moregroupware Manual

Table of Contents

I. Getting started

1. Introduction to moregroupware

What is moregroupware?

Why moregroupware?

How can I try moregroupware?

Who is developing moregroupware?

Who is using moregroupware?

Somewhere in Australia

Local government, south - west part of Norway:

2. Setting up moregroupware

Requirements

Upgrade

Troubleshooting

Known bugs

Webmail 2

General strange behavior of moregroupware

3. Setting up moregroupware on Linux

Short installation instructions

Detailed installation instructions

Very detailed installation instructions

Moregroupware together with Red Hat Linux 7.x and 8.x

Making your computer ready for running Moregroupware

Configuring MySQL

Downloading and copying the Moregroupware files

Configuring Moregroupware

Security

4. Setting up moregroupware on Windows

Introduction

Download

Installing Apache

Installing PHP

Setting up PHP as Apache module

Installing MySQL

Installing Moregroupware

More support and help

5. Securing your moregroupware setup

6. Additional moregroupware components

Appointment reminder

Address queries with Mutt

Moving data from TWIG to moregroupware

II. Using moregroupware

7. A Guided Tour of moregroupware

8. The admin module

9. The notes module

Managing notes

The notes overview screen

Viewing notes details

Creating notes

Editing notes

Deleting notes

Managing note categories

The notes categories overview screen

Creating categories

Editing categories

Deleting notes

10. The webmail module

The mail list

The toolbar

The sidebar

Compose an email

Search for users and contacts

Sending a message internally

Attachments

Folders

Select a folder

Create a new folder

Rename an existing folder

Deleting a folder

Public Folders

General settings

Email accounts

Display a list of all accounts

Create a new account

III. Administration of moregroupware

11. User administration

Create new users from a file

12. Common user complaints

Session timeout

IV. Developer's corner

13. How to translate Moregroupware

Structure of Moregroupware

Moregroupware lang-file

Using newslines for long text

Variables inside lang files

Test new language

Common Errors

When adding a completely new language...

14. Adding a module to moregroupware

Directory-Structure of a Module

Module Application Structure

Never use include($var/myinclude.php)!

Don't use your own database connections

What is the config.inc.php file?

What does container.inc do exactly?

require_once(SMARTY_DIR . "Smarty.class.php");

include(INCLUDEPATH .'mgw.class.inc');

include(INCLUDEPATH .'lang.inc');

include(INCLUDEPATH .'userfunc.inc');

include(INCLUDEPATH .'version.inc');

include(INCLUDEPATH .'appconfig.inc');

include(INCLUDE .'module_exec.inc');

Whats special about module_exec.inc

15. Handling common coding tasks

Database handling

SQL portability

Date and time handling

Templates with Smarty

Session usage

Using the settings module

16. moregroupware coding conventions

Indenting

Naming conventions

Constants

Global variables

Control structures

Function calls

Comments

Including code

PHP code tags

Using CVS

General script structure

V. Appendices

A. The moregroupware FAQ

General

Installation

Administration

Common mistakes

Additional

B. Manually upgrading moregroupware

Upgrading from 0.6.2 to 0.6.3

Upgrading from 0.6.3 to 0.6.4(pl1)

Upgrading from 0.6.4pl1 to 0.6.5

Upgrading from 0.6.5 to 0.6.6

C. Using DocBook XML for documentation

Introduction

Compiling XML to HTML, PDF, ...

D. Credits

Software and libraries

PHP

Smarty

JPGraph

FPDF

ADOdb

MySQL

E. The Licenses

X11 License

GNU General Public License

GNU Free Documentation License