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Due to some irregular voting patterns over the past few hours, I’ve removed the voting on the previous post and instead changed it to use a poll hosted by micropoll. So to vote, please go to http://micropoll.com/t/KEvJaZB3sn instead. If you have voted previously, please go to that site to recast your vote. Voting will now close on Friday, July 8th at 12:00 midnight ET.

Sorry for the inconvenience. Good luck to all the projects!

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Vote for the July SugarForge Project of the Month

by C.R. Matín on July 1, 2011

Thanks for the feedback from everyone this week on what projects you thought would be fit for the title of July 2011 SugarForge Project of the Month. We had one overwhelming favorite amongst the nominations, as well as a few other projects that have also made a good impact on the community as a whole. In the spirit of openness and transparency, I want to open up the voting for the nominated projects. Here’s short description of the projects in the running:

  • ECalendar Easy and handy in using calendar module. Allows to schedule calls and meetings, display them on day, week, month and shared views, quick ajax editing, drag & drop. Works on CE, ENT, PRO versions.
  • Opacus Lite SugarCRM Outlook Plugin Archive multiple emails at once including attachments. Automatically archive new emails without user interaction. Supports custom modules. Create and view records from Outlook. LDAP Authentication. Find related records from search results.
  • Advanced OpenSales (AOS) delivers Quotations, Products, Contracts, Invoicing and PDF Templates modules to the Community Edition of SugarCRM and is compatible with SugarCRM 5.x and 6.x. Today’s AOS is the result of two years of continuous development and innovation. AOS is an Open Source project with all code released under Open Source Licenses. AOS has an active and engaged community of users and developers and in the best spirit of Open Source, enhancements to AOS are often defined and contributed by community members.

To vote, just select the radio button next to the project of your choice. Thanks for participating, and good luck to all the projects! Voting will be open until Thursday, July 7th 2011 at 12:00am ET.

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July’s SugarCRM Community Webinar will be all about 6.3

June 29, 2011

Hot off the heels of Sugar 6.2 comes Sugar 6.3, codenamed “Cotton Candy”, that will include several projects coming from the very successful SugarCon Code Sprint back in April, as well as many fixes coming from our community. In this month’s meeting, our very own Senior Project Manager Jennifer Yim will detail and demo some [...]

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CRMUG ~ the power of Networking

June 29, 2011

The Dynamics CRM User Group (CRMUG®) provides users a wealth of opportunities to learn, network, and share expertise about Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Powered by Dynamic Communities, Inc., CRMUG is an independent community and the only one recognized by M…

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SugarForge POTM is back, and we want to hear what you think it should be.

June 27, 2011

Since the beginning of SugarForge back in 2005, we’ve crowned a SugarForge POTM ( project of the month ) each month to recognize the most outstanding and innovative add-ons, plugins, and extensions created by our vast Sugar community. It has also been a showcase of how extensive the Sugar platform is, helping provide ideas on [...]

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We’re at the midpoint of the bug contest. Get your’s in today!

June 24, 2011

We are approaching the midpoint of the SugarCRM Community Bug Fix Contest, and the entries have been slowly trickling in this week. I know everyone has that one annoyance, bug, or issue they’ve reported that they would love to be fixed once and for all, and now it’s your chance to do so and possibility win an [...]

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HOWTO: Use a custom query in a dashlet

June 17, 2011

Editor’s Note: This tip comes from a forums post by our very prolific community member, Jason Eggers ( probably better known by his forums, Twitter, and IRC handle ‘eggsurplus’ ). He’s contributed several bug fixes and features to SugarCRM over the years, including the dashlet auto-refresh feature in the recently released Sugar 6.2. He’s also [...]

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Want to win an iPad 2? Then be a part of the SugarCRM bug fix contest!

June 15, 2011

For those of you who have those annoying bugs in SugarCRM that they’d love to have fixed once and for all, now’s your chance. We are holding a bug fix contest starting next week, and the person submitting the most number of bug fixes during that period will walk away with a brand new Apple [...]

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SugarCRM 6.2: How our community helped make it happen

June 10, 2011

We last week announced the general availability of the Sugar 6 Spring Release ( also known as Sugar 6.2 ). This release came with some pretty impressive changes to the core product, added mobile and integration features, as well as the new Corporate and Ultimate editions, and much much more. Sugar 6.2 also marks the first release [...]

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MVP Approved: Top Dynamics CRM Community Resources

June 8, 2011

Today’s guest blogger is MVP Julie Yack. Julie is one of the founding partners of Colorado Technology Consultants, Inc. and currently serves as the company’s Chief Operations Officer. This list is a revised version of the bit I did with Anne Stant…

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