It would be great to be able to just reply to a system generated email from my email to post a comment.
Something like basecamp does where the top of the email reads :
--- Reply ABOVE THIS LINE to post a comment to the project ---
How hard would this be to do? What about including file attachments?
I know it would save clients the hassle of having to go to the webpage all the time to post a comment.
It's a popular feature request however there is no current implementation as it would require some kind of cron job system which PP doesn't have.
I see,
This would be my #1 feature request, hopefully there is a way to get it working. I guess an example of what I"m thinking of would be similar to the way ExpressionEngine has a way to post entries from email. I'm just giving that example 'cuz it's what I know.
From what I see Active Collab doesn't have this feature, but I may be wrong. Base Camp does…
Anyway here's hoping, and let me know if there's something that could be done to get things rolling since it's a popular request.
Jeremy Douglas Media Design | Twitter
There has already been some talk about how to implement this type of thing, but its definitely not a trivial feature.
Care to point to the code that implements this feature in EE? This might help some developers get jump started.
That would be the moblog module. I guess I can't post the code since it's part of the paid version.
Here's the docs on the user end of it:
http://expressionengine.com/docs/modules/moblog/index.html
Jeremy Douglas Media Design | Twitter
thanks
That would be the moblog module. I guess I can't post the code since it's part of the paid version.
Here's the docs on the user end of it:
Alex, implementing this feature would greatly add to the user-friendliness of project pier. Its absence is the number one reason why I'm not deploying PP with many folks and am instead signing them up with Basecamp. For most people, having to log in in order to reply to an email is just too inconvenient. It significantly impedes group collaboration.
I understand that this is not trivial. I'm also grateful that you've been putting so much effort into PP already. I know what it's like to nurture a project like this. It's a labor of love.
If it makes a difference, I'll donate $250 if you can implement this feature by the end of June 2009.
:-)
Marc Fest
www.marcfest.com
I'm in the exact same boat as Marc. I will match his $250, but I realize that at this point it's probably not feasible time-wise.
If it could be done in by the end of the year though, I would be willing to donate $250. For me, it's the difference between using and not using PP.
Jeremy Douglas Media Design | Twitter
You don't need a cron job to check a pop3 mailbox every hour or so. It is impractical : The milestones, comments etc would arrive on the server with a significant delay (you can't check for new mail every 10 secs), impeding fluid conversation.
What is possible is to pipe the mail to a php script. I've implemented a small subset of functions successfully. It depends on what your host allows you to do, but maybe you can safely assume that only professionnals use ProjectPier, and have reliable web hosting. In Cpanel, for example, you can redirect an email address to a php or perl script, and thus all email to that address will be parsed and processed by your php script.
You can then have it do whatever you want with the text of the email...
Please contact me directly for more info or if you want to contract me to implement this feature.
Jonathan Foucher
Desarrollador Web
Six Pixels
jfoucher@6px.eu
well, i think, system generated emails are always useless ;)
With regards to this function, I feel that it would greatly assist PP and allow a streamlined flow of communication.
If any developers are interested in starting on this, a simular function of osTicket could be used. It has an autocron / email pipe function, maybe a developer could look into it and see if this could be setup.
This function could also then be used as a support ticketing system also.
I would be interested in helping any developer who knows project pier.
Thanks
I have a basic real-time (non-polling) solution working (send email from any mail client, read email, store). This solution works for every environment (so no need for server specific features like being able to pipe email to php).
I need to integrate it with PP now. Stay tuned.
I'm tuned, thanks for keeping us updated :)
Jeremy Douglas Media Design | Twitter
This would be a great addition.
Hello all,
We are using Project Pier as apposed to BC-HQ for licencing costs - therefore my employer has requested a simular feature (so that we can use Project Pier for our company)
I am going to attempt to achieve this - and will keep everybody updated. Does anybody have any further ideas or feature requests on how they want this to work?
Regards,
Matt
I have a working solution. It just needs some shaping up.
Maybe you want to go for another solution. I will contact you.
Hey, I'm looking for the same thing.. could you PM me your solution/idea