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By dexa.ag on
Introduction
Plugger is a completely free SaaS (Software as a Service) developed to manage business online. Today, you can use it to share contacts and files, and new modules are already being developed.
The Project
Plugger is a SaaS solution for small and medium enterprises, and freelance professionals who want a simple and easy platform to fully administer their business with confidence.
The project foresees packages of features that will be incorporated as they are developed, so we can build a user base and familiarize them with the tool, reducing the initial complexity of use.
The Solution
To release the software as planned, it was essential to choose a development framework that would allow us installing new features quickly and easily.
Now, this does not seem to make much sense, but the choice of Drupal was not so simple. Two reasons in particular led us to it: we already have an extensive experience with Drupal accumulated in years of development, and we believe this is an important initiative for the Drupal community in Latin America.
So, the next decision involved which version of Drupal we would use. We opted for Drupal 7 to avoid a migration process and to explore the new features of the platform, and we were very pleased with it for several reasons:
1) The new APIs in Drupal 7 were decisive for the development of the system, and many solutions were easily built thanks to the new features of the framework.
2) Drupal was amazing by enabling the use of different customizations and codes.
3) We saved a lot of time when implementing the system because of Drupal's great structure of permissions and user management.
4) We were able to exploit the hooks system - which is simply excellent.
Most Plugger features were implemented in a module developed specifically for him, but the following modules were essential for the tool's development: Views, Field Collection, Field Conditional State, References, CKEditor, Jquery Update, Date, Localization update, e Iconizer.
Conclusion
We are very pleased with the results and optimistic about the growth of Plugger.
Drupal once again showed its flexibility, and we hope that this initiative is an incentive for those who still have doubts about the capabilities of this development framework.
In the coming months, we intend to make Plugger even more complete and robust with new modules and features that are already in development, as well as release versions for other languages.
It is in Portuguese only for now, but we will release English version soon.
