[Vtigercrm-developers] 5.2.0RC Project Teams?

[Sreenivas Kanumuru]

I attached the User documentation for the Project Team module.

-Sreenivas

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:54 AM, David V. <davidv.net at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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