Features for a groupware script

Tristan_Wells

A freind of mine, and a few of his freinds are writing a groupware script(for personal use aswell as distribution). We have collected the following features.

<1>Hierarchical member system based on main administrators and normal staff members
<2>Calendar with support for upcoming events, as well as past evenets
<3>Staff database for management of members by administator
<5>Client management center
<6>Projects with support for project administators, and project developers and features such as breifing by a main
administator, to-do list, etc for project administators and project developrs
<7>Cookie auth, for support with AOL browsers which do not support sessions well
<8>Chat, for project managers and developrs to discuss ideas and such

What other features do you think are needed or would be useful in a groupware script?

Moonglobe

two things:
1) where's #4??😕
2) who cares about AOL?

piersk

Because if u are aiming for complete cross-browser use, you need to think about those poor people who use AOL. Admittedly you could just connect using AOL and then use another browser, but there are still a lot of people who use its built-in browser

Weedpacket

Originally posted by piersk
... but there are still a lot of people who use its built-in browser

And considering the various possible reasons why, very few of them inspire me with any confidence.

piersk

Thats true, but if this is to be used professionaly (which it might well be) then it might be used by some dumb ass who has AOL at home and doesn't know how to use any other browser.

goldbug

How about.... the ability to use some features of the system offline. (Assuming this is an online system)

Merve

a private messaging system would be good

Weedpacket

Originally posted by piersk
Because if u are aiming for complete cross-browser use, you need to think about those poor people who use AOL. Admittedly you could just connect using AOL and then use another browser, but there are still a lot of people who use its built-in browser

True, but I was just thinking about the audience the software was targeted at.

Document versioning might come in handy (including being able to generate changelogs that list who changed what when).

Tristan_Wells

Thanks for the suggestions. I spoke to the owner some 20 minute ago and the following features have been added to the development list.

Private message center
Changelog Generator