[week 01] Is the addons list complete?

[albundy]

i mis a advertise system for visitors or members to place ads through frontpage linke mamboads which is no longer continue and also i'm missing a auction component which works with mambo. There are many components and added ons for mambo both for these two there is no solution?

[skinpin]

Yep, I agree to most of the posts above.

What I would like to see is a component that allows structured output of content. Means, someone transmitted a form and it's content -after being reviewed by an admin - is shown as an article with some classification criteria. Or more general: I'd like to let my users write an article with more details than just headline, intro and text... Sounds pretty much like an addon for FF, no?

[Benta]

Originally Posted by loom001

I would like to see a Groupware Component that has shared Calendar, private calendar, email, tasks, notes and would sync with outlook.

Would also like to see a project management component, with features that allow you to deleicate task to other members that are a part of your site.

A CRM would be aslo be great that intergrated into mambo.

I think it would be pretty easy to port the iCal parser (http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpicalendar/) over to Mambo. Some day I will.

That would solve many of the things you mention.

[alkor]

There are many great components around, and I doubt whether we need any general purpose components any more.

The fact which makes me sad is poor ACL implementation and other core limitations.
For example, speaking about forum or gallery it would be much easier to integrate 3rd party forums (like phpBB, Coppermine, etc) if we had set of events like onLogin, onRegister, onLogout.
The same goes for ACL - at the moment without heavy hacking it is impossible to introduce new user groups into mambo. Therefore I can't use simpleboard instead of custom phpBB implementaion at my site, because I want to have different user groups: say members, paid members, VIP members with different roles and rights.

So as for me, we should think about enhancing core rather then 3rd party solutions, because core is the biggest bottleneck now. e.g. many components proposed here (say, groupware-like) are completely useless without proper core features (ACL mgt for groupware, for examle).

In fact, list of long-awaited things to be added to the core is very short: 1) multilanguage support, 2) ACL management, 3) tree/web-like content structure, and 4) flexible event-driven system so we could extend functionality in each aspect without direct core hacking. Though introducing this 1-2-3-4 will involve to much code to be rewritten.

[zaa]

Sr. Arthur Konze, what happend with akogallery for mambo 4.5.1.a?, is a great component, i hope you can have a few time for work in this component, i use it in 4.5.0.9 and i dont update 2 sites to 4.5.1.a just for use this component.
Thz for your great job with mambo.

[Ave]

A SURVEYOR component like phpsurveyor.
A POSTCARD component like PostcardDirect.
A CLASSIFIED component like NoahClassifieds.
A QUIZZ component like phpQuest.

[interfaSys]

I couldn't agree more. The core needs some serious updating before we can even seriously think about a groupware component.

At least an API should be released about how calls should be made to get a user's right. That way, even if all the user management tools are not there yet, people can build compatible components already and a couple of specialists can write tools like MAL.

It would be a nightmare to have different rights management for Docman, Events, Helpdesk, Directory, Staff, Gallery,etc.

A full Groupware solution à la phpcollab is the thing I miss the most in Mambo.

Originally Posted by alkor

There are many great components around, and I doubt whether we need any general purpose components any more.

The fact which makes me sad is poor ACL implementation and other core limitations.
For example, speaking about forum or gallery it would be much easier to integrate 3rd party forums (like phpBB, Coppermine, etc) if we had set of events like onLogin, onRegister, onLogout.
The same goes for ACL - at the moment without heavy hacking it is impossible to introduce new user groups into mambo. Therefore I can't use simpleboard instead of custom phpBB implementaion at my site, because I want to have different user groups: say members, paid members, VIP members with different roles and rights.

So as for me, we should think about enhancing core rather then 3rd party solutions, because core is the biggest bottleneck now. e.g. many components proposed here (say, groupware-like) are completely useless without proper core features (ACL mgt for groupware, for examle).

In fact, list of long-awaited things to be added to the core is very short: 1) multilanguage support, 2) ACL management, 3) tree/web-like content structure, and 4) flexible event-driven system so we could extend functionality in each aspect without direct core hacking. Though introducing this 1-2-3-4 will involve to much code to be rewritten.

[ruigato]

Originally Posted by jure

A catalog component, where users can define their own fields, would really come handy. PHPShop is great, but too feature rich for majority of users who want just to display products, ...

Yes phpshop is to feature rich for some things, im willing to donate something for that kind of component, a kind of catalog with categories. This may be a very useful thing. Can be used to, links, real state, travels, industrial products, books, people biografy. And all we need is a simple component with images, custom fields and fronthend submission...

[gintas]

Originally Posted by ruigato

all we need is a simple component with images, custom fields and fronthend submission...

can't agree more. If AkoStaff would provide enough flexibility in customizing fields and if it was searchable by mambo search engine that would be THE component, at least on many websites I manage. Now I have to do a lot of fixing and use some stupid and cumbersome workarounds to make a use of it.

[low-fi]

As someone who has created websites for a lot of non-profit organizations using Mambo, one thing that I would LOVE to see as an add-on is the integration of Mambo with a full-fledged membership/development component. T

his would allow non-profits to have a complete database solution and be able to tap the power of online community building.

What I am envision is the addion of a component with a comprehensive feature set, that allows non-profits to manage donors, prospects, volunteers, activists, email lists and more - all in one place.

There are some things out there that do this now, but all of them are prohibitively expensive (thosands of dollars per year for things like E-tapestry) or just not very good.

Currently, several of the non-profits I work with use an offline database program called Ebase (written in the Filemaker Pro format) created by groundspring.org. It's opensource and very powerful. I encourage you to download the software and check out how intuitive and well-thought-out it is.

In fact, I'd say it's format for medium-sized non-profits is absolutely perfect! It's brilliantly executed as a standalone unit. Unfortunately, I don't see an easy way to integrate it into Mambo.

Perhaps a component to integrate Mambo and Ebase??? That would be AMAZING - and there are a ton of non-profits out there who would join the Mambo community. I know they have talked about perhaps some integration with Drupal, but perhaps with some encouragement we can win them over to Mambo?


low-fi