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go-mobile Announces SugarCRM and KnowledgeTree Integration Product for Sugar Exchange 

go-mobile, a provider of popular extensions for SugarCRM, has released ZuckerDocs version 2 which integrates the open source KnowledgeTree document management system into SugarCRM.

 

ZuckerDocs (”Zucker” is the german word for “Sugar”) is a Sugar module which extends Sugar suite with full Document Management and Knowlegde Base features. This datasheet contains an overview of features and pricing.ZuckerDocs, already one of the most popular projects on the SugarCRM community portal, SugarForge, provides access to KnowledgeTree’s advanced document management features from within SugarCRM. KnowledgeTree’s version control and full-text document search mechanisms are exposed to SugarCRM users. Documents within the KnowledgeTree repository may also be associated with SugarCRM objects such as accounts, opportunities and leads.

“Companies use SugarCRM to provide a customer-centric view of their information,” says Florian Treml, lead developer of the ZuckerDocs project at go-mobile. “ZuckerDocs extends that philosophy by allowing a customer-centric view of documents. KnowledgeTree and SugarCRM together provide a powerful application combination in a simple and easy-to-use manner.”

The latest version of the ZuckerDocs product uses KnowledgeTree’s Web Services application programming interface (API) and provides integration for both the open source and commercial editions of SugarCRM and KnowledgeTree.

go-mobile’s ZuckerDocs Version 2 is also listed on SugarExchange, the online marketplace for third-party applications from SugarCRM partners and community members.

“KnowledgeTree and SugarCRM are both developed on the popular LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack,” says John Thorne, chief sales officer at KnowledgeTree. “When we published our web services API a few months ago, our intention was for third-party developers to build applications around KnowledgeTree,” he says. “Zuckerdocs is a significant use of the API and we’re pleased that this strategy is adding value to both the KnowledgeTree and SugarCRM communities.”

SugarCRM for itself only provides rudimentary support for document management - it is possible to attach documents to notes, which for itself can be attached to contacts, accounts and other objects. ZuckerDocs uses a “real” document management system, from KnowledgeTree, and integrates the following into SugarCRM:

• manage document templates for each client
• organize business reports and invoices
• store email attachments

• ZuckerDocs server available for free
• Assign documents to Accounts, Bugs, Calls, Cases, Contacts, Emails, Leads, Meetings, Notes, Opportunities, Tasks, Users - in short, all Sugar objects
• Document Categorization for easy retrieval
• Version history for all documents
• Document locking with checkin/checkout functions
• Fulltext search
• “My Documents” for every user
• All document types supported
• Quick edit of text- and html-files
• Knowledge Management with interlinks, “Recently Changed”, article categorization etc
• Advanced document management by using the native KnowledgeTree UI

Both KnowledgeTree and SugarCRM have significant community traction. KnowledgeTree has 30,000 registered community members, over 420,000 open source software downloads to date, and 67 community-run projects. SugarCRM counts over 60,000 community members and nearly four million downloads of all things Sugar. The ZuckerDocs version 2.0 Beta release is available for download from SugarExchange: http://www.sugarexchange.com/product_details.php?product=21

Mozilla labs published info on a cool add-on for Firefox, called Personas - lightweight theming to your browser.

Personas is a prototype that builds upon the ideas that:

• themes today are too hard to find, install and use
• graphic designers should be able to style the browser without having to code
• browsers can be more than just desktop software, they can include online components
• people just want their computer to be a little more fun and personal

This version improves upon a prototype that was discussed and tested earlier this year.

In this version, the Persona selector is dynamically loaded and populated from a JSON feed and all designs are loaded via URLs to remote resources. All changes to the browser chrome are applied instantly, with no need to restart.

Team shortly be releasing an API that will allow developers and designers to submit Personas that are based on Web content, including support for anything that can load in a content window such as HTML, CSS, PNG, JPG, Javascript, SVG and Canvas.

Features

• You can select a Persona from the dynamic menus and see results instantly without having to discover, select, download or install a separate bit of software or code.
• Personas can be added, removed or updated by their designers at any time, without requiring a software update.

Install Now for Firefox 2.0.0.* - 3.0b2pre, Windows/Mac/Linux
Compatible with the default themes that ship with Firefox

A very interesting howto written by Dr.Small, which might come handy to a lot of people, or perhaps some time in future.

I run into all kinds of predicaments when operating from behind a router, and one of them is, to be able to record my External (or WAN) IP, while behind it.

I am going to explain to you, how I succeeded in doing it, so you may do the same, if you are in the same ditch, and are like me, and run a ssh server or so. When you leave the computer, and you haven’t checked your WAN IP for days, (if you have a dynamic IP), it tends to change.

So first off, here is a list of things you will need for this project:

1. Expect. A simple little application. I’ll explain how to get it, in a second.
2. A external or secondary website, which you have FTP access to.

So, let’s start off and get the necessary things we need, while we are at it.

Complete HowTo