Hello,
I have enjoyed putting together a fairly complex customer relations management tool with Phprunner. I works very well! Here are some problem areas where I need help that I have not been able to find in the documentation and through searches.
- I just do not get the charts in Phprunner. So far I have only been able to select my id field for any of the charts I have tried, whether I have number fields or not. Can you recommend a chart tutorial for especially dense people who have already read what is available? My goal is to have rather simple 2D charts of projected revenue by sales person, etc. I do understand charts and use them in excel, but I just can't make the connection in Phprunner.
- My users all maintain their contacts in MS Outlook versions 2003 and 2007. I need a method to allow them to synchronize selected groups of Outlook contacts with a "contacts" table in MySql through Phprunner. I have gone through the laborious process of exporting outlook contacts as .csv files and loading them into mysql, but that is an unreasonable amount of effort for my users. I have looked at other applications that can take advantage of the old DAO OBDC approach, but that is problematic from two standpoints - 1. setting up each clients computer for the data connection, and 2. opening a company firewall to allow the direct data connections. I am not familiar with the newer ADO processes for data exchange with Outlook, for example SharePoint connections, to know if that would work. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
Regards,
Bill