Dear Paolo,my plugin won't do any of the things you want. However, it should be possible to retrieve the data from sugarcrm via the api as long as you hook into the activity module. As for the retrieval of the document itself: you'll have to take into account the public availability of the document. If Joomla is on the same server as sugar it should be easier to retrieve the document itself then on remote systems. It all depends on how sugar handles the attached files' security. I can't tell you anything about that, because I don't have any hands-on experience with it.
Thank you fo rthis important plug-in.It works very fine, but I have this request to you and I hope that you can help or address me to find a solution.In SugarCRM I'm using the activity tab to assign a task, call or meeting to a client and attaching a document.My client doesn't access in SugarCRM, but in a Joomla portal where I show him all the activities he has to realize.The fact is that I can not retreive and show in Joomla the document attached to that activity without logging in SugarCRM and I was wondering if your plug-in could be useful for my intention.The problem is that (I understood) your plug-in search the information (username - password) in the contact table: is it possible to have the controll in the log-in table?Thanks a lotPaolo
I understand your frustration - if you have one - with the changes. I'm not too familiar with SugarCRM and the backend of it. If you could point me in some sort of direction, I'd like to try to figure it out. But - I'm not a programmer, just wishing I was now... Thanks!
Thank you so much for this plugin, unfortunately I'm having a difficult time getting them to cooperate together. I've watched your videos. I've got newly installed versions of both Joomla and SugarCRM, but I just cannot get it to work. So I'm wondering if SugarCRM 5.5 is too new to work with this plugin from Joomla? I keep getting the error that the user doesn't exist or have an account yet in Joomla. I've checked and double-checked my settings, and they seem to be correct. I'm at a loss. Any way you might take a look at these? I would love for my clients to be able to log in to Joomla, and only have to use the username and password I provide them.Again, thank you!CAnne
Meta Tags: I'd say forget about them. Better spend time on writing good content. I think the Google snippet will show the relevant content.H1: in html5 every page section should contain it's own < h1 >, exciting isn't it :-)
I completely agree, an image would be nice. But with an image, you also need an image url, which differs from server to server. The addition of an image would introduce a possible error in the codesnippet if moving from one system to another. Just think of it like this: every image needs special care and attention. So the styling of images alone could use a whole new style guide. :)
Hi Bas,first of all thanks that we can use your plugin.Unfortunately, it doesn't work yet on my side. When i login i see on the sugarcrm side that the user is authenticated.I see the select statements in the debug log so i presume that's working.But then nothing happens... No user is created in the joomla backend.Nor do i see a message that I'm authenticated. When i go back to the login form on the website, I woulld assume that i see a logout button, but in fact i see the same login form...Looking forward to read your feedback!
a mistake many people make is using an encrypted field as password field. Did you use a regular text field? Encryption is supported in the next release of the plugin.
Thanks for the nice tool. But unfortunately i tried whole night yesterday but cannot start it. I saw your video and did everything as per the instructions but without success. I am using joomla 1.5.14 and sugarcrm 5.0.2i
When i try to login with joomla frontend it shows error username and password do not match or you dont have an account yet. You must login first.
(though i have set the plugin to be public)
Also the files on the download site shows sugarauth version 0.1.4 dt. 2008-12-28. Is this your latest version?
Hi Michael, thank you very much for your feedback. I will have to look into the password / duplicate user problems. Happy to hear you are using the plugin despite it's shortcomings. If you do any development to it yourself, please let me know.
Great work. I am new to SugarCRM and relatively new to Joomla but stumbled across your plug-in and have to say I am wrapped! I recently moved from Salesforce to Sugar and we have been trying to get this sort of functionality ( and more of course ) working in SFDC for 2 years with no joy. 20 min and I have your plugin working in a test environment. One thing that slowed me down was working out NOT encrypting the password field using version 0.1.4
Anyway, the reason for my comment here is that I have noticed a strange behavior, and I am really not sure why it is happening or how it all works so thought I would bring it up.
I have a Joomla 1.5.10 and v0.1.4 of the plug-in and Sugar 5.2i.
When I do a login using a sugar user, it logs in fine, and creates the Joomla user.
I was the curious to see what would happen if I did a 'forgot password' request. It worked.. sort of... I got the token email to reset the password... 'password' was the original password, so I set 'password2' as the new password.
So, I tried to log in with the new password, and it worked. I then checked the Sugar DB to see if it had updated it, but it had not.. so I tried to login with the old password, and that worked also??
So, I now have one user, that can login with two different passwords. It is not a big issue for me, but I thought it was interesting.. and thought I would pass it on.
With some furthur testing, I discovered that if I disabled the user active in Sugar, the the origional password would no longer work, but the new password does, which means if someone updated their password, then the 'active' field is no longer effective.
I did see a feature request on the Joomlacode site for 'forgot password' functionality.. I guess it is about half way there.
Anyway, thanks again for a great tool, and I would love to hear what you think about the issue above.
Great SEO tips for Drupal users. Since on the topic of SEO, I also think one should not ignore all the other basic SEO factors like keyword density, url naming, etc.
Dear Paolo,my plugin won't do any of the things you want. However, it should be possible to retrieve the data from sugarcrm via the api as long as you hook into the activity module. As for the retrieval of the document itself: you'll have to take into account the public availability of the document. If Joomla is on the same server as sugar it should be easier to retrieve the document itself then on remote systems. It all depends on how sugar handles the attached files' security. I can't tell you anything about that, because I don't have any hands-on experience with it.
Thank you fo rthis important plug-in.It works very fine, but I have this request to you and I hope that you can help or address me to find a solution.In SugarCRM I'm using the activity tab to assign a task, call or meeting to a client and attaching a document.My client doesn't access in SugarCRM, but in a Joomla portal where I show him all the activities he has to realize.The fact is that I can not retreive and show in Joomla the document attached to that activity without logging in SugarCRM and I was wondering if your plug-in could be useful for my intention.The problem is that (I understood) your plug-in search the information (username - password) in the contact table: is it possible to have the controll in the log-in table?Thanks a lotPaolo
I understand your frustration - if you have one - with the changes. I'm not too familiar with SugarCRM and the backend of it. If you could point me in some sort of direction, I'd like to try to figure it out. But - I'm not a programmer, just wishing I was now... Thanks!
I haven't tried the combination. SugarCRM are constantly changing their soap api. I'm considering abandoning the project all together.
Thank you so much for this plugin, unfortunately I'm having a difficult time getting them to cooperate together. I've watched your videos. I've got newly installed versions of both Joomla and SugarCRM, but I just cannot get it to work. So I'm wondering if SugarCRM 5.5 is too new to work with this plugin from Joomla? I keep getting the error that the user doesn't exist or have an account yet in Joomla. I've checked and double-checked my settings, and they seem to be correct. I'm at a loss. Any way you might take a look at these? I would love for my clients to be able to log in to Joomla, and only have to use the username and password I provide them.Again, thank you!CAnne
Exciting indeed! For the time being I'll leave my meta tags implementation in place. At the first big retemplating of codeculture.nl I'll reconsider.
Meta Tags: I'd say forget about them. Better spend time on writing good content. I think the Google snippet will show the relevant content.H1: in html5 every page section should contain it's own < h1 >, exciting isn't it :-)
How about a link to an uncompressed version of the css / js file at the top of the file?
Now I think of it, you're right :-)
Sure you can. And yes, my twitter account is http://twitter.com/basvredeling
I want to quote your post in my blog. It can?
And you et an account on Twitter?
Very good post, thanks a lot.
I completely agree, an image would be nice. But with an image, you also need an image url, which differs from server to server. The addition of an image would introduce a possible error in the codesnippet if moving from one system to another. Just think of it like this: every image needs special care and attention. So the styling of images alone could use a whole new style guide. :)
Very useful! I would like to see an image in the style guide code, though.
Hi Bas,first of all thanks that we can use your plugin.Unfortunately, it doesn't work yet on my side. When i login i see on the sugarcrm side that the user is authenticated.I see the select statements in the debug log so i presume that's working.But then nothing happens... No user is created in the joomla backend.Nor do i see a message that I'm authenticated. When i go back to the login form on the website, I woulld assume that i see a logout button, but in fact i see the same login form...Looking forward to read your feedback!
Hi Polprav,
I'd be happy to have the inbound link and read the quote on your website. So by all means, yes, post away!
Hello from Russia!
Can I quote a post in your blog with the link to you?
good article.thanks a lot.
Nick
Hi Chris,
a mistake many people make is using an encrypted field as password field. Did you use a regular text field? Encryption is supported in the next release of the plugin.
best regards,
Bas
Hi Bas!
Thanks for the nice tool. But unfortunately i tried whole night yesterday but cannot start it. I saw your video and did everything as per the instructions but without success. I am using joomla 1.5.14 and sugarcrm 5.0.2i
When i try to login with joomla frontend it shows error username and password do not match or you dont have an account yet. You must login first.
(though i have set the plugin to be public)
Also the files on the download site shows sugarauth version 0.1.4 dt. 2008-12-28. Is this your latest version?
Please help.
thanks,
best regards,
chris
Hi Michael, thank you very much for your feedback. I will have to look into the password / duplicate user problems. Happy to hear you are using the plugin despite it's shortcomings. If you do any development to it yourself, please let me know.
Hi Bas,
Great work. I am new to SugarCRM and relatively new to Joomla but stumbled across your plug-in and have to say I am wrapped! I recently moved from Salesforce to Sugar and we have been trying to get this sort of functionality ( and more of course ) working in SFDC for 2 years with no joy. 20 min and I have your plugin working in a test environment. One thing that slowed me down was working out NOT encrypting the password field using version 0.1.4
Anyway, the reason for my comment here is that I have noticed a strange behavior, and I am really not sure why it is happening or how it all works so thought I would bring it up.
I have a Joomla 1.5.10 and v0.1.4 of the plug-in and Sugar 5.2i.
When I do a login using a sugar user, it logs in fine, and creates the Joomla user.
I was the curious to see what would happen if I did a 'forgot password' request. It worked.. sort of... I got the token email to reset the password... 'password' was the original password, so I set 'password2' as the new password.
So, I tried to log in with the new password, and it worked. I then checked the Sugar DB to see if it had updated it, but it had not.. so I tried to login with the old password, and that worked also??
So, I now have one user, that can login with two different passwords. It is not a big issue for me, but I thought it was interesting.. and thought I would pass it on.
With some furthur testing, I discovered that if I disabled the user active in Sugar, the the origional password would no longer work, but the new password does, which means if someone updated their password, then the 'active' field is no longer effective.
I did see a feature request on the Joomlacode site for 'forgot password' functionality.. I guess it is about half way there.
Anyway, thanks again for a great tool, and I would love to hear what you think about the issue above.
Cheers
Michael
Great SEO tips for Drupal users. Since on the topic of SEO, I also think one should not ignore all the other basic SEO factors like keyword density, url naming, etc.
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nice article.The descision you always have to make... for whom are you working for?I sure want to read more about the H1 discussion...