Topic: CRM for SMEServer

[brianr]

I am looking for an Open Source CRM and office support package for a client of mine - anyone any reccommendations?

TIA

[Rien]

See http://www.opensourcecms.com

I'm using Joomla! (http://www.joomla.org) and Plone (http://www.plone.org) on SME-server 6.01-1

Rien

[brianr]

Joomla and Plone seem to be Content management systems (for web sites), rather than Customer Relationship Management systems.

I have looked at SugarCRM (from the opensourcecms site), which looks pretty good - have any one installed it on SMEserver?

[Rien]

Sorry,

You're right, I didn't read it properly. I've no experience with CRM's

[jester]

He Rien,

Try a search on this site, but for a quick answer:

http://www.sugarcrm.com/
http://www.vtiger.com/

wich are more or less the same, and (partially) GPL. For info on installation search this site.


regards,
jester.

[york]

Hello Everyone,

I am interested in setting up vTiger on 6.5 but after checking the offical site and the Install How-To PDF, this is clear that 6.5 is too "old" (and perhaps 7 Beta too!).

My question is: Does anyone out there successfully installed vTiger on SME?  If so please do share your "notes".  Thank you very much.

Regards,

York
/YC:yc

[brianr]

try here for vTiger:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=27918.0
and

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=28000.0

and here for SugarCRM

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=29745.0

(thanks jesper..)

[russs]

I have had no trouble installing vTiger on either 6.0.1 or 7 Pre1.
As long as you are using PHP4 not 5 and Mysql 4 then you should have no problems. I do not use the.bin executable version from their site , I simply create an ibay and dump the files in there in the HTML folder. A little bit of tweaking to point to the correct, empty mySQL database and Bob's your uncle!
Make sure you have the permissions set up as per the install.php file in the install folder in vTiger and you should have a fully functioning CRM installation.

[calisun]

russs
can you go into more detail on your: "A little bit of tweaking to point to the correct, empty mySQL database"
If you can, step by step would be great.

thanks

[russs]

Sorry!
Only just noticed your mail and I'm off home in a mo, so I'll just give a couple of quick details to see if this is what you mean.

Obviously, make sure you have MySQL loaded (MySQL 4 version). Create a database called something like 'vtiger4'.
MySQL probably won't have a password in it's default configuration so in the vtiger 'install.php' page, which you run after putting the vtiger files in the correct ibay, just list the SQL server as 'localhost:3306' and the user as root with no password, make sure you also list the database as the correct name, .i.e vtiger4, this takes me on to the next screen successfully.

Is this what you mean? (I'll give further details if neccessary although all this can be found on the vTiger site)

Good luck with it.

[davidbencini]

Hi,
i'm trying to setup joomla CMS on SME 7, but i don't know what "name" and "password" write in mysql access doing joomla settings database. I have wrote "root" and my passw, "admin" and my passw, but nothing. Connecting via PUTTY on my SME server, i can access mysql with no password!! Can you help me?
Many thanks, David.

ps. i have wrote also "root" and password in .my.cnf, but nothing to do!

[FreakWent]

the vtiger people say that mysql 4.1x is no good, i must be 4.0.  The sme 7 Pre release ? that I have includes mysql 4.1.12

See here:

http://blogs.vtiger.com/viewtopic.php?t=4248&start=0

so make sure that you get vtiger 4.2.3 instead of 4.2, since 4.2.3 works OK for me.

[toni_k]

ive just installed vtiger - no problem but cannot get the mail going i think someone in the forum asked must have a fully working vtiger going can they help

it sent a mail to  say it worked but will not pull the mail from my smeserver !!!

any ideas

as vtiger looks exactly whay im looking for

toni
if it aint broke dont fix it