mxm Project Manager — Plone CMS: Open Source Content Management

This one came out *much* after our aborted attempt to adopt b-org Spaces for usage as a role-provider based security controller for Cyn.in Spaces.
It was earlier available for plone2.x but now is also available for plone3.x Still haven't actually tried to run it and verify what it does - will do so sooner or later.

I think I must have managed to confuse you a bit with this initial answer, I was actually referring to http://www.cynapse.com/[…]/link.1225435845302 and confused the two different products because of it's similar namespace. Plus the original b-org used the word "project" in a lot of places.

Funny, this is exactly the product I want to install in Cyn.in. Adding it through zope works ok but like many products it is not integrated into the application views.

Hmm... have you tried out mxm Project manager in vanilla Pone? What all is the functionality? Can you put up some screenshots, please? Add them as related items in this boomkark. If possible, do a review on mxx products! Once we know what all UI is there, then I can perhaps point out potential integration points.

I myself an interested in integrating this if it has deeper functionality in Containers+Permissions area. If not, we can definitely look at enabling it or at least seeing what all is possible.

Particular areas of my interest include:
1. What all content types does it provide? Content types is usually the maximum area of contention in Cyn.in - we do some things in a particular way which causes any items to not show up in listers, for example.
2. Does it have a role provider that can be changed by Container owner / editor from edit screen? Like assign who can add which type of content types, and so on?
3. Does it have or require any integration with membrane / Remember products?
4. Wiring of new views to work in the Application Views menu is possible, with some work.
5. Add New button is a bit more involved, there's considerable Javascript code there, plus specific code to deal with who can add what type of content in what container. So we'll have to work out how to, in this UI as well.

Hey,
I tried it a long time ago and created a mash up between it and Upfront Project so that I could use Upfront's nicer looking gantt view. It works well and I recently modified it to work with plone 3. I stayed away from membrane and remember so it is certainly a simple enough product, although folderish (which is how I wanted it). I use it with CalendarX or plone calendar in the following way:

1. Create a Project Manager
2. Create a Project in Project Manager
3. Create a Milestone in Project
4. Create an Event / Task in Milestone
5. Public Event / Task so that it's visible in the calendar.

For Project Manager, Milestone and Event, setting the start and end dates give a nice looking gantt chart (see Upfront's project manager) in the parent folder view.

It plays fairly well with cyn.in except for some reason I cannot get it to default to a custom view (it keeps going to base_view which results in an error) and you have to install it through the zmi.

It would be nice to get it 'integrated.'

Here are links to a few screenshots:

The Original mxmPM product
http://www.cynapse.com/[…]/view

Modified gantt view for project container
http://www.cynapse.com/[…]/view

Modified gantt view for projects
http://www.cynapse.com/[…]/view

Hmm... interesting work with the Gantt views, there.

So this is part of mxm-project-manager now? Or is this with you alone? You've got me interested enough to run it and see what happens. :)

When you say "plays fairly well" - what happens, exactly? Let's ignore the Add New and Listers at the moment and assume you managed to add a Project via "createobject?type_name=" and then added milestones, etc. to it. You're saying when you arrive at the direct view of the project, it's trying to open up the base_view URL and failing there, but if you call it at your customized (.... new template for gantt?) templatename_view URL it works?

No other issues?

Greetings.

This sounds like a very interesting set of features. Did you manage to get it to work with Cyn.in?

Thanks.

Kim