Product Features

2009-07-16 Thread Schubi
Hello... I have another problem. I will build a shop with lots of different productgroups/categories and each productgroup should have different properties. Is there a classification system so that I can say for example every book gets the properties page and author and every car gets the

user admin disables during batch run

2009-07-16 Thread Grant Edwards
Hi, I have a batch program that I run as user admin. In a nutshell the batch program reads data from a 3rd party and creates products, parties etc ... It starts off fine, but at some point during the batch run the admin password becomes disabled which causes some of the services required by

Re: how to set Xbootclasspath in ofbiz

2009-07-16 Thread Pardeep . Ruhil
Hi, Thanks for replying. Yes I have directly placed the jar files into accounting/lib folder. Not in a sub folder. Thanks Regards Pardeep Ruhil LT Infotech Ltd Mumbai This Document is classified as: LT Infotech Proprietary LT Infotech Confidential LT Infotech Internal Use Only LT

Re: how to set Xbootclasspath in ofbiz

2009-07-16 Thread Scott Gray
Are you sure that the classes are actually in the jar and not in another jar on which your one depends? Regards Scott HotWax Media http://www.hotwaxmedia.com On 16/07/2009, at 10:36 PM, pardeep.ru...@lntinfotech.com wrote: Hi, Thanks for replying. Yes I have directly placed the jar files

Re: user admin disables during batch run

2009-07-16 Thread Scott Gray
Hi Grant, Other than the error below, what is that makes you think the admin user has been disabled? Is it possible that the userLogin being passed to the services accidentally gets changed at some point during execution? Regards Scott HotWax Media http://www.hotwaxmedia.com On

Purchase Order Lookup Problem

2009-07-16 Thread Abhishek . Dayya
Hi, I have a problem regarding LookUp of OrderHeader i.e through Purchase Order Id, whenever i create a purchase order,it assigns the value to the Website ID as OrderEntry, after that whenever i do a lookup for purhase order, It displays me the field Website ID as FACILITY(i.e it

Re: Product Features

2009-07-16 Thread BJ Freeman
in the Data model Vol 1 page 77 (fig 3.4) defines how features entity relates to product. you can also look at https://demo.ofbiz.org/webtools/control/ViewRelations?entityName=ProductFeature What you need to do is add the attributes you want here is the UI for that

Demo products Change

2009-07-16 Thread BJ Freeman
I notice that the old Demo products are not showing anymore. is there a reason the old demo products were removed? -- BJ Freeman http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation http://bjfreeman.elance.com http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=key=1237480locale=en_UStrk=tab_pro Systems

Re: user admin disables during batch run

2009-07-16 Thread Grant Edwards
Hi Scott, Following on from your email I did some further digging .. Prior to starting the batch run, check that the admin account is NOT DISABLED. For each row of data read from the 3rd party, a new transaction is created. As part of this transaction product, party and other entities are

minilang transactions

2009-07-16 Thread snowch
If have a service (e.g. svcA) that calls another service (e.g. svcB) as per the pseudo code: svcA: 1. lookup entity 2. modify entity 3. store entity 4. call svcB 5. return If svcB fails, does step 3 rollback? -- View this message in context:

Re: minilang transactions

2009-07-16 Thread Scott Gray
It depends on what you mean by fail: If svcB triggers a rollback then by default svcA will rollback, see the require-new-transaction attribute If svcB returns failure then svcA won't roll back If svcB returns error then svcA will rollback by default, see the break-on-error attribute

unit testing services

2009-07-16 Thread snowch
Is it possible to unit test services? I could test by exposing my service as a webservice, then test using SoapUI, but is it possible to test without exposing as a web service? Many thanks in advance... -- View this message in context:

Re: minilang transactions

2009-07-16 Thread Scott Gray
The presence of error messages doesn't cause the service to return an error, you have to do it explicitly with: check-errors/ or return response-code=error/ Regards Scott HotWax Media http://www.hotwaxmedia.com On 17/07/2009, at 1:35 AM, snowch wrote: How can I get svcB to return error

glassfish v2.1 deployment

2009-07-16 Thread cherif
Hello there, Vadiraj provides a how-to to do this, mentionning 2 scripts (run.sh and deploy.sh) are these provided ? where to see at least the containt ? I'm trying another methode which will be contributed if success. Thanks a lot Cherif

Re: user admin disables during batch run

2009-07-16 Thread Scott Gray
Are you talking about the statusId on the admin Party record? Even if it is strange, that wouldn't cause the permission check to fail because it is dealing with the UserLogin record and even then hasEntityPermission just uses it to get the related UserLoginSecurityGroup records.

Re: minilang transactions

2009-07-16 Thread Sumit Pandit
Though both options provided by Scott are correct, check-errors/ is a common practice, you can find many examples of both. Regards Sumit Pandit. On Jul 16, 2009, at 7:15 PM, Scott Gray wrote: The presence of error messages doesn't cause the service to return an error, you have to do it

Re: minilang transactions

2009-07-16 Thread Sumit Pandit
Hello Scott, I saw a behavior of system during rollback. In same example if svcA created a primary key with ID = 1, and if due to any error in svcB then it rollback the transaction. And then in next turn when we try to run it again then it creates the primary key with Id = 10001 (where

Re: unit testing services

2009-07-16 Thread snowch
How do other people on this forum test their services? - perform a HTTP GET, passing in the service parameters? - using webtools :: run service? - telnet into bsh on 9990 (how can I run a service this way?) - expose the service as as web service then test using SoapUI or other test tool?

Re: minilang transactions

2009-07-16 Thread Scott Gray
Hi Sumit Yes that's right, the ids are cached in batches of 10 so the rollback wouldn't have any effect on each delegator.getNextSeqId call. Regards Scott On 17/07/2009, at 2:17 AM, Sumit Pandit wrote: Hello Scott, I saw a behavior of system during rollback. In same example if svcA

Re: unit testing services

2009-07-16 Thread Scott Gray
ant run-tests look in the various ofbiz-component.xml files for examples of setting up tests: test-suite loader=main location=testdef/accountingtests.xml/ There may be documentation around somewhere, I'm not sure. Regards Scott HotWax Media http://www.hotwaxmedia.com On 17/07/2009, at

Re: Product Features

2009-07-16 Thread Cimballi
Hi, I think that what you want is to add some desciptive features to the product entity, but not features that will change the price or even the aspect of the product. So you don't need to use product features, you need to update the entity model to add your informations to your a product and

Re: minilang transactions

2009-07-16 Thread snowch
So check-errors/ will return immediately without executing any code following it if there are any errors? Scott Gray-2 wrote: The presence of error messages doesn't cause the service to return an error, you have to do it explicitly with: check-errors/ or return response-code=error/

Re: unit testing services

2009-07-16 Thread snowch
Thanks, that was exactly what I was looking for. Scott Gray-2 wrote: ant run-tests look in the various ofbiz-component.xml files for examples of setting up tests: test-suite loader=main location=testdef/accountingtests.xml/ There may be documentation around somewhere, I'm not

Re: minilang transactions

2009-07-16 Thread Scott Gray
Correct Regards Scott On 17/07/2009, at 3:11 AM, snowch wrote: So check-errors/ will return immediately without executing any code following it if there are any errors? Scott Gray-2 wrote: The presence of error messages doesn't cause the service to return an error, you have to do it

Re: Product Features

2009-07-16 Thread BJ Freeman
if that is what you want to do i would look at the way and come up with a way to use content component to add to your display. using Cimballi suggestion, use the extend-entity. Cimballi sent the following on 7/16/2009 7:55 AM: Hi, I think that what you want is to add some desciptive features

Re: user admin disables during batch run

2009-07-16 Thread BJ Freeman
off the top this sound like admin is going through the login process and is being disabled for to many login in a period. Scott Gray sent the following on 7/16/2009 6:57 AM: Are you talking about the statusId on the admin Party record? Even if it is strange, that wouldn't cause the permission

Re: controlled access to each dept's catalog

2009-07-16 Thread David E Jones
Once the proposed security changes are implemented this sort of thing will be a lot easier. Right now it is certainly possible and may require some coding to implement. There is some out-of-the-box functionality for role limited product and category administration. Basically you just

Eletronic Outlet Mall

2009-07-16 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
Saudações, I'd like to know how much Ofbiz could help me deploy an eletronic outlet mall. Resellers will login, add products from several diferent factory stores and checkout. Ofbiz should create one order for each store and the eletronic outlet mall staf will receive all the goods from all the

Re: Eletronic Outlet Mall

2009-07-16 Thread BJ Freeman
this has been answered before so let me take different approach. The model was for A company and Sub-companies related to the Company Code can be written that allows this. it is not 100% OOTB though. Leonardo Ruoso sent the following on 7/16/2009 12:01 PM: Saudações, I'd like to know how

Re: Eletronic Outlet Mall

2009-07-16 Thread David E Jones
The short answer is yes. A slightly longer answer is: there is a 90% chance that 60-90% of the functionality you need/want will exist OOTB in OFBiz. To qualify that statement I should say that the statement above is almost always true and actually it's hard to say more without a lot more

Re: PartyRelationship help

2009-07-16 Thread snowch
Sorry BJ, I didn't word my question very well. Do users need to manually create party relationship records? Which ones should a user create manually (through the party relationship screen), and which ones are created automatically (e.g. adding a SFA lead through the ofbiz UI creates a new party

Re: Eletronic Outlet Mall

2009-07-16 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
I'm not sure it's about sub-companies, because they are independent companies that have in commom a factory store in an specifc outlet mall. The outlet mall team has a website and intends to create an e-commerce website to allow resellers to buy from the stores without coming to mall. 2009/7/16

Re: Demo products Change

2009-07-16 Thread BJ Freeman
my reason for asking is not all the cases that were covered under the old demo products are covered now. BJ Freeman sent the following on 7/16/2009 4:32 AM: I notice that the old Demo products are not showing anymore. is there a reason the old demo products were removed? -- BJ Freeman

Re: Eletronic Outlet Mall

2009-07-16 Thread BJ Freeman
to keep accounting, and access separate, but have a single interface for the shipping department would take some customization. it would also take an instance of ofbiz running for each store, the way I envision it. there may be other ways, would have to get detailed requirements to go further.

Re: PartyRelationship help

2009-07-16 Thread BJ Freeman
I have not covered SFA to be specific however I envision for SFA and CRM buttons that can be used to establish relationships. and yes some would be done thru SECA that trigger on say the creation of of a new lead. the new lead UI would need to have a partyid field for who the lead was to be

Re: Eletronic Outlet Mall

2009-07-16 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
http://www.modaematacado.com.br is a good reference in portuguese. Our developers have good Java knowledge, but no previous experience with Ofbiz. We are thinking that Ofbiz is the best Open Source e-commerce Solution to adopt for this project, because we'll need a lot of workflow control. The

Re: Eletronic Outlet Mall

2009-07-16 Thread BJ Freeman
come to think of it customization of the company level and running multiple Accounting would allow for a single instance. the would require a rewrite of most accounting or order manager to allow different delegators based on Website ID or Product store. BJ Freeman sent the following on 7/16/2009

Re: Eletronic Outlet Mall

2009-07-16 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
I'm not going to keep accounting for each store and will not have any system integration with then. All the horizontal integration will be done manually. Customer will browse the products from all the stores, buy several products from several stores, pay at once. When we check the payment, the

Re: Eletronic Outlet Mall

2009-07-16 Thread BJ Freeman
Java knowledge I have found is less than 35%(subjective view) of what is required for ofbiz. You have a mini-lan to grasp plus a head jerk from object to entity data storage. Also he way ofbiz displays data is totally different from using database driven systems. But it is doable. Leonardo

Re: PartyRelationship help

2009-07-16 Thread snowch
Have I interpreted the various docs correctly - do some partyRelationships need to be created manually for various ofbiz functionality to work? BJ Freeman wrote: I have not covered SFA to be specific however I envision for SFA and CRM buttons that can be used to establish relationships.

Re: PartyRelationship help

2009-07-16 Thread BJ Freeman
yes snowch sent the following on 7/16/2009 1:09 PM: Have I interpreted the various docs correctly - do some partyRelationships need to be created manually for various ofbiz functionality to work? BJ Freeman wrote: I have not covered SFA to be specific however I envision for SFA and CRM

Re: Eletronic Outlet Mall

2009-07-16 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
I was dreaming about it. I'm sure it could be easier if we get some paid support and development: Is there a recommended way to get this paid services -- yet strengthening the ofbiz community? 2009/7/16 BJ Freeman bjf...@free-man.net Java knowledge I have found is less than 35%(subjective view)

Re: Eletronic Outlet Mall

2009-07-16 Thread BJ Freeman
any thing related to money is accounting. Now you many not need all of the accounting but you need enough to do customizaion. as long as you have seperate sites within ofbiz and you use say apache to give the mall effect, then nothing has to be done to order manager. if you decide to go with ofbiz

Re: Eletronic Outlet Mall

2009-07-16 Thread BJ Freeman
as long as you are the only company collecting money then the current accounting will work Leonardo Ruoso sent the following on 7/16/2009 1:07 PM: I'm not going to keep accounting for each store and will not have any system integration with then. All the horizontal integration will be done

Re: PartyRelationship help

2009-07-16 Thread snowch
which ones? for what purpose? - I can't find any documentation on manually creating partyRelationships? E.g. when do I need to create an organizational rollup party relationship? what should the roleTypes and partyRelationshipTypes be? What are the other relationships that need to be manually

Re: Eletronic Outlet Mall

2009-07-16 Thread BJ Freeman
probably get training so you people are up to speed fast and occasional support on how to accomplish something. you welcome to contribute back what ever you want. Leonardo Ruoso sent the following on 7/16/2009 1:18 PM: I was dreaming about it. I'm sure it could be easier if we get some paid

Error: The requested resource is not available.

2009-07-16 Thread su2
Hello All, I was trying to create the simple screen. I added WEB-INF/web.xml controller.xml. I have following request-map view-map in controller.xml *** request-map uri=SimplestScreen response name=success type=view value=SimplestScreen/ /request-map

Re: PartyRelationship help

2009-07-16 Thread BJ Freeman
the best I can give you is to go to https://demo.ofbiz.org/webtools/control/ArtifactInfo type in partyRelationship it will show you all the places that it is used. snowch sent the following on 7/16/2009 1:27 PM: which ones? for what purpose? - I can't find any documentation on manually creating

Re: PartyRelationship help

2009-07-16 Thread BJ Freeman
yes the one thing that escape me was each relationship must share the same role type. snowch sent the following on 7/16/2009 1:27 PM: which ones? for what purpose? - I can't find any documentation on manually creating partyRelationships? E.g. when do I need to create an organizational rollup

Re: Eletronic Outlet Mall

2009-07-16 Thread David E Jones
There are quite a few individuals and organizations that offer services for Apache OFBiz, there is a list of available on a wiki page here: http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Apache+OFBiz+Service+Providers It is a very good idea to make sure that your service provider agrees to

Re: Eletronic Outlet Mall

2009-07-16 Thread David E Jones
This sort of detail is very helpful. You are basically describing the business process for the mall site and that is the most clear and actionable way to communicate requirements. Even based on just this it sounds like OFBiz will do most of what you need. You can have products and

Re: PartyRelationship help

2009-07-16 Thread snowch
That link was just what I needed. Many thanks... BJ Freeman wrote: the best I can give you is to go to https://demo.ofbiz.org/webtools/control/ArtifactInfo type in partyRelationship it will show you all the places that it is used. snowch sent the following on 7/16/2009 1:27 PM:

Re: Error: The requested resource is not available.

2009-07-16 Thread Scott Gray
What about your ofbiz-component.xml file? I really recommend using the ant create-component target, it's the easiest way to get up and running quickly. Regards Scott HotWax Media http://www.hotwaxmedia.com On 17/07/2009, at 8:35 AM, su2 wrote: Hello All, I was trying to create the

Error creating New Note or Email in 9.04

2009-07-16 Thread Sharan-F
Hi Everyone I've checked the mailing list and Jira but couldnt find anywhere that this has been reported already so have included it here. Using the online demo for 9.04 version 793063 https://demo904.ofbiz.org/myportal/control/main I'm getting the following error message: