This tutorial is based on DaDaBIK 11, but just three weeks ago, DaDaBIK 12 "Aveto" was released! It features a revamped User Interface and many new features. You can download the latest version here: dadabik.com/download
01:32:35, general graphic customization: please note that starting from V 11.8 you can change logo, theme, add custom CSS and more directly from the DaDaBIK admin interface, without editing the config_custom file
Hi! thank you for your excellent video :) Just one question, it is possible and where I can find how, to program notiifications push if I have a task for alerting to the users admin or customer manager? (by an email to remind there is a task soon) or by a popup?) Thank you so much,
Hi! :) You have built-in (no-code) email notifications when a new records is inserted or updated (see config parameters enable_insert_notice_email_sending and enable_update_notice_email_sending). For anything else, the easiest way is to use operational hooks and write some PHP to do what you need to do (e.g. call an API to send a text message) when something happens in your application. Popup notifications at the moment are not available, if you want you can add them to our feature requests forum, though.
Very good explanation of Dadabik. Many thanks for this extended and detailed video. I really like it so far. It seems to fit all the requirements we have and I will absolutely consider buying the enterprise edition. One thing I am interested in though, is the creation of a PDF file (for exampe a quotation or a sales order confirmation) where gathering data from different related tables is necessary. The idea is sending the customer a link, so that they can login to the customer portal and view and/or sign the quotation. Maybe you have a demo already for that specific need?
Hello Edwin. Interesting use case. About the demo: visit dadabik.com/demo and select the demo n.2 (helpdesk app), login, choose "help requests" on the left menu, then enter in one of the request in "details mode" (third icon after edit and delete). From here you can generate a PDF to sign (click on PDF and choose "help request" as template). The answers to your questions: 1) Each (table-based) page can generate a PDF based one one table, however you can use lookup fields to get data from other tables and if you still need additional data coming from other tables typically the solution is the creation of a VIEW based on the tables you need and then the generation of the PDF based on such VIEW (instead of the table) 2) you can set DaDaBIK to show to each customer only their quotations
@@DaDaBIK Thanks for your answers! To be shure I can build what is requested, I want to take the quotation as an example: For the quotation itself I will need 2 main tables and some other tables with attributes: 1) Table quotation header 2) Table quotation lines 3) Table status 4) Table Source 5) Table Reason lost ... and so on.... The table quotation header will have a relation with 1) the table business relations 2) the table contact persons 3) the table sales persons ... and so on ... How would you suggest to setup to be able to print a PDF quotation which contains data from allmost all the mentioned tables?
@@trac0404 Sorry but It's difficult to give a precise answer without knowing in details your application. The only additional detail that is useful for you to know is the fact that at the moment, for a master/detail form (see for example an invoice in the demo n.1 at dadabik.com/demo) if you export to PDF you only get the header of the invoice and not the items. So automatic PDF generation does not fully work for master/detail forms at the moment. This doesn't mean you can't produce a PDF like the one you mentioned, but you need to do it using a custom PHP page in DaDaBIK, which means you need to write some code (while the PDF for the helpdesk app I mentioned, for example, is no-code).
@@DaDaBIK Thanks for your quick reply! It is very common that a quotation, a sales order, a purchase order, an invoice and many other examples like this, do have a header and ... one or more lines. Also very common is that this need to be printed in PDF format. That this is not fully supported right now, is very important for me to know. However, it does absolutely not mean I am not interested in the DaDaBIK solution anymore. I still think you have created a fantastic and user friendly platform with lots of functionalities. It means that probably I will need some help with this part, if I decide to go for DaDaBIK. But I think that we will find a way to overcome this easily. Thanks again and have a nice day!
@@trac0404 I know it's common and at some point it will be implemented. At the moment you have to write some code using the TCPDF library that DaDaBIK also uses to generate PDF. Another option you have is to print in PDF the page from the browser, I know it's probably not what you want but it's also probably better than you expect. I've just added this feature in our feature requests forum: dadabik.com/forum/index.php?threads/full-pdf-generation-for-master-detail-forms.24327/ most of the roadmap of DaDaBIK is guided by the upvotes the feature proposals receive from customers in this forum.
Dadabik has a lot of potential, but you guys really need to work on the UI of the platform, it's soooo 90s, even the website is retro, not really appealing or tempting for us to buy it, especially with all the competition you have
Hi Khalil and thanks for the honest feedback. Overall, I agree that DaDaBIK is "more substance than form" :) but I would like to go into a few more details. Platform user interface I'd say the platform's current UI isn't all that different from what its competitors offer (and it's definitely not "90s"); I am referring to platforms mainly focused on creating * Internal Tools *. Most of the pages of a DaDaBIK application are made up of forms, tabular views and charts; in my (rather long) experience, end users of internal tools have a need: to perform tasks on the tool as efficiently and quickly as possible. That said, there is certainly room for improvement, but bear in mind that you can easily add your own CSS and change the elements you don't like. Website DaDaBIK exists since 2001 and in all these years the website has been completely redesigned three times. The last time was in 2012 (so yes, 10 years). A few months ago the decision was made to completely redesign the site for the fourth time, but in the end we gave up. The investment required, in terms of time, was huge. I decided to make a major number of changes to the layout to refresh it but to keep the existing structure. I thought it was better to invest time in developing the platform. I'm not sure if it was the right decision from a marketing point of view, but when I choose a software I don't judge the website much, I look more at their change log to see how often the SW is updated, their history ... and I think I'm not alone. I know, however, that at some point the site will need a complete redesign. The old forum (which looked very old) a few months ago was migrated to the xenforo platform and this was the first step (migrating 20k posts from a very old platform, keeping all metadata was not that easy). Let me tell you one more thing: it is true that many platforms have been born in recent years and from the website they all look nice and modern but I think you will probably be surprised if you try to investigate how many of them have a real and loyal customers base.
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This tutorial is based on DaDaBIK 11, but just three weeks ago, DaDaBIK 12 "Aveto" was released! It features a revamped User Interface and many new features. You can download the latest version here: dadabik.com/download
01:32:35, general graphic customization: please note that starting from V 11.8 you can change logo, theme, add custom CSS and more directly from the DaDaBIK admin interface, without editing the config_custom file
Hi! thank you for your excellent video :) Just one question, it is possible and where I can find how, to program notiifications push if I have a task for alerting to the users admin or customer manager? (by an email to remind there is a task soon) or by a popup?)
Thank you so much,
Hi! :) You have built-in (no-code) email notifications when a new records is inserted or updated (see config parameters enable_insert_notice_email_sending and enable_update_notice_email_sending). For anything else, the easiest way is to use operational hooks and write some PHP to do what you need to do (e.g. call an API to send a text message) when something happens in your application.
Popup notifications at the moment are not available, if you want you can add them to our feature requests forum, though.
great initiative at last came forward
this will really helpful to solve so many douts for me
cheers to Eugenio Tacchini
Brilliant work..have been looking into nocode & this has been fantastic 👏 😀
Thanks!
Very good explanation of Dadabik. Many thanks for this extended and detailed video. I really like it so far. It seems to fit all the requirements we have and I will absolutely consider buying the enterprise edition. One thing I am interested in though, is the creation of a PDF file (for exampe a quotation or a sales order confirmation) where gathering data from different related tables is necessary. The idea is sending the customer a link, so that they can login to the customer portal and view and/or sign the quotation. Maybe you have a demo already for that specific need?
Hello Edwin. Interesting use case. About the demo: visit dadabik.com/demo and select the demo n.2 (helpdesk app), login, choose "help requests" on the left menu, then enter in one of the request in "details mode" (third icon after edit and delete). From here you can generate a PDF to sign (click on PDF and choose "help request" as template).
The answers to your questions:
1) Each (table-based) page can generate a PDF based one one table, however you can use lookup fields to get data from other tables and if you still need additional data coming from other tables typically the solution is the creation of a VIEW based on the tables you need and then the generation of the PDF based on such VIEW (instead of the table)
2) you can set DaDaBIK to show to each customer only their quotations
@@DaDaBIK Thanks for your answers! To be shure I can build what is requested, I want to take the quotation as an example:
For the quotation itself I will need 2 main tables and some other tables with attributes:
1) Table quotation header 2) Table quotation lines 3) Table status 4) Table Source 5) Table Reason lost ... and so on....
The table quotation header will have a relation with 1) the table business relations 2) the table contact persons 3) the table sales persons ... and so on ...
How would you suggest to setup to be able to print a PDF quotation which contains data from allmost all the mentioned tables?
@@trac0404 Sorry but It's difficult to give a precise answer without knowing in details your application.
The only additional detail that is useful for you to know is the fact that at the moment, for a master/detail form (see for example an invoice in the demo n.1 at dadabik.com/demo) if you export to PDF you only get the header of the invoice and not the items.
So automatic PDF generation does not fully work for master/detail forms at the moment.
This doesn't mean you can't produce a PDF like the one you mentioned, but you need to do it using a custom PHP page in DaDaBIK, which means you need to write some code (while the PDF for the helpdesk app I mentioned, for example, is no-code).
@@DaDaBIK Thanks for your quick reply! It is very common that a quotation, a sales order, a purchase order, an invoice and many other examples like this, do have a header and ... one or more lines. Also very common is that this need to be printed in PDF format. That this is not fully supported right now, is very important for me to know. However, it does absolutely not mean I am not interested in the DaDaBIK solution anymore. I still think you have created a fantastic and user friendly platform with lots of functionalities. It means that probably I will need some help with this part, if I decide to go for DaDaBIK. But I think that we will find a way to overcome this easily. Thanks again and have a nice day!
@@trac0404 I know it's common and at some point it will be implemented. At the moment you have to write some code using the TCPDF library that DaDaBIK also uses to generate PDF.
Another option you have is to print in PDF the page from the browser, I know it's probably not what you want but it's also probably better than you expect.
I've just added this feature in our feature requests forum:
dadabik.com/forum/index.php?threads/full-pdf-generation-for-master-detail-forms.24327/
most of the roadmap of DaDaBIK is guided by the upvotes the feature proposals receive from customers in this forum.
Dadabik is brilliant. UI need some update
Thanks! DaDaBIK 12 will get an UI update :)
V 12 "Aveto", released yesterday, has a new UI
Dadabik has a lot of potential, but you guys really need to work on the UI of the platform, it's soooo 90s, even the website is retro, not really appealing or tempting for us to buy it, especially with all the competition you have
Hi Khalil and thanks for the honest feedback. Overall, I agree that DaDaBIK is "more substance than form" :) but I would like to go into a few more details.
Platform user interface
I'd say the platform's current UI isn't all that different from what its competitors offer (and it's definitely not "90s"); I am referring to platforms mainly focused on creating * Internal Tools *. Most of the pages of a DaDaBIK application are made up of forms, tabular views and charts; in my (rather long) experience, end users of internal tools have a need: to perform tasks on the tool as efficiently and quickly as possible.
That said, there is certainly room for improvement, but bear in mind that you can easily add your own CSS and change the elements you don't like.
Website
DaDaBIK exists since 2001 and in all these years the website has been completely redesigned three times. The last time was in 2012 (so yes, 10 years).
A few months ago the decision was made to completely redesign the site for the fourth time, but in the end we gave up. The investment required, in terms of time, was huge. I decided to make a major number of changes to the layout to refresh it but to keep the existing structure. I thought it was better to invest time in developing the platform. I'm not sure if it was the right decision from a marketing point of view, but when I choose a software I don't judge the website much, I look more at their change log to see how often the SW is updated, their history ... and I think I'm not alone.
I know, however, that at some point the site will need a complete redesign. The old forum (which looked very old) a few months ago was migrated to the xenforo platform and this was the first step (migrating 20k posts from a very old platform, keeping all metadata was not that easy).
Let me tell you one more thing: it is true that many platforms have been born in recent years and from the website they all look nice and modern but I think you will probably be surprised if you try to investigate how many of them have a real and loyal customers base.
For people who are reading this comment 10 months later: today a new, completely redesigned DaDaBIK.com website has been launched :)
DaDaBIK V 12 "Aveto", released yesterday, has a new UI