[Vtigercrm-developers] Adding a second "user" field?

[Alan Lord]

Thanks for the replies - so it sounds like this is still not really 
possible in any meaningful way.

Maybe this should be a new feature for a later release - Maybe introduce 
a new UIType for the purpose?

It would be good if vtiger could comment - but we know Prasad is now on 
holiday until June ;-)

Cheers

Al


On 03/05/18 18:41, Oleg Antonov wrote:
> Hi Alan!
> 
> I have had two projects with similar problem.
> 
> 1. Flowers delivery company. First they wanted to store just courier 
> name in orders and I've made simple picklist. Next year they asked for 
> mobile application for couriers and I've racked my brain. End up on 
> including login in picklist values (like "John Smith j.smith") and 
> simple filtering orders on courier name include login of needed courier. 
> Not very elegant, technically couriers have access to all orders 
> (limited only on app side) but according webservices API limitations it 
> was only working solution.
> 
> 2. Other customer sell complex electronic devices and sell team always 
> include sales and engineer. First we thought to split Opportunity for 
> two parts: Deal (for sale) and Technical Proposal (for engineer) to 
> assign them for corresponding users. And track each status separately. 
> However they have a lot of interaction inside sales team and strong 
> requirements for role rights limitation. Finally they've decided to use 
> other CRM which allow to "share" record with other users. It is vTiger 
> CRM fork, I suppose you know which one.
> 
> Also we thought about "multiple responsible" module from VTE which make 
> teams from selected user on fly, but in this case entities are not 
> associated with users directly and they can not make necessary reports.
> 
> 2018-05-03 13:09 GMT+03:00 Alan Lord 
> <alanslists at gmail.com 
> <mailto:alanslists at gmail.com>>:
> 
>     Customer wants to add a field so they can record a secondary staff
>     member as having a relationship/responsibility towards an Organisation.
> 
> 
>     I know this has cropped up before but wondering if anyone got a
>     tested and working solution (i.e. Reports still work).
> 
>     The ways I can think of doing this are:
> 
>     * Simply add a normal, manually created picklist field (no dynamic
>     updates of available users etc... A bit of a "last-resort" solution
>     IMHO)
> 
>     * UIType 53? Standard Assigned To field - I recall having more then
>     one of these in a module used to break things badly, especially Reports.
> 
>     * UItype 52? - The Modified By/Created By field. Not sure how it
>     performs if displaytype is set to normal. Again concerns with Reports.
> 
>     * Add a UIType 10 field pointing at the Users module? Might work,
>     but would probably crash Reporting engine as totally unexpected.
> 
>     * Create a custom UIType field and all the associated code?
> 
>     Anyone used any of these and/or other ideas?
> 
>     TIA
> 
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