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Hi Patrick, hi Massimo,well as we are using SG as our business admin and workflow engine and it is fine with us this way and necessary having it on a server in our office behind a VPN.
So parts of SG that would be public like helpdesk, forum, CMS etc. can not be used for customers or website visitors, that is the main drawback from our perspective.
Second we would like to update our Hardware, the Debian, Apache & PHP, migrate from MYSQL to Maria etc., but we don't know what will be going to work on that kind of platform/environment.As Massimo wrote: that you know what you leave, but not exactly what you find ...
To what Massimo is asking for I feel some parts of his wishes may already be built in, or somehow possible (https, we used it on a rented server ). but it may depend on the special case of use.
So I would be interested to keep SG going and advancing, but I do not know how many people maybe still interested.One very bad thing about SG is the design and the UI, which is very straight forward, but making people afraid. They like more fancy App-style buttons and are not used to straight forward action.
So many people today click on an object and wait for the GUI to show what is possible to do with it instead of knowing what they want to accomplish (offensive/defensive).
And second nightmare for the users: in SG everything works (and looks) almost exactly the same way, which makes it easy (simple) and irritating complex at the same time.
So well, we are fine using it for oir business, but development would be nice, or a proper substitute, if there was one.By the way I came across another ERP, maybe you know of it.Looks interesting ...
Hi Patrick,I have reached the two links that you have suggested, although my opinion is surely superficial, OpenXava is very similar to SGS as logic. Starting from the concept that you know what you leave, but not exactly what you find, I would have some qualms about starting to use a whole new 'framework'.
Today I use SGS practically on my own (and for this I do little text in the logic we are writing about), even if I have some external collaborator to whom I can entrust activities that they don't use (too much reluctant to use software programs whose word can only be immediacy): in a nutshell I realize that I only use a Ferrari to shop at the supermarket behind the house ...
Work organization, scalability are the basis of my choice of the past; for this reason I created departments, attributable to each of them, in which I insert the activities to be carried out, the customers and the potentials, the commitments of the calendar and so on: I use the merging of folders to see them all grouped in my home in a way to have an overview.
Some time ago I also used Funambol to synchronize contacts, activities and commitments but in the migration from one server to another I was no longer able to reinstall it, losing the ability to synchronize with Google contacts, Calendar and Tasks or Keep (they are very practical for use with an android smartphone) and I don't know if it's still worth spending time installing and configuring it.
Leaving aside the conviction / imposition activity that I should do on each of them so that the efficiencies that SGS allows are expressed, I realize that there are still sections of the program that do not work as I wish and for this I have had to get closer to Google Suite.
I take this opportunity to list the things that could be studied in depth for the use that I make of it, as at the architectural level I could not express myself, if not praising the simplicity and foresight of those who created the program: Thomas Bley!
The main limitation I find in SGS is the e-mail section. I use an IMAP box and I cannot organize the emails between read and unread,
if there is a tag like field name="seen" in the nodb_imap.xml schema this could probably be done easily
have a tree view, merge them with a contact, company, label; to do this I have to select them, drag / copy them into a subfolder and from there edit them (this for the incoming email, as for the outgoing ones I would also have succeeded) losing their presence in the IMAP folder. Also I can't use the html format to insert and / or modify simple tables in the mails I send.
It would also be advisable to have the option of using SGS safely (https).
It would be necessary to review the export process, as I often get errors for the excell format (now I only use CSV).
It would be interesting to create the possibility to connect to Google Drive (as I can edit the documents without downloading them, share them and if I want I can monitor the odifche made by third parties), even if you can use the Dropbox service ...
It would be interesting to have a more intense geolocation, so that you can activate alerts, for example related to an activity to be carried out, when you are near the address of a customer or a lead (obviously for use via smartphone) .
It would be interesting to create automated reports that can remind us using an email, for example every Monday morning, all the activities that had to be completed the previous week and that have not been closed and those that we should carry out in the current week.
It would be interesting to have a form in which to place orders for my customers that I will have to send to the principals for fulfillment, and from here to insert the whole chain that leads to the issue by the latter of the invoices and the monitoring of commissions that they will have to pay me ;-)
I am not able to say if a part of what I have expressed is already possible to implement it immediately, but I have the hope that it is, without replacing the program with another 'framework'
I suggest you also check these tools for your work. Not to replace SGS but in combination with it:
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