[Vtigercrm-developers] API Developers

[Conrado Maggi]

Hi Sreenivas,

Over the past week, I've been reviewing sugar enterprise code (Vtiger works
better!) and I've found a few ideas that can be incorporated into Vtiger
and will improve the opportunities for 3rd party extensions

*Customization of standard modules*

Currently vtiger looks a for a file in the /module dir, if not there fall
back to the vtiger dir.

Sugar has one more level, it start by looking for the file at
/custom/module_dir/ and then fall back into /module_dir/

By starting in /custom/module_dir/  you can customize as much as you want a
standard module without hacking it.

This change alone will open an entire world of possibilities for vtiger and
shouldn't be hard to add it.

*Complete list of Hooks*

Much like vtiger events but almost every function has its own hook that run
before and after (much like WordPress does. They called it filters and
hooks)

This allows the developers to modify the data or the output of a particular
function.


We really need these two things. Now every change to the UI is done using
javascript (I hope so! otherwise there are extensions that override vtiger
files) and the standards modules do not offer any customization
possibilities at all.

Would be great to see some of this features in an upcoming release.

Thanks!
Conrado



On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Sreenivas Kanumuru <svk at vtiger.com> wrote:

> Alan, I am certain that we will sell some OD modules, but i don't know
> which ones and when. It is not on our horizon for the next 6 months. Our
> immediate focus is on improving the APIs in the open source to expand the
> scope of 3rd party extensions.
>
> Regards,
> Sreenivas
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 09/06/15 18:48, Sreenivas Kanumuru wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you for the input. We will release Office 365 integration with 6.4
>>> (October timeframe).
>>>
>>
>> Interesting - and do you plan to sell any of the On-Demand modules on the
>> vtiger Marketplace?
>>
>> Alan
>>
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