Comments on: why vTiger sucks

By: Invoice

Invoice — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:11:38 +0000

Hi, is anyone able to import Invoice successfully to vtiger?

I’d imported the invoice in csv into the database. But it does not get displayed in the Invoice module.

Help is appreciated.

Thank you.

By: Cornelius

Cornelius — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:02:43 +0000

Thanks for the tip regarding speeding things up.

Using some bash scripting and the search/replace power of vim, I was able to get all the separate english language files concatenated into 1 “more manageable” language file.

But now that I have dug deeply into their PHP code, I am absolutely astounded. I am absolutely astounded human beings maintain this code. The cascading if/else statements go deeper than a hole to China. Single lines of code word wrap in my vim editor 7 TIMES. These developers should never be allowed to touch a keyboard again.

Had to vent. There’s a good chance I’m gonna scrap this thing.

By: Thomas Hambach

Thomas Hambach — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:14:54 +0000

Hah… good luck with that Cornelius… we stripped the whole language thing out of vTiger since it was so frustrating and built in our own… But believe me, you’ll have a load of work stripping it out

If you want to improve the speed of vTiger, have a look here:
http://www.rdlt.com/vtiger-slow-accountproducts-popup.html

By: Cornelius

Cornelius — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:56:23 +0000

I’m attempting to hack version 5.0.4, and the coding standards are very poor.

There’s a separate language file PER MODULE. Simply searching and adding new phrases is a pain in the arse.

The database design is nasty. 312 tables? With mixed naming conventions? And cascading deletes? Seriously? I’ve gone cross eyed.

The app does its job - but is very slow even with a minimal amount of records.

I love open source and do appreciate the work that went into this app. I’m just saying it ain’t easy to work with this app.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:14:25 +0000

Thanks for the article, I am checking out vTiger as a solution for my web development customers. The article points out a few good issues. I’m also working on a few new themes for vTiger so will keep you posted.

By: Jonathan Enns

Jonathan Enns — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:33:32 +0000

Just want to thank the vtiger team for all their work in maintaining a 100% open-source project.

Does it have rough edges? Yes. But it is by far the best open source CRM tool available. Perhaps if we contributed to documentation as a community it would get better, no?

By: Lukas

Lukas — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:52:34 +0000

Thanks for mentioned Softed theme.

Backlink added

Lukas N

By: Oscar

Oscar — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:13:17 +0000

I agree. vtiger kind of sucks. It took us forever to figure out some issues. Like the AD authentication, all the documentation (really just forum posts) keep talking about a patch. It is not until you find out for yourself, that the AD authentication functionality is actually built-into the latest version. But the vtiger team failed to make this easily available as a feature, or spec.
you are 120% right, their documentation sucks.

With that said, the system is a powerful system, I’m just concerned with its enterprise-ready status…

By: Sreenivas Kanumuru

Sreenivas Kanumuru — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:58:56 +0000

Thomas, thanks for the valuable feedback. We agree that the documentation and coding are not upto the standard and are making efforts to improve on it. We’ll be attending to some of the other issues as well in the upcoming releases.

thanks,
Sreenivas Kanumuru
vtiger Team