We have been planning this migration for more than a month.  In that time we have been upgrading our servers with bigger hard disks and more RAM. 

The migration did not go as smoothly as we had hoped, but at least we can breath now that the migration is complete.  The main problem we ran into was with one particular node in our project tree that was not accessible from the COM interface that SourceSafe provides.  After several failed migration attempts, we finally followed a tip on the SourceGear forum to backup and restore the SourceSafe database using SourceSafe utilities.

Sadly, the import utility was not able to migrate all of the labels. 

The focus on 1.3 has been on Import and Export. You now have the ability to import or export from the core modules using the most popular data formats, including XML Spreadsheet, XML and Comma Delimited. You can also import an entire SugarCRM database, so migration is painless.

We also have added some Team management code in the Admin area, but we do not currently support assigning items to teams or filtering by teams.  Team management will be in our next release.

Speaking of our next release, we are expecting to have full support for .NET 2.0 MasterPages and Themes.  Ideally we would also support WebParts, but there still are a few unknowns to resolve.

We are headed to the Mono meeting on October 23rd & 24th in Boston, MA. http://www.go-mono.com/meeting/

Let us know if you plan to attend.

We look forward to there being an open exchange of ideas.

Check them out:

http://www.codeplex.com/Project/ListForums.aspx?ProjectName=sugarcrm

This announcement is probably a bit premature, but we have SplendidCRM running on Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES).  We’ve been working on this for a couple of weeks, ever since the great folks on the Mono team created a VMware image of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) with a stable version of Mono and MonoDevelop.

Our first instinct was to copy the entire SplendidCRM project to SLED and recompile under MonoDevelop.  This worked very well, with MonoDevelop being able to convert a Visual Studio 2003 project into its own forma ...

We have been looking for an alternative to SourceForge as a place to host SplendidCRM.  Our wait has seemed to pay off as Microsoft has just announced CodePlex.  http://www.codeplex.com

"CodePlex is an online software development environment for open and shared source .NET developers to create, host and manage projects throughout the project lifecycle. It has been written from the ground up in C# using .NET 2.0 technology and Visual Studio Team System on the back end. CodePlex is open to the public free of charge."

It has been a while since my last entry.  I have been working so hard on the reporting module that I simply could not spare the cycles.  In any case, progress is good and we hope to have a beta release at the beginning of July.

The SplendidCRM Reporting module will use the Report Definition Language (RDL) that Microsoft created a few years ago.  RDL is an XML-based specification.  This is going to provide unsurpassed flexibility when it comes to report generation.  SplendidCRM will have a reporting module similar to that of SugarCRM, but it will also have the ability to import and export a report in RDL.

Microsoft has indicated that they will release Reporting Services as part of SQL Server Express, which suggests that there will soon be a free report designer. 

Eventually, we should be able to take advantage of SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services with the reports stored ...

We have just completed development on the ACL system.  ACL is a critical component of any CRM, so we are pleased to be able to offer it so soon after the release of our 1.0 product.

If you are interested in a preview, please send me an email and I will see if we can included you in our private/internal beta testing.  Otherwise, look for a public beta in the next two weeks.