[thor] Re: I should create a custom.php file in horde/thor/lib/Project

[Edwin L. Culp]

Quoting Carlos Pedrinaci <cpedrinaci at yahoo.es>:


> I guess your are mixing the workflow/planning side from data regarding
> projects:
>
> Subclasses of Project are now used for customizing the generic Project
> class. It would certainly be more usefull if users can define these new
> kinds of classes using an interface that generates XML definition files.
> But this is unfortunately to be done, yet.
>
> On the other hand, workflow/planning is thought to be supported in the
> future via Whups and a notification system we have been working on (it
> is currently under analysis). The idea is basically to have the
> interesting bits of a project plan as Items so that they can be created
> by project administrators. These would compose the project plan and
> would be supported by tickets in whups, so that we can track them and
> make use of Whups (great) features.

Carlos, that is what I was hoping to do originally.  Whups is great for the
individual items.
>
> So for your case (if I understand you correctly), you would need to
> define your own kind of Project (if you actually need it) and create the
> items you require (Items being the components of your project).

This would start with a new definition in horde/thor/lib/Project, I assume,
wouldn't it?  Are was I completely confused when I looked at this yesterday?

> Establishing the workflow is not yet supported and you would need to
> hack it.

The work flow for this is simple so it shouldn't be a problem for now.  I'm
trying to look to the future.

Thanks for the information.

Saludos,

ed