Forum OpenACS Development: Intranet module (or a bit of it)

Hi folks,

I know this is a recurring question, but what is the status of the
port/development of the intranet module? Actually, I'm just looking
for a time sheets implementation. We (in my company) have been
building client sites on ACS3.4 for a good while now, but would like
to start moving towards Open ACS since things are so much
more "alive" in terms of community and development.

Cheers

I would think that dotLRN will make a really fine backbone for an
intranet solution. You'd still need the biz-specific functionality
(time sheets, etc.), but in terms of creating project areas, etc., it'll
probably be a good model.

That is a typo, Tapiwa; dotLRN was always targeted for this
coming January (probably late January, AFAIK). Obviously, the
preview release was delayed, but I'm told they still plan on hitting
their January deadline and they still plan on putting out a
preview release some time before then. But I'm not an insider on
the project, so I'm only telling you what I was told a couple of
weeks ago. Perhaps somebody who is directly involved with the
project will give us more detail when they can.

Project tracker is complete vapor ware, at least in our experience. It's mostly to manage projects (hence the name) but it basically doesn't do much of anything.

Alas, intranet is virtually non-existent. I agree with Michael that dotLRN will take us very close to where we need to go.

Or we can all just wait for Armenta to show up and then move on to that...

talli

http://www.keystoneboxing.com/armenta.htm
http://www.actionrealty.com/armenta.html
http://www.actionrealty.com/armenta.html
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/fugitives/orleans/armenta.htm
http://www.armentahealth.com/textbw.htm

(courtesy of an ex-aD member who shall remain anonymous 😉 )

I'm not sure how these links help with an intranet, though.

Oh you mean the Segway? That's so old news... I haven't been as excited since the Sinclair C5.

It sounds like there is some uncertainty as to what will be the Intranet module on OACS 4. Just to add to the uncertainty, I've done a number of improvements (mostly UI improvements) to the ACS 3.4 Intranet module, and I'm going to be uploading them into the upcoming ACS 3.5 release, which Malte is hosting. So you have yet another possibility to look at. :)

Some of my extentions do rely on Oracleisms like connect by.

If not much work has been done, then I'd encourage whoever writes this to at least look at the code I'll be adding to the ACS 3.5 distribution. I should have the changed committed in the next two weeks.

I think there are enough improvements that it would be worth whoever's time to look at my code.