Roadmap

]po[ Product Development and Documentation Pipeline

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35 Thumbs	Google Apps integration Integrate ]po[ with Google Apps to synch mail (to the CRM module), calendar, sites and documents. From: Ben Taylor | 2 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
22 Thumbs	Budget Planning / Cash-Flow Planning Develop a package to allow companies to plan budgets or cash flow per project. Planning is usually performed per month, but possibly also per quarter or week. On the vertical axis, revenues or bu... (more) From: fraber | 1 Comment | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
17 Thumbs	Send financial documents as PDF HTML is a very sketchy format to sending financial documents. Please please integrate PDF functionality. From: Ben Taylor | 1 Comment | Status: Alpha | Type: Idea | |
16 Thumbs	M$-Project "Round Trip" Integration Complete the integration with Microsoft Project for V4.0. Currently, the _export_ is causing trouble with some projects. From: fraber | 2 Comments | Status: Alpha | Type: Idea | |
14 Thumbs	Android ]po[ Client Write an Android client for ]po[ to browse customers, contacts, projects etc. The client could be an extension of the "]po[-Timesheet" Java client that already exists. Any specific requests for f... (more) From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: In Review | Type: Idea | |
14 Thumbs	Drag and drop file storage This request may already covered by software integration on the roadmap but the ability to drag and drop files from email attachments straight into ]po[ file storage would be a big time-saver. From: Ben Taylor | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
10 Thumbs	Tagging + Tag Cloud for Projects, Tickets etc. Tagging allows users to create a "Folksonomy" (as oposed to a Taxonomy or Ontology) to classify objects. The XoWiki package already contains tagging functionality, so maybe it's possible to re-use t... (more) From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
8 Thumbs	MS-Project Integration Fix issues exporting MS-Project and test the round-trip From: fraber | 1 Comment | Status: Duplicate | Type: ]po[ Market Test | |
8 Thumbs	Podcasts Release twice a month a podcast with a ]project-open[ related topic. Include Partners and clients. From: klaushofeditz | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
8 Thumbs	Simplify Date entry by displaying a small calendar Simplify date entry by adding a yahoo ui or jquery component to display a small date selector in a calendar From: Olivier Paugam | 1 Comment | Status: Resolved | Type: Idea | |
6 Thumbs	Import Users and Groups from LDAP Create a user-friendly LDAP wizard to help users to detect and connect to an LDAP server. - Allow for the (periodic!) import of users - Map the LDAP group memberships into ]po[ groups - Notify abo... (more) From: fraber | 2 Comments | Status: Resolved | Type: Idea | |
6 Thumbs	Import Project from MS-Excel (and export) Implement an import function for projects, so that customers and import their project lists into ]po[ more easily during the initial setup of their system. From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
6 Thumbs	Self-Service Portal for suppliers and (potential) customers It would be great to have a self-service portal for suppliers where they can view their purchase orders and maybe even create their own provider bills on the one side and on the other side a portal whe... (more) From: ul | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
5 Thumbs	Subversion (SVN) Integration One or two paragraphs to describe your idea. From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
5 Thumbs	Project Baselines Develop a "versioning" system for entire projects including their sub-projects and tasks. A compare operation then allows to determine the different between past and current plans. Baselines need... (more) From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
5 Thumbs	Export Project Portfolios in User-Friendly Excel Create a user friendly Excel (or: Open Office Calc?) export of projects and their most important information. This Excel should be suitable for "senior management reporting" in companies that replac... (more) From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
4 Thumbs	Simplify task management Modify the task list to be able to order task in project by a drag and drop and add task directly in the list thrue an ajax screen for exemple From: Olivier Paugam | 1 Comment | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
4 Thumbs	Improve documentation Documentation should be available in pdf form also preferably in book form From: klaushofeditz | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
4 Thumbs	Budget Planning & Tracking Configurable, extensible budget planning & tracking with mail notifications etc. From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: ]po[ Market Test | |
3 Thumbs	Date Picker for all of ]po[ Use a JavaScript "date picker" widget throughout ]po[ to allow the user to enter dates. The date picker is already implemented for projects and absences. Now check that all other pages and reports u... (more) From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
3 Thumbs	VCard Edit & Import We should be able to import VCards, to quickly create companies, offices and users. Additionally we should have one single entry page to create a user, office and contact in one go. From: malte.sussdorff@cognovis.de | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
3 Thumbs	Balloon Help for ]po[ Admin Features Create a kind of "balloon help" (relatively small help texts that pop up for administrators to show the administrators certain features). The help texts should contain a field "[x] don't show again" to... (more) From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
3 Thumbs	Import vTiger Contacts into ]po[ Import contacts from vTiger / SugarCRM and write them into ]po[. Technical implementation: - Probably using REST Web-Services interface, - maybe database coupling. Sync Options: 1. vTiger is ... (more) From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
2 Thumbs	Filestorage with versioning based on Subversion Create a filestorage with a SVN backend, so that a file's change history becomes explicit. From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
2 Thumbs	AJAX Tables for Projects, Tickets, Companies, etc. Extend the "list pages" for all important objects with AJAX versions that allows for in-line editing, filtering etc. There are several candidate AJAX libraries with compatible open-source libraries:... (more) From: fraber | 1 Comment | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
2 Thumbs	Recurring Tasks Provide the possibility of making recurring tasks, weekly, monthly From: iboada | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
2 Thumbs	Workflow editor using "Oryx" Integrate the Oryx (http://code.google.com/p/oryx-editor/) workflow editor with the ]po[ workflow. Define a stencil set of preconfigured WF transitions. From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
2 Thumbs	Full customization for projects, tasks, users etc. At the moment a couple of fields for projects etc. are hard coded and always show up on top of the edit and view page. It would be great to be able to change that so you can define the order of fields ... (more) From: malte.sussdorff@cognovis.de | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
1 Thumb	TaskJuggler Integration Catch error conditions of TaskJuggler and possibly interpret the TJ error output file From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: ]po[ Market Test | |
1 Thumb	SVN Config Files Generation Generate the authz file for SVN based on ConfItem permissions already present. For testing, convert CVS to SVN and test on the converted repository. From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: ]po[ Market Test | |
1 Thumb	Surveys: Write an invitation package for Simple Surveys Deal with the use case: Sending out a mail to a number of customers to ask to participate in a user satisfaction survey. And others... From: franciscotorres | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
1 Thumb	PostgreSQL Compatibility Finally, there is a plan to upgrade from the unsupported PostgreSQL 8.1 to a current version. This eliminates the incompatibility with other services requiring PostgreSQL 8.3 and above. There will no l... (more) From: Joe Kirchner | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
1 Thumb	Executive dashboard using Google Charts Be able to create simple executive graphs using Google Charts. Somthing like the following example http://www.devx.com/webdev/Article/37245/1763?supportItem=11 From: jose.aracil@testhouse.net | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
1 Thumb	Risk Management Beef up the existing risk management package with reports and user-friendly risk entry. From: fraber | 2 Comments | Status: Resolved | Type: Idea | |
1 Thumb	SCRUM Burn-Down Chart Write burn-down charts for a) a single project and b) an entire product. From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
1 Thumb	Project Import from CSV Allow users to import/export a list of project to and from a comma separated values (CSV/Excel) file. From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
1 Thumb	Graphical Object Relationship Browser Objects (project, companies, tickets, configuration items, ...) are connected by "relationships". Develop a "relationship browser" that grapically display these relationships and allows users to quickl... (more) From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
1 Thumb	Dev: Default Values for DynFields DynField (Dynamic field that can extend existing business objects) don't have default values yet. The default value logic needs to be able to take into account the current user and other context inf... (more) From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
1 Thumb	SCRUM Burndown Chart ]po[ already includes a SCRUM task board with "Web 1.5" functionality to move tasks around. What's missing for a full SCRUM support is a burndown chart that shows the evolution of work over time.... (more) From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
1 Thumb	Document SCRUM Taskboard on .org The new SCRUM functionality of the intranet-release-management package hasn't yet been documented on .org. From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
1 Thumb	Catchy title for your idea Created this idea to block accidental creation of ideas. From: sreedhar ks | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
1 Thumb	Financial template customisation functionality Easier functionality to edit and customise financial templates. From: Ben Taylor | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
1 Thumb	Improve intelligence of select translator in translation module Sort freelance users by defining two or more columns with greater priority to speed up selection process. From: Ben Taylor | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
0 Thumbs	Process Configurator: Simplify ]po[ Demo Servers Use the "Process Configurator" to automatically create pre-configured demo servers from a master. Every specific demo server would import nightly a generic database dump and run the configuration scrip... (more) From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: ]po[ Market Test | |
0 Thumbs	Funambol Integration Add sync of contacts and install on projop for internal use From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: ]po[ Market Test | |
0 Thumbs	Fix REST Timesheet Integration of JAVA Client PO-Timesheet (the Java client for the REST interface) has issues to pull hours from the www.project-open.org server. Check why this is the case and make sure such issues don't appear in the future. ... (more) From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: ]po[ Market Test | |
0 Thumbs	CVS Config File Generation Put into production the current CVS-ACS integration stuff From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: ]po[ Market Test | |
0 Thumbs	Document NAV Integration Write-up the available document about the successful Microsoft NAV (Navision) integration integration as an example for future integrations. Also, this could be part of an article on how to integra... (more) From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: ]po[ Prod Doku | |
0 Thumbs	postgresql-8.1 I am not able install the above package in debian6 squueze as it is required for project-open please suggest From: kushsoni4 | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
0 Thumbs	Eclipse MyLin Integration MyLin is an Eclipse plug-in that supports tasks and task assignments to developers. From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
0 Thumbs	This One This is a test of the systems From: mhbaldwin | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
0 Thumbs	Offer a better Forum Provide a more user friendly forum, e.g. Stackoverflow From: klaushofeditz | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
0 Thumbs	Use Diagram Pkg to draw in the OACS Simulations Package I'm just reading about the Diagrams package which I associated to the simulations package. But since I have not found anyone who would help me to understand how I can put my own data into the simula... (more) From: kmw | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
0 Thumbs	Full integration with Clay Tablet Build an API to connect ]po[ with Clay Tablet to enable integration with several CMS's including SiteCore and Drupal. From: Ben Taylor | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
0 Thumbs	Extend ]po[ categories with permissions ]po[ categories currently don't have permissions. All states and types of a project (for example) are accessible for everybody. We would have to convert categories into OpenACS objects in order to a... (more) From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
0 Thumbs	Dev: Use portlets everywhere in the system Currently, there are several locations in the system where GUI elements are hard coded into object "view pages". Change these hard coded pages and convert the hard coded stuff into portlets, so that... (more) From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
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0 Thumbs	NavBar "Favourites" Extend the left navigation bar with user defined favourites. Allow the user to "bookmark" the current page, so that it appears in one of the left navigation bar sections. From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
0 Thumbs	Nagios / Icinga Integration - Get Server Uptime + Issues Nagios and it's fork Icinga are systems monitoring tools that track the uptime of servers and the applications running on them. Integrate the information from either system into ]po[, so that ]po[ p... (more) From: fraber | 1 Comment | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
0 Thumbs	Document Idea Management Package on .org This idea management package isn't yet documented on www.project-open.org. From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
0 Thumbs	Integrate with Oryx Workflow Editor The current workflow editor is not very user friendly. The Petri-Net stancil of Oryx would allow to offer pre-configured workflow transitions. From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
0 Thumbs	import payments via csv or similiar from your fav. accountancy software since updating the payments you received could be a pain i.t.a. sometimes, it would be marvellous to have an interface for payments-import with the possibility to choose some parameters regarding your ... (more) From: fued-tom | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
0 Thumbs	code-labd inc. Code Complex - Python Security Management System From: pyflux | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |
0 Thumbs	www.project-open.org Wiki "site map" Write a "site map" functionality for www.project-open.org Wiki to create a HTML site map that ]po[ partners could add to their web sites. This way we could improve the "deep indexing" of .org by Go... (more) From: fraber | 0 Comments | Status: Open | Type: Idea | |

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Version History

• ]project-open[ V4.1 (Planning)
• V 4.0 - Current development version, Port to OpenACS 5.6 for AJAX support.
  
• V3.5 - Current stable version, contains a REST Web-Service backend.
  
• V3.4 - New "Web 1.5" GUI with skins, ITSM Helpdesk
  
• V3.3 - Reporting engine and "performance indicators"
  
• V3.2 - "Portlets" and "Menus" allow to configure the GUI.
  
• V3.1 - "DynFields" now allow to extend objects with new fields, functional extensions.
  
• V3.0 - Port of V2.1 to the open-source PostgreSQL database. ]po[ is from now on PostgreSQL only.
  
• V2.1 - Mainly extensions to the financial and translation modules. Oracle only.
  
• V2.0 - Port of the "intranet" package to OpenACS 5.0. First production installation. Oracle only
  
• V1.0 - The very first ]project-open[ that actually wasn't ]po[ yet. Oracle only
  

]project-open[ General Development Roadmap

The following packages are on our priority list of developments for the next months. Most of our developments are sponsored by customers, so we usually can't predict when new functionality will be finished.  Please let us know in the Open Discussions  forum on SourceForge what you think about these priorities. We will include these developments into the next ]po[ releases as soon as the functionality has reach "product level maturity".

• AJAX GUI:
  We plan to include more and more AJAX features in ]po[ during the next versions. We plan to start with the most frequently used HTML pages in the system. However, the total number of  pages (more then 1.000) will not allow us to completely rewrite the system.
• Improved Configuration Wizard:
  We plan to improve the configuration system in order to "simplify" the system. We will try to show only the specific functionality to a customer that directly supports the customer's processes.
  
• Funambol integration:
  Funambol is a SyncML server allowing to sync tasks and contacts between MS-Outlook, iPhone, Android and other SyncML capable PIM applications.
  Currently (2010-11-05), ]po[ tasks can be synced with Funambol. As a next step we will add support for ]po[ customer and provider contacts.
  
• TaskJuggler Integration:
  V4.0 will probably include a round-trip integration with TaskJuggler.org to allow for resource levelling of projects.­
• "Contacts" CRM:
  This package allows for CRM campaigns.
  
• CVS Integration Package:
  This ITSM package allows to import CVS commits into ]po[, automatically associating commits with projects.
  The package also allows to generate CVS+ACL configuration files, effectively allowing to maintain CVS permission configuration in ]po[.
  
• [Financial Planning]:
  A future package that will allow for financial/budget planning per project, cost center, cost type etc.
  
• [Portfolio Management]:
  A future package allowing to define and track portfolios of projects using a number of reports and indicators. The package will also contain "resource levelling" functionality and "what-if" scenarios to analyze the impact of adding additional projects to a portfolio.
  
• Sharepoint Integration:
  A future package that links ]po[ projects to a Sharepoint server for storing documents.
  
• [Mail Tracking]:
  A CRM package capable of associating incoming and outgoing mails with users and projects.
  

ITSM Extensions

• [Subversion Integration]:
  We plan to integrate with Surversion in order to be able to associate SVN commits with ]po[ tickets and projects and to create SVN configuration files based on ]po[ data.
• [SCRUM Support]:
  This package will implement support for SCRUM, Kanban and other agile development methodologies. The package will include a SCRUM board, a burndown diagram and other features. The package will effectively extend the [Release Management] with a graphical display of the already existing workflows.
• [Mylyn Integration]:
  We plan to integrate the Eclipse Mylyn plugin with ]po[, allowing Eclipse users to consult tasks and log hours in ]po[

]project-open[ V4.1 (Planning)

• Expected Final Release: 11/2012
  
• Current Status: planning only

• MS-Project Round-Trip Integration:
  V4.0 allows you to start your project in ]po[, import a project schedule from MS-Project, continue to edit information in ]po[, export the results to MS-Project for further editing, import the results and so on.
• LDAP and Active Directory Integration:
  V4.0 includes a configuration wizard that guides usres through the process of setting up an integration with Active Directory.
  
• [Project Baselines]:
  This package package stores "versions" of a project and allows users to compare the current project plan to previous plans. The package is under active development right now (2011-10-01) and expected to be ready for V4.0 final. The package depends on the Audit commercial package. 
• Risk Management:
  Allows to associate risks with projects.
  
• Outlook and Mobile Device Integration
  V4.0 (the Linux VMware installer) will include an experimental Funambol integration.
  We expect to improve this integration during the course of the V4.0 lifecycle.
• Expense Management:
• Allow adding notes on multi-expense form
• Two additional reports added
  
• Multi-protocoll Support - Filter for HTTP/HTTPS access:
•  Configure what pages can only be accessed through HTTPS
  
• Resource Management:
•  New Resource Planning Report 
• Exchange rates
• ]project-open[ can be configured in a way that exchange rates get updated automatically
• SLA Management and improved Helpdesk:
  A ITSM package that provides "SLA Parameters" to capture contractual rules defined in SLAs and a component for SLA working hours.
  Indicators automatically track the value of SLA parameters, warning managers if defined SLA levels are close to be violated.
• Invoices
  
• Invoices can now have Discount/Surcharge Lines
• Grouped invoice items:
  Create an invoice for a main project that contains grouped & accumulated invoice elements of positions from sub-projects
• Invoice elements are now related to time sheet tasks  
• Translation:
• A  "Customer Portal" allows customers to request a quote and get access to their financial documents
• Bulk edit translation tasks (/intranet-translation/trans-tasks/task-list)   
• Other changes and additions:
  
• User Profiles can be filtered by keywords
  
• Multi-Expenses form allows to add comments for each expense   

Other planned V4.0 features: We currenty don't have a defined timeline for these features. Some of these features will be part of V4.0, depending on customer interest, funding etc.: