RE: [Phpgroupware-developers] probusiness project - general overv iew

[Kai Hofmann]

Dear Chris Weiss,

> Why do you list so many features that are already in place?  
> You also list several
> features are listed in on the wiki and work is under way.

thats because we will contribute our man-power and knowledge to these 
features. Having them listed on wiki is something different from
having them implemented. - We only told you on which areas we will
contribute and cooperate with you.

> *cough* o'look isn't all that "usable".  Granted it has some 
> good points, but I
> think it lowly goal to try and simply mimic it.

But you need that to easily migrate a whole company from
outlook to phpGW - so its a customer requirement for us.

> Also, there 
> are interface issues,
> such as the lack of drag and drop in HTTP

D&D is not HTTP its more JavaScript and CSS.

> Our DB class is based on phpLib, PEAR is also based on 
> phpLib.  It is in the goal
> for the next release to move to PEAR, but we have to be 
> carefull of which
> extentions of PEAR we choose to go with because just the 
> plain ol' PEAR is missing
> several features we require.  There is also interest in using 
> ADODB, it seems to
> have at least the features and support of PEAR with some 
> additional interesting
> features.

we would be happy if we can help in this area, because we have
a great database knowledge here (I think ;-)

> >4.2. Document management
> 
> The filemanager already supports uploading up to 50 files in 
> one shot.  Shopping
> cart style won't work, the browser has to upload the file on 
> the same page view as
> the file was selected.  This is an HTTP limitation.

We have some ideas to work around these limitations - but still have to
evaluate if they would work.
Its only a requirement for now.

> >5. Search technology

> Searching will be specific to the app searched.  Searching in 
> Email is being worked
> on, some other apps already have it, and some have no plans 
> for it.  Any feature of
> any app can be made available to an external program through XMLRPC.

We are not talking about searching in different modules for only the module
content.
Its a more mind-map centered search about all available content! So its some
kind of
"search for all in one place".

> Dave Hall is working on a generic Sync interface.  If I 
> understood correctly, his
> current sebaticle is to work on that among other things.

Yes we know - and we will contact him about this for cooperation.


Greetings

   Kai Hofmann