Too far past my pay-grade!
This is more for the people working on the long-term development plans
and the marketing position of OFBiz.
Not every competitor has all of the ideas incorporated into their products.
Not every idea is going have an ROI that the OFBiz community will find
compelling but I thought that it was something worth reading for anyone
who is looking at the future of OFBiz.
If there is anyone contemplating UI changes or addition of new modules,
it is interesting.
It is not overly detailed and the discussion is about trends rather than
specific product implementations.
It also has some slides about where the customers are spending money and
what areas are getting $$$ attention by ERP users.
The feature checklist might be something that we might want to use as a
base for some pages in the web site.
It certainly gives a way to group functionality into a reasonable set of
categories that fit on 1 page and gives a scale that can be used to
indicate how extensively OFBiz supports the requirements. Easy to
compare the other companies using the TEC guide.
I am not sure how different Gartner's breakdown is.
Ron
On 05/02/2015 2:14 AM, Pierre Smits wrote:
Feel free to register the improvement JIRAS for the overall aspect and
the individual occurrences.
Best regards,
Pierre Smits
*ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
Services & Solutions for Cloud-
Based Manufacturing, Professional
Services and Retail & Trade
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On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:02 AM, Ron Wheeler
<rwhee...@artifact-software.com
<mailto:rwhee...@artifact-software.com>> wrote:
I think that they are showing search results as the user types and
the ERP does not care what field you are entering.
If you start typing in the postal code field it will display
everyone whose postal code matches what you have typed so far.
When you stop typing, you can select the party that you are
interested in from the search results on the screen.
If you start with a phone number or last name or whatever, the
effect is the same.
It clearly places a load on some computer(server or browser) and
the balance between bandwidth, server processing and user
convenience is constantly changing.
The dropdown filtering is a good start but they are carrying the
process one step further.
Ron
On 05/02/2015 12:30 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
BTW, when a lookup is not appropriate there is also the
simpler autocomplete dropdown field that we have recently
fixed https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-6036
By and large there are more possibilities in this area, cf
http://demo-trunk-ofbiz.apache.org/example/control/FormWidgetExamples
Jacques
Le 04/02/2015 23:43, Jacques Le Roux a écrit :
Le 04/02/2015 16:02, Ron Wheeler a écrit :
http://post.technologyevaluation.com/t/180998/19677306/17511/2/?560a3889=VEVDIDIwMTUgRVJQIGZvciBEaXNjcmV0ZSBNYW51ZmFjdHVyaW5nIEJ1eWVyJ3MgR3VpZGU%3d&3b64e84d=X19uZXdzbGV0dGVyX2RhaWx5X2Vu&3b64e84d=X19uZXdzbGV0dGVyX2RhaWx5X2Vu&b0c7069d=MjM4NDEzOA%3d%3d&fb8dc108=cndoZWVsZXJAYXJ0aWZhY3Qtc29mdHdhcmUuY29t&x=3c8d597c
is a link to an interesting whitepaper from TEC
(Gartner competitor) discussing the main ERP solutions
that they follow.
The big trend that they identify is a move to more
functional user interfaces that actually help users
make sense of the data and find what they want quickly
and do that in a way that is familiar to ERP users
(Spreadsheets model).
They talk about automatic search where the user can
type information into any field (phone number, first
name, company name and have the system show up
potential matches without having to go to a search
screen. This is what people who use email or web
browsers expect computers to be able to do.
I did not read yet.
When we standardized javascript in OFBiz, by replacing all
other javascript frameworks and APIs by jQuery, there have
been a specific effort around lookups and we implemented
the auto-complete feature inside them (actually the js
standardization came from this effort, which was initially
done on the calendar where we began to replace pop-ups by
js-layers). Auto-complete is just the feature you explain
above. Of course limited, it's not a search engine, the
set is constrained. In theory, we could have something
much more powerful based on Solr for instance. But I'm not
sure we will ever see that in OFBiz...
BTW, during the jQuery effort, I improved the Price Rules
and Promo Rules screens, using dependent dropdowns I then
introduced (you would have to use R09.04 to see how it was
before). I even made recently an effort in the Product
Promo Rules screen to use auto-complete lookups instead of
simple inputs
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ofbiz/trunk/applications/product/webapp/catalog/promo/EditProductPromoRules.ftl?r1=1653938&r2=1653937&pathrev=1653938
I believe there are still inputs we could replace by
auto-complete lookups. An effort which would be worth to
do would be to take an inventory of those. We could then
replace them...
Jacques
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