Calendar Improvements

[simonhenry]

I would also like to request a universal ability to accept meeting invitations from outlook, reply to the sender so that they know that you have accepted and add the event to your calendar.

cheers
Andrew

[lvangool]

I would like to see HTML invite emails. The long url's and plain text just don't fit the beautiful Sugar interface.

[klasbern]

Hi

It would be nice if it was possible to choose the type of reminder to use for a scheduled activity such as:
e-mail reminder and
sms reminder.

[klasbern]

Hi

Found this posted in another thread, describing what I would like to see in the next calendar release.

http://www.sugarcrm.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3015
Is there a way to create a resource like a meeting room or conference room that is scheduled and used for meetings so that we can see conflicts when scheduling? For example, I might create a meeting with three or four people who are all free, but there's another meeting already scheduled in the room I wanted to use. Or perhaps we have multiple meeting rooms, but the projector is scheduled to be used by a group already. Or perhaps the "good" conference call phone. Make sense? How are other people handling this? Create the conference room as a use to be invited to a meeting?

Sincerely

[lvangool]

Hi

Found this posted in another thread, describing what I would like to see in the next calendar release.

http://www.sugarcrm.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3015
Is there a way to create a resource like a meeting room or conference room that is scheduled and used for meetings so that we can see conflicts when scheduling? For example, I might create a meeting with three or four people who are all free, but there's another meeting already scheduled in the room I wanted to use. Or perhaps we have multiple meeting rooms, but the projector is scheduled to be used by a group already. Or perhaps the "good" conference call phone. Make sense? How are other people handling this? Create the conference room as a use to be invited to a meeting?

Sincerely

There is a module already for that in Sugarforge. Resource management or something..

[tparson]

l have had some customer questions around future calendar options and I have the following suggestions. I, not being a developer, cannot speak to how difficult these items might be.

1. Administrators sometimes have to make entries into the calendar of others in a corporation. I know that currently they could simply "invite" the others but it would be nice if there were a permission level allowing direct access instead.
2. Outlook compatible invitations - when invitations are sent out from Sugar,external invitees who use outlook do not receive a calendar entry.
3. Attachments with invitations - Some organizations send out attachments with almost every meeting invitation. This would be a helpful features.
4. Invitation updates - This really links to item 2, which is the Outlook feature of updating a meeting.

I'd be interested to hear whether this type of functionality is likely or unlikely in 5.5/6.0 as there are many who would like to eliminate Outlook completely.

Thanks!

Tracy

[tomfo]

1) The ability to specify the time zone in which the meeting is occurring. For instance, if I have a client who is not a user of Sugar, and they schedule a meeting in their local time zone, I need to be able to specify the time zone when I'm manually creating the meeting. Sugar should then calculate the appropriate offset and schedule the meeting correctly for my time zone.

2) Need to be able to accept and reply to Exchange and vCal appointments directly from the Sugar email client.

3) Ability to invite people external to Sugar to a meeting which would include typing in a free form email address in an invite, generating a vCal invite to the external attendee(s), and automatically processing a response from the attendee(s).

4) Display meetings in one contiguous block; e.g. if a meeting spans two hours, show one entry with the two hours blocked.

5) The pop-up when hoovering over an appointment should indicate the start and end times of the meeting as well as the location.

6) Ability to specify the time increment displayed for the calendar in 15, 30, or one hour blocks.

7) Ability to subscribe to externally published calendars such as google, ical, etc.

8) Finally, another vote for email and/or SMS reminders for meetings.

Thomas Fournier
COO
Ligo Corporation

[stevec]

Maybe a bit late - but a few more ideas (or reiterating some that have been suggested).

1. SPEED! The calendaring can drag, especially if the user has a very large number of calls and meetings.

2. Access to related information: The standard calendar as is is always a few clicks away from the info you want. Ideally, you want to be able to access/view/edit related accounts, contacts and the calls/meetings themselves direct from the calendar. Rather than having to leave the calendar to grt to a detail view - and then edit etc. There have been some such mods in the calmod download but that's a bit behind versions now.

3. Persistence: If you change the view (weekly, monthly etc) and navigate to a different period, the calendar should remember it! As you have to navigate away from the calendar to do anything concerning the calendar entries, it's a pain having to then scroll through the weeks, months etc to get back to where you were.

4. Accessibility. It would be nice if there was a calendar widget that could be implemented within other parts of the sugar codebase. So if you have an contact's details open during a call, you can easily access your calendar to check availability for meetings etc without having to navigate away from the forms being viewed/edited etc.

5. Maybe more activities than calendaring, but the ability to followup a call with a meeting, and a meeting with a call - rather than only a call with another call - and a meeting with another meeting (close and create new).

6. Events. It would be VERY useful to have company/team wide calendar events displayed on users calendars - not just their own activities. (The shared calendar is to unwieldy for this as it's limited to weekly view and slowdowns with large datasets). That way, users will be reminded of clashes/events etc when scheduling when talking to customers.

thanks

[tomfo]

Forgot two more important items:

1) Recurring calendar entries. Ability to specify frequency (daily, weekly, monthly, every x weeks, x day) and end date (specific date, # of occurrences, # of weeks, etc.)

2) Ability to schedule multi-day events; e.g. out of office, vacation, travel, training, etc.

Thanks

[mmdcl]

Maybe a bit late - but a few more ideas (or reiterating some that have been suggested).

1. SPEED! The calendaring can drag, especially if the user has a very large number of calls and meetings.

2. Access to related information: The standard calendar as is is always a few clicks away from the info you want. Ideally, you want to be able to access/view/edit related accounts, contacts and the calls/meetings themselves direct from the calendar. Rather than having to leave the calendar to grt to a detail view - and then edit etc. There have been some such mods in the calmod download but that's a bit behind versions now.

3. Persistence: If you change the view (weekly, monthly etc) and navigate to a different period, the calendar should remember it! As you have to navigate away from the calendar to do anything concerning the calendar entries, it's a pain having to then scroll through the weeks, months etc to get back to where you were.

4. Accessibility. It would be nice if there was a calendar widget that could be implemented within other parts of the sugar codebase. So if you have an contact's details open during a call, you can easily access your calendar to check availability for meetings etc without having to navigate away from the forms being viewed/edited etc.

5. Maybe more activities than calendaring, but the ability to followup a call with a meeting, and a meeting with a call - rather than only a call with another call - and a meeting with another meeting (close and create new).

6. Events. It would be VERY useful to have company/team wide calendar events displayed on users calendars - not just their own activities. (The shared calendar is to unwieldy for this as it's limited to weekly view and slowdowns with large datasets). That way, users will be reminded of clashes/events etc when scheduling when talking to customers.

thanks

4. - At least with IE you can right click on modules/shortcuts and open them in new window(s)