Greetings!
I working on an article which will be a review of various web-based groupware tools. I am on a short deadline (MODF), so I would really appreaciate it if I don't get RTFM or "google it" answers. "It should work" answers are OK, but I would appreaciate a kick in the backside of where to look, preferably with filenames, menu option, etc. If it's busted, say so. I am not going to ding the product for bugs, as every product has them and I think Dave and all the other developer have done a bang up job. I am running 0.9.16.011. To save time I am going to be terse here, so please try to read between the lines. There is no specified order/priority to the questions. I have another post "Must login again to show default application", which has not yet be answered. Is there a portal start page like Horde? http://www.horde.org/groupware/screenshots/portal.png Is there anyway to synchronize PHPGW with a handheld? The phpgwinfo site says "The SyncML Server module will allow synchronization". That is future tense. All the other references I have googled said things about the future. Is there somethung currently available? There is an option to setup email authentication, but other than the setup page, I cannot find any reference to it in the PHPGW doc. When using the interface template "desktop", there is no text in the applications menu, just the icons. The online manual says "Note: Some of this information is out of date". This has been in there as long as I have known about phpGroupware. What is out of date? Is it still valid? If you choose a large number of applications, you can access all of them with certain templates. When selecting InfoLog, I get: "Path to user and group files HAS TO BE OUTSIDE of the webservers document-root". I Googled and searched the forums, but found nothing useful. If this is the very first error message the app spits out, it should be documented, especially since it is fatal. In the setup, there is a a block "Path information". this is set to something "OUTSIDE of the webservers document-root" and has perms 777. I changed the Infolog code to display the path it finds for files_dir and it shows /var/www/phpgwfiles where it is supposed to be and it is defintely "OUTSIDE of the webservers document-root". When selecting FudForum, either as a normal application or under prefences I get: "The 'files/' (/outside/webserver/docroot) directory exists, however webserver has no write permissions to that directory." Going through the admin, I get "The requested URL /phpgroupware/fudforum/adm/admglobal.php was not found on this server." In the setup it is listed as "installed", but it seems that it really isn't. Please don't tell me that I have to configure some things through the GUI and others by editing files or that I sometimes have to look in the online manual to know how to configure things and in other cases, I have to search for a README or similar. Things like this give the product a very unprofessional feel. Not all apps listed in the setup are available. The setup has an app "phpbrain", but this is not listed as an application I can assign to a user. Is this the same thing as the "Knowledge Base" app which is not listed in the set up, but I can assign it to users. Where is this relationship documented? Admin->Notes->Preferences gives me a blank page. My two cents: get the documentation up-to-date and complete, then deal with new features. If you are going to describe it with anything like "enterprise" drop the applications like "comic" and DJ from the core set. If these are the apps that the developers consider "important", you will have a hard time convincing most managers that the product is enterpris anything. I think it would be extremely useful if someone defined a set of standards before an app is allowed to be part of the core set. It would also be useful if someone proofread the documentation, particularly in cases where the README is the only information I have the "linux-at-work" template. I select the manual app and have a list of icons, half of which it is not clear at all what they mean. It would be extremely useful to have the text next to the icons. What is the point of including a link to a "manual" for an app when the *only* you get when you click it is something like "Version: 0.9.14". This (among many other things) give an "unfinished" appearance to the product. I would like to hear from someone "official" about the phpgroupware/egroupware split. Offline is OK, but I would like a little something I can print. Thanks for the help. Regards, jimmo -- I'm European. Guns scare me, boobs do not. Sent from the phpGroupWare forums @ http://forums.phpGroupWare.org _______________________________________________ phpGroupWare-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/phpgroupware-users
