OFBiz: The road ahead RE the framework

2011-01-27 Thread Pierre Smits
Hi All, This thread is about where you want the community to go with the underlying core components of OFBiz (aka the Framework). The framework is the enables of all applications and business processes and users of the product. It is about security, and about a future proof and reliable platform

Service products and Order Statuses

2011-01-27 Thread Shereen
Hello I have a question related to the product and the order statuses when I go and set up the product as a service does that affect the ordinary flow of the order statuses? auto approval or auto completion or anything of that kind? I've looked through the secas but I couldn't find it I've

Calendar

2011-01-27 Thread Gavin Mabie
Hi all Is there a calendar select (datepicker) for the ecommerce application? How do I configure it? Thanks Gavin

OFBiz: The road ahead RE Accounting

2011-01-27 Thread Pierre Smits
Hi all, With the release of 10.04 we come to a point in time where we can think about the future of the Accounting application. In order to draw up a plan for future releases we would like have your input. What do you feel is important? What should be in, what should be removed, what can be

OFBIZ: the road ahead RE Supply Chain Management

2011-01-27 Thread Pierre Smits
Hi all, With the release of 10.04 we come to a point in time where we can think about the future of the applications involved in Supply Chain Management. The applications involved here are: - Order - Catalog - Manufacturing In order to draw up a plan for future releases we would like

OFBIZ: the road ahead RE Customer Relation Management

2011-01-27 Thread Pierre Smits
Hi all, With the release of 10.04 we come to a point in time where we can think about the future of the applications involved in Customer Releation Management. The applications involved here are: - Marketing - SFA In order to draw up a plan for future releases we would like have your

OFBIZ: the road ahead RE Human Resources Management

2011-01-27 Thread Pierre Smits
Hi all, With the release of 10.04 we come to a point in time where we can think about the future of the application(s) involved in Human Resources Management. In order to draw up a plan for future releases we would like have your input. What do you feel is important? What should be in, what

OFBIZ: the road ahead RE Project Management

2011-01-27 Thread Pierre Smits
Hi all, With the release of 10.04 we come to a point in time where we can think about the future of the application(s) involved in Project Management. In order to draw up a plan for future releases we would like have your input. What do you feel is important? What should be in, what should be

Re: Calendar

2011-01-27 Thread Jacques Le Roux
I'd suggest to use the one from backend Jacques From: Gavin Mabie gavin.ma...@urbannex.co.za Hi all Is there a calendar select (datepicker) for the ecommerce application? How do I configure it? Thanks Gavin

OFBIZ: the road ahead

2011-01-27 Thread Brian Topping
Hi Pierre, By your inquiry on the future, do you mean with specific features in the applications or how they work together? As an architect, I am interested in not just an ability to integrate my application against OFBiz, but allow my application to take part in message orchestration by

Re: OFBiz: The road ahead RE the framework

2011-01-27 Thread Brian Topping
Sorry, I didn't see this thread when I wrote my previous email. If it should be resent to this thread, please let me know. Cheers, Brian On Jan 27, 2011, at 4:31 AM, Pierre Smits wrote: Hi All, This thread is about where you want the community to go with the underlying core components of

Re: OFBIZ: the road ahead

2011-01-27 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Brian Topping wrote: Hi Pierre, By your inquiry on the future, do you mean with specific features in the applications or how they work together? As an architect, I am interested in not just an ability to integrate my application against OFBiz, but allow my application to take part in message

Fwd: Observed bug in List navigation In New Thames

2011-01-27 Thread Pankaj Singh
Hi , We observed a bug in latest SVN ofbiz themes. Please let us know if any one came across with the same bug . *Bug :-* Navigation on rendered list items is not working .Errors are like :- - Number of display record is not getting updated (it is always taking the default value ) -

Re: OFBIZ: the road ahead

2011-01-27 Thread Brian Topping
On Jan 27, 2011, at 7:40 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: Why Mule rather than ServiceMix? I can't see much diff. between them. ServiceMix is more strongly based on W3C WS where Mule is more open to different transports. I felt for my application that Mule would be more performant, although I

Re: OFBIZ: The road ahead RE Ecommerce

2011-01-27 Thread Mike
I'd sure like to see more ecommerce themes. Does anyone have any they would like to share? On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Pierre Smits pierre.sm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, With the release of 10.04 we come to a point in time where we can think about the future of the ecommerce

Re: OFBIZ: The road ahead RE Ecommerce

2011-01-27 Thread Ryan Foster
Stay tuned Mike, I have two in the works that will be released within the next month. Ryan L. Foster 801.671.0769 cont...@ryanlfoster.com ryanlfoster.com On Jan 27, 2011, at 8:37 AM, Mike wrote: I'd sure like to see more ecommerce themes. Does anyone have any they would like to share? On

Re: OFBIZ: the road ahead

2011-01-27 Thread David E Jones
Brian, Have you looked into the integration-oriented features of OFBiz? IMO SOAP is a mess and while there has been a SOAP to OFBiz Service tool for a long time, it has never been very good. However, the XML-RPC and JSON ones are pretty good, and along with general XML message passing (like

Re: OFBiz: The road ahead RE Accounting

2011-01-27 Thread ScottA
I'd love to see the accounting tightened up a bit and put into a more user friendly approach. While I am not a great fan of the closed source QuickBooks, it does make it very easy to navigate and get things done. Within a couple of clicks you are right where you need to be. After two years with

Re: OFBiz: The road ahead RE Accounting

2011-01-27 Thread David E Jones
I started a design effort along these lines a while back, perhaps it will get some more interest and attention someday, perhaps: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBREQDES/OFBiz+EZBiz -David On Jan 27, 2011, at 11:49 AM, ScottA wrote: I'd love to see the accounting tightened

Re: OFBIZ: The road ahead RE Ecommerce

2011-01-27 Thread BJ Freeman
see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2437 = BJ Freeman Strategic Power Office with Supplier Automation http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation/viewforum.php?f=52 Specialtymarket.com http://www.specialtymarket.com/ Systems Integrator-- Glad to Assist

Re: OFBIZ: the road ahead RE Supply Chain Management

2011-01-27 Thread BJ Freeman
there are many ways to communicated EDI to suppliers. though specialpurpose\oagis addresses this there is AS2 and VANS using EDI format. Then you have the misceanos supplier dropshipper that have their own system. = BJ Freeman Strategic Power Office with Supplier

Re: OFBIZ: the road ahead RE Project Management

2011-01-27 Thread BJ Freeman
having the project manger display and manage manufacturing Production Run = BJ Freeman Strategic Power Office with Supplier Automation http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation/viewforum.php?f=52 Specialtymarket.com http://www.specialtymarket.com/ Systems

Re: OFBIZ: the road ahead

2011-01-27 Thread Brian Topping
Hi David, thanks for setting me straight here. Mule might be a pretty good fit for this kind of integration. One of the things ServiceMix focuses on is WS, Mule could work with these interfaces. What might not be obvious is that Mule could do all the message marshaling to the formats you

Re: OFBiz: The road ahead RE the framework

2011-01-27 Thread Raj Saini
One thing I would like to see is to use the OSGi runtime for framework. This will help modularising efforts. For example entity engine, service engine, security etc. will be OSGi bundles running on top of OSGi framework such Apache Karaf. Apache ServiceMix is already using Karaf

Re: OFBiz: The road ahead RE the framework

2011-01-27 Thread Adrian Crum
I have suggested that in the past. OFBiz has spawned some great technology that, if modified to be stand-alone subsystems, could be their own projects. -Adrian On 1/27/2011 8:52 PM, Raj Saini wrote: One thing I would like to see is to use the OSGi runtime for framework. This will help

Re: OFBiz: The road ahead RE the framework

2011-01-27 Thread Raj Saini
Yes, I agree. Entity Engine and Service Engine are two such marvellous pieces of technologies. Entity engine can very well compete with Java Persistence API (JPA) if it is separated from the OFBiz runtime. Raj On Friday 28 January 2011 10:26 AM, Adrian Crum wrote: I have suggested that in the

Re: OFBiz: The road ahead RE the framework

2011-01-27 Thread Raj Saini
I will certainly be glad to help in this. I had re-packaged the entity engine as and OSGi bundle and exposed the delegator as osgi service. I found minor issues like loading of entityengine.xml from classpath and this did not go well with the OSGi. Let us wait for the the restructuring of the

Re: OFBiz: The road ahead RE the framework

2011-01-27 Thread Adrian Crum
I was picturing the entity engine as a lower level artifact - like a jar file. I don't have all of the details worked out yet, but what I picture is this: 1. An application needs a database-agnostic data store. 2. The application accesses the data store though the entity engine API/ jar

Re: OFBIZ: the road ahead RE Customer Relation Management

2011-01-27 Thread Pierre Smits
In my last message I said: *Please join us in this discussion about the Accounting application.* Of course, in the light of this topic, this should have been: *Please join us in this discussion about the CRM application(s).* My apologies for any inconveniences caused. Regards, Pierre

Re: OFBIZ: the road ahead RE Project Management

2011-01-27 Thread Pierre Smits
In my last message I said: *Please join us in this discussion about the Accounting application.* Of course, in the light of this topic, this should have been: *Please join us in this discussion about the Project Management application(s).* My apologies for any inconveniences caused.

Re: OFBIZ: the road ahead RE Supply Chain Management

2011-01-27 Thread Pierre Smits
In my last message I said: *Please join us in this discussion about the Accounting application.* Of course, in the light of this topic, this should have been: *Please join us in this discussion about the SCM application(s).* My apologies for any inconveniences caused. Regards, Pierre

Re: OFBIZ: the road ahead RE Human Resources Management

2011-01-27 Thread Pierre Smits
In my last message I said: *Please join us in this discussion about the Accounting application.* Of course, in the light of this topic, this should have been: *Please join us in this discussion about the HRM application(s).* My apologies for any inconveniences caused. Regards, Pierre

Re: OFBIZ: The road ahead RE Ecommerce

2011-01-27 Thread Pierre Smits
In my last message I said: *Please join us in this discussion about the Accounting application.* Of course, in the light of this topic, this should have been: *Please join us in this discussion about the eCommerce application(s).* My apologies for any inconveniences caused. Regards,

Re: OFBIZ: the road ahead RE Project Management

2011-01-27 Thread Pierre Smits
When thinking about improving the Project Management suite I think of following improvements. - Ease up on the need to first add persons to resources. Employees should always be available for project teams. - More/better info on the project summary about the health of the project

Re: OFBiz: The road ahead RE the framework

2011-01-27 Thread Raj Saini
I tried to use the entity engine exactly the way you have described. I faced the problems as entity engine depends entity-ext (for some cache management) and entity-ext depends on service engine. If we resolve this dependency, entity engine can certainly be a standalone jar and as you said it

Re: OFBIZ: the road ahead RE Customer Relation Management

2011-01-27 Thread Pierre Smits
Regarding CRM I thing about following improvements - Being able to classify an account party as prospect or customer - Being able to associate an account party with a team (account team for large account with many sub accounts) - Being able to associate accounts to other accounts

Re: OFBiz: The road ahead RE the framework

2011-01-27 Thread Adrian Crum
There is no doubt there will be problems. We can tackle them one at a time in a Jira issue. I wasn't aware that entity-ext depends on the service engine. Maybe a Jira sub-task could break that dependency. I think the entityengine.xml file issue can be resolved through standard Java resource

List Navigation issue in latest Ofbiz code

2011-01-27 Thread Pankaj Singh
Hi , List navigation is not working further in latest ofbiz setup. Find the URL below and click on the Find Button to render the list then try to navigate the list or try to change the size of list which is broken. *

Re: List Navigation issue in latest Ofbiz code

2011-01-27 Thread Adrian Crum
We are aware of this issue, and one or more Jira issues have been created for it. Thank you for reporting it. -Adrian On 1/27/2011 11:40 PM, Pankaj Singh wrote: Hi , List navigation is not working further in latest ofbiz setup. Find the URL below and click on the Find Button to render the

Re: OFBiz: The road ahead RE the framework

2011-01-27 Thread Scott Gray
On 28/01/2011, at 8:37 PM, Adrian Crum wrote: There is no doubt there will be problems. We can tackle them one at a time in a Jira issue. I wasn't aware that entity-ext depends on the service engine. Maybe a Jira sub-task could break that dependency. That's kind of the point of

Re: OFBiz: The road ahead RE the framework

2011-01-27 Thread Raj Saini
Done. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-4153 Raj On Friday 28 January 2011 01:07 PM, Adrian Crum wrote: There is no doubt there will be problems. We can tackle them one at a time in a Jira issue. I wasn't aware that entity-ext depends on the service engine. Maybe a Jira sub-task

Re: OFBiz: The road ahead RE Accounting

2011-01-27 Thread Pierre Smits
Following improvements I would like to see: - Better layout of reports - e-invoicing - import of e-invoices from suppliers - import of bank statements 2011/1/27 Pierre Smits pierre.sm...@gmail.com Hi all, With the release of 10.04 we come to a point in time where we can think

Re: OFBiz: The road ahead RE the framework

2011-01-27 Thread Adrian Crum
Thanks Scott! We will keep that in mind. -Adrian On 1/27/2011 11:49 PM, Scott Gray wrote: On 28/01/2011, at 8:37 PM, Adrian Crum wrote: There is no doubt there will be problems. We can tackle them one at a time in a Jira issue. I wasn't aware that entity-ext depends on the service engine.