[Vtigercrm-developers] Feature requests for next version of vtiger

[Uma S]

Hi Alan,

Thanks! for notification.

I have marked this in the road-map, here is the trac
<http://trac.vtiger.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/8476> will look into this.

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Alan Lord (News) <alanslists at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Two things keep cropping I would like to get added to the list of
> "nice-things-to-do" to make vtiger better...
>
> 1. Fix address handling. It's a mess. Every module has a different way of
> storing address data in inconsistently named tables and columns. There is a
> bunch of hardcoded spaghetti code to enable address propagation between
> modules.
>
> I recommend taking a fresh approach to this and essentially creating an
> Address Module with one set of fields. These addresses can then be related
> to what ever modules are required. Propagation becomes easy and doesn't
> need to be hardcoded. This means that when a customer wants to change the
> format of the address fields (using vtlib) we won;t have to re-engineer
> loads of code just to get the "copy address" function to work. Or to get an
> Address passed between a Quote and a Sales Order...
>
> We have implemented something like this for a couple of customers and it
> seems to be working well. In an Organisation record they needed to store
> several different types of address such as Legal, Primary, Correspondence
> etc. and for a Contact they needed different types of addresses like
> Office, Home etc.
>
>
> 2. Split the Create & Edit privileges of the Profile. I am frequently
> asked by customers that they want certain user roles to be able to create
> new records but once the record is saved that they are not then able to
> edit it. This is very hard to achieve right now.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Al
>
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With
Best Regards
Uma.S
Vtiger Team
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