What Interests you most about ILance 3.0.0 Enterprise?

[Peter]

Over the years, we have implemented hundreds of unique features related to buying, selling, purchasing, ordering and so on through the various software releases to date.

We are very interested in learning what interests you the most regarding the ILance software and would love to hear your comments about the area (or feature) in ILance that you like best.

Let me start this out
Many of you don't even know it, but one of my personal fav has to be the Transfer RFP ownership (from one member to another) which may provide the admin with future help in regards to having a dedicated member post various RFP's for other members that may be new or unfamilar with the process / flow :D

It works like this:

1. The poster creates the RFP
2. From the buying activities area, the poster ticks off the checkbox for that auction and clicks on the pulldown labled "Transfer RFP Ownership".

There is a nice little unique process that goes along with the actual transfer process in the form of emails, which I also like.

PS - if you are not sure what feature you like best, let me refresh your memory (http://www.ilance.ca/?cmd=3.0.0.html). :)

[freelancescript]

There is a lot to choose from and my choice is actually the admin cp. Its incredibly powerful. Complex but give me complex and ability over simplistic and inept any day. With a business you need a good set of tools and they are more than good.

As far as the marketplace is concerned though, I think the distance API and the distance functionality around it is a great tool.

Ian

[phbock]

Ilance for me is great as:- It is very big and giving me loads of possibilities to design the marketplace the way I like it (general)
- I love the way the PMB works with the media share (feature)
- but most of all that it is open source and you can do WHATEVER you want with it. For this is its greatest plus.

cheers
Phillip

[delta]

Honestly, I am not too impressed any more. There was too much focus on suffisticated functions and no focus on simplicity of use and our experience in the market shows that ordinary people dont get it.

Perhaps many of you will be using v3 for IT people then you should be lucky. Putting V3 out there for ordinary folks makes you want to strip it of all functions and keep the basics. Only if it is possible to disable many of these function in the user CP so people can stop search their way around the CP.

The real things that could make V3 simple appear to be things that will come years later as addons. Functions in the buying and selling activity are hidden in non-obvious ways.

Well, this is just the view of an ordinary person in the ordinary world.

[freelancescript]

Delta
I just read your other post concerning the portfolios and this post is something I have been considering as well. I am toying with creating a lite version of iLance, I currently do not have theos license as I want to fit a template first but I wondered how much interest there is in a lite version.

Ian

[fcarentz]

1) The functionality of the scripts
2) It has built in api for AddOn/Mod development
3) Very sleek Templating system

Sure there are bugs, but even full blown released systems have bugs. There is def. a learning curse to the system as well since it IS SO Robust and chuck full of options. But seriously is there ever a happy medium in such things? If you have the options people get confused, if you dont have them then they want them. Its a catch22 of programming I have come to find. LOL But those are my top 3 things that I love about iLance.

[delta]

Well, perhap I did not articulate myself well. Fact is V3 is a gem in the way it works. All I was pointing to is that once you put it in the hands of ordinary people many of the fine stuff turn into problem. This has been our experience so far. Yes people get used to something but they are always looking for something they don't have to learn.

This is not the fault of V3. In my opinion, depending on your market you may have to strip it down a little. It appears all that can be done with v3.