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

[Vikas Jain]

Rietz,

Thanks for the suggestion, we will take in your suggestion and will come
back with a better solution.

On 12 April 2013 12:30, Rietz, Artur <a.rietz at opensaas.pl> wrote:

> 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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>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>> Vikas
>> Vtiger Team
>>
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Vikas
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