[Vtigercrm-developers] API Developers

[Sutharsan Jeganathan]

Hi

Actually magenta has better structure that classifies code into core,
community, and local. Community for extension and local for user specific
customization.

I strongly appreciate a local module concept which can be used to extend or
override standard module features.

Thanks
SUTHARSAN JEGANATHAN
On 11 Jun 2015 12:55, "Conrado Maggi" <comaggi at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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