[Vtigercrm-developers] 5.2.0RC Project Teams?

[David V.]

Oups ! I've always thought Asha was a "he". :-S

David V.


2010/8/10 Carlo Beschi <carloz at gnumerica.org>

> 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
> >
>
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