I have installed RedHen CRM on a dev site for evaluating if it is the path for a CRM system to a customer.
But I was missing a lot of views. In the description it talks about being similar to Drupal Commerce. But Commerce is built around Rules and Views. And I am missing that about Redhen CRM.
So I was hoping that Redhen had views for different part of the system. Like /redhen/org or /redhen/org/%id/connections. So one could just use the contextual links and edit the view. But if I want to redesign the layout I need to create new views myself (and for moste part I want is it is not a final CRM system).
So my question is. Are there any plans for make Redhen use more Views? I know that it makes views dependent but building a CRM system in Drupal without views is very slow and hard.
If there is some plan for it I will dig into the module and start using it and try to give feedback to the project. But otherwise I probably go with other solution because Redhen is not given me so much extra.
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RedHen provides Views and Rules support
RedHen CRM provides Views and Rules support. It does not ship with preconfigured Views, because that would immediately require that you override the module's Views with your own. And if you've worked a lot with Features, you've probably encountered how challenging that can be.
Instead, we provide more generalized EntityFieldQuery-based views (lower-case "v") that can be overridden with your own Views simply by creating them with the same URL paths.
In our experience, as well as that of the majority of outside developers and site builders with whom we work, this is a more flexible approach that leads to faster Features-based development.
Moreover, given that RedHen CRM is designed for you to manage your own contact/organization bundles and field them however you need, it'd really be next to impossible for us to even know what Views to ship.
What you will likely see happen is that more and more RedHen CRM distributions and features will be released by ThinkShout and the community (see OpenOutreach's RedHen Feature) with preconfigured contact/organization bundles and Views that provide a more prescriptive starting point for folks who don't want to take on fully customizing their own CRM instance. But again, we think that the core of RedHen CRM benefits from deeper abstraction.
Cheers,
Sean