[Phpgroupware-users] phpgroupware projects...

[John Burton]

Greetings,

I'm currently using phpgroupware 0.9.14. got everything working properly 
(I think :-). Now I'm trying to use "Projects", specifically I'm trying 
to "Add" a project. Unfortunately the documentation is a bit sparse. I 
assume that the items with a "*" beside them are required fields, and so 
I tried to fill something in. I checked "Generate Project ID?", I put 
the project name ('FIRST') in for the Project ID, and the expansion of 
the acronym for the title (Far-Infrared Spectroscopy...). Customer cam 
from my addressbook. Coordinator is me.  Budget is $0 (a very small shoe 
string project). My only problem is "Bookable Activities" and "Billable 
Activities". (I know "billable", but what is "bookable" ?)  They seem to 
be required, but I have no idea where the values come from. I tried 
typing something in, but it didn't work. I get an error "Please choose 
activities for that project first !*".  

Obviously I'm missing something here. It seems to be telling me that I 
have to define the activities first (not sure how to do that) *before* I 
can define the project.  This is just backwards from the way most 
project management packages work, i.e. you define the Project first, 
then you define the major tasks for that project, then you define 
sub-tasks for the tasks, and sub-tasks for the sub-tasks until you're 
down to the level of detail wanted/required.

Can anybody help ?

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John Burton, Ph.D.
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