Hello everybody, it sounds better.
So, it was wondering what's new and interesting in the lately, in tickly wifig group
and that's 16th integration in ticky, which makes email in the first class cities and I'm
so I keep this code free software last century and it's my full-time jobs in 2011 in the ticky community.
So first I'm going to tell you about ticky community and about the shift project and then
how they are related, ticky community is a first web application where the most building features
obviously including a web mail. It started two decades ago, it's community managed by the
ticky software community association. Most of us are consultants. There's no single company,
no benevolent dictator, no third-party plugins and contributors. So, that's the null one,
which says a program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Well, we actually try to have
everything which makes sense to have on a website in ticky so that fits perfectly.
So, obviously we had a web mail, we were really not happy with it, so we decided to look for
people who knew what they were doing. We found the shift project, which is great because it's
within PHP service script like ticky. As far as we know, it's the only open source web mail client
that supports at the same time I'm up and G-map, which is like I'm up next generation and exchange
web services. You may wonder who cares well too many customers care sadly. The main strong points
are that we can aggregate email from more than one email account. We're going to search through
multiple accounts. We can move emails from one account to another, automate email management,
and it's all web interface, which is perfect as ticky is a website. What we did not like is
that XKCG comic, you may be familiar with, because it was really too close to our current situation,
with Jason Monroe, frankly maintaining shift since 2008, thanks Jason Monroe, but
we did not feel confident. Luckily, there's more of us in the typical community,
and one of us, Mark Lapport, reached out to Jason Monroe and volunteered to develop a help
from his ticky company Evolutata. Now, shift with ticky as a future since 2019,
thanks Mark Lapport, we feel more confident. As a consequence, well, Jason Monroe could rest a bit
and at the same time, there are more contributors and more contributions, so everybody is happy,
and we have for you more confident, also. So, what are the contributions?
First of all, there's a second way of inserting shift now. You can still install it,
standalone, manually or using Docker, or install ticky, activate the web mail feature, and you get
shift for free on top of all the other ticky features. Shift had a lot of improvements, because there
are a lot of things, which we felt were missing, or just that we wanted, so it's all there now.
And when Shift is integrated in ticky, ticky gains a new web mail, but Shift can use the ticky environment,
so there are extra features like possibility of moving emails in tracker at items,
like to piece the database abstraction layer, I'll get back to that later, export as PDF,
integration with ticky can in the future, CalDAV, CalDAV support. So, yes, what is this about
moving emails to tracker items, so I'm going to explain how it's configured, and then why we wanted
it, and on an example. So, as I said, tracker, the database abstraction layer, it's a bit like
SQL tables, so there are fields, and we created a new tracker field type called email folder,
so when you create a new field on your tracker, you select email folder, and then you have to
select a file garage, why? The point, as I said, was to move those emails out of your email box,
in order to encrata, and it goes in somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the file garage,
it gets out of IMAP, so we have to store it, and that's a feature we already have the file garage,
so that's where it goes. Or if you access them with mail from ticky, here you see that there are
four email accounts, I can access any of them, or everything at the same time, I grew gauge it
like here. I open an email, which is of no interest, that's why it shows it, and you can see that
you have everything you would expect from modern web mail, plus two links, which are special,
because you're in ticky, and not going to explain pdf extraction, but the tracker moving here,
if you click on that, you get the list of all the trackers, which have a field of type
email folder, which I described before. There are two of them, I have permission to see, I select
the tasks one, now I select the folder, usually inbox, and this is the searchable list of all the
tracker items, which I like, records of the tracker tasks, and when I choose one, the mail gets there.
And now this is the view, this is what happens next, that's the view of the tracker item,
that's the default view, it's very simplistic, on the left you have the name of the fields,
and on the right you have the contents, and we can see our emails fields here, and the contents
is like a mini web mail, so everybody who works on this task, who has been given permission to access
this task, can see all the emails related to this task, can open them, read them, reply,
compose new ones, etc. So they can totally forget about that previous mailbox, everything happens here,
now, together with all the other fields, which were related to working on the task, like, I don't know,
related files, status, related tasks, and people working on the task, and even a Friday discussion,
because you're not always alone working on the task, and that's basically the point, and when
that task is done here, the status, we can archive it, and that email is not anymore in your
inbox, the task is not anymore in your pending tasks, and everybody can forget about those emails,
and that's, takes care of that. So there are many use cases for that, not just task,
project management, but customer relation management also deals with a lot of emails, or accounting,
you get invoices by email, but you don't want to just save the invoice that might be
information in the mail you don't want to lose, so you can move that and keep them somewhere,
call for tenders, it's a bit the same thing, if you get a lot of call for tenders, either you ignore them,
and you delete them, or you want to really work on them, and that's a good case for moving it to a task,
and work on it from there, and then forget about it. So the conclusion, the idea is that email
hunting should be possible, the larger corroborative workflow, instead of dealing with one gigantic
mail store, which we all have a hard time organizing, we could have a number of smaller ones
that makes sense in ones workflow, a run project tasks, client, which can be shared, prioritized.
I don't think there are times, there are time for questions, so I put all links, if you want more
information about the projects, or if you want to ask questions.