GO Pro Customization Question

[elmar71]

Dear GroupOffice Team,

in the FAQ on the Website you say:

Can we freely modify source code of Group-Office Professional?
The licence allows you to modify the Open-Source part of Group-Office. So you can create your own modules for Group-Office Professional. You can't modify the Professional modules. The files are encrypted and can't be modified. To get started with creating modules look at this page

Now: we want/need to modify the project module if we go for the Pro version.
It does not need to be a functional change at all, but at least we need one or two additional columns in the project list grid. (so in MVC terms it will be only the view we'd like to modify).
Also we'd like to introduce some hooks to the project module to trigger automated emails.

Will this be possible? Even with the encoded modules?

To be more precise: we'd like to see some kind of "Project status" in the grid, like a percentage value with a bar showing the overall progress and the number of open tasks for the project.
Maybe I didn't searched well enough in the demo and this can be done with the tools already in place?

thanks

Elmar

[mschering]

Becasue this module is encoded it's not possible. We can do customizations for you if you like.

[zsolt]

To be more precise: we'd like to see some kind of "Project status" in the grid, like a percentage value with a bar showing the overall progress and the number of open tasks for the project

In the professional, you can setup 'custom fields' (can be displayed in the project grid) which could be a numeric/string/ect value (for example: "55% done so far"). If its 'saved' in GO's sql database in a readable form (im not sure about this one), you could even create timed scripts updating the 'progression' custom field value by some conditions (for example by the 100% done tasks linked to the project 'trunk' .. relations in this situation can be messy).

..even you could create a module post processing the project grid's 'custom field' value to display anything you want. (after everything rendered, you 'catch' the container object with a selector method (by an id you can identify, if any) and manipulate it <change values programmatically to graphical stuff if you want that>)

just thinking

[zsolt]

Also we'd like to introduce some hooks to the project module to trigger automated emails.

As i know, many modules triggers events in GO.. maybe its possible to catch a modification action with some params you could use to send out an automated email (using your own mailserver or GO's mailing).

[elmar71]

thanks for your answers.

Post-updating by processing the database might be an option - indeed.

In the end: this sounds a bit "experimental" though

So I will try around with the CE DB and modules to see if this might be a viable process at all...

[mschering]

Cathing the save and delete events of the project model is probably the right way to send the automated e-mails.