying to have me put
		in the home page from 4.2.3
		
		Saint wrote:
		
		> Just a weekend experiment.. and thought better, to give a shot and 
		> find your opinions. This is the 3x3 matrix idea for home page of vtiger. 
		>
		> The first row shows Top Leads, Potentiatls and Contacts.
		> The Second row shows Quotes, Sales Orders and Invoices.
		> The third row is nothing but a small graphical representation of that
		> weeks historical data about Leads, Potentials and Contacts. 
		>
		> The Upcoming Events and Pending Events are shown in the right in 
		> colored paper visuals.
		>
		> I know the home page is more tuned towards sales. But I believe most
		> of the CRM installations revolve around sales. Send in your thoughts, 
		> modifications etc. Let us see if this proves to be a good replacement 
		> for what we have currently - the spiral book type UI.
		>
		> Let me know, even if this UI doesnt make any sense at all ! :-)
		>
		> Saint
		>
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