I don't know if this is maybe a personal thing or not but what are the forms really good for? They don't add anything to the overall functionality of the program and are limited in their capabilities. Seems to me that it is a waste of a tab. As well, why have a page dedicated to tags maybe a tag cloud would work better?
If you could create actual forms, they would be more functional.
That way you could get feedback on specific items.
I think a simple admin/config flag to show/hide the Forms tab is in order...
I agree 100%, they have little value that I have seen. It would be nice to see the ability to remove it from the interface.
You can add this to the rewrites.css file of the theme you are using:
li#tabbed_navigation_item_forms {
display:none;
}
It's a quick and dirty fix, but will rid you of the Forms tab for now. ;-)
Although the concept of forms is very basic on PP, it can come in handy.
For example, you can create a message called "Hours", and then create a form called "Hours Tracked". You can use the form to quickly fill out "task - total hours" and keep track of your time that way (whether for internal or billing purposes).
Similarly, you can keep records of calls, issues, etc.
It all just takes a bit of creativity.
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-V.
But all it does is add a comment to the message... and you can add a comment to the message just by using the message page.
I use them to allow the team to post tasks to me without having to give them full access to the task list :)
I think the Form are useful, howevere, I think they're not well exposed.
The way I would use them is by allowing clients to post questions and demands so that this would become a task for the team behind the project. This can be done now but it's not so intuitive cause as a client, findin the form isn't quite easy. There should be a way to see all the forms as a client.
Cheers
Edit:
I think there should also be a way to make forms that don't ask for login, this would be helpful and it would create some sort of a help desk, righ?
I also wondering what forms were for since I'm pretty new to the software. I guess that adding time reports to certain tasks is a good way to use them, although I think that time reports should be made in other convenient way.