mxm Contacts

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This product has not had a release in over 1 year and may no longer be maintained.

mxmContacts is a Plone product for managing contacts. Both contacts as individuals and organizations. It is mainly an intranet tool, for managing an organizations internal contacts, but can also be used as a tool for publishing contacts. It is based on Archetypes.

Project Description

It works by having "mxmContacts", which is a folder made especially for handling contacts. You can put one of those anywhere in your site. Inside it you can add the different contact types:

    Organization, Person, Resource.

The "mxmContacts" folder has a search interface that is especially suited for searching contacts. So it is both a place for managing and searching contacts.

Contact search

Contact search result

Contact Groups

Contact persons can be collected into a contacts group.

A group can be emailed through a web interface, or you can export it as a CSV file.

Contact Persons and Groups are not members of the site. So they have no special permissions. This is a big advantage if you have thousand of contacts in your organisation that you want to share.

There is an option to add anonymous users to a contact group. This makes it very easy to let anonymous users add their own contact info. It is also usable as simple newsletters that can be subscribed to.

If you want to use a subset of fields for anonymous contact info, you should customize "mxmContacts_anonymousFieldNames"

If you want to add custom fields, you can do it by changing "schemasCustom.py". That way the added fields will not be lost after an upgrade.

Requirements

Recent version of archetypes, Plone 2.0.x or Plone 2.1.x