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Implementing SugarCRM

By : Michael Whitehead
Book Image

Implementing SugarCRM

By: Michael Whitehead

Overview of this book

<p>SugarCRM is a popular customer relationship management system. It is available in both free open source and commercial versions, making it an ideal way for small-medium business to try out a CRM system without committing large sums of money. Although SugarCRM is carefully designed for ease of use, attaining measurable business gains requires careful planning and research. This book distils hard won SugarCRM experienced into an easy to follow guide to implementing the full power of SugarCRM. SugarCRM is an extensive PHP/MySQL based application but with its rich administration interfaces no programming is required to get the most of it.</p> <p>This book will give you all the information you need to start using this powerful, free CRM system. Written by veteran SugarCRM expert and experienced documentation author, Michael J. Whitehead, this book is the definitive guide to implementing SugarCRM. Whether you are wondering exactly what benefits CRM can bring, or you have already learned about CRM systems but have yet to implement one, or you're working with SugarCRM already; this book will show you how to get maximum benefit of this exciting product.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Implementing SugarCRM
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Configure Installation Settings


This section deals with the configuration of installation settings such as how to re-run the installation, and the integration of the email server.

Re-running the Installation

  1. Click on Suse | System | File Manager | File Manager – Super User Mode, and enter the root password when prompted. From file:/root, navigate upwards one click to file:/. Click on the srv folder, and then www, and then htdocs, and then sugarcrm.

  2. Right click on the config.php file, and select Kate to edit the file with the Kate editor. Scroll down about one page to the entry ‘installer_locked’ => true, and replace the word true with the word false. Now perform a File | Save, and then exit the editor.

  3. Exit the File Manager.

  4. Now you may run the install.php file again, to re-run the installation.

Email Server Integration

  1. Ensure that your SugarCRM installation is configured in the Admin area to use the sendmail Mail Transfer Agent (MTA).

  2. Check that sendmail is running—by default it is.