Re: ofbiz for me?
Hi Philipp, truth to be told, it may be that the size scope of the project would be too much for you. I personally feel that the project is most succesful in a mid- to largesize corporation. The problem with ofbiz is that it delivers it all - at once. If you take a look around the framework you will see that it can do it all. However, at the same time it forces you to reduce the functionality to what you really need. So I recommend to install ofbiz locally, and check the demo store application. There are commercial alternatives available - from many agencies just like mine - those give you a better start, but the demo store is really what you may want to look at in terms of available functions. It will then be up to you to reduce whatever is available to what is actually needed. Regards, Paul -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/ofbiz-for-me-tp4637772p4637780.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: ofbiz for me?
Hello Phillip Am 20.11.2012 03:19, schrieb Phillip Rhodes: I would like to use ofbiz instead of quick books for our small family business. We enter in our sales (summary by day) and payments and reconcile our bank statements with Quick Books. I am a java software engineer full-time, so I wouldn't be completely helpless, and wouldn't mind learning more about ofbiz, provided it fits our needs. Do you think I could use ofbiz in this fashion? I The learning curve for OFBiz may get quite long. Most existing simpler eCommerce solutions based on OFBiz are closed source and there is no really ready to go shop solutions like in python (django framework), TYPO3 shop (php CMS) etc yet. Due to many advantages and clean design of OFBiz I decided myself to use OFBiz and downgrade and extend existing opensource examples (demo shop or http://http://bigfish.salmonllc.com/bfDownload.html ) You may want to have a look at http://www.jasig.org/uportal to get better feeling. It is a ready to go open solution another kind. Recommended books (http://www.packtpub.com/): *Apache OFBiz Development: The Beginner's Tutorial* [eBook] Jonathon Wong Using Services, Entities, and Widgets to build custom ERP and CRM systems 1 Available now £18.99 eBook bundle discount -50.00% (£9.50) No tax £*9.50* *Apache OfBiz Cookbook* [eBook] Ruth Hoffman Over 60 simple but incredibly effective recipes for taking control of OFBiz 1 Available now £16.99 eBook bundle discount -50.00% (£8.50) No tax £*8.50 * regards, Mark -- m...@it-infrastrukturen.org http://rsync.it-infrastrukturen.org
anyone interesting in co-hosting ofbiz with me.
I have some free Dell 1950s in a data center, I would like to host OfBiz. Would anyone be interested in doing some co-hosting venture with me. I more confortable marketing, I'm looking for someone with technical expertise with OfBiz. Paul
Is OFBiz for me?
Hi, I am still trying to understand the functional concepts of OFBiz to find out if it is the right product for me. I find that quite difficult, because documentation is not complete and there are so many functions of which I think, not all are necessary for me. So I want to ask if someone could show me the direction where to search. I am trying to map the following business process to OFBiz: My company sells services. There are no physical goods to be produced or to be managed in a warehouse. There is no need for a webshop, the app would only be used by the backoffice. For the most services we provide, we in turn have to order other services from external service providers. These providers may produce a physical product that is shipped to the customer (I have already found the drop shipment in OFBiz). The major task I want to do with OFBiz is to - create orders for customers - plan which services we have to buy from external providers to fulfill a sales order - plan when certain activities have to be done by us, the customer or an external provider - track the status of these activities So, a sales order seems appropriate to start with. Purchase orders could be used for other service providers and work efforts seem to be useful for activities. My problem is, I don't get it all work together. My idea was to use this pretty cool drop shipment feature to link purchase orders (for the external providers) to sales orders. But it seems to be not implemented yet (see earlier posts) and I don't know how to link a new purchase order to an existing sales order. Furthermore a drop shipment has to be declared before the sales order is actually created. But I want to create the sales order (perhaps from a proposal) and later assign any purchase orders to it. The next problem is to plan the activities. I can create Work Efforts which I can see in the task list (type task) or in the calendar (type event). But I don't know how to assign a task to an order, so I could track the fulfillment of the order. Another question: can I define alternative products in a proposal? I.e. assign an alternative product to a proposal item whose price is not calculated in the sum of the proposal. So the customer knows he can choose from these two items (and can calculate the price itself, or perhaps it would be cool if only the difference for the alternative product is shown in the proposal). Two last questions: 1. Can I attach external files (like received invoice pdfs) to an order or any other object? 2. I have recognized that the party entities have a historization feature (the name in the profile has a history). Is this a generic feature which can be enabled for e.g. sales orders, too? Thanks a lot for reading so far and for giving me any advice With best regards Sebastian -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Is-OFBiz-for-me--tp16939814p16939814.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Is OFBiz for me?
short answers: OOTB does not direct support services, but has bee modified in the past to do this. OOTB you can not yet do project(activity) planning though a lot has been done in this area. OOTB you can do quotes and turn them into sales. some of the things you looking for can be added. Don't see a problem in accomplishing what you want. Suggest you go through the demo and see what is there and not there. sebastianscheid sent the following on 4/28/2008 7:15 AM: Hi, I am still trying to understand the functional concepts of OFBiz to find out if it is the right product for me. I find that quite difficult, because documentation is not complete and there are so many functions of which I think, not all are necessary for me. So I want to ask if someone could show me the direction where to search. I am trying to map the following business process to OFBiz: My company sells services. There are no physical goods to be produced or to be managed in a warehouse. There is no need for a webshop, the app would only be used by the backoffice. For the most services we provide, we in turn have to order other services from external service providers. These providers may produce a physical product that is shipped to the customer (I have already found the drop shipment in OFBiz). The major task I want to do with OFBiz is to - create orders for customers - plan which services we have to buy from external providers to fulfill a sales order - plan when certain activities have to be done by us, the customer or an external provider - track the status of these activities So, a sales order seems appropriate to start with. Purchase orders could be used for other service providers and work efforts seem to be useful for activities. My problem is, I don't get it all work together. My idea was to use this pretty cool drop shipment feature to link purchase orders (for the external providers) to sales orders. But it seems to be not implemented yet (see earlier posts) and I don't know how to link a new purchase order to an existing sales order. Furthermore a drop shipment has to be declared before the sales order is actually created. But I want to create the sales order (perhaps from a proposal) and later assign any purchase orders to it. The next problem is to plan the activities. I can create Work Efforts which I can see in the task list (type task) or in the calendar (type event). But I don't know how to assign a task to an order, so I could track the fulfillment of the order. Another question: can I define alternative products in a proposal? I.e. assign an alternative product to a proposal item whose price is not calculated in the sum of the proposal. So the customer knows he can choose from these two items (and can calculate the price itself, or perhaps it would be cool if only the difference for the alternative product is shown in the proposal). Two last questions: 1. Can I attach external files (like received invoice pdfs) to an order or any other object? 2. I have recognized that the party entities have a historization feature (the name in the profile has a history). Is this a generic feature which can be enabled for e.g. sales orders, too? Thanks a lot for reading so far and for giving me any advice With best regards Sebastian
Re: Is OFBiz for me?
On Apr 28, 2008, at 8:54 AM, BJ Freeman wrote: short answers: OOTB does not direct support services, but has bee modified in the past to do this. I wouldn't agree with this... you can manage the whole process of taking requests, planning/performing services, billing for them, etc. OOTB you can not yet do project(activity) planning though a lot has been done in this area. Yes, quite a bit has been done in this area and it is currently possible to do a lot of these sorts of things, including complex task hierarchies, multiple hierarchies for a project and other ways to manage it and report on it differently, even a gantt chart based on the hierarchies and such. OOTB you can do quotes and turn them into sales. some of the things you looking for can be added. Don't see a problem in accomplishing what you want. Suggest you go through the demo and see what is there and not there. sebastianscheid sent the following on 4/28/2008 7:15 AM: Hi, I am still trying to understand the functional concepts of OFBiz to find out if it is the right product for me. I find that quite difficult, because documentation is not complete and there are so many functions of which I think, not all are necessary for me. So I want to ask if someone could show me the direction where to search. I am trying to map the following business process to OFBiz: My company sells services. There are no physical goods to be produced or to be managed in a warehouse. There is no need for a webshop, the app would only be used by the backoffice. For the most services we provide, we in turn have to order other services from external service providers. These providers may produce a physical product that is shipped to the customer (I have already found the drop shipment in OFBiz). The major task I want to do with OFBiz is to - create orders for customers - plan which services we have to buy from external providers to fulfill a sales order - plan when certain activities have to be done by us, the customer or an external provider - track the status of these activities So, a sales order seems appropriate to start with. Purchase orders could be used for other service providers and work efforts seem to be useful for activities. My problem is, I don't get it all work together. My idea was to use this pretty cool drop shipment feature to link purchase orders (for the external providers) to sales orders. But it seems to be not implemented yet (see earlier posts) and I don't know how to link a new purchase order to an existing sales order. Furthermore a drop shipment has to be declared before the sales order is actually created. But I want to create the sales order (perhaps from a proposal) and later assign any purchase orders to it. The next problem is to plan the activities. I can create Work Efforts which I can see in the task list (type task) or in the calendar (type event). But I don't know how to assign a task to an order, so I could track the fulfillment of the order. Another question: can I define alternative products in a proposal? I.e. assign an alternative product to a proposal item whose price is not calculated in the sum of the proposal. So the customer knows he can choose from these two items (and can calculate the price itself, or perhaps it would be cool if only the difference for the alternative product is shown in the proposal). Two last questions: 1. Can I attach external files (like received invoice pdfs) to an order or any other object? 2. I have recognized that the party entities have a historization feature (the name in the profile has a history). Is this a generic feature which can be enabled for e.g. sales orders, too? Thanks a lot for reading so far and for giving me any advice With best regards Sebastian
Re: Is OFBiz for me?
and your thoughts and the rest he said. David E Jones sent the following on 4/28/2008 8:08 AM: On Apr 28, 2008, at 8:54 AM, BJ Freeman wrote: short answers: OOTB does not direct support services, but has bee modified in the past to do this. I wouldn't agree with this... you can manage the whole process of taking requests, planning/performing services, billing for them, etc. OOTB you can not yet do project(activity) planning though a lot has been done in this area. Yes, quite a bit has been done in this area and it is currently possible to do a lot of these sorts of things, including complex task hierarchies, multiple hierarchies for a project and other ways to manage it and report on it differently, even a gantt chart based on the hierarchies and such. OOTB you can do quotes and turn them into sales. some of the things you looking for can be added. Don't see a problem in accomplishing what you want. Suggest you go through the demo and see what is there and not there. sebastianscheid sent the following on 4/28/2008 7:15 AM: Hi, I am still trying to understand the functional concepts of OFBiz to find out if it is the right product for me. I find that quite difficult, because documentation is not complete and there are so many functions of which I think, not all are necessary for me. So I want to ask if someone could show me the direction where to search. I am trying to map the following business process to OFBiz: My company sells services. There are no physical goods to be produced or to be managed in a warehouse. There is no need for a webshop, the app would only be used by the backoffice. For the most services we provide, we in turn have to order other services from external service providers. These providers may produce a physical product that is shipped to the customer (I have already found the drop shipment in OFBiz). The major task I want to do with OFBiz is to - create orders for customers - plan which services we have to buy from external providers to fulfill a sales order - plan when certain activities have to be done by us, the customer or an external provider - track the status of these activities So, a sales order seems appropriate to start with. Purchase orders could be used for other service providers and work efforts seem to be useful for activities. My problem is, I don't get it all work together. My idea was to use this pretty cool drop shipment feature to link purchase orders (for the external providers) to sales orders. But it seems to be not implemented yet (see earlier posts) and I don't know how to link a new purchase order to an existing sales order. Furthermore a drop shipment has to be declared before the sales order is actually created. But I want to create the sales order (perhaps from a proposal) and later assign any purchase orders to it. The next problem is to plan the activities. I can create Work Efforts which I can see in the task list (type task) or in the calendar (type event). But I don't know how to assign a task to an order, so I could track the fulfillment of the order. Another question: can I define alternative products in a proposal? I.e. assign an alternative product to a proposal item whose price is not calculated in the sum of the proposal. So the customer knows he can choose from these two items (and can calculate the price itself, or perhaps it would be cool if only the difference for the alternative product is shown in the proposal). Two last questions: 1. Can I attach external files (like received invoice pdfs) to an order or any other object? 2. I have recognized that the party entities have a historization feature (the name in the profile has a history). Is this a generic feature which can be enabled for e.g. sales orders, too? Thanks a lot for reading so far and for giving me any advice With best regards Sebastian
Can ofbiz let me do this...?
Hello all, I would say that my general question is: Can ofbiz able to communicate with 3rd party application? Here is what I'd like to do: How would I go about my front-end ruby-on-rails application doing the checkout payment operation? I would like to use ofbiz as a blackbox. I explain, I send the information from the rails application that my user is paying but not going on the ofbiz front-end pages. It could be a web service that receives the user request and then ofbiz is doing what it has to do in order to perform the operation. Second interrogation, I create a product, catalog or whatever via the ofbiz admin application. Can I execute a process such as a web service for example that will perform an action. My goal is to avoid modifying the core of ofbiz and adding 3rd party applications around ofbiz that will talk to ofbiz. Is someone has done that before? How can I do this? Is it possible? All your suggestions are more than welcomed. Thank you advance.
Re: Can ofbiz let me do this...?
Hi, I guess you can set up a web service wrapper in ofbiz and this web services can be invoked from outside. ttux wrote: Hello all, I would say that my general question is: Can ofbiz able to communicate with 3rd party application? Here is what I'd like to do: How would I go about my front-end ruby-on-rails application doing the checkout payment operation? I would like to use ofbiz as a blackbox. I explain, I send the information from the rails application that my user is paying but not going on the ofbiz front-end pages. It could be a web service that receives the user request and then ofbiz is doing what it has to do in order to perform the operation. Second interrogation, I create a product, catalog or whatever via the ofbiz admin application. Can I execute a process such as a web service for example that will perform an action. My goal is to avoid modifying the core of ofbiz and adding 3rd party applications around ofbiz that will talk to ofbiz. Is someone has done that before? How can I do this? Is it possible? All your suggestions are more than welcomed. Thank you advance. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Can-ofbiz-let-me-do-this...--tf4671889.html#a13357792 Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
