If you look at typical screen in Feng Office, you will see basically the following areas:
In the main area you get access to the information stored in Feng Office to read, edit, add or delete it. Using the tabs on top you select the module you want to work with. Within a module there are usually three different views:
Notes
module the list view presents all notes in rows and columns. Not every module has this generic form of a list view: The Calendar
module uses a graphical representation of months, weeks and days to display events, and the Tasks
module has a slightly different approach.The tabs on top of the main area are the main navigation element in Feng Office. Here you choose the information type you want to work with. The labels on these tabs give you a good impression of what type of information you have to expect.
There is a special tab called “Overview”. Think of it as the starting point or homepage of your Feng Office installation. The overview offers you a selection of the most important, most urgent or most recent information. You can call it a dashboard, if you like.
Depending on the tab you select you often get a toolbar right below the tabs. Clicking on a tool either executes a certain command directly, or you get a dropdown menu to select one of several options.
On the left side of the header, you see the name of the selected workspace (including the path of this workspace, similar to a breadcrumb navigation):
On the right side of the header you see the following:
The left sidebar offers different methods for filtering the information presented in the main area: for example clients and projects, workspaces and tags.
Selecting a client, a project, a workspace or a tag is as simple as clicking on it. Please note that you can select only one single client, project, workspace or tag at a time. To reset a filter simply click on All
again.
You can use clients, projects, workspaces and tags simultaneously. Please keep in mind that these three filters will add up and narrow the results of your filtering process (like in a search that uses two search terms connected with a logical AND condition).
If you have a lot of clients, projects, workspaces or tags, you can even filter your filters by filling in the Filters
fields.
Please note that you can move the divider between the clients & projects, workspaces and the tags section to your needs. If you need more space on your screen, you can always hide the tags box or even the whole left sidebar by clicking on the arrow buttons.
To open the left sidebar, you have to click on the arrow button.
The right sidebar has been removed in Feng Office 1.4. It was supposed to contain an online help system which was never implemented.
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Which is the difference between a workspace and a workgroup?
There are no workgroups, only workspaces. This was an error in the wiki. Thank you for your question, this error has now been corrected.
I created a workspace but when I try to assign a task in that workspace, I get an error message saying I do not have permission. I checked my permissions and all boxes are checked indicating that I have full administrator permissions.
When I try to upload a document in that workspace, I get an error message saying “you must choose at least one workspace to place the object, but I have a checkmark in the box of the workspace where I want to put it, so not sure what to do.
Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong with these two areas? Thank you!
Where did that happen? I have just created a trial version installation from scratch and had no problem assigning tasks or uploading files.. Same goes with our demo version (demo.fengoffice.com). Greetings!
Francisco, thank you for responding! One of my colleagues helped me figure it out. He went into “users” and changed my permissions. I changed my permissions in the workspace but failed to changed the “user” permissions. Rita
Fantastic System….
Question ? Can the Overview page be modified to be laid out the way i want it ? ie.. move the note atop the list instead of bottom right hand side ?
You may not move widgets to wherever you want, but you may choose which ones to enable by going to 'Account' > 'Edit preferences' > 'Dashboard options'