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Jerry Jalava — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:08:06 +0000

Ajatus is a GPL-licensed Ajax application built in Javascript on top of the jqCouch library and the jQuery framework.

Public Git repository

Contact Henri Bergius to gain commit access. You can also watch Ohloh statistics.

Roadmap

External documentation

Roadmap

Jerry Jalava — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:06:53 +0000

This is more like a collection of TODOs which will need to be done before releases.

Improve scheme item and additional item editing/configuring
- Add editing possibility to added additional items
- Add configuring possibility to existing scheme items
Fixing issues with tags
- Better handling to "has data changed" check DONE
- Deleting through tags -widget sometimes doesn't work DONE
- Value support (project:ajatus_support=200712) DONE
- Make sure no duplicates are created on replication DONE
- Tool to fix existing duplicates
- Tag merging
- Tag editing
Move application tabs to icons
Add archive view
Additional fields (Add support for widgets)
- text -widget DONE
- wiki -widget DONE
- date -widget
- boolean -widget
- selection -widget
RELEASE 0.5.2
CSV -export
- Hour reports
- Expense reports
Ajatus.replication -service
- Mostly tells the couch to start replicating and handles some tasks transparently for the user
Replication UI
- new view which will list all the defined hosts and provide information about them.
- Replication buttons for each hosts (IN/OUT)
Global filtering
- Global tag DONE
- User
- Date (this week)
- Save selections as templates
- System template "Me" (shows in users own data)
Expansion pack -support
- Projects -expansion
- TODO -expansion
RELEASE 0.6.0
Graph generator (Plotting)
Maintainance scripts
- Automatic scripts to be run after updates
- Forced / Optional
date-widget connectioning
- Enables better start/end selection
Microformats
- Render items in corresponding microformats
- Events
- Contacts
RELEASE 0.6.2
File uploads (waiting to get multipart support to CouchDB)
- Attachment -widget
VCard -import
Backups
Search
Sticky notes

Installation

Henri Bergius — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:34:08 +0000

Ajatus is a local Ajax application that only needs a working CouchDb installation to run.

CouchDb installation

Install CouchDb 0.7.0 or newer, and start it.

Edit your couch.ini -file by copying the last row as (Under "Couch Query Servers"):

application/javascript=/usr/local/bin/couchjs -f /usr/local/share/couchdb/server/main.js

to the end of the file.

This way CouchDB maps both content-types to the javascript query server. (If you are using some other query server do the same but with correct paths)

Ajatus installation

Download Ajatus and unzip it under the CouchDb DocumentRoot (by default /usr/local/share/couchdb/www/) and rename the folder to ajatus.

Accessing Ajatus

Point your browser to the CouchDb server, and the Ajatus directory under it. By default this is:

http://localhost:5984/_utils/ajatus/application.html

If everything is OK Ajatus will now generate a database for itself and you can start using your new CRM.

Advanced setup

Installing Ajatus development version

Get Ajatus from Git

$ git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/ajatus.git

Link or copy the Ajatus main directory and its contents under the CouchDb DocumentRoot (by default /usr/local/share/couchdb/www/) and rename the folder to ajatus_dev.

Configuring

Currently the overriding of the default configuration is made at the end the js/ajatus.core.js -file. If you wan't to run multiple instances of the ajatus (ie. trunk / stable) you need to define two parameters:

application_url (in repository defaults to /_utils/ajatus_dev/)
application_database_indentifier (in repository defaults to dev)

Example how to run to different version (stable & trunk)

`/usr/local/share/couchdb/www/ajatus` (stable directory)

Inside /usr/local/share/couchdb/www/ajatus/js/ajatus.core.js make sure you have:

application_url: '/_utils/ajatus/',
application_database_indentifier: 'stable'

`/usr/local/share/couchdb/www/ajatus_dev` (symlink to checkout directory)

Inside /usr/local/share/couchdb/www/ajatus_dev/js/ajatus.core.js make sure you have:

application_url: '/_utils/ajatus_dev/',
application_database_indentifier: 'dev'

Discussion

Henri Bergius — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:53:54 +0000

We're using Jaiku for project communications. Jaiku can be considered a bit like IRC but with conversations that can be linked to. See:

http://jaiku.com/channel/ajatus

To get the full benefit of Jaiku it is a good idea to install a proper client for it:

You can also use Jaiku via Jabber

Documentation

Henri Bergius — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:23:15 +0000

Welcome to the Ajatus wiki!

Ajatus CRM

Community

Content on this wiki is edited using the Markdown syntax, with links to pages made using [Square brackets]. New pages are created by linking to their name and then clicking the link.

Please read the linking instructions for more information.

Ajatus manifesto

Henri Bergius — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:38:23 +0000

The world is decentralized

" Companies that don't realize their markets are now networked person-to-person, getting smarter as a result and deeply joined in conversation are missing their best opportunity." - The Cluetrain Manifesto, these 18.

Remember a time when you needed to share a document with a business partner, colleague or a customer? The CRM should make this easy without requiring complex IT integration setups or the disconnectivity of emailing files.

Sharing is security

"Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on FTP, and let the rest of the world mirror it" - Linus Torvalds

You are often offline

Ideas may come to you when you're sitting in a bus, boarding an airplane or visiting a hospital. For a CRM to work the data must be available and editable in any situation.

Web is the native platform

Users are spending more and more time in front of web applications. This begins to make web concepts like navigation, breadcrumb trails and forms the user interface norm.

Speed matters

"Human beings don't like to wait. We don't like waiting in line at a store, we don't like waiting for our food at a restaurant, and we definitely don't like waiting for Web pages to load." - Alberto Savoia, Web Page Response Time 101

Even if the user interface is the most elegant in the world and the application very featureful it will be rejected by users if things don't seem to happen instantly. I cringe every time I need to launch OpenOffice.org to edit or view a document as the start-up takes an eternity.

Everything can be connected

You never know what bits and pieces are relevant to put together: meetings may have meeting notes about them, but there may also be meetings assigned to discuss theme of a given note. Users must be able to create these connections intuitively between any pieces of data in the application.

A CRM project is asking for a failure

"Gartner Group estimated a 65 per cent of CRM projects failed and there are possibilities for this number to go as high as 85 per cent... Ironically, despite the tremendous level of CRM failures, organisations are still rushing towards implementing CRM. Probably that's the main reason causing CRM failure -- organisations are too eager to have CRM that they did not see the actual meaning of having one." - Marshal Yung, Mistakes and Reasons for CRM Project Failures

Collaboration through a CRM should happen organically inside an organization, with individual users connecting as they need.

Documentation

Development

Roadmap

External documentation

Roadmap

Installation

CouchDb installation

Ajatus installation

Accessing Ajatus

Advanced setup

Installing Ajatus development version

Configuring

Example how to run to different version (stable & trunk)

/usr/local/share/couchdb/www/ajatus (stable directory)

/usr/local/share/couchdb/www/ajatus_dev (symlink to checkout directory)

Discussion

Documentation

Ajatus CRM

Community

Ajatus manifesto

The world is decentralized

Sharing is security

You are often offline

Web is the native platform

Speed matters

Everything can be connected

A CRM project is asking for a failure

Related manifestos

`/usr/local/share/couchdb/www/ajatus` (stable directory)

`/usr/local/share/couchdb/www/ajatus_dev` (symlink to checkout directory)