Open Source CRM (with integration for website calendar)

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jazzuk777
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Open Source CRM (with integration for website calendar)

Post by jazzuk777 »

Anyone have any experience of use of the various open source CRMs out there. Only have one property, with a small number of bookings, but would like to get cleverer about it before we get more bookings (fingers crossed we do).

Currently we are using a Google account and have a plug in on the Blogger site we're using with the calendar available http://fishermansstroll.blogspot.co.uk/, but the calendar is not showing up the bookings on some browsers, which is despite using all Google products includes Chrome for some reason SMH!

Would like to be able to show the CRMs calendar up for bookers if possible. We're going to be a small cottage industry at best, so we are not really going to get a payback from a large investment, beit money or time.

Thanks in advance!
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Post by akwe-xavante »

The code is html5 and you're using javascript, javascript in chrome is disabled by default and requires enabling by the user (Not going to happen). Different browsers and versions of those browsers behave differently when having to read and handle html code and javascript.

A common problem when creating websites and the more complex the website the greater the problems and the headache.

The best way to make a website compatible across all browsers and the various different versions of those browsers and the many devices being used is to use html4 or earlier and don't use javascript. To deliver complex webpages use server side applications such as perl or php. Get these to do the hard work server side before dynamically writing plain html code to the visitors browser.
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Post by e-richard »

akwe-xavante wrote:.. javascript in chrome is disabled by default ...
Is this true ???????

Thats a very odd thing given that the vast majority of websites out there use javascript. Its pretty much ubiquitous in just about everything we see, do and interact with on the Interweb, so I cannot imagine why anybody except the insanely paranoid would turn it off.
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Post by akwe-xavante »

Default value for javascript in Chrome is off unless your visiting a trusted website, trusted meaning those with valid security certificates.
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Post by jazzuk777 »

Thanks for the answers re. java etc. For some reason re-pasting the code into the blog has fixed it. Still no answer re.using an open source CRM, doesn't anyone have any experience of pros and cons of this?
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