SuiteCRM collaboration makes working together easy


The goals of team collaboration include completing projects efficiently, collectively and in real quick solutions and giving all team members a sense of accomplishment without a gap to any communication. While there are many ways to fostering and improving team collaboration either physical meeting one-to-one with all the members of the team. But nowadays every team member has their own priority from presentation to a customer meeting and yes their family too...

Our add-on Collaboration gives a facility to communicate each record separately with all the users and there is an effective notification option are available to discuss any Lead or Accounts internally with-in your SuiteCRM. Sometimes a situation arises when your support department is not aware of the last billing status of the customer and if the customer asking for the same. So the support team can mention the billing department user and seek the information for smooth communication. Not only communication but it gives many benefits like Communication, Transparency, Employee engagement, Reliability.

Empower your employees and team to perform more anytime, with Collaboration

Collaboration panel in detailview of suitecrm module

Let teams talk effortlessly in real time on any record with Collaboration for SuiteCRM. A discussion area like other social media platform, but built for work.

  • Collaborate right inside records: Invite the team members for discussion, help, information by mentioning them directly in the record's collaboration panel
  • Drive productivity: Connect, engage, and motivate employees to work efficiently regardless of their role or location
  • Get real-time notifications emails: Inform the teammates or an individual for an update or a recent comment, via email.
  • Get real-time SuiteCRM alert notification: Inform teams or individuals of updates or recent comments via suitecrm alert notification.
  • Share knowledge: Share knowledge, files, and data. Connect with experts member of the organization regardless of their role or location
  • Collaboration Hub: A one stop solution for all types of collaborations, Sales opportunities collaboration, Project collaboration, Support collaboration. Designed with care to support collaboration needs of your Custom modules as well.

Email and SuiteCRM Alert Notification

Collaboration configuration gives you the choice of notification whether you want to have email notification or default SuiteCRM alert notification with multiple choice of subscription.

Email notification and SuiteCRM alert notification

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Communication & Transparency


Communication range across department providing clear instructions, asking for more clarification when needed. and better communication helps a member to share files email notification etc... Transparency along with better communication this makes each dialog and communication reliable and transparent that set the clear goal among all the participants across the departments.

Collaborative communication with transparency to the team

Employee engagement and reliability about the information

Engagement & Reliability


Keeping each member of the team engaged and interested in collaborating will make the project more efficient overall and their valued inputs make it more effective. Reliability, Once each member assigned their goals they are bound to the accountability of the task and completion of the task, incase anything needed they can put their view on the spot with hesitating.


Add comments and upload documents


Any user who has the rights to edit the record of the collaboration module will have an option to reply and if he wants to upload any document click on the paper clip icon, It will open up the browse window to select documents and also you can upload multiple documents in one shot.

Note: For the Non-admin user delete icon will be available only to the owner of the comments. For admin user it will be available for any comments.
Collaboration upload document

Collaboration discussion users mention

User Mentions


In collaboration comments, the user will have an option to mention any user of the system. Start typing '@' and name of the user, It will auto-populate the name of the user's list and once you select the one it will be colored as grayed. As per the setting for the email notification. If an admin has selected that notification email will be sent when someone mentions the user. the mentioned user will receive an email notification.


How collaboartion helps you with SuiteCRM?

To get everyone on the same page. The most important thing you can do to collaborate is to get people to work with you on the same goals. For example, You are working on the specific project on the project module of SuiteCRM. Now you will have many resources who are working together to achieve a common goal. You will have a communication panel called "Collaboration" in the detail view of the project's detail view. Here you or any user of SuiteCRM who has access to the collaboration module can add comments as well as able to upload the documents that will be stored in the Notes module.

  • Install Collaboration add-on

Download Collaboration zip from your purchases.

Navigate to Admin > Module Loader and select the zip file. Follow the installation process.

  • Configure License and Validate it

Add License key and validate it.

Once it is succesfully validated, click on Continue button.

Now you will have a configuration screen to enable the collaboration chat for the specific module and email notification for the collaboration chat. Select module dropdown will have a list of all the built-in and custom module lists. Once you select and save the settings you will have a collaboration panel in the detail view of the selected module.

project collaboration chat configuration

 

Module selection to enable collobration panel

Now you will have a configuration screen to enable the collaboration chat for the specific module and email notification for the collaboration chat. Select module dropdown will have a list of all the built-in and custom module lists. Once you select and save the settings you will have a collaboration panel in the detail view of the selected module.

Email notification settings

  • Send email when someone mentions the user

When someone mentions (typing '@' with username) any users, the mentioned users will receive a notification email with comment information and record link to his email address.

  • Send email to Assigned user when someone comments

When someone adds the comments into the record. The assigned user of the parent record will receive an email notification with a record link.

  • Send email to all participants when someone comments

When someone adds the comments into the record. All the participants on the current record conversation will receive an email notification with a record link.

  • Send email to all participants when Assigned user comments

When an Assigned user of parent record will add the comments into the record. All the participants of the current record conversation will receive an email notification with a record link.

Alert notification settings

  • Send alert notification when someone mentions the user

When someone mentions (typing '@' with username) any users, the mentioned users will receive a notification alert with comment information and record link.

  • Send alert notification to an Assigned user when someone comments

When someone adds the comments into the record. The assigned user of the parent record will receive an alert notification with a record link.

  • Send alert notification to all participants when someone comments

When someone adds the comments into the record. All the participants on the current record conversation will receive an alert notification with a record link.

  • Send alert notification to all participants when Assigned user comments

When an Assigned user of parent record will add the comments into the record. All the participants of the current record conversation will receive an alert notification with a record link.

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