[Vtigercrm-developers] list management

[Matthew Brichacek]

I'd be very interested in seeing the code, for the most part we are
working in diff areas.  My work is going to focus on the list management
and bulk mailing.  The tracking component is a geolocation system using
the hostip.info database.  There are probably some areas of my code you
could build from, and I would also be interested in your javascript to
make entity selection a breeze (could be nice for campaigns).

Thanks,

Matt


On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 13:12 -0400, Nolan Andres wrote:
> Matthew Brichacek wrote:
>  > Now that 5.0 beta has been released I'd like to get started on the list
>  > management and bulk mailing interfaces.  Should I create a 5.1 branch
>  > for my work or do you want me on the trunk?
>  >
>  > FYI: this is my list for 5.1
>  > 1) List management
>  > 2) Bulk Mailing
>  > 3) Email tracking
> 
> Not sure how much this would connect with "Email tracking," but I've 
> been working on some code to unify the management of "automatic emails" 
> that vTiger sends. Ultimately, it's designed to replace most of the 
> email-related communication bits of the Settings area, as well as the 
> current cron job scripts that send the emails in question.
> 
> At present, what I have allows admins to specify:
> 
> * emails in response to crm entity creation, change, and deletion
> * emails containing scheduled reports
> 
> ...and is soon to allow specification of:
> 
> * emails in response to value-related triggers (eg. inventory falls 
> below specified level, etc)
> * emails in response to complex situations (ie. specified by a custom 
> function)
> 
> AutoEmail Parameters common to all types:
> * specify a set of users to send the email to
> * specify a set of contacts to send the email to
> * specify a set of arbitrary email addresses
> * specify from address
> * specify (parameterized) subject and body
>     - parameters include "name" and id of crm entity in question
>     - "name" and id of "parent" of crm entity in question
>     - user that made the change that triggered the email
> 
> 
> ...a preliminary discussion including the impetus for this work can be 
> found at:
> 
> http://forums.vtiger.com/viewtopic.php?p=23925
> 
> 
> ...not having looked at the 5.0 code yet, I'm not sure how well the code 
> I've written would fit in, but I'm certainly willing to contribute it. 
> It consists largely of files that go within the Settings module folder:
> 
> * an AutoEmail class
> * a set of AutoEmail subclasses
> * a php class called multiControl that provides a JavaScript based 
> interface control which makes selecting the set of users/contacts pretty
> * a set of AutoEmailDetail/EditView pages (html and php)
>     - using the old XTemplate stuff
> * a little bit of helper JavaScript
> 
> plus some minor additions to CRMEntity.php
> 
> 
> I think it's all been factored fairly well, but I likely made some 
> assumptions that would not necessarily fit with what you may want to do. 
>   Would there be interest in having this code contributed?
> 
> 
> peace,
> nokes
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