[Vtigercrm-developers] 5.2.0RC Project Teams?

[Carlo Beschi]

Hi Alan, all.

Project Team module was initially developed by Studio Synthesis for one 
of its customers, and then included in the last public release of 
vts-projects for vtiger 5.1

I copy and paste an email I sent some time ago to Asha (I hope she's 
fine with this ;-) which explains the module idea and functionality.

Ciao,
Carlo


 > 1. What is the basic idea behind Project Team module?

1. The Basic idea is to map the Human Resources allocated to any single 
projects - internal and external.

With the Project Team module we went beyond:

- the limit of the "assigned to" feature - you can specify only a single 
user (ie the Project Manager, possibly) and not many users

- the limit of eventually creating a "project function" field inside the 
Contact module:  we want  a Contact to be able to be a PM in a project, 
and a Dev in a second project, ....

For a proper use of the module, both clients' contacts and internal 
employees need to be mapped as Contacts.

Another way of achieving a similar result would have been to have N 
uitype 10 fields in the Projects module all pointing to the Contacts 
module - but this somehow breaks vtlib (and anyway it's not a perfect 
solution)

 > 2. Is there anything that cannot be achieved through Related lists which
 > you want to achieve through Project Team module?

2. See above: yes, we could have a n:m relations mapped through a 
get_related_list call. But we still would have not been able to map 
people functions on different projects


 > 3. Are we going to miss any important feature if we do not aim to
 > integrate it with standard Project Management module?

3. No. It's a sort of add-on.

 > 4. Is it been asked multiple times by the users for which you have
 > included this module?

4. We coded this for a German company which we helped migrate from a PM 
legacy system to vtiger + customized vts-projects. The helped us with 
the analysis. There's a few more companies I know are using it (<20). 
It's still very fresh ;-)



Il 04/08/2010 14:54, Alan Lord (News) ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> I just noticed this.
>
> Can someone update the Wiki and provide an explanation of the Project
> Team module please?
>
> I can't really work out what it is for. I must be thick ;-)
>
> Al
>