Re: [Phpgroupware-users] Information Management Module

[Will Taylor]

Your welcome!

I was thinking infolog was a pretty secure place to store information  
as long as you were accessing the info with apache-ssl.

I know what you mean about infolog being cumbersome if you want to  
use it for a specific purpose over and over again.

I was thinking that new templates could be made, using the existing  
infolog tables, that could simplify the task of say a secretary  
entering phone messages for his boss. Certain values that are always  
the same could be hard coded into the form. In this case it would be  
a new phone message is always entered into the category Phone Calls  
without the secretary having to enter it each time, and the  
delegation (who the message is for) could be on the same page so the  
sec. would not have to switch to delegation tabs. Also many ffields  
could be removed because they are unnecessary for taking a phone  
message.

I guess this could be done with etemplates but I dont know how  
exactly, and have heard etemplates is difficult.

- Will
On Jul 14, 2005, at 5:15 PM, James Mohr wrote:

> Thanks Will and Brian for your quick responses.
>
> I already started using the addresses for things like bank account and
> insurance information. But then I got stuck trying to figure a way  
> to use it
> for something like hardware inventory. Granted, I could create a  
> record for
> each peice of HW or just manufacturer,  then add the necessary fields.
> However, that seem like a real kludge.
>
> Notes didn't seem to fit as I was looking for something tabular,  
> and not just
> a block of data. The infolog is a great tool, but there is a lot of  
> extra
> stuff that makes it cumbersome to work with (in this content). Also  
> it seems
> like a kludge.
>
> What I was thinking about was a module where you had a table with,  
> say, 20
> fields of various types (a few data fields, a few char fields, a  
> few tiny
> text, a couple of text and so forth). A second table would define a  
> kind of
> "virtual table". For example, it would contain N+2 fields, with the  
> virtual
> table name and a description, plus the names of the fields within  
> the virtual
> table. (Perhaps it would need some extra fields, but that's the  
> basic idea)
>
> Well, if there is no such thing, I guess I will have to write it  
> myself.
>
> Regards,
>
> jimmo
>
> On Thursday 14 July 2005 18:02, Will Taylor wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > Infolog has the ability to store notes, and I use it to record all
> > kinds of information.
> >
> > - Will
> >
> > On Jul 14, 2005, at 3:32 PM, James Mohr wrote:
> >
> > > Hi All!
> > >
> > > I was wondering if there was a phpgw module for general information
> > > management. For example, I want to store information about:
> > > - insurance policies
> > > - hardware  (configuration, warranty)
> > > - CDs and albums
> > > - etc.
> > >
> > > Is there such a beast?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Jim Mohr
> > >
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