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

[Ciro Duran]

> 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".

Isn't this the objective of the Horde Portal?. I admit I haven't used
too much this Portal ability (I've currently installed IMP only), but
there is quite some functionaly in these blocks... I haven't seen,
though, a "template" for the Layout so, let's say, an administrator
can create a standard Layout for all the users there, and all they
have to do is "load" the layout.

The tabs are an interesting idea, but implementing them as javascript
links, just like the configuration screen. And that would take a good
deal of programming and debugging, not only for that screen, but to
adapt all the APIs required in order to make it work.

If the Portal is one of the heaviest pages in Horde; wouldn't be cool
to optimize this page loading first? If the basic functionality for
making a CRM mode is there, I think it's more efficient to start from
there.

I haven't check out the Portal code yet. Is there any document you
have written specifying why was it created or how is it done?

Cheers,

Ciro.