Simple Groupware Roadmap

Simple Groupware 0.6x features

  • New modules: vacation, absent days, bookings (cars, rooms, beamers), milestones, knowledge base, timesheet, blogs, surveys, attendance and time management, ERP module, HR module (leave management/application/approvals, employee records, etc.)
  • Add email signatures to identities
  • Option to add a second super administrator
  • Automatically fetch mails into the Simple Groupware tree
  • Embed Simple Groupware content into CMS pages (similar to Ai recipe)
  • Add option to open new/edit views in the preview pane
  • Modifiers for files like format conversion for images, virus checking, compressing files, copy attachment(s) from e-mail to files/fs, etc.
  • Workflow engine for document approvals
  • calendar: automatic collision testing
  • Expand simple_type "file" to import existing files from local/public store instead of upload
  • Configuration tool for ISPs to create several instances using information from LDAP
  • Bookmark syncing with Firefox
  • Drag and drop of e-mails and files
  • iCalendar server via WebDAV for writing, CalDAV support
  • support for other webservers like lighttpd
  • Option to rate entries (similar to youtube and others)
  • Improve statistics: show total pageviews, average pageviews per day, number of files, size of files, biggest folders, etc.
  • compose html mails
  • don't show passwords in cleartext on the screen
  • Single-click edit: reverse a checkbox
  • Imap: create / delete / rename folders
  • Auto-calculation for contact IDs
  • Implement folder notifications (receive emails about all changes in a folder)
  • Anything more ? (please use the Contact form)


Simple Groupware 0.5x features

  • Select items with doubleclick in popups for new/edit forms
  • short, simple URLs that refer to Companies, Contacts, Calendars, etc.
  • Add cancel button to new/edit page (Go back without saving)
  • Add permissions for special views in a folder
  • Customize home folder to redirect after login
  • Copy folder structures using copy/paste just like cut/paste in the options menu in the tree
  • display html mails


Simple Groupware 0.4x features

  • Expand global search function: Add searching in all items of a special module (next to searching all subfolders)
  • Make import folder(s) configurable in setup settings
  • Add special directories for customized files
  • Double-click in display: open details view
  • Ajax-Refresh for new/edit view on creating new items in popups
  • Expand simple_type "file" to import files from a URL instead of upload

Simple Groupware 0.2x / 0.3x features

  • New modules: expenses, tts (issue ticket system), notes, forum, spreadsheets
  • Document check-out/-in and a view that shows files currently locked
  • Automatically add contact birthdays into calendar
  • E-mail notification for deadlines of calendar events / tasks
  • E-mail notification for changes in certain datasets
  • SyncML support for tasks, notes, calendar events, contacts
  • Document calendar usage (esp. recurrences: repeat interval / repeat count, etc.)
  • Import Oulook calendar from a csv file
  • Show free/busy view of a calendar
  • Task dependencies (e.g. Task A must be finished to start Task B)
  • New modifiers to show a preview of important files (.pdf, .doc, .sxw, etc.)
  • Enable functions for adding additional datasets depending on the result from the database (e.g. summing up a column)
  • Write a new module for storing bookmarks of special folders in a folder
  • Improve calendar: add colors to events
  • Add schema for creating department folders automatically (with contacts, mails, etc.)
  • Write a new module for storing photos and a template for showing n-pictures per row


Note: There are no fixed timetables for features or releases.