[dev] Fwd: Re: Google's Summer of Code - Interested in Search and CRM projects.

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Marko Djukic <mdjukic at horde.org>:

> what about separating out the portal functionality, make that separate
> module(s)? my biggest issue with the portal is that in a lot of 
> installs i have had to manually disable when it doesn't make sense to 
> have it. eg. apps are doing specific functions and users have no use 
> for a portal type view.
>
> so it would be good to be able to choose to have no portal, a slim 
> portal just
> to hop on to other apps or a really beefed up portal where you could do a lot
> of the work on the one page. eg. i tend to open up tabs for at least three
> apps, imp, kronolith and nag. if i could work from one page without having to
> jump from tab to tab, that would be nice.

I've been thinking about something like this ... a "page builder" that 
users can specify (or code, depending on user level/settings) a 
template for, that they then populate with blocks. Let people create as 
many of these as they want, like some web portals let people build 
multiple "tabs".

One could be a homepage for Whups, one could be a CRM tab, etc... we 
could have pre-built collections as well as the general builder UI.

-chuck

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