Future Improvements?

[theilman]

I am currently using SuSE Open Exchange Server in my organization, but Novell is dumping it and I'm not really sure I want to migrate to the new company and stay with the product.

I really like what I see with your product and I like the direction you are headed. There are a few things that will prevent me from migrating to your product. I would like to know if the following are in development or planned for development for your web interface.

First is the scheduling of resources such as conference rooms.

Second is the use of groups in address books or at least a drag and drop of contacts from one address book to another.

Third is being able to select multiple files for attachments or a drag and drop solution of files into email.

Finally, it would be nice to have the ability to export or archive an email from the web interface.

All of these items are very important to the way we do business and if you are adding or plan to add these items, your product would stand above the rest. Knowing the above would also make my decision about migrating to your product much easier.

[ScalixSupport]

Hi theilman,

Conference room scheduling is in Scalix 10 due for release sometime later this quarter.

The other three I'll add as feature requests.

Best wishes,
Don

[florian]

To add to that....

- the management of Private Distribution Lists within Contacts-type folders is also a feature of the next upcoming release later this quarter.

- Dragging & Dropping files and making the UI for attaching files more accessible is something we can look at, but note that there are some limitations imposed by the fact that we're running inside the browser security sandbox; making the attachment UI easier to use might be something to investigate.

- exporting/importing email from within SWA is a request we've heard a number of times; this is under consideration for one of the next releases.

Cheers,
Florian.

[ahathaway]

- Dragging & Dropping files and making the UI for attaching files more accessible is something we can look at, but note that there are some limitations imposed by the fact that we're running inside the browser security sandbox; making the attachment UI easier to use might be something to investigate.

I'd like to second the request for drag and drop attaching of files.

--Aaron

[florian]

and i'd like to repeat that this is nothing that can be done without browser plugins, etc., so if we wanted to do that, the price you would have to pay for it would be something that needs to be installed on your clients.

interesting discussion - would "you guys" interested in the feature find such a limiteation acceptable?

-- f.

[mephisto]

interesting discussion - would "you guys" interested in the feature find such a limiteation acceptable?

Totally. A firefox rollout including this plugin would be a small price to pay for a client that feels like a local installed program in any way.

[ahathaway]

interesting discussion - would "you guys" interested in the feature find such a limiteation acceptable?

Totally. A firefox rollout including this plugin would be a small price to pay for a client that feels like a local installed program in any way.

I have to agree that this would be a completely acceptable price for that functionality. That said, I've seen drag-and-drop uploads implemented without extensions using java applets, which might be a reasonable alternative (depending on your view of applets).

--Aaron

[florian]

our view of applets as a mandatory component of the SWA solution is basically a no-go, because the current architecture, building only on JavaScript, XML and HTML is seen as very firewall, pc-protection, securityfriendly, whereas using java would raise a number of issues, including the correct JRE/Plugin stuff, etc.

interest noted, thanks for the feedback....

-- f.

[ahathaway]

our view of applets as a mandatory component of the SWA solution is basically a no-go

That seems reasonable. As an interim solution, the dragdropupload extension (http://percro.sssup.it/~pit/mozilla/dragdropupload/) allows you to drag a file onto the "Browse" field of the "Attach" dialog window to populate the path.

--Aaron