Hello, I would like some help with an assignment I have. I have been instructed to develop for a customer, a custom CRM that will be able to have a dynamic builder, through which, the managers will be able to create specific prototypes / templates of records, which then users/operators, will be able to fill-in with data and manage that data. I could develop it from scratch in PHP, but it sounds pretty much tricky and might take several months to reach the goal, so I wanted some advice, if something that can cover these needs, already exists, open source or commercial is not a problem. In more details, they want to be able to: -create a prototype, for example: Project XYZ -this "Project XYZ", would be a main data-table, which would be accessible by specific user groups and each user group, might have different permissions on viewing and/or editing/deleting data -this main data-table or grid-like, would have specific columns, whose data can be entered as typed-in data or from preconfigured pool of data (like a drop-down etc) -any type of form input could be used for each column, text field, checkbox, dropdown, textarea, rich text / html, radio, files, links, images, buttons -this main data-table / grid, might have some columns which are links and/or buttons, which could send to relational sub-grid / sub-datatable, that is linked to this specific row / record, so that operator can do more extended work for a specific column. Of course, this sub-grid / sub-datatable, might open in a lightbox or something and would also has inside a preconfigured structure of data to input. This sub-grid, could be as a list of rows or it could be a vertical form of input or a mix of both. I know it sounds complicated, but I can't believe nothing like that already exists. There is no restriction to programming language, there is no restriction to being open source or commercial product, as long as it covers the needs and being able to have a dynamic builder for managing data, with scope to make a tailor-made CRM on demand for any type of business / niche. Thanks for your time, I hope someone can point me to the right direction with this !
Have you checked codecanyon? It's not free but it seems to have plenty of project management tools which could be adapted to fit your needs http://codecanyon.net/search?utf8=✓&term=project
thanks Markus for your response, I'm member on codecanyon and have purchased there before, but I wasn't able to find something there close to this project's needs, all the tools seem to do a great job for what they were built to do, but can't see any to have a dynamic builder to make something customized to someone's needs. Have you found some script that contains a builder ? The project does has budget, so even if it's not something as simple as fifty bucks from codecanyon, I can afford it. Thanks again !