[Vtigercrm-developers] [VTiger 6] Question about: Activity Types widget in module Calendar

[Rietz, Artur]

In our opinion it shouldnt be in fact "link type", why?

1) Imagine following situation: customer run calendar, he wanted us to
improve system for him, but if he see such a simple element like activity
types, he probably would ask us "hm, sir how can I add here different
fields ? " - with your solution answer is "we have to midify it
programatically for you". - it is wrong ;) simple changes should be
configurable from settings panel for module.

2) Links are not prepared for adding single elements to particular widget.
They are created for adding widgets, button, or in vt 5.4 special actions.
This is widget at the moment, so we couldnt modify it`s content through
vtiger_link table.

So we suggest to create setting panel, where admin can set up, what modules
with what fields would be displayed :)

Regards, Rietz Artur

2013/4/11 Vikas Jain <vikas at vtiger.com>

> Rietz,
>
> I completely agree with you on this, i take the responsibility for this
> mistake. Initially this was more of a
> prototype that was planned to enhance further to allow addition of more
> date fields from other modules,
> but it just got slipped from my list. Thank you for bringing this to
> notice.
>
> This is the below plan that will make it more flexible for anyone to add
> more Calendar View Types :
>
>    1. Add a new Link type for Calendar called "CALENDARVIEWTYPE".
>    2. In the URL pass the name of the module and date fields on which the
>    Calendar should show the entry.
>    eg :
>    index.php?module=Calendar&action=Feed&sourceModule={moduleName}&fields=[field1,(optional
>    field2)]
>    3. On the server end it would process and return the records for
>    {moduleName} between field1 and field2.
>
> Let us know if this would be flexible enough for anyone to use.
>
>
>
> On 4 April 2013 13:12, Rietz, Artur <a.rietz at opensaas.pl> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've seen new widget in VT6 Calendar, called" Activity Types, I was kinda
>> interested in using it but suprisingly it is not flexible widget :/
>> Why while you have been planning this widget, and realising it from the
>> beggining you didnt assume that someone might want to add new field, or new
>> module, or another module or another field to this particular widget ? Why
>> you do not use any table, any array, maybe new uitype anything configurable
>> to choose what fields/modules should be visible there ? Was it so hard to
>> realise that it might be useful ?
>>
>> Instead of this we can see something like:
>>
>> vtiger6/layouts/vlayout/modules/Calendar/CalendarViewTypes.tpl
>> part of source code:
>>
>>> <label class="checkbox">
>>> <input type="checkbox" data-calendar-sourcekey="ProjectTask"
>>> data-calendar-feed="ProjectTask" data-calendar-feed-css="fc-event-style8">
>>> <span class="label fc-event-style8">{vtranslate('SINGLE_ProjectTask',
>>> 'ProjectTask')}</span>
>>>  </label>
>>>
>>
>>  <label class="checkbox">
>>
>>  <input type="checkbox" data-calendar-sourcekey="Contacts_Birthday"
>>> data-calendar-feed="Contacts" data-calendar-feed-css="fc-event-style6"
>>> data-custom-data='{ldelim}"fieldname":"birthday"{rdelim}' />
>>
>>  <span class="label
>>> fc-event-style6">{vtranslate('LBL_CONTACTS_BIRTH_DAY', $MODULE)}</span>
>>
>>  </label>
>>
>>
>> Don't you think that for now this wigdet is not fully working for the
>> developers ?
>>
>> Regards, Rietz Artur
>>
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>
>
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> Regards
> Vikas
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