Re: Ofbiz Newbie Needs Guidance
Extending it is a far better option and must work for you, I believe. But if for some reason that doesn't happen, you might wanna try moqui instead of cleaning all the stuff from OFBiz. http://www.moqui.org/ On Wed, 08 May 2013 06:54:36 +0530, Paul Foxworthy wrote: Hi Arpit, If you use just the framework part of OFBiz, you can create pretty much any web application. You can think of the framework as another web application framework, something like Spring, Struts and so on. For example, Atlassian's Jira product is not in any way an ERP system, but uses the OFBiz framework. If you like what you've seen of the OFBiz way, using the framework is a possibility, and yes, you could reinvent a different ERP system based on the framework. That said, I find it hard to believe that nothing in OFBiz would be relevant to an ERP application. Surely your application will deal with Parties, Products, Services, Orders, Invoices, Payments, Inventory and so on. I suggest you reconsider *extending* OFBiz instead of rewriting it. If you haven't read The Data Model Resource Book (https://cwiki.apache.org/OFBADMIN/ofbiz-related-books.html), I strongly suggest you do before embarking on defining your entities, and that applies whether or not you do decide to rewrite. OFBiz's data model is based on the book, although there are differences. Have you looked at the services in OFBiz separately from the screens in the demo application? The demo is just that, a demo and not a finished application. It tends to expose all the knobs and dials when for a given application you would be happy to hide away some portion of them. So I would expect that you would vary screens, remove some, and change the workflow of others. But the screens would call on services, and there would be less changes there. I understand you would want your own entities, and that is fine. But if they have relationships to standard OFBiz entities like Party, why not store them in the ofbiz database? As for working with your DBA: model the entities first. OFBiz will automatically create tables to persist entity data, so there should be less work for your DBA to do. The Data Model Resource Book will give you some ideas about conventions. There are conventions for types of entities and additional attributes, see the discussion at https://cwiki.apache.org/OFBTECH/general-entity-overview.html and look for examples in OFBiz. Hope that helps. Regards Paul Foxworthy Arpit Gadle wrote Hello Everyone, I am a newbie to Ofbiz. I am having 4 yrs of exp in Java Technology and MySQL database. Recently I have been assigned a task by the company to develop ERP using Ofbiz. I had installed and developed a demoapp ofbiz component successfully and also configured Ofbiz installation with MySQL. I had gone through the ofbiz core components and found that I cannot reuse and also cannot extend those components as our requirement is very complex and flexible. I would like to ask you guys few things 1) Can I develop whole new ERP from ground-zero using Ofbiz (as i created demoapp)? 2) How can Ofbiz will help me as I won't be using any core components? 3) Can I create and use a separate database for the development other than ofbiz,ofbizolap and ofbiztenant? 4) We are having a MySQL DBA with us who will be designing the new ERP database. Are there any rules or conventions to follow when working with Ofbiz. I apologize If I had made some mistakes or asked some questions not pertaining to this mailing list. Any help is greatly appreciated Thanks & Regards, Arpit Gadle - -- Coherent Software Australia Pty Ltd http://www.coherentsoftware.com.au/ Bonsai ERP, the all-inclusive ERP system http://www.bonsaierp.com.au/ -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Ofbiz-Newbie-Needs-Guidance-tp4641068p4641075.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
Re: Ofbiz Newbie Needs Guidance
Hi Arpit, If you use just the framework part of OFBiz, you can create pretty much any web application. You can think of the framework as another web application framework, something like Spring, Struts and so on. For example, Atlassian's Jira product is not in any way an ERP system, but uses the OFBiz framework. If you like what you've seen of the OFBiz way, using the framework is a possibility, and yes, you could reinvent a different ERP system based on the framework. That said, I find it hard to believe that nothing in OFBiz would be relevant to an ERP application. Surely your application will deal with Parties, Products, Services, Orders, Invoices, Payments, Inventory and so on. I suggest you reconsider *extending* OFBiz instead of rewriting it. If you haven't read The Data Model Resource Book (https://cwiki.apache.org/OFBADMIN/ofbiz-related-books.html), I strongly suggest you do before embarking on defining your entities, and that applies whether or not you do decide to rewrite. OFBiz's data model is based on the book, although there are differences. Have you looked at the services in OFBiz separately from the screens in the demo application? The demo is just that, a demo and not a finished application. It tends to expose all the knobs and dials when for a given application you would be happy to hide away some portion of them. So I would expect that you would vary screens, remove some, and change the workflow of others. But the screens would call on services, and there would be less changes there. I understand you would want your own entities, and that is fine. But if they have relationships to standard OFBiz entities like Party, why not store them in the ofbiz database? As for working with your DBA: model the entities first. OFBiz will automatically create tables to persist entity data, so there should be less work for your DBA to do. The Data Model Resource Book will give you some ideas about conventions. There are conventions for types of entities and additional attributes, see the discussion at https://cwiki.apache.org/OFBTECH/general-entity-overview.html and look for examples in OFBiz. Hope that helps. Regards Paul Foxworthy Arpit Gadle wrote > Hello Everyone, > > I am a newbie to Ofbiz. I am having 4 yrs of exp in Java Technology and > MySQL database. > Recently I have been assigned a task by the company to develop ERP using > Ofbiz. I had installed and developed a demoapp ofbiz component > successfully > and also configured Ofbiz installation with MySQL. I had gone through the > ofbiz core components and found that I cannot reuse and also cannot > extend > those components as our requirement is very complex and flexible. > > I would like to ask you guys few things > > 1) Can I develop whole new ERP from ground-zero using Ofbiz (as i > created demoapp)? > 2) How can Ofbiz will help me as I won't be using any core components? > 3) Can I create and use a separate database for the development other than > ofbiz,ofbizolap and ofbiztenant? > 4) We are having a MySQL DBA with us who will be designing the new ERP > database. Are there any rules or conventions to follow when working with > Ofbiz. > > > I apologize If I had made some mistakes or > > asked some questions not pertaining to this mailing list. > > Any help is greatly appreciated > > Thanks & Regards, > > Arpit Gadle - -- Coherent Software Australia Pty Ltd http://www.coherentsoftware.com.au/ Bonsai ERP, the all-inclusive ERP system http://www.bonsaierp.com.au/ -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Ofbiz-Newbie-Needs-Guidance-tp4641068p4641075.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
RE: 12.04 Build Errors
Adrian Thanks for the reply. This is version 12.04. I have modified several files to support some additional stuff. After some messing around, I discovered that I needed the libraries in content\lib\uno which has the openoffice stuff as well as the jasperreports stuff in framework. I downloaded and installed the jars and everything compiles now. The only issue is that I am not sure what version of these libraries are currently being used. Can someone elaborate or should I just use the latest. Thanks in Advance Skip -Original Message- From: Adrian Crum [mailto:adrian.c...@sandglass-software.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 3:38 PM To: user@ofbiz.apache.org Subject: Re: 12.04 Build Errors Skip, Welcome back! It might help if you could specify the environment - specifically the OS and JDK manufacturer. No one has reported the problems you describe, so it might be a version or configuration problem. -Adrian On 5/7/2013 6:23 PM, Skip wrote: > I have been using ofbiz versions below 9.x for 5+ years. I am in the > process of updating to 12.04. > > I downloaded the zip file, made a few critical modifications and ran "ant" > > I am getting over a hundred errors related to com.sun.star.io > > For example: > > package com.sun.star.io does not exist > > import com.sun.star.io.NotConnectedException > > I ran this on both 32 and 64 bit version of jdk1.6 with the same results. > Did a google search but found nothing useful. > > Is there some other ant command I need to build some base libraries or do I > need to get this openoffice library somewhere else first? > > Any help is appreciated. > > I am just trying to do an iterative build as I make these changes before > actually using any data. > > Skip >
Re: OFBiz / BigFish site goes live -- www.1800athlete.com
Hi Ted, My 2 cents, I have setup Bigfish 1.10 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with OpenJdk 7; with Apache 2 in front as a proxy to Tomcat; Works great; Happy to help, if you bump into any issues; Nick & Team, Keep up the good work and thanks for the contribution; Looking forward to 1.11; and code being accesible through svn - Regards Sakthi On 5/7/13, Ted Byers wrote: > Thanks Len. That is just a few days away, so I'll give it a try then. > I'd built OFbiz frm trunk on Ubuntu 12.04 using OpenJDK 7. Can I > assume your derivative will also compile using OpenJDK7? > > Thanks > > Ted > -- Sent from my mobile device
Re: 12.04 Build Errors
Skip, Welcome back! It might help if you could specify the environment - specifically the OS and JDK manufacturer. No one has reported the problems you describe, so it might be a version or configuration problem. -Adrian On 5/7/2013 6:23 PM, Skip wrote: I have been using ofbiz versions below 9.x for 5+ years. I am in the process of updating to 12.04. I downloaded the zip file, made a few critical modifications and ran "ant" I am getting over a hundred errors related to com.sun.star.io For example: package com.sun.star.io does not exist import com.sun.star.io.NotConnectedException I ran this on both 32 and 64 bit version of jdk1.6 with the same results. Did a google search but found nothing useful. Is there some other ant command I need to build some base libraries or do I need to get this openoffice library somewhere else first? Any help is appreciated. I am just trying to do an iterative build as I make these changes before actually using any data. Skip
Ofbiz Newbie Needs Guidance
Hello Everyone, I am a newbie to Ofbiz. I am having 4 yrs of exp in Java Technology and MySQL database. Recently I have been assigned a task by the company to develop ERP using Ofbiz. I had installed and developed a demoapp ofbiz component successfully and also configured Ofbiz installation with MySQL. I had gone through the ofbiz core components and found that I cannot reuse and also cannot extend those components as our requirement is very complex and flexible. I would like to ask you guys few things 1) Can I develop whole new ERP from ground-zero using Ofbiz (as i created demoapp)? 2) How can Ofbiz will help me as I won't be using any core components? 3) Can I create and use a separate database for the development other than ofbiz,ofbizolap and ofbiztenant? 4) We are having a MySQL DBA with us who will be designing the new ERP database. Are there any rules or conventions to follow when working with Ofbiz. I apologize If I had made some mistakes or asked some questions not pertaining to this mailing list. Any help is greatly appreciated Thanks & Regards, Arpit Gadle
Re: OFBiz / BigFish site goes live -- www.1800athlete.com
Ted, You're welcome. Let me mull over your electronic text / Wordpress query ... Best Regards, *Nick Rosser* nros...@solveda.com Tel: 1.516.742.7888 x221 Cell: 1.516.901.1720 www.solveda.com On 5/7/2013 3:36 PM, Ted Byers wrote: I should have begun my last response with a big THANK YOU. Please forgive my momentary lapse in manners. I appreciate your reply, and the time taken to write it. Thanks Ted
RE: OFBiz / BigFish site goes live -- www.1800athlete.com
Yes I would assume so, all BigFish code is an 'extension' of the Ofbiz frm trunk. Len -Original Message- From: Ted Byers [mailto:r.ted.by...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 3:32 PM To: user@ofbiz.apache.org Subject: Re: OFBiz / BigFish site goes live -- www.1800athlete.com Thanks Len. That is just a few days away, so I'll give it a try then. I'd built OFbiz frm trunk on Ubuntu 12.04 using OpenJDK 7. Can I assume your derivative will also compile using OpenJDK7? Thanks Ted
Re: OFBiz / BigFish site goes live -- www.1800athlete.com
I should have begun my last response with a big THANK YOU. Please forgive my momentary lapse in manners. I appreciate your reply, and the time taken to write it. Thanks Ted
Re: OFBiz / BigFish site goes live -- www.1800athlete.com
Thanks Len. That is just a few days away, so I'll give it a try then. I'd built OFbiz frm trunk on Ubuntu 12.04 using OpenJDK 7. Can I assume your derivative will also compile using OpenJDK7? Thanks Ted
Re: OFBiz / BigFish site goes live -- www.1800athlete.com
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Nick Rosser wrote: > Ted, > > Lots of questions :-) Thanks for the interest ... I'll try to answer them as > best I can: > > One last > question I would ask about multisite BigFish is in fact related to > what I need to do to set up a multisite WordPress site (not obvious, > but not rocket science either), involves what I would need to do to > set up an ecommerce site that presents excerpts of digital products > (say essays available to subscribers to a WordPress site), and uses > them as ads for selling subscriptions to a wordpress site. I know > OFBiz already has support for digital products, but it isn't clear to > me how to configure a happy marriage of OFBiz/BigFish to WordPress. > > NICK: not entirely sure to be honest, not sure I quite understand. The > digital content can be nicely accommodated but it would really depend on > your detailed requirements. > > Well, I have not yet really made sense of the support that OFBiz provides for digital content, save that my imporession is that it is suitable for individual, stand-alone digital products (videos, photos, novels in PDF format, &c.). However, it seems certain that however good that support is, adding a digital product to an ecommerce store selling digital products will not compare to what is possible when using WordPress. WordPress, as you may know, is commonly know for supporting blogging, but what seems less well known is that it is the software used to support many electronic journals and 'virtual newspapers'. It has built in support for different kinds of users, from mere members (those who only read the content), authors, and editors (who full the corresponding roles in regular new magazines and newpapers). Often, membership is free, but for commercial sites, one pays for membership, and the sites provide some free content as a kind of advertizing. Thus, what I have in mind involves a multisite WordPress installation that serves all content (both excerpts presented as ads in an estore, and the paid content). Thus, the shopping carte/checkout pages from OFBiz/BiFish would have to be seemlessly integrated into the WordPress site (not so much in terms of being embedded on the WordPress pages, but with the same look and feel, and seemless navigation between the two so that the user does not realize that the ecommerce pages and the content pages are coming from two different servers). Some time later this summer, I expect to be hiring a PHP programmer to add a sharable, searchable read-only archive to my Wordpress site in such a way that any author writing for any Wordpress site I am hosting can dynanically link to sections of documents in the archive. This model allows authors or journalists to include a great deal more detail and analysis in thier articles. in any event, I need a viable solution to make it easy for them to both advertize their content and get paid for it. I know some approach the problem by buying or developing an ecommerce plugin written in PHP to add onto WordPress, but I figure I ought to be able to support this using the ecommerce capabilities of either OFBiz or BigFish. What do you think? Cheers Ted
RE: OFBiz / BigFish site goes live -- www.1800athlete.com
Ted, Nick has answered most of your questions I will answer your last question concerning SVN. Ted: Finally, I saw, on your page for getting BigFish, instructions that involve downloading an installation program. Do you also have it acessable via subversion, or other version control system? Instead of running an installer, I'd prefer to retrieve the codebase and build it in the same way that I obtain and build OFBiz, if you support that? (Or should I have read further in that documentation?) Len: Since release of BigFish V1.10 we have worked on retrieving the BigFish code base directly from SVN, this will be readily available in the next version of BigFish (Version 1.11) scheduled for release on May 10th, 2013. BigFish will have 3 options for downloading via: (zip, installer or SVN). Check http://bigfish.solveda.com/bfDownload.html for detailed 'How to' instructions. Len -Original Message- From: Nick Rosser [mailto:nros...@solveda.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 2:45 PM To: user@ofbiz.apache.org Subject: Re: OFBiz / BigFish site goes live -- www.1800athlete.com Ted, Lots of questions :-) Thanks for the interest ... I'll try to answer them as best I can: Is the advantage of BigFish over OFBiz - trunk primarily, or even only, with regard to ecommerce? NICK: BigFish is an extension of OFBiz. We re-use trunk code, the entity model, and the great service layer. So, for example, we have a concept called "HEADER_LINKS" -- this is a piece of content that manages the display of the very top of each eCommerce page (where your would normally have Store locator, My Account etc.). This is managed in regular OFBiz "content" entities ... but more easily maintained in the Admin Module (Content -> Site Info -> Header Links). So, you can see that by this simple example that we're reusing a great feature of OFBiz, just putting a much more manageable interface behind it. This is what BigFish is really all about -- reusing features of OFBiz, having our own Admin Module, and giving control to the business users to manage their site. If not, can you point to a document that describes the differences between the two? (Some of those I am interested in serving are not involved in ecommerce, as it is rather hard to sell a shower or a new roof, over the web, but they need the inventory, accounting and project management features). NICK: right now it is very much focused on eCommerce and the customer facing aspect of eCommerce. We are slowly exposing more of the backend ERP features into the BigFish Admin Module (for example, we're recently exposed the order-status-change features in the Order Management module). Key word here is "exposing", not re-writing or writing ... reusing existing OFBiz services. Inventory will be exposed throughout this year. Also, you had mentioned multi-site capability. Have you written up instructions on how to deploy that? NICK: this is a todo. You can see the existing Help at http://bigfish.solveda.com/help/index.htm -- the "HOW DO I" and "GUIDES" have the most value. We are essentially using the PRODUCT_STORE feature and linking up Product Catalogs to the Product-Store. All out-of-the-box stuff. There is a new entity in the data model called X_CONTENT_XREF (we've prefixed our new entities with "X" to make it clearer) that maps various content to the Product-Store (not supported out-of-the-box). We are working on another "extended site" for a client at which point documentation will be available. It's actually not that difficult. In connection to this, can a merchant readily hire a graphics design person to modify the look and feel of the ecommerce site? If so, what is involved? Would they simply make their own CSS, and drop it in place? NICK: yes, exactly. If you compare our two demo sites Fashion-House and Electronic-Store there are basically very few differences: same BigFish application; different database with different products; different CSS; different content; different parameters. That's pretty much it. For the CSS we've spent a lot of time generated markup that lends itself to being morphed by CSS -- working out really nicely imo. And also concernig this, what do you do to support search engine optimization? After all, even a pretty website is useless if people don't often find it. NICK: mainly up to the client to provide good keywords. Some highlights: we use sensible defaults for page titles and meta tags (all can be overridden in the Admin Module). We have a sitemap.xml generator. We have friendly URL's built into the solution. One last question I would ask about multisite BigFish is in fact related to what I need to do to set up a multisite WordPress site (not obvious, but not rocket science either), involves what I would need to do to set up an ecommerce site that presents excerpts of digital products (say essays available to subscribers to a WordPress site), and uses them as ads for selling subscriptions to a wordpress site. I know OFBiz already
Re: OFBiz / BigFish site goes live -- www.1800athlete.com
Ted, Lots of questions :-) Thanks for the interest ... I'll try to answer them as best I can: Is the advantage of BigFish over OFBiz - trunk primarily, or even only, with regard to ecommerce? NICK: BigFish is an extension of OFBiz. We re-use trunk code, the entity model, and the great service layer. So, for example, we have a concept called "HEADER_LINKS" -- this is a piece of content that manages the display of the very top of each eCommerce page (where your would normally have Store locator, My Account etc.). This is managed in regular OFBiz "content" entities ... but more easily maintained in the Admin Module (Content -> Site Info -> Header Links). So, you can see that by this simple example that we're reusing a great feature of OFBiz, just putting a much more manageable interface behind it. This is what BigFish is really all about -- reusing features of OFBiz, having our own Admin Module, and giving control to the business users to manage their site. If not, can you point to a document that describes the differences between the two? (Some of those I am interested in serving are not involved in ecommerce, as it is rather hard to sell a shower or a new roof, over the web, but they need the inventory, accounting and project management features). NICK: right now it is very much focused on eCommerce and the customer facing aspect of eCommerce. We are slowly exposing more of the backend ERP features into the BigFish Admin Module (for example, we're recently exposed the order-status-change features in the Order Management module). Key word here is "exposing", not re-writing or writing ... reusing existing OFBiz services. Inventory will be exposed throughout this year. Also, you had mentioned multi-site capability. Have you written up instructions on how to deploy that? NICK: this is a todo. You can see the existing Help at http://bigfish.solveda.com/help/index.htm -- the "HOW DO I" and "GUIDES" have the most value. We are essentially using the PRODUCT_STORE feature and linking up Product Catalogs to the Product-Store. All out-of-the-box stuff. There is a new entity in the data model called X_CONTENT_XREF (we've prefixed our new entities with "X" to make it clearer) that maps various content to the Product-Store (not supported out-of-the-box). We are working on another "extended site" for a client at which point documentation will be available. It's actually not that difficult. In connection to this, can a merchant readily hire a graphics design person to modify the look and feel of the ecommerce site? If so, what is involved? Would they simply make their own CSS, and drop it in place? NICK: yes, exactly. If you compare our two demo sites Fashion-House and Electronic-Store there are basically very few differences: same BigFish application; different database with different products; different CSS; different content; different parameters. That's pretty much it. For the CSS we've spent a lot of time generated markup that lends itself to being morphed by CSS -- working out really nicely imo. And also concernig this, what do you do to support search engine optimization? After all, even a pretty website is useless if people don't often find it. NICK: mainly up to the client to provide good keywords. Some highlights: we use sensible defaults for page titles and meta tags (all can be overridden in the Admin Module). We have a sitemap.xml generator. We have friendly URL's built into the solution. One last question I would ask about multisite BigFish is in fact related to what I need to do to set up a multisite WordPress site (not obvious, but not rocket science either), involves what I would need to do to set up an ecommerce site that presents excerpts of digital products (say essays available to subscribers to a WordPress site), and uses them as ads for selling subscriptions to a wordpress site. I know OFBiz already has support for digital products, but it isn't clear to me how to configure a happy marriage of OFBiz/BigFish to WordPress. NICK: not entirely sure to be honest, not sure I quite understand. The digital content can be nicely accommodated but it would really depend on your detailed requirements. Finally, I saw, on your page for getting BigFish, instructions that involve downloading an installation program. Do you also have it acessable via subversion, or other version control system? Instead of running an installer, I'd prefer to retrieve the codebase and build it in the same way that I obtain and build OFBiz, if you support that? (Or should I have read further in that documentation?) NICK: I know we've talked about having a public read-only SVN available on the site. I'll follow-up with the techs. Shouldn't be a problem. Nick On 5/7/2013 2:21 PM, Ted Byers wrote: Hi Nick, Impressive! Is the advantage of BigFish over OFBiz - trunk primarily, or even only, with regard to ecommerce? If not, can you point to a document that describes the diff
Re: OFBiz / BigFish site goes live -- www.1800athlete.com
Hi Nick, Impressive! Is the advantage of BigFish over OFBiz - trunk primarily, or even only, with regard to ecommerce? If not, can you point to a document that describes the differences between the two? (Some of those I am interested in serving are not involved in ecommerce, as it is rather hard to sell a shower or a new roof, over the web, but they need the inventory, accounting and project management features). Also, you had mentioned multi-site capability. Have you written up instructions on how to deploy that? I would assume, from what you wrote, that it would be feasible to add more sites at any time after the initial deployment. I would assume, further, that each site is connected to a single party, though a given party could have multiple sites, and that info from two sites in a single deployment will not bleed into each other. In connection to this, can a merchant readily hire a graphics design person to modify the look and feel of the ecommerce site? If so, what is involved? Would they simply make their own CSS, and drop it in place? That is what I did for my own websites (developed in Perl): If one website operator wants a different look and feel (even a very drastic change from my defaults), they need only modify a CSS and drop it in place; and thus I'd assume you did/support something similar. And also concernig this, what do you do to support search engine optimization? After all, even a pretty website is useless if people don't often find it. One last question I would ask about multisite BigFish is in fact related to what I need to do to set up a multisite WordPress site (not obvious, but not rocket science either), involves what I would need to do to set up an ecommerce site that presents excerpts of digital products (say essays available to subscribers to a WordPress site), and uses them as ads for selling subscriptions to a wordpress site. I know OFBiz already has support for digital products, but it isn't clear to me how to configure a happy marriage of OFBiz/BigFish to WordPress. Finally, I saw, on your page for getting BigFish, instructions that involve downloading an installation program. Do you also have it acessable via subversion, or other version control system? Instead of running an installer, I'd prefer to retrieve the codebase and build it in the same way that I obtain and build OFBiz, if you support that? (Or should I have read further in that documentation?) Thanks Ted On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Nick Rosser wrote: > David, > > In a nutshell it's an extension of OFBiz -- a fully functional eCommerce > solution. > > Check out more details at http://bigfish.solveda.com > > In particular, look at the demo instances. > > Fashion House eCommerce: > http://bigfish.solveda.com:8082/online/shop/main > Fashion House Admin Module: > https://bigfish.solveda.com:8442/osafe-admin/control/main > (login is admin/ofbiz) > > > Best Regards, > > *Nick Rosser* > nros...@solveda.com > Tel: 1.516.742.7888 x221 > Cell: 1.516.901.1720 > www.solveda.com > > On 5/7/2013 1:06 PM, David Saenz wrote: >> >> What is bigfish? >> >> On 5/7/2013 10:13 AM, Nick Rosser wrote: >>> >>> All, >>> >>> (reposting as I needed to subscribe using our new domain) >>> >>> I'm pleased to announce that the latest BigFish implementation is now >>> live. >>> >>> Check out www.1800athlete.com >>> >>> This is a great looking site and the creation of it is more interesting: >>> >>> * a long time client of ours originally engaged with us to build >>> www.1800fishoil.com using the BigFish platform >>> * After the successful launch of this site they wanted to follow up >>> with the "1800athlete" site >>> * The new www.1800athlete.com site is built within their existing >>> BigFish architecture using the "multi site" capability >>> o single database to support both sites >>> o two instances of BigFish deployed, one for each site >>> o each with separate configurations, style sheets (CSS) and >>> separate product catalog >>> o no additional programming was required to build >>> www.1800athlete.com -- some visual design, product setup, >>> configuration and it's a go! >>> >>> It's actually pretty impressive that they pulled it off ... with hardly >>> any support from us. And they are not a big tech company, just have very >>> good knowledge of the OFBiz entity model. >>> >>> For more information about BigFish check out http://bigfish.solveda.com. >>> More updates coming soon to the site, with some very nice enhancements >>> and more success stories. Enjoy! >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> >>> *Nick Rosser* >>> nros...@solveda.com >>> Tel: 1.516.742.7888 x221 >>> Cell: 1.516.901.1720 >>> www.solveda.com >>> > -- R.E.(Ted) Byers, Ph.D.,Ed.D. t...@merchantservicecorp.com CTO Merchant Services Corp. 17665 Leslie st., unit 30 Newmarket , Ontario L3Y 3E3
12.04 cannot build
After some looking I see a directory called lib/uno which has a readme file which points me to an OPTIONAL_LIBRARIES file which gives a list of libraries with a reference to "old Undersun SVN server" to get them. Can anyone tell me where to get these libraries? Skip
Re: OFBiz / BigFish site goes live -- www.1800athlete.com
David, In a nutshell it's an extension of OFBiz -- a fully functional eCommerce solution. Check out more details at http://bigfish.solveda.com In particular, look at the demo instances. Fashion House eCommerce: http://bigfish.solveda.com:8082/online/shop/main Fashion House Admin Module: https://bigfish.solveda.com:8442/osafe-admin/control/main (login is admin/ofbiz) Best Regards, *Nick Rosser* nros...@solveda.com Tel: 1.516.742.7888 x221 Cell: 1.516.901.1720 www.solveda.com On 5/7/2013 1:06 PM, David Saenz wrote: What is bigfish? On 5/7/2013 10:13 AM, Nick Rosser wrote: All, (reposting as I needed to subscribe using our new domain) I'm pleased to announce that the latest BigFish implementation is now live. Check out www.1800athlete.com This is a great looking site and the creation of it is more interesting: * a long time client of ours originally engaged with us to build www.1800fishoil.com using the BigFish platform * After the successful launch of this site they wanted to follow up with the "1800athlete" site * The new www.1800athlete.com site is built within their existing BigFish architecture using the "multi site" capability o single database to support both sites o two instances of BigFish deployed, one for each site o each with separate configurations, style sheets (CSS) and separate product catalog o no additional programming was required to build www.1800athlete.com -- some visual design, product setup, configuration and it's a go! It's actually pretty impressive that they pulled it off ... with hardly any support from us. And they are not a big tech company, just have very good knowledge of the OFBiz entity model. For more information about BigFish check out http://bigfish.solveda.com. More updates coming soon to the site, with some very nice enhancements and more success stories. Enjoy! Best Regards, *Nick Rosser* nros...@solveda.com Tel: 1.516.742.7888 x221 Cell: 1.516.901.1720 www.solveda.com
12.04 Build Errors
I have been using ofbiz versions below 9.x for 5+ years. I am in the process of updating to 12.04. I downloaded the zip file, made a few critical modifications and ran "ant" I am getting over a hundred errors related to com.sun.star.io For example: package com.sun.star.io does not exist import com.sun.star.io.NotConnectedException I ran this on both 32 and 64 bit version of jdk1.6 with the same results. Did a google search but found nothing useful. Is there some other ant command I need to build some base libraries or do I need to get this openoffice library somewhere else first? Any help is appreciated. I am just trying to do an iterative build as I make these changes before actually using any data. Skip
Re: OFBiz / BigFish site goes live -- www.1800athlete.com
How long does it take to build such a website? Could you give a comparison between bigfish and something like yahoo merchant or spotify with respect to time to market and price? I have been falling in and out of love with ofbiz because it seems that I cannot get real productive while I am trying to understand how the whole framework is built. From: Nick Rosser To: user@ofbiz.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 6:13 PM Subject: OFBiz / BigFish site goes live -- www.1800athlete.com All, (reposting as I needed to subscribe using our new domain) I'm pleased to announce that the latest BigFish implementation is now live. Check out www.1800athlete.com This is a great looking site and the creation of it is more interesting: * a long time client of ours originally engaged with us to build www.1800fishoil.com using the BigFish platform * After the successful launch of this site they wanted to follow up with the "1800athlete" site * The new www.1800athlete.com site is built within their existing BigFish architecture using the "multi site" capability o single database to support both sites o two instances of BigFish deployed, one for each site o each with separate configurations, style sheets (CSS) and separate product catalog o no additional programming was required to build www.1800athlete.com -- some visual design, product setup, configuration and it's a go! It's actually pretty impressive that they pulled it off ... with hardly any support from us. And they are not a big tech company, just have very good knowledge of the OFBiz entity model. For more information about BigFish check out http://bigfish.solveda.com. More updates coming soon to the site, with some very nice enhancements and more success stories. Enjoy! Best Regards, *Nick Rosser* nros...@solveda.com Tel: 1.516.742.7888 x221 Cell: 1.516.901.1720 www.solveda.com
Re: OFBiz / BigFish site goes live -- www.1800athlete.com
What is bigfish? On 5/7/2013 10:13 AM, Nick Rosser wrote: > All, > > (reposting as I needed to subscribe using our new domain) > > I'm pleased to announce that the latest BigFish implementation is now live. > > Check out www.1800athlete.com > > This is a great looking site and the creation of it is more interesting: > > * a long time client of ours originally engaged with us to build >www.1800fishoil.com using the BigFish platform > * After the successful launch of this site they wanted to follow up >with the "1800athlete" site > * The new www.1800athlete.com site is built within their existing >BigFish architecture using the "multi site" capability > o single database to support both sites > o two instances of BigFish deployed, one for each site > o each with separate configurations, style sheets (CSS) and >separate product catalog > o no additional programming was required to build >www.1800athlete.com -- some visual design, product setup, >configuration and it's a go! > > It's actually pretty impressive that they pulled it off ... with hardly > any support from us. And they are not a big tech company, just have very > good knowledge of the OFBiz entity model. > > For more information about BigFish check out http://bigfish.solveda.com. > More updates coming soon to the site, with some very nice enhancements > and more success stories. Enjoy! > > Best Regards, > > *Nick Rosser* > nros...@solveda.com > Tel: 1.516.742.7888 x221 > Cell: 1.516.901.1720 > www.solveda.com >
Re: OFBiz / BigFish site goes live -- www.1800athlete.com
Congratulations! Awesome! On 5/7/2013 10:13 AM, Nick Rosser wrote: > All, > > (reposting as I needed to subscribe using our new domain) > > I'm pleased to announce that the latest BigFish implementation is now live. > > Check out www.1800athlete.com > > This is a great looking site and the creation of it is more interesting: > > * a long time client of ours originally engaged with us to build >www.1800fishoil.com using the BigFish platform > * After the successful launch of this site they wanted to follow up >with the "1800athlete" site > * The new www.1800athlete.com site is built within their existing >BigFish architecture using the "multi site" capability > o single database to support both sites > o two instances of BigFish deployed, one for each site > o each with separate configurations, style sheets (CSS) and >separate product catalog > o no additional programming was required to build >www.1800athlete.com -- some visual design, product setup, >configuration and it's a go! > > It's actually pretty impressive that they pulled it off ... with hardly > any support from us. And they are not a big tech company, just have very > good knowledge of the OFBiz entity model. > > For more information about BigFish check out http://bigfish.solveda.com. > More updates coming soon to the site, with some very nice enhancements > and more success stories. Enjoy! > > Best Regards, > > *Nick Rosser* > nros...@solveda.com > Tel: 1.516.742.7888 x221 > Cell: 1.516.901.1720 > www.solveda.com >
OFBiz / BigFish site goes live -- www.1800athlete.com
All, (reposting as I needed to subscribe using our new domain) I'm pleased to announce that the latest BigFish implementation is now live. Check out www.1800athlete.com This is a great looking site and the creation of it is more interesting: * a long time client of ours originally engaged with us to build www.1800fishoil.com using the BigFish platform * After the successful launch of this site they wanted to follow up with the "1800athlete" site * The new www.1800athlete.com site is built within their existing BigFish architecture using the "multi site" capability o single database to support both sites o two instances of BigFish deployed, one for each site o each with separate configurations, style sheets (CSS) and separate product catalog o no additional programming was required to build www.1800athlete.com -- some visual design, product setup, configuration and it's a go! It's actually pretty impressive that they pulled it off ... with hardly any support from us. And they are not a big tech company, just have very good knowledge of the OFBiz entity model. For more information about BigFish check out http://bigfish.solveda.com. More updates coming soon to the site, with some very nice enhancements and more success stories. Enjoy! Best Regards, *Nick Rosser* nros...@solveda.com Tel: 1.516.742.7888 x221 Cell: 1.516.901.1720 www.solveda.com
Re: Learning Management System
Hi Deepak, It could be achieved in several ways, consider following model where - Course = PRODUCT (productTypeId=MARKETING_PKG or MARKETING_PKG_PICK); for example (productIds = GZ-BASKET/GZ-BASKET-PICK) Where BASKET is packaged product. Classes(represented by Product) will associate with course (productAssocTypeId="PRODUCT_COMPONENT") : Since a class could associate with multiple courses. Student buy a Package which come with set of classes as associated. With extension of requirement, Course/Classes can further associate with WorkEffort (with any of suitable type: Training/Program/Event etc.. ), where it would present in Course/Class calender , and student could registered to attend the class at given calender schedule. -- Thanks And Regards Sumit Pandit Tata Consultancy Services Cell:- 917503046188 - Original Message - From: "Deepak Agarwal" To: user@ofbiz.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 11:51:33 AM Subject: Learning Management System I want to build a learning management system on top of ofbiz. It envolves setting up courses, classes, reports, slides, automations etc... Has anyone build something like that. Knowning the data model of ofbiz I have few thoughts : 1) Consider courses as products 2) Student buy course which triggers : An order creation, Subscription and workeffort for the classes 3) Study material can also be added as product to which students can subscribe. How do I setup the classes. Each course will have set of classes to be taken and there should be an automation. How do I attach the classes to courses. What should be the logical entity in the current ofbiz setup for this. Can classes be considered as tasks ? -- Thanks, Deepak Agarwal, Mobile: +91 9501190044 =-=-= Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you
Re: Learning Management System
Hi Deepak, All the setup you describe looks good to me and should be doable as per your needs. Some quick notes on it; - Yes you can consider the classes as tasks, as you are considering courses as product. So for delivering a product say course you may need to conduct several classes. For the same you can use WorkEffortGoodStandard or similar setup and multiple classes will be child of the work effort link to product. - Courses could be consider as service products, it is just a thought. Some other in community could give better thought on this. I would say what you are thinking is in line with OFBiz practices, should go in that direction or if required then customized data model design should follow the product data model. Rishi Solanki Manager, Enterprise Software Development HotWax Media Pvt. Ltd. Direct: +91-9893287847 http://www.hotwaxmedia.com On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Deepak Agarwal wrote: > I want to build a learning management system on top of ofbiz. It envolves > setting up courses, classes, reports, slides, automations etc... > > Has anyone build something like that. > > Knowning the data model of ofbiz I have few thoughts : > > 1) Consider courses as products > 2) Student buy course which triggers : An order creation, Subscription and > workeffort for the classes > 3) Study material can also be added as product to which students can > subscribe. > > How do I setup the classes. Each course will have set of classes to be > taken and there should be an automation. How do I attach the classes to > courses. What should be the logical entity in the current ofbiz setup for > this. Can classes be considered as tasks ? > > -- > Thanks, > Deepak Agarwal, > > Mobile: +91 9501190044 >
