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During the last days, I discovered a promising extension for vtiger called OSS Report2Map offered by OpenSaaS Betissa Investments Sp. z oo, Warszawa, Poland. Its purpose is to geolocate accounts as different pins on a map within vtiger by using the google maps API. By clicking a single pin, the application shows the name of the account and its adress. OpenSaaS offers a video on YouTube to show the module at work. According to OpenSaaS, its functionality eases search operations e.g. to find “empty areas”. To do so, the user can make use of the report-module to define a specific selection of accounts to be shown on a map. When editing the settings of Report2Map, this report can be chosen by it’s record-ID to import name, adress and geolocation of related accounts into a map. Even more, the resulting map can be exported as static html to be used somewhere else – e.g. on a website. Report2Map is for sale only, but at a reasonable low price of actually 246 PLN (ca. 62 EUR or 89 USD). After purchase, OpenSaaS sends you by email the manual and the module as a zip-file which has to be installed as usual via vtiger’s module manager. After a smooth installation, I personally faced some teething troubles which I was able to solve after a kind email conversation with OpenSaaS. mehr »

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I use Contactgrabber to add contacts to vtiger CRM. Contactgrabber is a real time saver. Contactgrabber makes it possible to get new contact information from emails or websites by just one copy-and-paste operation instead of copying information row by row or word by word switching every single time between the window of its source and vtiger. You’ll find it here: http://contactgrabber.de/home_en.html. Unfortunately, Contactgrabber is not able to cope with htaccess authentification. If you protect your vtiger-installation with htaccess authentification, the actual version 3.5.6 of Contactgrabber won’t be able to handle it. One possible workaround is to make use of the ability of Contactgrabber to connect to many different CRM-solutions including Outlook first. mehr »

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