Invoice Item Type
Good Day. We are trying to determine if Invoice Item Type can be used for processing Amazon orders in Ofbiz. Here is the scenario Customer purchases product on amazon.com for a total of $100. We process the order from amazon but we have to account for amazon fees of $15 So we want to show the order subtotal of $100 Amazon fees as new invoice item type of -$15 (similar to how discounts work) Total Order is $85. When Amazon sends us the payment it will be for $85 and we can process the $85 to close out the invoice. Question. How can we add an additional invoice item type called Amazon Fees? How can we trigger it to be added on the sales order? Thanks, James
Re: Improve use of EntityAuditLog
Hi Pierre, Nicolas, I totally agree: +1 Jacques Le 14/10/2019 à 09:41, Nicolas Malin a écrit : Hi Pierre, On 07/10/2019 10:15, pierre.gaudin wrote: Hi all, OFBiz has an EntityAuditLog entity log system, which allows all changes to be recorded in a specific field of a table. This allows you to have a technical follow-up on what is recorded in a field. Following monitoring needs on a production environment at a customer's site, we have identified two limitations to the current implementation. First, unlike logs that can be modified in production, it is not possible to modify the audit values of entities in production. It is therefore not possible to take advantage of the information provided by this entity to help detect production problems. To do this, it would be necessary to be able to activate and deactivate the audit of a field without having to redeploy or restart OFBiz. Currently the activation is done in the entity definition. The objective would be to be able to define it at another level in order to be able to modify the value dynamically. We can use the same pattern use on cache system to define it. Second, the entityauditlog entity is used to store functional data. We believe that this is a mistake and that the use of this entity must be purely technical. For this reason we propose to modify the current code in order to remove the use of the entity audit entity log in a functional way. In my vision use entity audit log to detect some functional modification seems to be a bad hack to compensate bad functional design. So +1 to quick out all functional analyze that exploits entity audit log Nicolas What do you think of that? Thanks Pierre GAUDIN
Re: Representing transport jobs in Ofbiz
Thanks Nicolas, I hadn't looked much at WorkEffort yet as I had thought it mainly related to manufacturing tasks. After your prompting I see it will likely help in estimating the various costs for a Job (vehicle, fuel, ferry crossings, tolls, etc) and I like the idea of building a service to convert WorkEffort to invoices. In the infrequent cases where different parties might be invoiced for parts of the job - e.g. shipper covers costs of transport but consignee covers customs charges - I would need to store there various reference numbers (PO numbers) for when invoices are created. I see that PO numbers can be stored on OrderItem.correspondingPoId. Would it be appropriate to create multiple OrderItems where each OrderItem represents once of the parties to eventually be invoiced? Or would this be stretching the intent of an OrderItem too far and instead I should introduce a new entity to capture this information - perhaps a JobInvoiceParty entity with fields jobId, partyId, purchaseOrderRef? Thanks, Dan. On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 at 08:22, Nicolas Malin wrote: > Hello Daniel, > > As you describe your jobs, I would tend to use WorkEffort entity with sub > workEffort for each sub invoicing part. > > When your functional schema is operational, detect what element trigger > the invoicing and peraphs create your own service to convert your > workEffort to invoice > > Nicolas > On 13/10/2019 21:24, Daniel Watford wrote: > > Hello, > > A shipping company client of mine needs to replace their current > operations management software. I would like to build a solution based on > ofbiz, with a plugin designed to manage their operations. > > The company creates Jobs to represent orders/instructions from their > customers. Each job can have a number of involved parties, including > potentially multiple parties being invoiced for different parts of the job. > > The new plugin should be able to replicate the company's Jobs with the > introduction of some Job related entities. Please see attached diagram. > > Eventually the operations software would need to generate invoices, email > them to customers and post relevant information to accounting ledgers. > Therefore I thought I would really need to link a Job with an Order. > > When reading the code behind OrderServices#createOrder I noticed that to > create a SALES_ORDER it was necessary to include a productStoreId. It seems > that if I try to make use of the existing createOrder method I will need to > set up some other 'infrastructure' to make the company appear a bit more > like an ecommerce environment. > > Is it appropriate for me to link Jobs to Orders in this way, or should I > be keeping the two entities separate and find an alternative way to manage > invoices? > > If appropriate to link Jobs to Orders, should I avoid using the existing > OrderServices#createOrder method and just construct entities as needed for > my plugin's needs, or should I create any entities createOrder might need > (such as productId) to ensure Orders are constructed in a consistent manner > for use in other parts of ofbiz? > > Any comments or suggestions greatly appreciated. > > Many thanks, > > Dan. > [image: image.png] > > -- > Daniel Watford > > -- Daniel Watford
Re: OFBiz upgrade guidelines : Post 16.11
Hello, If you respect the separation framework / plugins the migration is easy, you can the data model modification here https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Data+Migration+by+releases Nicolas On 07/10/2019 10:38, Sandeep Singh wrote: Hi All, Is there any recommendation or some guidelines for upgrading ofbiz. We are using the latest release version 16.11. I tried looking through the user and developer mailing list and couldnt find anything that outlines the steps or the effort. Please point me a thread/descussion or some documentation that outlines the upgrade approach. Thanks --Sandeep
Re: Live Shipping Rates
On 01/10/2019 19:51, ja...@productive1.com wrote: The only thing that is added when an invoice generates is the live estimate on the sales order as well as the estimate generated on the pack. However the actual charges are not added to the invoice. Hi James, I never use this process, but if you charge didn't add to you invoice it's came from that didn't set as order adjustment before you generate the ship. In other word, when you call UPS for the cost, you need to check if OFBiz spread this information on the order. Also if you ship has many order how you allocate between its. Nicolas
Re: Improve use of EntityAuditLog
Hi Pierre, On 07/10/2019 10:15, pierre.gaudin wrote: Hi all, OFBiz has an EntityAuditLog entity log system, which allows all changes to be recorded in a specific field of a table. This allows you to have a technical follow-up on what is recorded in a field. Following monitoring needs on a production environment at a customer's site, we have identified two limitations to the current implementation. First, unlike logs that can be modified in production, it is not possible to modify the audit values of entities in production. It is therefore not possible to take advantage of the information provided by this entity to help detect production problems. To do this, it would be necessary to be able to activate and deactivate the audit of a field without having to redeploy or restart OFBiz. Currently the activation is done in the entity definition. The objective would be to be able to define it at another level in order to be able to modify the value dynamically. We can use the same pattern use on cache system to define it. Second, the entityauditlog entity is used to store functional data. We believe that this is a mistake and that the use of this entity must be purely technical. For this reason we propose to modify the current code in order to remove the use of the entity audit entity log in a functional way. In my vision use entity audit log to detect some functional modification seems to be a bad hack to compensate bad functional design. So +1 to quick out all functional analyze that exploits entity audit log Nicolas What do you think of that? Thanks Pierre GAUDIN
Re: Representing transport jobs in Ofbiz
Hello Daniel, As you describe your jobs, I would tend to use WorkEffort entity with sub workEffort for each sub invoicing part. When your functional schema is operational, detect what element trigger the invoicing and peraphs create your own service to convert your workEffort to invoice Nicolas On 13/10/2019 21:24, Daniel Watford wrote: Hello, A shipping company client of mine needs to replace their current operations management software. I would like to build a solution based on ofbiz, with a plugin designed to manage their operations. The company creates Jobs to represent orders/instructions from their customers. Each job can have a number of involved parties, including potentially multiple parties being invoiced for different parts of the job. The new plugin should be able to replicate the company's Jobs with the introduction of some Job related entities. Please see attached diagram. Eventually the operations software would need to generate invoices, email them to customers and post relevant information to accounting ledgers. Therefore I thought I would really need to link a Job with an Order. When reading the code behind OrderServices#createOrder I noticed that to create a SALES_ORDER it was necessary to include a productStoreId. It seems that if I try to make use of the existing createOrder method I will need to set up some other 'infrastructure' to make the company appear a bit more like an ecommerce environment. Is it appropriate for me to link Jobs to Orders in this way, or should I be keeping the two entities separate and find an alternative way to manage invoices? If appropriate to link Jobs to Orders, should I avoid using the existing OrderServices#createOrder method and just construct entities as needed for my plugin's needs, or should I create any entities createOrder might need (such as productId) to ensure Orders are constructed in a consistent manner for use in other parts of ofbiz? Any comments or suggestions greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Dan. image.png -- Daniel Watford
Re: Installing on Windows 7
Hi Ethan, OK, we will make it simpler. Just open https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/branches/release16.11/gradle/init-gradle-wrapper.ps1 And copy it (replace all text) in your own init-gradle-wrapper.ps1. Then run "c:\Ofbiz>init-gradle-wrapper" I have tested the same on my machine and it works as expected. If it does not work on yours you have a problem with your Windows 7 installation and I can't do much about it. I'd then recommend to make a new Windows installation. I know it's not an easy choice... HTH Jacques Le 09/10/2019 à 21:45, Ethan Vos a écrit : OK, here is the result: c:\Ofbiz>init-gradle-wrapper The term 'Invoke-WebRequest' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, functio n, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a pa th was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. At C:\Ofbiz\gradle\init-gradle-wrapper.ps1:27 char:18 + Invoke-WebRequest -outf gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.jar http://dl.bin tray.com/apacheofbiz/GradleWrapper/v2.13/gradle-wrapper.jar + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Invoke-WebRequest:String) [], C ommandNotFoundException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException The term 'Invoke-WebRequest' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, functio n, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a pa th was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. At C:\Ofbiz\gradle\init-gradle-wrapper.ps1:28 char:18 + Invoke-WebRequest -outf gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.properties http:/ /dl.bintray.com/apacheofbiz/GradleWrapper/v2.13/gradle-wrapper.properties + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Invoke-WebRequest:String) [], C ommandNotFoundException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException The term 'Invoke-WebRequest' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, functio n, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a pa th was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. At C:\Ofbiz\gradle\init-gradle-wrapper.ps1:29 char:18 + Invoke-WebRequest -outf gradlew.bat http://dl.bintray.com/apacheofbiz/G radleWrapper/v2.13/gradlew.bat + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Invoke-WebRequest:String) [], C ommandNotFoundException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException Should I delete everything and redownload and reinstall? On 09/10/2019 3:31 p.m., Jacques Le Roux wrote: Yes, the install will drop them in Le 09/10/2019 à 20:50, Ethan Vos a écrit : Hi Jacques. What about the empty folder? Or will the install drop them in? Ethan On 09/10/2019 10:35 a.m., Jacques Le Roux wrote: Le 09/10/2019 à 15:40, Ethan Vos a écrit : Contents of C:\Ofbiz\gradle\init-gradle-wrapper.ps1 (I edited it as you suggested I think) are: # Anyway I believe this should be only used in dev environment Invoke-WebRequest -outf gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.jar http://dl.bintray.com/apacheofbiz/GradleWrapper/v2.13/gradle-wrapper.jar Invoke-WebRequest -outf gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.properties http://dl.bintray.com/apacheofbiz/GradleWrapper/v2.13/gradle-wrapper.properties Invoke-WebRequest -outf gradlew.bat http://dl.bintray.com/apacheofbiz/GradleWrapper/v2.13/gradlew.bat These should be 4 different lines: # Anyway I believe this should be only used in dev environment Invoke-WebRequest -outf gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.jar http://dl.bintray.com/apacheofbiz/GradleWrapper/v2.13/gradle-wrapper.jar Invoke-WebRequest -outf gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.properties http://dl.bintray.com/apacheofbiz/GradleWrapper/v2.13/gradle-wrapper.properties Invoke-WebRequest -outf gradlew.bat http://dl.bintray.com/apacheofbiz/GradleWrapper/v2.13/gradlew.bat Please check in your editor. On 09/10/2019 3:39 a.m., Jacques Le Roux wrote: Please copy the content of your C:\Ofbiz\gradle\init-gradle-wrapper.ps1 in your next answer Also check the content of C:\Ofbiz\gradle\wrapper you should see 2 files: gradle-wrapper.jar and gradle-wrapper.properties Jacques Le 08/10/2019 à 22:41, Ethan Vos a écrit : Ok, that seemed to work (I think) Next I tried gradlew cleanAll loadDefault and got: C:\Users\Caleb>Cd C:\Ofbiz C:\Ofbiz>init-gradle-wrapper C:\Ofbiz>gradlew cleanAll loadDefault 'gradlew' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. C:\Ofbiz> Now what am I doing wrong? Ethan On 06/10/2019 3:53 a.m., Jacques Le Roux wrote: Le 05/10/2019 à 17:46, Ethan Vos a écrit : Thanks. Looked at init-gradle-wrapper.ps1 and there is no standalone wget. wget -outf gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.jar http://dl.bintray.com/apacheofbiz/GradleWrapper/v2.13/gradle-wrapper.jar wget -outf gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.properties http://dl.bintray.com/apacheofbiz/GradleWrapper/v2.13/gradle-wrapper.properties wget -outf gradlew.bat http://dl.bintray.com/apacheofbiz/GradleWrapper/v2.13/gradlew.bat Here they are at the start of each line just
