[Vtigercrm-developers] Customer Portal

[Prasad]

Can we use this discussion for recording:
https://discussions.vtiger.com/index.php?p=/discussion/172996/customer-portal-business-requirements

Regards,
Prasad

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On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Alan Lord (News) <alanslists at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> We've modified the existing portal for several customers (because it was
> the fastest way) which have editable fields, searchable and filterable
> tables (jQuery datatables just rocks) and other bits and bobs.
>
> But the truth is, out of probably a hundred clients, we have 2 that needed
> a portal like this for their customers.
>
> I like the idea of using something like Joomla! or WP as a platform but
> then you introduce a whole issue of upgrade compatibility when WP or
> Joomla! changes which I think would be a PITA to keep track of (especially
> with Joomla!)
>
> I think we'd be better off starting to document the requirements of a new
> Portal from the ground up somwehere, *together* with the vtiger developers
> and try to use this a springboard project to true collaborative development
> between the community and vtiger.
>
> But first we need to know what it is that should be built. We all have
> approached this in different directions because our customers requirements
> were different: "You can't please all of the people, all of the time"...
>
> Al
>
>
>
> On 03/09/14 09:44, Pabiszczak, Błażej wrote:
>
>> During the past two days I looked at four different customer portals.
>> It’s surprising how low are the needs of Vtiger users because no one has
>> yet created a portal with better and more advanced functions. Business
>> approach of Vtiger is destructive for the development because Vitiger
>> prefers to create silly modules such as “RSS module” / “Our sites
>> module”. The true is that an end user is not important for any company
>> that deploys Vtiger.
>>
>
>
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