How to Add product Specification ?

2010-08-17 Thread Gaurav Kalia
Hi All I have added a product say T-shirt now I would like to add size and color in its specification or if I can add a drop down for both of these so that user will be able to select size and color. Please suggest how can i achieve this ? Thanks Gaurav

Re: How to Add product Specification ?

2010-08-17 Thread Raj Saini
You will need to create virtual products and add selectable features. Raj On 17/08/10 14:46, Gaurav Kalia wrote: Hi All I have added a product say T-shirt now I would like to add size and color in its specification or if I can add a drop down for both of these so that user will be able to

Problem with price calculation for dropship purchase orders

2010-08-17 Thread Thomas Nadler
Hi. We have noticed a problem with the price calculation for purchase orders that are automatically generated for dropshipments: The product prices of the corresponding sales and purchase orders do not match. Background: The invoked Method makePurchaseOrderItem - that is responsible for the

Re: How to Add product Specification ?

2010-08-17 Thread Gaurav Kalia
Hi Raj I have added demo features size from Widget Feature to my test product and I can see Sizes Available: Small, Medium as text not as dropdown even if i added its type as Selectable. Please let me if i am doing something wrong. Thanks Gaurav On Tuesday 17 August 2010 03:06 PM, Raj

Re: How to Add product Specification ?

2010-08-17 Thread BJ Freeman
the is correct for widget feature. if you create a t-shirt feature then add the sizes you will get the desired results. Gaurav Kalia sent the following on 8/17/2010 3:20 AM: Hi Raj I have added demo features size from Widget Feature to my test product and I can see Sizes Available: Small,

Re: Problem with price calculation for dropship purchase orders

2010-08-17 Thread BJ Freeman
Basic concept the price for a product you buy should be less than the price you sell it for. so you get the price you pay for it (last price) Which becomes the baseprice of the product then add what ever to that price to come up with the price (default price) you sell it for. Usually the

Re: About ProductFeatureCategoryAppl and ProductFeatureCatGrpAppl

2010-08-17 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Thanks Miles, I have updated your changes in the wiki Jacques From: Jacques Le Roux jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com Feel free to add it in the page or as a comment if you can't edit. We will then take care of integrating in the page. The formatting is the same in comment than in the page, you

Re: Problem with price calculation for dropship purchase orders

2010-08-17 Thread Jacques Le Roux
From: BJ Freeman bjf...@free-man.net Basic concept the price for a product you buy should be less than the price you sell it for. so you get the price you pay for it (last price) Which becomes the baseprice of the product then add what ever to that price to come up with the price (default

Re: Problem with price calculation for dropship purchase orders

2010-08-17 Thread BJ Freeman
The actual price can be based on List Price, Default Price, Average Cost, or Promotional Prices, as entered in the Product - Prices screen. thanks Jacques Jacques Le Roux sent the following on 8/17/2010 5:48 AM: From: BJ Freeman bjf...@free-man.net Basic concept the price for a product you

Re: How to Add product Specification ?

2010-08-17 Thread Gaurav kalia
I have tried creating my own Feature Category named tshirt feature and added size small and medium but it is still coming as text not drop down. Please suggest. -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/How-to-Add-product-Specification-tp2327990p2328331.html Sent from

Re: How to Add product Specification ?

2010-08-17 Thread S K Pradeep Kumar
Hi Gaurav, After creating the feature, u should add that feature for that particular product then you need to create the variants of that product. Before the that see, whether its virtual or variant. in the product main page With regards, S K Pradeep kumar, 9980609494 On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at

Re: How to Add product Specification ?

2010-08-17 Thread BJ Freeman
Please include previous emails as a thread. some of us on the mailing list do not use nabble and it is very time cosuming to trace back. this can be best achieved by subscribing to the ofbiz mailing list. Gaurav kalia sent the following on 8/17/2010 6:14 AM: I have tried creating my own

Re: Problem with price calculation for dropship purchase orders

2010-08-17 Thread BJ Freeman
also when you have more than one supplier for a product, there are considerations to decide which supplier is used, the last price is part of that determination. In simpler Ecommerce sites the supplier Item code is used for a single supplier. In ofbiz you can use the default productID generated

Re: Problem with price calculation for dropship purchase orders

2010-08-17 Thread BJ Freeman
Correction: the base price is used to determine the floor price you will sell and item for when doing promotion calculations. so it can not be used as the price to the supplier. Last price is your only option. BJ Freeman sent the following on 8/17/2010 5:33 AM: Basic concept the price for a

Re: How to Add product Specification ?

2010-08-17 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Thanks BJ, Yes please do, it's a pain to lose best practices... Jacques From: BJ Freeman bjf...@free-man.net Please include previous emails as a thread. some of us on the mailing list do not use nabble and it is very time cosuming to trace back. this can be best achieved by subscribing to

Re: How to Add product Specification ?

2010-08-17 Thread S K Pradeep Kumar
that should be virtual only set to Y With regards, S K Pradeep kumar, 9980609494 On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Gaurav Kalia gaurav.ka...@techblue.co.ukwrote: Hi Pradeep I have created my own Feature Category and added size in that category. and then I added that size in my product and

Catalog management performance issue

2010-08-17 Thread Michał Cukierman
Hi, I have a problem with performence (and Out of Memmory Issue) with catalog management module. There is a section invoked after Choose Top Category CollectionGenericValue allCategories = delegator.findList(ProductCategory, null, null, null, null, false); for (GenericValue curCat:

Re: Catalog management performance issue

2010-08-17 Thread BJ Freeman
as far as performance how much memory have you allocated to ofbiz? what version of ofbiz are you using? There is a top Category that should be checked for first. have not been in that part of the code for a while. Michał Cukierman sent the following on 8/17/2010 7:41 AM: Hi, I have a problem

Re: Catalog management performance issue

2010-08-17 Thread Michał Cukierman
Thanks for the quick answer. I have allocated 2GB of memory, so it's not a case. The problem is that I work on huge data sets. Version is 10.4 but 9.04 is has the same code. I have ommited those informations 'couse as you see - it's not relevant to the topic. I don't understand your last

Re: Catalog management performance issue

2010-08-17 Thread Ruth Hoffman
Hi Micha: Could I ask how big are your data sets? The reason I ask is that several years ago, prior to 9.04 I had an out-of-memory problem that was never resolved. The database tables that I was querying had between 4 - 12 million records. My database (and OFBiz usage of the same) went away

Re: Catalog management performance issue

2010-08-17 Thread Michał Cukierman
Hi Ruth, I do not know exact data set size, as we are in development stage at the moment. What I know is that we need to prepare for: - unknown no of categories (tests made on 100 000 - then the error eccured) - at least 2*suppliers number catalogs - around 200 different manufacturers - around

Re: Catalog management performance issue

2010-08-17 Thread David E Jones
One thing to keep in mind is that with database queries and OFBiz there is no inherent nature of how it handles large data sets. Each bit of code and each query needs to be designed with a certain expected data set size, and typically the more data you want to allow for in the data store the

Re: Catalog management performance issue

2010-08-17 Thread Ruth Hoffman
Hi David: Thanks for chiming in! I understand and my experience has been exactly as you say: Each bit of code and each query needs to be designed with a certain expected data set size What you get with OFBiz out-of-the-box is a middle of the road compromise. The really good news is that

Re: Catalog management performance issue

2010-08-17 Thread David E Jones
I wouldn't say that OFBiz OOTB is a middle of the road compromise, that would imply consistency in the code which is not the case. The fact is some code is designed and tested to properly handle millions or even billions of rows in its target table, and other code can only have a few thousand

Re: Catalog management performance issue

2010-08-17 Thread Ruth Hoffman
Hi David: Would you be interested in describing for us all - here on the list - where some of that code is and how an implementation was arrived at to properly handle millions or even billions of rows in a target table. I, for one would be very interested in knowing just where that code

Re: Catalog management performance issue

2010-08-17 Thread Michał Cukierman
I know that Ofbiz is limited in some areas, but as far it's the best place to start. It's better to improve some code than write it all. What I also think: I have software for free, I can put some effort to improve it. So to keep the problem in mind. What is the way of implementing: 1) How to

Re: Catalog management performance issue

2010-08-17 Thread Ruth Hoffman
Hi Micha: Sorry, but I'm probably not the best person to answer this question. Hopefully David or someone who has spent considerable time working with the API could lend a hand. Its been several years since I've had to look at optimizing SQL statements within OFBiz. Regards, Ruth Michał

Re: Catalog management performance issue

2010-08-17 Thread BJ Freeman
Micheal I have, in the past had to deal with large databases. even the best enterprise DB has memory problems in this case. i have had to write Procedures (functions) in the database to parse the data so it is usable. That said it is more than just joins, indexes, and where statements, it is

How To Add Documentation To The Wiki?

2010-08-17 Thread Ruth Hoffman
Hello All: As promised several weeks ago, I'm putting together some information on how I use OFBiz (9.04) to support bulk mailings. (To recap, I said that I wrote an application to do this as the existing support isn't sufficient to meet my needs. I also said I would share some of my efforts

Just wondering if anyone on this list is interested in this?

2010-08-17 Thread Ruth Hoffman
Hi All: Is there any interest in making OFBiz 10.4 (and all the 10.x) releases compatible with Java 1.5? Requiring 1.6 is a real show stopper for me. But I'm wondering if anyone else out there really cares at all about this? Regards, Ruth Hoffman

Re: Just wondering if anyone on this list is interested in this?

2010-08-17 Thread Patrick
Just curious what problems do you have with 1.6? On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Ruth Hoffman rhoff...@aesolves.com wrote: Hi All: Is there any interest in making OFBiz 10.4 (and all the 10.x) releases compatible with Java 1.5? Requiring 1.6 is a real show stopper for me. But I'm wondering

Re: Just wondering if anyone on this list is interested in this?

2010-08-17 Thread Ruth Hoffman
Hi Patrick: My production server is running a version of the O.S. for which there is no production quality version of Java 1.6 available. So, in order to move to 1.6, I need to upgrade my server's OS, which is something I don't really want to deal with right now. My setup works fine. Never

Re: Just wondering if anyone on this list is interested in this?

2010-08-17 Thread Adrian Crum
A couple of things I can think of off the top of my head - versions older than 6 are no longer supported by Sun. Version 6 continues to improve on performance - especially in garbage collection. I agree that OS upgrades are a pain, but the harsh reality is, you will have to do it someday.

Re: Just wondering if anyone on this list is interested in this?

2010-08-17 Thread Jonatan Soto
I'll consider before make Ofbiz 10.4 compatible with Java 5 if it worths the effort. Probably you'll found much easier upgrading your SO rather making Ofbiz compatible, but I'm not the right person to confirm that since my knowledge of how many Java 6 stuff are in the entire Ofbiz code is very

Employees hours tracking

2010-08-17 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Hello: I am looking to deploy a software that can help in tracking employees availabiliy and the time they come to work, including all the details about they payrol and hours worked. The data will be feed through a swipe card machine, that's connected to the LAN. I am assuming that ofbiz can

Re: Just wondering if anyone on this list is interested in this?

2010-08-17 Thread James McGill
I am curious as to what server OS you run that doesn't have a Java 6 SDK. I'm also wondering which Java 6 incompatibilities cause problems with OFBiz. NIO? Calendar durations? Bean eventHandlers? Forced validation on casts? -- James McGill Phoenix AZ

Re: Just wondering if anyone on this list is interested in this?

2010-08-17 Thread BJ Freeman
simple answer is the current code will not compile with 1.5. a lot of code has been backported to 9.04 so it requires 1.6 also. to your problem, usually Sun java will work on any OS it has in the past. for a linux machine it usually installed in a new place and you have to do hand edits to get

Re: Just wondering if anyone on this list is interested in this?

2010-08-17 Thread Rob Schapper
Ruth you might be interested in this: http://rorblog.techcfl.com/2008/02/26/installing-the-jdk-16-on-mac-os-x/ Thanks, Rob Schapper On Aug 17, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Ruth Hoffman wrote: Hi James: I had an older MAC PowerPC G5 workstation running 10.4 that was sitting around, so I decided to

Re: Employees hours tracking

2010-08-17 Thread BJ Freeman
in general ofbiz allows a time sheet. you would be using the workeffort model as well as the HR model to track employees From the Data model Book vol I some work would need to be done on the OTTB ofbiz. there is a profession services data model also in the data model book II you can look at the

Re: Just wondering if anyone on this list is interested in this?

2010-08-17 Thread Ruth Hoffman
Hi BJ: I hope not about 9.04 - this would be a serious violation of the bug fix vs. new features line in the sand that the project has endorsed for some time now. Thanks for the install info. I've done this successfully before many times. Problem is that there isn't a pre-built Java 1.6 for

Re: Just wondering if anyone on this list is interested in this?

2010-08-17 Thread Ruth Hoffman
Hi Rob: Thanks. I already upgraded my laptop (and some other servers) and found a few problems. Most annoying was that GIMP didn't work anymore. I won't bore you with the details on fixing that one but I use GIMP pretty extensively to get screen shots etc. for my books. So, being without for

Re: Just wondering if anyone on this list is interested in this?

2010-08-17 Thread BJ Freeman
at least you can run the 10.4 on your laptop for testing and copy your data from the server to your laptop. your right Adrian Crum wrote: The 9.04 version does not depend on Java 6 - it requires Java 5. -Adrian Ruth Hoffman sent the following on 8/17/2010 1:32 PM: Hi BJ: I hope not about

Re: Just wondering if anyone on this list is interested in this?

2010-08-17 Thread BJ Freeman
the only thing you would not do is change you path. that way those that depend on 1.5 will still work. you would hard code the paths to 1.6 into the ofbiz stuff. Ruth Hoffman sent the following on 8/17/2010 1:38 PM: Hi Rob: Thanks. I already upgraded my laptop (and some other servers) and

Re: Employees hours tracking

2010-08-17 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Thank you BJ. Could you please give me more details? See my comments ? On Tue Aug 17,2010 01:29 pm, BJ Freeman wrote: in general ofbiz allows a time sheet. you would be using the workeffort model as well as the HR model to track employees From the Data model Book vol I I don't have access to

Re: Just wondering if anyone on this list is interested in this?

2010-08-17 Thread James McGill
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 1:20 PM, BJ Freeman bjf...@free-man.net wrote: simple answer is the current code will not compile with 1.5. I'm trying to resolve that against the relatively small number of documented changes from 5.0 to 6.0. I had a feeling Ruth's problem involved 32-bit OSX. Not

Re: Just wondering if anyone on this list is interested in this?

2010-08-17 Thread Ruth Hoffman
True. Thanks again for taking time to help me out here. Regards, Ruth BJ Freeman wrote: at least you can run the 10.4 on your laptop for testing and copy your data from the server to your laptop. your right Adrian Crum wrote: The 9.04 version does not depend on Java 6 - it requires Java 5.

Re: Employees hours tracking

2010-08-17 Thread BJ Freeman
you can walk through ofbiz that will take some time. explaining employee tracking is beyond my scope of help on the mailing list. OTTB = OOTB, Out of the Box sorry since you were not clear on what type of tracking you want I gave you other options and yes if those in the Profession services is

Re: Employees hours tracking

2010-08-17 Thread Ruth Hoffman
Hi Mansour: Somewhere on the Wiki is a write up that Hans did discussing how to use the OFBiz project manager features to accomplish some of what I think you want to do. A while back I did a presentation - using the information in the write up - to show how to set up a consulting services and

service uploadPartyContentFile not available in release09.04

2010-08-17 Thread Info Olagos
Hello, I try to use the upload feature in the profile page of the party in the ecommerce application. But the upload file feature calls a service uploadPartyContentFile which is not implemented in release 09.04 apparently. Has anyone a solution how to let it work? regards, Heidi

Re: Employees hours tracking

2010-08-17 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
BJ, thank you. Let's say I need to track the following info: - the time the employee came to work. - Time she left. - Days of work, and abscence, - show total hours worked, and calculate payroll... A quick navigation through ofbiz, gave me the impression that this is possible OOTB. But how ? Do

Re: How To Add Documentation To The Wiki?

2010-08-17 Thread Bruno Busco
Hi Ruth, I think that a new page placed here https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Applications would be fine. -Bruno 2010/8/17 Ruth Hoffman rhoff...@aesolves.com Hello All: As promised several weeks ago, I'm putting together some information on how I use OFBiz (9.04) to support

Re: Employees hours tracking

2010-08-17 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
Thank you, Ruth. I was not able to find this presentaion on the wiki ? I looked into http://ofbiz.apache.org/documentation.html then did a search on Hans, but the results didn't include what I was looking for. Am I missing something ? Thank you ? On Tue Aug 17,2010 05:03 pm, Ruth Hoffman

Re: service uploadPartyContentFile not available in release09.04

2010-08-17 Thread Scott Gray
On 18/08/2010, at 10:07 AM, Info Olagos wrote: Hello, I try to use the upload feature in the profile page of the party in the ecommerce application. But the upload file feature calls a service uploadPartyContentFile which is not implemented in release 09.04 apparently. What makes you

Re: service uploadPartyContentFile not available in release09.04

2010-08-17 Thread Info Olagos
Hello Scott, i can't find the uploadPartyContentFile service in Release09.04. Can you say me where to find it? Heidi 2010/8/18 Scott Gray scott.g...@hotwaxmedia.com On 18/08/2010, at 10:07 AM, Info Olagos wrote: Hello, I try to use the upload feature in the profile page of the party in

Re: Employees hours tracking

2010-08-17 Thread BJ Freeman
simplest form is to create tasks. then they select tasks on their times sheet. they get paid for what is on the time sheet. you can add a task for the badge reader of clock in and clockout. you would need to add services to validate the other tasks were between those two tasks. you can setup

Re: service uploadPartyContentFile not available in release09.04

2010-08-17 Thread Scott Gray
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ofbiz/branches/release09.04/applications/party/servicedef/services.xml?view=markup Search the page and you should see it pretty quickly. Note that it doesn't actually have its own implementation because it's a group service, so it's just a service definition that

factory implementation !

2010-08-17 Thread Prashant Punekar
Hi, Factory Implementation details: I have 1) MyInterface (java interface) with method1(), method2(), method3() 2) MyImpl1 implements MyInterface, so it will have implementations for methods method1(), method2() and method3() 3) MyImpl2 implements MyInterface, so it will have

RE: How to integrate jboss with ofbiz on windows command prompt?

2010-08-17 Thread PrateekJain
THANKS Brajesh but still the error prevails I have followed all the steps . Please tell if I have missed any steps. From: Brajesh Patel-2 [via OFBiz] [mailto:ml-node+2324996-1801210033-137...@n4.nabble.com] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 10:15 AM To: PrateekM Jain Subject: Re: How to integrate