Posted by slouis on October 7, 2008 at 1:56pm
It looks like the Salesforce module has lost some steam, what does the schedule look like for the Drupal 6 release of it. Here's the reason why I bring this up, I just downloaded and overcame a very large learning curve to install Drupal 6. Well, my main focus was to integrate Drupal and Salesforce. With the way the releases span each other I'm not sure if this will ever be do-able.
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Soon!
Picking up on many of the ideas posted in this discussion:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/7065
We've begun a 2.0 branch of the Salesforce module, which will see a 6.0 release. Currently there is an unstable dev release, but we are working on improvements to get it to a beta state in the next few weeks.
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Care to coordinate here?
Hi Josh,
I think Victor tried to put us in touch, I probably dropped the ball there. I don't know if he passed on our code, but I really don't want Agaric's work to make it more modular and, as one option, integrate with webform to become a fork of Salesforce.
benjamin, Agaric Design Collective
benjamin, agaric
Sure!
Where's the code? :)
Webform integration isn't something I've currently got any coverage on, so that would be seem to be a great place to start.
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How about this? The company
How about this? The company I work for had this module developed a while back for Webform Integration on Web-to-Lead forms. Is this something that you're looking for?
Salesforce Webform Integration
Andrew (amariotti)
Here's the code
Great, I thought I was doing what I needed to avoid code duplication getting in touch with the current Salesforce maintainer, but apparently not enough...
The main feature is rearchitecturing to allow other modules to offer up fields to be sent to Salesforce, grabbing the attributes from Salesforce objects, and a user interface for matching up fields and attributes. And then implementing the first part on behalf of the Webform module.
So good progress in making the code more pluggable for those sorts of needs (one-way Drupal to Salesforce), but with utter disregard for the synchronization of Drupal and Salesforce that had been a major part of the module, so I don't know if I broke those parts or not.
Download the re-worked module (from Agaric's notes on Webform / Salesforce use).
The worst part is the requirement for an expensive license to use the Salesforce API (it was free for developers and I didn't realize this). Nevertheless...
Our client will be using this solution on additional sites, so we can work to integrate our approach with yours and not merely dump the code on you. It seems we'd be best off following your lead, though.
benjamin, Agaric Design Collective
benjamin, agaric
Benjamin, Let me know where
Benjamin,
Let me know where I can help - even though things may be duplicated from a 5.x standpoint, getting things unified and streamlined for 6.x will lead to a better module for everyone.
Bryan O'Shea
Obsidian Design
Bryan O'Shea
Obsidian Design
Dublin, Ohio
Thanks!
Heeh... well, the only way to be sure is to get your code into CVS. :)
Actually this isn't so bad. The SalesForce module isn't much use to anyone who's not a customer. They provide a very valuable service which (for a lot of folks) more than justifies the cost. From a development standpoint it's a bit non-ideal since we have to tell implementers to download some additional code to make the module work, but c'est la vie I think.
I'll check this out soon. I'm not 100% sure that the code itself will be directly usable -- the 2.x branch already has it's own complete refactoring to "modularize" things, and it handles it in both Drupal-to-Salesforce and reverse directions -- but conceptually the work you did for webform should be highly valuable.
I'll be doing another push to CVS soon which will include the necessary code to let the module (potentially) map any drupal object to any salesforce object, including custom fields. We should sync up after that and figure out what the migration path to a solid 2.x branch looks like for all parties.
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Hi, I posted a message in
Hi, I posted a message in the thread http://groups.drupal.org/node/7065#comment-61774 earlier before seeing this post. I need to setup a Drupal / Salesforce integration for my current Drupal 6 project. I know it would be best to wait till the module is setup and running ok in D5 but I need to get it working on D6 for this project so I am going to look at upgrading the updated module from Benjamin, please let me know if there is anything I can help with, otherwise I will post back my findings once Ive got the current module upgraded to D6.
Let's work together with Josh's code
@openbook
I don't like writing code and then throwing it out (though our clients have been happily using it for the better part of a year now), but the Drupal way is community shared and maintained code, so if we can meet our client's business needs building on JoshK's refactored version (edit: which is Drupal 6) we will. We owe that to our clients. These sites have tight launch deadlines so I should be solidly getting into the work in February at the latest. Join us in that effort.
Wow, I never thought I'd discourage someone from upgrading one of my own modules for me...
@joshk Are you offering me CVS access? :-P
benjamin, agaric
Paging victorkane
We'd want to get ahold of Victor, but my sense was that if you and I wanted to take primary responsibility for keeping this going that he'd be happy for that!
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Josh & Benjamin: please take over the Salesforce module!
Josh, as usual you are right on.
Even though I have been out of the loop recently, I am back in now, and I have always been a pretty easy person to find.
Guys, you are both doing an excellent job, on all fronts, and doing things in the right way.
Please contact me both of you to formally take over the Salesforce module. I think that would be best.
I have no further interest in it. Even though I have had ONG clients who have used it, I am leaning much more these days to open source business model solutions.
Victor Kane
http://awebfactory.com.ar
Victor Kane
http://awebfactory.com
...woops, hadnt checked the
...woops, hadnt checked the CVS, so have just seen the D6 dev version. Going to install it now and go through the notes. @joshk let me know if there any issues I can help out with.
Well
It's unstable dev code at the moment, so I think there will be a lot of issues. Should be an update coming soon though.
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