Posted by manueljperez on January 29, 2007 at 11:30pm
Does anybody know about opengroupware ??
Maybe it could be interesting to study how to make opengroupware.org tools available through a Drupal interface (maybe built with Flex 2 SDK for the client side while using Services/Amfphp drupal modules in the server side)
It's just an Idea, I haven't had the time to study the project by myself...
Regards,
Manuel J. Perez
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Manuel, I really don't see the advantage with Drupal
Manuel, I really don't see the advantage with Drupal
This also happens with projectDot powerful and specific tool, a lot used to manage projects, tasks and teams.
This specific solution dont have really any advantage with Drupal features, in special, in my honest opinion the selective and diverse channels of communication. In addition Drupal has a solid ground where embed all the modules.
In consequence, Why we have to integrate new platforms that really have the same features that Drupal has?
I sincerely think hat we have to work in the internal integration of the drupal modules.
In example in Drupal 5.0 we have lost some modules basic for groupware, (signup to events) I propose to focus on the Drupal features before to try to integrate external applications.
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Creating modules that connect to OGo via one of the XML-RPC APIs should be pretty straight forward.
Drupal is not a groupware server. By presenting the tasks/contacts/etc... from a groupware server has many advantages. Users can see the same content as they have in their local clients and mobile devices.
Interesting
I am a long time OpenGroupware user, and originally intended to work on something like this when I installed Drupal. But I ended up using Drupal less than I expected. If anyone decides to work on this I am more than willing to assist; I am very familiar with OpenGroupware RPC services and have integrated it with a variety of other applications including PHP based CRM applications.
Has this OpenGroupware integration moved along??
Hi there... stubbled upon this discussion and wondered whether the integration of OpenGroupware into Drupal has moved anywhere?? reason being that I also see the huge benefit of having it mixed in so users can intergrate online information/collaboration with their desktop services i.e. outlook.
Alternatively if there are solutions currently in Drupal I would be keen to be aware of them.
Thanks Heaps
Re: Has this OpenGroupware integration moved along??
We haven't worked on it; and we are moving away from Drupal, so it is unlikely to happen in the future.
Agree, completely. But Drupal seems a poor candidate for that type of integration, the best thing that could be done is probably to create modules that expose each section of the groupware server's functionality. Drupal is very tightly wed to the my-backend-is-an-SQL-database concept; there is a sub-project under zOGI to integrate with the applications provided by the Horde project. Horde provides a more mature object model as content is accessed via a driver layer (much more like real MVC).