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Knowledge Base Extension For VTiger – New Release
December 25, 2018
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Companies move their infrastructure around particular tools, whatever they find feasible. Some prefer accounting software, others go for ERP, while some standardize CRM. Whichever the tool of choice is, they tend to revolve everything around it. Knowledge Base – New Release If your tool of choice is CRM > VTiger, we have released this extension with the name “Knowledge Base”. Knowledge Base for VTiger helps in managing internal documentation, user guides, instructions, quick information, ongoing campaigns, or any kind of documents meant for internal use. It also supports creating as many categories as required using standard Picklist in FAQs. This profound idea is not restricted here; the extension works as an overlay popup. That means accessing the Knowledge Base does not close the page you were on before clicking it. You can read all that you want – closing the Knowledge base overlay will bring you back to exactly where
New UI Summary Widgets For VTiger
December 19, 2018
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Summary Widgets – as the name suggests, enables to manage i.e. add or remove any widgets from any module’s summary view. For adding a new widget, you can add new widgets from any related module. On the added widget, you can add new record, select from existing, click on the related records to edit individual fields as well as record. Editing a record is managed in the intuitive Quick Edit popup (similar to Quick Create in VTiger). Administrators can configure the widgets to show the defined information on the widget. It also allows to sort the shown information as well as limit the number of entries. It also allows to add a custom comments widget. Its more helpful as it has custom features like show/hide comments etc. Removing a widget includes hiding any standard available widgets on any module. For example, comments, activity, documents, related modules etc. You can read
Send Emails Directly From Custom Modules in VTiger
December 18, 2018
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Custom Module & Relationship builder for VTiger is a very handy extension that enables the CRM admins to create new Custom Modules in the blink of an eye. These custom modules are made following VTiger standards strictly. In addition, the relationship builder allows CRM admins to link together existing modules as well as new custom modules. It supports 1:1, 1:M and M:M relationships. All the modules made by this extension includes Activity, Documents & Comments widgets and Modified By, Created By fields. New Feature We have added a new feature in this extension to make it a more powerful tool. Users can now send emails from a newly created custom module. You can see the ‘Send Email’ button in the top right corner of the record of the custom modules. Clicking this button will open an email composer. You can choose to send emails to any of the record from any of the modules as well as map data from
Custom Expenses Extension For VTiger – New Release
December 17, 2018
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On daily basis, companies run into situations, where they expend resources to provide services/products to their customers. Those expenses might come in any form i.e. travel expenses, spare parts purchases, outsourcing payments etc. There’s simply no specific category – such expenses can come in any form and service. Custom Expenses For VTiger We’ve come up with a new extension for VTiger which covers the above mentioned gap. Custom Expenses for VTiger helps to track and automate user expenses for every customer. Once an item is created, you can convert it to expense – there’s no limitation for that. Going ahead, you can add those expenses into invoices with proper details and get compensated properly, while keeping it all crystal clear. Use Cases A good example would be TA/DA for your staff. When funding the company’s representatives for a specific project while they travel, you can track and convert the expenses
In-line Edits For Summary Widgets For VTiger
December 14, 2018
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Summary Widgets Summary Widgets is a UI enhancing (no standard code modifications) extension that allows to add a widget in summary view of any modules. The widget can be selected from any related module and show information filtered on the basis of the configuration. It specifies things like name of the widget, columns/fields to display, limit records (if needed) & enable or disable ability to create new records from within the widget. New Feature – Summary Widgets Inline Edits As Summary Widgets is all about feasibility and response time, the extension now supports inline edits. This means that the summary you see of related modules in the widget – every field of each record is editable with just a single click. Try clicking on any field of any record in the widget, and you will see the accessibility. It gives the options to Save or Cancel any changes. So, once
Generate Groups via Scheduler in Multi-User Assignment Team Extension For VTiger
December 8, 2018
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VTiger open source only supports a single assigned to field. That means, one record can only have one assigned to field by default. If you want to add multiple users to a single project, or give access for some user in order to reveal a specific record and have his input on the matter, it’s hard. The admin will go to groups, find the users who need to have access to this specific record. Then create a new group. Further, he will have to open the record, change the assigned to, to the new group. It does not sound like a job of admins to move around like that, especially when there are convenient ways to do so. Multi-User Assignment or Team Extension This gap is covered by the extension Multi-user assignment, frequently known as “Team” module. The Multi-user assignment extension for VTiger settles down the matter of who should
Advanced Custom Fields for VTiger Supports PDF and Image Uploads
December 7, 2018
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Advanced Custom Fields The Advanced Custom Field Extension was designed for system admins to simply add Advanced Custom Fields to selected modules, where needed, other than standard fields. The Advanced Custom Fields are of 3 types – HTML Description Field (which supports RTF), Assigned to Field (which is really a user picklist) and Upload Field (which allows PDF documents and Image Uploads). When it comes to the number of Advanced Custom fields added, there is no limit. It supports Edit/ Create/ Detail View. Supports all the Standard and Custom VTiger Modules as well. Upload Field for PDFs and Images Now, the feature that we are discussing here is the Upload Field. An upload custom field allows to add an image as well as PDFs to any record of any module. You can add as many custom upload fields as required – there’s no limitation for it. Use Case For instance, take an example of Quotes Module. Users can upload an image of the Product
Kanban View Icon Moved To Lists In VTiger
December 3, 2018
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Kanban View in VTiger Most of the systems have Kanban view to visualize sales and support performance and workflows. In VTiger open source, we cover this void. Kanban view is an extension for VTiger open source that allows to quickly create dynamic cards and exhibit the team’s performances as well as to collaborate with teams and manage sales, opportunities, tickets, projects, project tasks, or any other list of records. The extension also supports drag & drop feature to quickly move cards among columns that are configurable field values. This updates the field values/status/stages of the records (cards). How to Access Kanban View in VTiger (New) We are hereby to announce a UI change, where we moved the Kanban view button from top and added it to the lists in every module. This looks like a slight change, but that actually saves Kanban resource from being triggered every time the listview
Knowledge Base Extension
December 3, 2018
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Knowledge Base This extension was designed to allow users to access internal documentation more easily. Very easy to use navigation/interface accessible from any page in VTiger. In addition, you can open and close it while editing/creating records. It does not loads a new page and keeps you on the current page. It basically opens a popup/overlay, meaning that you can open and close it while editing/creating records. In knowledge base you can put any of your internal documentations/FAQ’s. It has instant + smart search, where the results will be displayed as you type. We added custom search logic to find only relevant articles. It will give you all the articles that have subject or description that contains the searched query. The plugin itself is fully customizable. You can create your own category, set limits on articles, configure custom permissions and much more. In this article we will go over a simple
Convert Quote/Invoice/Order To Project Extension For VTiger – New Release
November 30, 2018
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Quotes, Invoices, Sale Orders, and Purchase Orders are extensively used modules in VTiger. Every company deploys them according to their own requirements as well as the laws of their area/country. But most of companies create Projects on the basis of the payments, processed by these modules. Why shouldn’t we directly convert a quote, invoice, sales order, or purchase order to a project? This would save lot of time, manual effort, as well as decrease the probability of error in the process. A new extension is available – Convert Quote/Invoice/Sales Order/Purchase Order to Project to do the job. It enables to convert one of those records and directly create a project out of them. Once installed and configured, the extension adds a button to the Quote/Invoice/Sales Order/Purchase Order. Open a record, click the button, and map the information to new project with just few clicks. All of the info
Quick Edit Popup In Summary Widgets For VTiger
November 30, 2018
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Accessing a related record in VTiger is basic knowledge for every VTiger user. Go to the module and open a primary record. Then find the desired related module icon and click. You will see the list of all the related modules without any problem and uhmm – filter. Summary Widgets OR you can use Summary Widgets extension to show related records to be shown in a table form right at the summary view. The extension Summary Widgets for VTiger allows to show records on a primary module’s summary view. It supports configuring filters for the related records. You can also select or create new records and relate them to the current primary record – right from the widget. Simply add the desired information to the popup and everything gets taken care of. There’s lot more information about the extension Summary Widgets on the product page and user guide.
Search Popup Filter For VTiger – New Release
November 27, 2018
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There’s no doubt about searching related records in VTiger via popup search is not as they are supposed to be. Once you try to create a new record, and select one related record, going through a list of even more related records for a secondary module does not make any sense. To cope with the problem, we came up with this idea to add Search Popup Filters, and we did. Search Popup Filter extension for VTiger 7 allows to apply filters (or condition) that will strain the results the user will get when selecting any record from a lookup/select/search popup in VTiger. For example, if you are creating a new ticket – you select an organization and then search for the contact to be associated with the ticket, by default – you will see all contacts in the system. However with this extension, you can configure contact lookup popup to only
When Creating A Ticket Only Show Contacts Associated With Ticket’s Organization In VTiger 7
November 23, 2018
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Search Popup Filter This extension was designed to apply filter (or condition) that will limit the results user will see when selecting a record (any) from a lookup/select/search popup in VTiger. It is fully customizable, meaning that you can set any condition which makes most sense to your business. One of the more common examples is “only show me Organizations that are Active (exclude Inactive)”. In addition to simple filters, you can also use “Compare with parent” operator, meaning that you can apply a filter which will check field value on the record you are on and compare it with the related record, for example if you are attaching asset to the ticket, by default you would see all available assets in the system, however you could configure it to only show assets related to an organization/customer that you are creating ticket for. In this article we will go over a simple use case on how
Only Show Active Organizations When Creating A Ticket In VTiger 7
November 21, 2018
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This extension was designed to apply filter (or condition) that will limit the results user will see when selecting a record (any) from a lookup/select/search popup in VTiger. How to Show Active Organizations Go to Menu > Settings > CRM Settings > Extension Pack > Search Popup Filter. Click on “New Search Popup Filter”. Add module. Select the related field. Add a condition according to your requirement. While creating a new ticket it will only search for Active Organizations. For further help, contact us on help@vtexperts.com. We’ll be glad to be of service.
Email Conversation/Preview Extension For VTiger 7 – New Release
November 12, 2018
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The standard view of emails in VTiger is quite uneasy to use. Every single email gets showed up in the related emails section. Information regarding emails is displayed in columns. If you need to view an email – you click it and it pops up, so far so good. But next email requires closing the current one and opening it which is quite irritating. But you know that already, right? What’s new in the market is the Email Preview/Conversation extension for VTiger 7 open source, which transforms “simple” email list into conversation view. The view is very easy to read and includes email message on the list, meaning that you don’t need to open email to see the response. In addition, it differentiates emails from customers versus VTiger users by highlighting the background and adding divider borders. The plugin is configurable, where you can define how many characters
Email Marketing/Campaign Extension For VTiger Supports Resubscribe Contacts
November 9, 2018
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Email Marketing Automation/Campaign is an extension for VTiger 7 that transforms VTiger into sophisticated email marketing/campaign tool. It includes a step by step wizard, easy to use “marketing list” (to load contacts/leads/organizations), review & send + confirmation/summary view that shows exactly what and when is going to be sent. In addition, it supports batch sending, meaning that you can schedule emails to go out over 15, 30, 60min instead of sending them all at once. The tool comes with #1 open source email builder to design modern campaigns. As the extension allows the receivers to unsubscribe from the email lists, according to the latest user right laws and GDPR restrictions, the tool is no less than any modern and fancy email marketing tools. Now we have added the ability for system admins to Re-subscribe the unsubscribed users. This helps for the addresses where you see client being interested
Progress Bar – New Extension
November 6, 2018
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There’s barely anything this visual, easy, and practical in VTiger summary and detail views, as Progress Bar. It is designed to add more visibility and allow instant updates for the configured “progress” (stage/status) field. Progress bar for VTiger 7 is displayed in the header of each record. The bar displays all values from a selected picklist as well as the current value for specific record. The values/stages are also clickable – where clicking a stage/status changes the picklist value – just like that. The record gets updated when user clicks on progress bar value. Progress Bar for VTiger 7 can be configured on any module (as long as it has picklist field). The simplistic design allows users to easily see the stage the record is in and update with a single click. Adding a Progress Bar to any module is pretty easy. You can simply go to
Synchronize My QuickBooks Customers To/From VTiger 7
November 4, 2018
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Quickbooks Online Integration with VTiger is an extension connecting VTiger to QuickBooks and enabling bidirectional synchronization of Customers (Organizations/Contacts), Invoices, Payments, Quotes (Estimates), Sales Orders (Sales Receipts), Purchase Orders, Vendors as well as Items (Services & Products). An easy to trigger option to synchronize data manually or on the schedule. It supports custom fields on the invoice as well as customer (flexible mapping). How to Synchronize Contacts Go to Menu > Settings > CRM Settings > Extension Pack > Quickbooks Online. In Customer Tab you can map fields into Quickbooks. Create a contact. You need to check box “Sync to Quickbooks” and that will automatically add this record to the queue to be synced with Quickbooks. Here is the synced Contact/Customer from the VTiger. For further help, contact us on help@vtexperts.com. We’ll be glad to be of service.
Synchronize My QuickBooks Items (Products/Services) To/From VTiger 7
November 4, 2018
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Quickbooks Online Integration with VTiger is an extension connecting VTiger to QuickBooks and enabling bidirectional synchronization of Customers (Organizations/Contacts), Invoices, Payments, Quotes (Estimates), Sales Orders (Sales Receipts), Purchase Orders, Vendors as well as Items (Services & Products). An easy to trigger option to synchronize data manually or on the schedule. It supports custom fields on the invoice as well as customer (flexible mapping). How to Synchronize My Items Go to Menu > Settings > CRM Settings > Extension Pack > Quickbooks Online. In Product & Service Tab you can map fields into Quickbooks. Create a Product. You need to check box “Sync to Quickbooks” and that will automatically add this record to the queue to be synced with Quickbooks. The integration supports tax sync. Here is the synced Items from the VTiger. For further help, contact us on help@vtexperts.com. We’ll be glad to be of service.
Synchronize My QuickBooks Payments To/From VTiger 7
November 4, 2018
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Quickbooks Online Integration with VTiger is an extension connecting VTiger to QuickBooks and enabling bidirectional synchronization of Customers (Organizations/Contacts), Invoices, Payments, Quotes (Estimates), Sales Orders (Sales Receipts), Purchase Orders, Vendors as well as Items (Services & Products). An easy to trigger option to synchronize data manually or on the schedule. It supports custom fields on the invoice as well as customer (flexible mapping). How to Synchronize Payments Go to Menu > Settings > CRM Settings > Extension Pack > Quickbooks Online. In Payments Tab these predefined fields are not editable. Create an Invoice and add a product and service. You need to check box “Sync to Quickbooks” and that will automatically add this record to the queue to be synced with Quickbooks. In invoice records. Click on the payments and “Record a Payment” The payment automatically will be synced with Quickbooks. For further help, contact us on help@vtexperts.com. We’ll be glad to be of service.
Synchronize My QuickBooks Invoices To/From VTiger 7
November 4, 2018
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Quickbooks Online Integration with VTiger is an extension connecting VTiger to QuickBooks and enabling bidirectional synchronization of Customers (Organizations/Contacts), Invoices, Payments, Quotes (Estimates), Sales Orders (Sales Receipts), Purchase Orders, Vendors as well as Items (Services & Products). An easy to trigger option to synchronize data manually or on the schedule. It supports custom fields on the invoice as well as customer (flexible mapping). How to Synchronize Invoices Go to Menu > Settings > CRM Settings > Extension Pack > Quickbooks Online. In Invoice Tab you can map invoice fields into Quickbooks. It also supports custom fields. Create an Invoice and add a product and service. You need to check box “Sync to Quickbooks” and that will automatically add this record to the queue to be synced with Quickbooks. Here is the synced invoice from the VTiger. For further help, contact us on help@vtexperts.com. We’ll be glad to be of service.
Change/Rename Field Labels In VTiger 7
November 4, 2018
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Label Editor for VTiger was designed to change any label/element in VTiger. It supports fields, modules, buttons, menu items, lists and much more! Very easy to use interface (pick language, module, search and edit labels). It has a built-in search to locate any labels that are not as obvious. How to Change/Rename Field labels Go to Menu > Settings > CRM Settings > Extension Pack > Label Editor. Select your input language. Select Module file you want to put changes in. It will show all the Variables and from there you can change the Labels. Click on “Edit” button and enter the new Label. The First/Last Name field labels are changed to Customer First/Last Name. For further help, contact us on help@vtexperts.com. We’ll be glad to be of service.
Change Menu Name In VTiger 7
November 4, 2018
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Label Editor for VTiger was designed to change any label/element in VTiger. It supports fields, modules, buttons, menu items, lists and much more! Very easy to use interface (pick language, module, search and edit labels). It has a built-in search to locate any labels that are not as obvious. How to Change Menu Name Go to Menu > Settings > CRM Settings > Extension Pack > Label Editor. Select your input language. Select Module file you want to put changes in. It will show all the Variables and from there you can change the Labels. Click on “Edit” button and enter the new Label. The Sales menu label has been changed to Sales and Customers. For further help, contact us on help@vtexperts.com. We’ll be glad to be of service.
Set Default Tax Mode In VTiger 7
November 1, 2018
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Pretty much every business has the needs of calculating taxes on the go while generating quotes, invoice, sales orders and/or purchase orders. The taxation in VTiger is quite up to the mark. Admins can set individual as well as group taxes on line items. However, there’s a very tiny limitation which does not allow to change the default tax mode. The default tax mode in VTiger is “Group Tax”. A huge number of companies use “Individual” tax mostly. This default setting of Tax mode in VTiger makes it annoying for those companies to change the mode manually each time they need to add an invoice, quote, SO or PO. It even become a problem if an organization needs to generate hundreds of such records every day. We did a customization for one of our client, where we simply switched the default tax mode from Group to Individual. So, when they
Tag Users In Comments Using @mention In VTiger