Any chance the ERPNext Calendar can connect to Google Calendar? This is a common feature for other CRM and groupware software that we use and have come to depend on it since we live in Google Apps.
Adding Google Apps integration such as links to Google Docs (now Google Drive), links to files store on Dropbox and Box.net would make ERPNext more flexible in connecting to our exiting cloud based data.
Currently, we can only attach documents from our local hard drive. How about adding icons under the Attachments button as shown below. Buttons copied from our Teambox which provides full access to all our cloud based documents,
When clicked, each button would open the list of the user’s Google Docs, Dropbox folders, or Box.net folders from which they can choose one or more files to add to the Attachments list.
Here is the Teambox window that opens after clicking Google Docs icon.
Notice you can select one or more existing documents with check boxes, and even start a new Google Document. This is a very nice feature.
This would allow users to attach documents (or even create and at attach them) without using up their storage space on the ERPNext server, and take advantage of existing services that are very popular and widely used.
Of course, this requires that the user gives permission to ERPNext to access these services so would require adding these permissions to the setup window.
The second part was already sometime on my wish list, so fully agree. I save all invoices under Google Docs/Drive, so an to this instead of the current option to attach (which i do not use) would be welcomed, rgds robert
On Saturday, November 10, 2012 4:41:57 PM UTC+1, Paul Stary wrote:
Any chance the ERPNext Calendar can connect to Google Calendar? This is a common feature for other CRM and groupware software that we use and have come to depend on it since we live in Google Apps.
Adding Google Apps integration such as links to Google Docs (now Google Drive), links to files store on Dropbox and Box.net would make ERPNext more flexible in connecting to our exiting cloud based data.
Currently, we can only attach documents from our local hard drive. How about adding icons under the Attachments button as shown below. Buttons copied from our Teambox which provides full access to all our cloud based documents,
When clicked, each button would open the list of the user’s Google Docs, Dropbox folders, or Box.net folders from which they can choose one or more files to add to the Attachments list.
Here is the Teambox window that opens after clicking Google Docs icon.
Notice you can select one or more existing documents with check boxes, and even start a new Google Document. This is a very nice feature.
This would allow users to attach documents (or even create and at attach them) without using up their storage space on the ERPNext server, and take advantage of existing services that are very popular and widely used.
Of course, this requires that the user gives permission to ERPNext to access these services so would require adding these permissions to the setup window.
Great Idea from Paul, I second this idea as well, it would be another priced addition to the erpnext system.
On Saturday, November 10, 2012 11:55:19 PM UTC+5:30, robert wrote:
The second part was already sometime on my wish list, so fully agree. I save all invoices under Google Docs/Drive, so an to this instead of the current option to attach (which i do not use) would be welcomed, rgds robert
On Saturday, November 10, 2012 4:41:57 PM UTC+1, Paul Stary wrote:
Any chance the ERPNext Calendar can connect to Google Calendar? This is a common feature for other CRM and groupware software that we use and have come to depend on it since we live in Google Apps.
Adding Google Apps integration such as links to Google Docs (now Google Drive), links to files store on Dropbox and Box.net would make ERPNext more flexible in connecting to our exiting cloud based data.
Currently, we can only attach documents from our local hard drive. How about adding icons under the Attachments button as shown below. Buttons copied from our Teambox which provides full access to all our cloud based documents,
When clicked, each button would open the list of the user’s Google Docs, Dropbox folders, or Box.net folders from which they can choose one or more files to add to the Attachments list.
Here is the Teambox window that opens after clicking Google Docs icon.
Notice you can select one or more existing documents with check boxes, and even start a new Google Document. This is a very nice feature.
This would allow users to attach documents (or even create and at attach them) without using up their storage space on the ERPNext server, and take advantage of existing services that are very popular and widely used.
Of course, this requires that the user gives permission to ERPNext to access these services so would require adding these permissions to the setup window.
Thanks for the feedback. Paul - thanks for taking the effort to make a mockup :)
Seems an interesting feature for sure. Aditya, you mentioned about "priced" addition. Let me take this forward for discussion-sake to find out, if it could be a sponsored feature. We really do not want to create a multi-tier application (like many other Open Source products) that has "premium" features for high paying customers.
But this is an interesting opportunity. We have not done this before and I don't know if it makes sense, but we could have users sponsor a feature. It would also be something that more than 2-3 users should be willing to sponsor (else it becomes too specific to the wants on one user).
The amounts may not be big, but it will give ownership + control to the users and also some revenue to us. We could also maintain a "sponsors" page, where we can mention the name of the user / company (that will also help the visibility of the user's company that sponsors it and the feature they have sponsored). It will be great for the spirit of Open Source too! - it may attract other developers if the see active sponsors.
Great Idea from Paul, I second this idea as well, it would be another priced addition to the erpnext system.
On Saturday, November 10, 2012 11:55:19 PM UTC+5:30, robert wrote:
The second part was already sometime on my wish list, so fully agree. I save all invoices under Google Docs/Drive, so an to this instead of the current option to attach (which i do not use) would be welcomed, rgds robert
On Saturday, November 10, 2012 4:41:57 PM UTC+1, Paul Stary wrote:
Any chance the ERPNext Calendar can connect to Google Calendar? This is a common feature for other CRM and groupware software that we use and have come to depend on it since we live in Google Apps.
Adding Google Apps integration such as links to Google Docs (now Google Drive), links to files store on Dropbox and Box.net would make ERPNext more flexible in connecting to our exiting cloud based data.
Currently, we can only attach documents from our local hard drive. How about adding icons under the Attachments button as shown below. Buttons copied from our Teambox which provides full access to all our cloud based documents,
When clicked, each button would open the list of the user's Google Docs, Dropbox folders, or Box.net folders from which they can choose one or more files to add to the Attachments list.
Here is the Teambox window that opens after clicking Google Docs icon.
Notice you can select one or more existing documents with check boxes, and even start a new Google Document. This is a very nice feature.
This would allow users to attach documents (or even create and at attach them) without using up their storage space on the ERPNext server, and take advantage of existing services that are very popular and widely used.
Of course, this requires that the user gives permission to ERPNext to access these services so would require adding these permissions to the setup window.
I don’t understand. Does it cost you money to add Google Docs integration? What is involved in adding access to Google Docs, Dropbox and Box.net?
On Saturday, November 10, 2012 7:41:57 AM UTC-8, Paul Stary wrote:
Any chance the ERPNext Calendar can connect to Google Calendar? This is a common feature for other CRM and groupware software that we use and have come to depend on it since we live in Google Apps.
Adding Google Apps integration such as links to Google Docs (now Google Drive), links to files store on Dropbox and Box.net would make ERPNext more flexible in connecting to our exiting cloud based data.
Currently, we can only attach documents from our local hard drive. How about adding icons under the Attachments button as shown below. Buttons copied from our Teambox which provides full access to all our cloud based documents,
When clicked, each button would open the list of the user’s Google Docs, Dropbox folders, or Box.net folders from which they can choose one or more files to add to the Attachments list.
Here is the Teambox window that opens after clicking Google Docs icon.
Notice you can select one or more existing documents with check boxes, and even start a new Google Document. This is a very nice feature.
This would allow users to attach documents (or even create and at attach them) without using up their storage space on the ERPNext server, and take advantage of existing services that are very popular and widely used.
Of course, this requires that the user gives permission to ERPNext to access these services so would require adding these permissions to the setup window.
Sorry for not being clear - It does not take us money to add the integration but develop it - I had a cursory look at Dropbox APIs and it would take some non-trivial effort to get this working. And since we already have a long to-do list, this might be a way to identify what features are really something people 'really' want. Not that we will not do it otherwise.
As an easier solution, I was thinking of an option to either attach a file or URL - this way you can attach a URL from google docs / dropbox or whatever to a document/
I don't understand. Does it cost you money to add Google Docs integration? What is involved in adding access to Google Docs, Dropbox and Box.net?
On Saturday, November 10, 2012 7:41:57 AM UTC-8, Paul Stary wrote:
Any chance the ERPNext Calendar can connect to Google Calendar? This is a common feature for other CRM and groupware software that we use and have come to depend on it since we live in Google Apps.
Adding Google Apps integration such as links to Google Docs (now Google Drive), links to files store on Dropbox and Box.net would make ERPNext more flexible in connecting to our exiting cloud based data.
Currently, we can only attach documents from our local hard drive. How about adding icons under the Attachments button as shown below. Buttons copied from our Teambox which provides full access to all our cloud based documents,
When clicked, each button would open the list of the user's Google Docs, Dropbox folders, or Box.net folders from which they can choose one or more files to add to the Attachments list.
Here is the Teambox window that opens after clicking Google Docs icon.
Notice you can select one or more existing documents with check boxes, and even start a new Google Document. This is a very nice feature.
This would allow users to attach documents (or even create and at attach them) without using up their storage space on the ERPNext server, and take advantage of existing services that are very popular and widely used.
Of course, this requires that the user gives permission to ERPNext to access these services so would require adding these permissions to the setup window.
I know that to ask is easy, to implement is another story, but since we are talking about integration, I think many companies use Outlook and Exchange Server.
Eventually when possible, could this integration be taken in account?
ERP Calendar: to be integrated as a public calendar in Outlook
Contacts: also integrated with outlook
Thank you,
Best regards
Giorgio
From: er...@googlegroups.com [mailto:er...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rushabh Mehta Sent: mercoledì 14 novembre 2012 13:22 To: er...@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [erpnext-user-forum] Re: Google calendar integration
Paul,
Sorry for not being clear - It does not take us money to add the integration but develop it - I had a cursory look at Dropbox APIs and it would take some non-trivial effort to get this working. And since we already have a long to-do list, this might be a way to identify what features are really something people 'really' want. Not that we will not do it otherwise.
As an easier solution, I was thinking of an option to either attach a file or URL - this way you can attach a URL from google docs / dropbox or whatever to a document/
I don't understand. Does it cost you money to add Google Docs integration? What is involved in adding access to Google Docs, Dropbox and Box.net?
On Saturday, November 10, 2012 7:41:57 AM UTC-8, Paul Stary wrote:
Any chance the ERPNext Calendar can connect to Google Calendar? This is a common feature for other CRM and groupware software that we use and have come to depend on it since we live in Google Apps.
Adding Google Apps integration such as links to Google Docs (now Google Drive), links to files store on Dropbox and Box.net would make ERPNext more flexible in connecting to our exiting cloud based data.
Currently, we can only attach documents from our local hard drive. How about adding icons under the Attachments button as shown below. Buttons copied from our Teambox which provides full access to all our cloud based documents,
When clicked, each button would open the list of the user's Google Docs, Dropbox folders, or Box.net folders from which they can choose one or more files to add to the Attachments list.
Here is the Teambox window that opens after clicking Google Docs icon.
Notice you can select one or more existing documents with check boxes, and even start a new Google Document. This is a very nice feature.
This would allow users to attach documents (or even create and at attach them) without using up their storage space on the ERPNext server, and take advantage of existing services that are very popular and widely used.
Of course, this requires that the user gives permission to ERPNext to access these services so would require adding these permissions to the setup window.
Here is what our gurus at 37signals have to say about feature requests. I know its an extreme world view and we are not a famous company like them, but we too get overwhelmed all the time!
Customers want everything under the sun. They'll avalanche you with feature requests. Just check out our product forums; The feature request category always trumps the others by a wide margin.
We'll hear about "this little extra feature" or "this can't be hard" or "wouldn't it be easy to add this" or "it should take just a few seconds to put it in" or "if you added this I'd pay twice as much" and so on.
Of course we don't fault people for making requests. We encourage it and we want to hear what they have to say. Most everything we add to our products starts out as a customer request. But, as we mentioned before, your first response should be a no. So what do you do with all these requests that pour in? Where do you store them? How do you manage them? You don't. Just read them and then throw them away.
Yup, read them, throw them away, and forget them. It sounds blasphemous but the ones that are important will keep bubbling up anyway. Those are the only ones you need to remember. Those are the truly essential ones. Don't worry about tracking and saving each request that comes in. Let your customers be your memory. If it's really worth remembering, they'll remind you until you can't forget.
How did we come to this conclusion? When we first launched Basecamp we tracked every major feature request on a Basecamp to-do list. When a request was repeated by someone else we'd update the list with an extra hash mark (II or III or IIII, etc). We figured that one day we'd review this list and start working from the most requested features on down.
But the truth is we never looked at it again. We already knew what needed to be done next because our customers constantly reminded us by making the same requests over and over again. There was no need for a list or lots of analysis because it was all happening in real time. You can't forget what's important when you are reminded of it every day.
And one more thing: Just because x number of people request something, doesn't mean you have to include it. Sometimes it's better to just say no and maintain your vision for the product.
On 14-Nov-2012, at 12:08 PM, "Giorgio V. Vergano" <gv...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
I know that to ask is easy, to implement is another story, but since we are talking about integration, I think many companies use Outlook and Exchange Server.
Eventually when possible, could this integration be taken in account?
ERP Calendar: to be integrated as a public calendar in Outlook
Sorry for not being clear - It does not take us money to add the integration but develop it - I had a cursory look at Dropbox APIs and it would take some non-trivial effort to get this working. And since we already have a long to-do list, this might be a way to identify what features are really something people 'really' want. Not that we will not do it otherwise.
As an easier solution, I was thinking of an option to either attach a file or URL - this way you can attach a URL from google docs / dropbox or whatever to a document/
I don't understand. Does it cost you money to add Google Docs integration? What is involved in adding access to Google Docs, Dropbox andBox.net?
On Saturday, November 10, 2012 7:41:57 AM UTC-8, Paul Stary wrote:
Any chance the ERPNext Calendar can connect to Google Calendar? This is a common feature for other CRM and groupware software that we use and have come to depend on it since we live in Google Apps.
Adding Google Apps integration such as links to Google Docs (now Google Drive), links to files store on Dropbox andBox.netwould make ERPNext more flexible in connecting to our exiting cloud based data.
Currently, we can only attach documents from our local hard drive. How about adding icons under the Attachments button as shown below. Buttons copied from ourTeamboxwhich provides full access to all our cloud based documents,
When clicked, each button would open the list of the user's Google Docs, Dropbox folders, orBox.netfolders from which they can choose one or more files to add to the Attachments list.
Here is the Teambox window that opens after clicking Google Docs icon.
Notice you can select one or more existing documents with check boxes, and even start a new Google Document. This is a very nice feature.
This would allow users to attach documents (or even create and at attach them) without using up their storage space on the ERPNext server, and take advantage of existing services that are very popular and widely used.
Of course, this requires that the user gives permission to ERPNext to access these services so would require adding these permissions to the setup window.
Other community members who are developers too can take it up as paid assignment which helps foster the commercial avenues for the less frequently asked feature request.
Mitul Limbani
On Nov 14, 2012 12:32 PM, "Rushabh Mehta" <rm...@gmail.com> wrote:
Everyone,
SInce we are on the topic,
Here is what our gurus at 37signals have to say about feature requests. I know its an extreme world view and we are not a famous company like them, but we too get overwhelmed all the time!
Customers want everything under the sun. They'll avalanche you with feature requests. Just check out our product forums; The feature request category always trumps the others by a wide margin.
We'll hear about "this little extra feature" or "this can't be hard" or "wouldn't it be easy to add this" or "it should take just a few seconds to put it in" or "if you added this I'd pay twice as much" and so on.
Of course we don't fault people for making requests. We encourage it and we want to hear what they have to say. Most everything we add to our products starts out as a customer request. But, as we mentioned before, your first response should be a no. So what do you do with all these requests that pour in? Where do you store them? How do you manage them? You don't. Just read them and then throw them away.
Yup, read them, throw them away, and forget them. It sounds blasphemous but the ones that are important will keep bubbling up anyway. Those are the only ones you need to remember. Those are the truly essential ones. Don't worry about tracking and saving each request that comes in. Let your customers be your memory. If it's really worth remembering, they'll remind you until you can't forget.
How did we come to this conclusion? When we first launched Basecamp we tracked every major feature request on a Basecamp to-do list. When a request was repeated by someone else we'd update the list with an extra hash mark (II or III or IIII, etc). We figured that one day we'd review this list and start working from the most requested features on down.
But the truth is we never looked at it again. We already knew what needed to be done next because our customers constantly reminded us by making the same requests over and over again. There was no need for a list or lots of analysis because it was all happening in real time. You can't forget what's important when you are reminded of it every day.
And one more thing: Just because x number of people request something, doesn't mean you have to include it. Sometimes it's better to just say no and maintain your vision for the product.
On 14-Nov-2012, at 12:08 PM, "Giorgio V. Vergano" <gv...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
I know that to ask is easy, to implement is another story, but since we are talking about integration, I think many companies use Outlook and Exchange Server.
Eventually when possible, could this integration be taken in account?
ERP Calendar: to be integrated as a public calendar in Outlook
Sorry for not being clear - It does not take us money to add the integration but develop it - I had a cursory look at Dropbox APIs and it would take some non-trivial effort to get this working. And since we already have a long to-do list, this might be a way to identify what features are really something people 'really' want. Not that we will not do it otherwise.
As an easier solution, I was thinking of an option to either attach a file or URL - this way you can attach a URL from google docs / dropbox or whatever to a document/
I don't understand. Does it cost you money to add Google Docs integration? What is involved in adding access to Google Docs, Dropbox andBox.net?
On Saturday, November 10, 2012 7:41:57 AM UTC-8, Paul Stary wrote:
Any chance the ERPNext Calendar can connect to Google Calendar? This is a common feature for other CRM and groupware software that we use and have come to depend on it since we live in Google Apps.
Adding Google Apps integration such as links to Google Docs (now Google Drive), links to files store on Dropbox andBox.netwould make ERPNext more flexible in connecting to our exiting cloud based data.
Currently, we can only attach documents from our local hard drive. How about adding icons under the Attachments button as shown below. Buttons copied from ourTeamboxwhich provides full access to all our cloud based documents,
When clicked, each button would open the list of the user's Google Docs, Dropbox folders, orBox.netfolders from which they can choose one or more files to add to the Attachments list.
Here is the Teambox window that opens after clicking Google Docs icon.
Notice you can select one or more existing documents with check boxes, and even start a new Google Document. This is a very nice feature.
This would allow users to attach documents (or even create and at attach them) without using up their storage space on the ERPNext server, and take advantage of existing services that are very popular and widely used.
Of course, this requires that the user gives permission to ERPNext to access these services so would require adding these permissions to the setup window.
On Saturday, November 10, 2012 9:11:57 PM UTC+5:30, Paul Stary wrote:
Any chance the ERPNext Calendar can connect to Google Calendar? This is a common feature for other CRM and groupware software that we use and have come to depend on it since we live in Google Apps.
Adding Google Apps integration such as links to Google Docs (now Google Drive), links to files store on Dropbox and Box.net would make ERPNext more flexible in connecting to our exiting cloud based data.
Currently, we can only attach documents from our local hard drive. How about adding icons under the Attachments button as shown below. Buttons copied from our Teambox which provides full access to all our cloud based documents,
When clicked, each button would open the list of the user’s Google Docs, Dropbox folders, or Box.net folders from which they can choose one or more files to add to the Attachments list.
Here is the Teambox window that opens after clicking Google Docs icon.
Notice you can select one or more existing documents with check boxes, and even start a new Google Document. This is a very nice feature.
This would allow users to attach documents (or even create and at attach them) without using up their storage space on the ERPNext server, and take advantage of existing services that are very popular and widely used.
Of course, this requires that the user gives permission to ERPNext to access these services so would require adding these permissions to the setup window.
