vtiger

[paulward2016]

The one problem I having right now with vtiger is the ability to browse through the accounts and contacts without having to go back to the lsit view for every contact. Our sales team needs the ability to browse from one to the next without the hassle of having to repeatedly go back to the list screen? Any ideas??
Any help would be much appreciated.

[cuefinder]

I have a patch that solves this exact problem. Check it out at:
Persisten List Views
http://vtigerforge.fosslabs.com/frs/shownotes.php?release_id=111

[inflatable]

Is there an alternate location for this patch, or maybe some simple instructions to change the required files?

[emfglobal]

cuefinder wrote: I have a patch that solves this exact problem. Check it out at:
Persisten List Views
http://vtigerforge.fosslabs.com/frs/shownotes.php?release_id=111
FYI

Link is not working.....

Espen

[opto]

I think the fosslabs pages are now somewhere on

http://forge.vtiger.com/

Klaus

[struwwelpeter]

I tried that patch (below) to no avail. I've attached the reject file as well.
I applied it manually after that - the only new change that had not been implemented into the 5.0.3RC4 release was this bit that was meant to implement the persistent list views. I added it after line 226 in the current index.php in the document root of vtiger. Although it didn't 'break' anything - after about 15 minutes of tests I could not see any change in the default behavior.

Again - I would like a developer to chime in here and either confirm or deny if the 'persistent list views' are already a part of the RC4 release.
if yes, then
Does one have to enable them in some way?
if no, then
Will the patch provided in 2006 work with the RC4 release?
else
Will the developers mod the existing or provide a new one to implement these changes?

Looking forward to anyone's input.

-Peter Farrell
-Cardiff, Wales, UK

Code: // added by alex on 12/05/2006 to implement persistent views
if (isset($module) && $module != '' && isset($action) && $action == 'index') {
        if (array_key_exists('viewname', $_GET)) {
                $lastindex = Array();
                foreach ($_GET as $key => $value) {
                        if ($key != 'module' && $key != 'index') {
                                array_push($lastindex, "$key=$value");
                        }
                }
                $_SESSION['lastindex_'.$module] = join('&', $lastindex);
        }
        else {
                $lastindex = $_SESSION['lastindex_'.$module];
                $lastindex = split('&', $lastindex);
                if (is_array($lastindex)) {
                        foreach ($lastindex as $value) {
                                $pair = split('=', $value);
                                $key = $pair[0];
                                $value = $pair[1];
                                $_REQUEST[$key] = $value;
                        }
                }
        }
}

[cuefinder]

The persisten views patch was made for vTiger version 4.2.3 and the code shown earlier goes on line 466 of index.php file in the vTiger root directory in the following context. I also was told by bushwack, the release manager of 4.3 or 4.4 that he was going to incorporate this patch in that release.

Code: $log->debug($_REQUEST);
$skipHeaders=false;
$skipFooters=false;
$viewAttachment = false;
$skipSecurityCheck= false;
//echo $module;
// echo $action;

// added by alex on 12/05/2006 to implement persistent views
if (isset($module) && $module != '' && isset($action) && $action == 'index') {
        if (array_key_exists('viewname', $_GET)) {
                $lastindex = Array();
                foreach ($_GET as $key => $value) {
                        if ($key != 'module' && $key != 'index') {
                                array_push($lastindex, "$key=$value");
                        }
                }
                $_SESSION['lastindex_'.$module] = join('&', $lastindex);
        }
        else {
                $lastindex = $_SESSION['lastindex_'.$module];
                $lastindex = split('&', $lastindex);
                if (is_array($lastindex)) {
                        foreach ($lastindex as $value) {
                                $pair = split('=', $value);
                                $key = $pair[0];
                                $value = $pair[1];
                                $_REQUEST[$key] = $value;
                        }
                }
        }
}

if(isset($action) && isset($module))
{
        $log->info("About to take action ".$action);
        $log->debug("in $action");
        if(ereg("^Save", $action) || ereg("^Delete", $action) || ereg("^Popup", $action) || ereg("^ChangePass
        {
                $skipHeaders=true;
                if(ereg("^Popup", $action) || ereg("^ChangePassword", $action) || ereg("^Export", $action) ||
                        $skipFooters=true;
                if(ereg("^downloadfile", $action) || ereg("^fieldtypes",$action))
                {
                        $viewAttachment = true;
                }
                if(($action == ' Delete ') && (!$entityDel))
                {
                        $skipHeaders=false;
                }
        }

        if($action == 'BusinessCard' || $action == 'Save')
        {
                 header( "Expires: Mon, 20 Dec 1998 01:00:00 GMT" );
                 header( "Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT" );
                 header( "Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate" );
                 header( "Pragma: no-cache" );
        }

        if ( $action == "Import" &&
                isset($_REQUEST['step']) &&
                $_REQUEST['step'] == '4'  )
        {
                $skipHeaders=true;
                $skipFooters=true;
        }
        if($module == 'Users' || $module == 'Home' || $module == 'Administration' || $module == 'uploads' ||
        {
          $skipSecurityCheck=true;
        }

[cuefinder]

The patch is available at this url now:
http://forge.vtiger.com/projects/usablecontrib/

[struwwelpeter]

Thanks for the update cuefinder -
Three things:
1. Can you clarify if this patch works with the current 5.0.3RC4 release? (It looks version specific in it's current form)

2. When you say line 466 of index.php you are referring to the 4.2.3 version of vtiger right?

3. Are you using the standard unix 'patch' command to implement this?

-Peter Farrell