Oups ! I've always thought Asha was a "he". :-S<br><br clear="all">David V.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/8/10 Carlo Beschi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carloz@gnumerica.org" target="_blank">carloz@gnumerica.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Alan, all.<br>
<br>
Project Team module was initially developed by Studio Synthesis for one<br>
of its customers, and then included in the last public release of<br>
vts-projects for vtiger 5.1<br>
<br>
I copy and paste an email I sent some time ago to Asha (I hope she's<br>
fine with this ;-) which explains the module idea and functionality.<br>
<br>
Ciao,<br>
Carlo<br>
<br>
<br>
> 1. What is the basic idea behind Project Team module?<br>
<br>
1. The Basic idea is to map the Human Resources allocated to any single<br>
projects - internal and external.<br>
<br>
With the Project Team module we went beyond:<br>
<br>
- the limit of the "assigned to" feature - you can specify only a single<br>
user (ie the Project Manager, possibly) and not many users<br>
<br>
- the limit of eventually creating a "project function" field inside the<br>
Contact module: we want a Contact to be able to be a PM in a project,<br>
and a Dev in a second project, ....<br>
<br>
For a proper use of the module, both clients' contacts and internal<br>
employees need to be mapped as Contacts.<br>
<br>
Another way of achieving a similar result would have been to have N<br>
uitype 10 fields in the Projects module all pointing to the Contacts<br>
module - but this somehow breaks vtlib (and anyway it's not a perfect<br>
solution)<br>
<br>
> 2. Is there anything that cannot be achieved through Related lists which<br>
> you want to achieve through Project Team module?<br>
<br>
2. See above: yes, we could have a n:m relations mapped through a<br>
get_related_list call. But we still would have not been able to map<br>
people functions on different projects<br>
<br>
<br>
> 3. Are we going to miss any important feature if we do not aim to<br>
> integrate it with standard Project Management module?<br>
<br>
3. No. It's a sort of add-on.<br>
<br>
> 4. Is it been asked multiple times by the users for which you have<br>
> included this module?<br>
<br>
4. We coded this for a German company which we helped migrate from a PM<br>
legacy system to vtiger + customized vts-projects. The helped us with<br>
the analysis. There's a few more companies I know are using it (<20).<br>
It's still very fresh ;-)<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Il 04/08/2010 14:54, Alan Lord (News) ha scritto:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I just noticed this.<br>
><br>
> Can someone update the Wiki and provide an explanation of the Project<br>
> Team module please?<br>
><br>
> I can't really work out what it is for. I must be thick ;-)<br>
><br>
> Al<br>
><br>
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