eGroupware Tutorial: eGroupware Applications

The most popular eGroupWare applications

Once you log in the with the admin account in your eGroupWare web site, you can manage the available applications, which are included in the script.

The first icon is labeled "Admin" and allows you to set the configuration of the different applications. There you can also manage user accounts and groups, the global script configuration, view the log files, create and restore backups. You can add custom fields and manage the global categories for the different applications.

If you navigate to the emailadmin section, you can set the default address of the sender, the SMTP and the IMAP/POP3 configurations.

Here is a list and a brief description of the most popular eGroupWare applications:

FelaMiMail is a user friendly e-mail client. It allows you to send messages through the SMTP server and to receive through the IMAP server. The settings, which you have to configure in the emailadmin are as follows:

SMTP server: yourdomain.com
Port: 25
Use SMTP authentication. With the following login credentials:
Username: emailuser@yourdomain.com
Password: the corresponding one.

Troubleshooting Tips: Please mind that you should change yourdomain.com with the actual domain, which you have used during the installation process. You should also change emailuser@yourdomain.com with an existing e-mail account, which you have created through cPanel->Mail->Manage/Add/Remove accounts.

Besides all the standard operation of composing, sending and receiving, this application allows you to set filters and to add e-mail addresses to your address book.

Calendar - includes the traditional holidays. You can also make your own weekly and monthly schedules and add custom events. The changes will appear in the main web page. You can set alarms for some desired events.

Addressbook - you can create your own address book and include some important details like the Full name of the contact, the company name, the phones and the e-mail address. You can export and import the address book data and add VCards.

ProjectManager - allows you to create your own projects and to calculate the estimated value of them. You can list, add, edit, and delete projects and project elements.

InfoLog - it is a manager, which allows you to create todo lists, notes and supports all the aspects of a CRM (customer-relation-management).

Resources - allows you to manage the available resources and inventory like building, storages and others. It has a booking functionality integrated.

TimeSheet - a time tracker application. It works with the ProjectManager. You can define and check periods of time.

Manual/Help - provides you with a detailed script manual. There you can find answers to all the questions related with the script functionality.

Filemanager - allows you to copy, move, delete, rename and manipulate the files and the folders as every standard file manager, which you use.

SiteMgr - allows you to build your web site from a template. There you can select a new template and manage it. The available list of templates can be used by visitors to change the visual appearance of the web site during the browsing. You can download free templates from Egroupware official site.

Unpack the downloaded template in your templates directory under the eGroupWare installation directory: (/sitemgr/sitemgr-site/templates). Then you can set the new template, which you will use for your eGroupWare web site from SiteMgr->Configure Website->Template select.

Work-Flow - it is used to create and manage workflow processes through a GUI (Graphical User Interface). The goal of this application is to provide a reference implementation, stable and complete to what can be done with this API (Application Programming Interface).

Wiki - it is an eGroupWare version of a wiki script. It allows users to create and edit Web page content.

Bookmarks - allows you to create and share your own lists with bookmarks. You can set the URL and some details about the web page, which you want to add to the list.

News Admin -in this section you can create, edit, publish in a define category and read news.

Pools -allows you to create your own pools and collect people's opinion on a define subject. You can add surveys, questions and answers.

KnowledgeBase - you can create and use your own knowledge base.

eTemplate - allows you to create your own eGroupWare templates. This application has a detailed tutorial and reading it you will understand how to build your own templates. It is located on the left menu of the eTemplate section page.

Translation tools - the application is created for developers and translators. It has the following features:

• shows all phrases from the en lang-file, the already available translations and allows to enter a translation;
• searches for new phrases in the source code;
• adds new phrases to a lang-file;
• changes the application name of a phrase;
• lowercase and alphabetically sorts the phrases / message_id ;
• writes (if the web server has write-access to the setup-dir or to the file) or downloads the changed lang-file;
• updates the database without running the setup to check / see your translations
• uses multi-line text areas for long messages;
• reads the phrases from the following files hook_{admin|preferences|sidebox_menu|acl_manager} (they contain no lang-calls)