Is there any documentation on writing help pages for the help system?
Many thanks,
Chris
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Does the help system support i18n? I.e. can help pages be written in
different languages?
Many thanks,
Chris
On 17/05/10 21:26, Christopher Snow wrote:
Is there any documentation on writing help pages for the help system?
Many thanks,
Chris
) in Eclipse. By
chance Oxygen is handling pretty well Docbook, and it's not expensive
(some euros/year)
Jacques
From: Christopher Snow sno...@snowconsulting.co.uk
Is there any documentation on writing help pages for the help system?
Many thanks,
Chris
Ok, I think the following file is no longer used:
/applications/product/documents/Product.xml
If so, I can create a JIRA.
So, should it be removed?
On 17/05/10 22:39, Christopher Snow wrote:
Hi Jacques,
I'm happy creating docbook files in xml and eclipse, but I am a bit
confused
information
To create new help pages:
http://demo-trunk.ofbiz.apache.org/cmssite/cms/APACHE_OFBIZ_HTML#N23572
please be patient with loading, te document is not getting rather big.
Regards,
Hans
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 22:48 +0100, Christopher Snow wrote:
Ok, I think the following file
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There are two options when creating/editing a Product Catalog:
- Permission required to add product to ViewAllow
There are two options when creating/editing a Product Catalog:
- Permission required to add product to ViewAllow category
- Permission required to add product to PurchaseAllow category
What do these options actually do?
Many thanks,
Chris
Hi Forum,
Where can I find the Manager Reference guides as contributed by
Undersun, i.e.?
- ManagerReferenceAccounting.pdf
- ManagerReferenceCatalog.pdf
- ManagerReferenceContent.pdf
- etc
BTW, am i doing something wrong with the way I search the wiki I can
never seem to find anything?
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Is it possible to get the name of the component that an entity belongs
too? E.g. something like:
Delegator delegator = (Delegator) request.getAttribute(delegator);
ModelReader reader = delegator.getModelReader();
ModelEntity entity = reader.getModelEntity(myEntity);
// return the name of the
versions don't.
I can still manually add the product variant through the associations
screen on trunk, so as long as this doesn't get fixed, I will use this
method. Is this ever likely to get fixed?
Many thanks in advance,
Chris
Christopher Snow wrote:
Hi Ruth/Scott,
This post is related
Hi Ruth/Scott,
This post is related to a post I did some time ago. My client is a
vehicle breaker that scraps vehicles, and sells the individual
components. When they scrap a vehicle, they keep the main components
such as the engine and later sell those items individually. Some of the
The ofbiz demo store looks very tired compared to stores such as magento
commerce demo (http://demo.magentocommerce.com/)
Has anyone considered copying magento's look and feel for ofbiz?
Many thanks,
Chris
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Christopher Snow sent the following on 3/25/2010 4:42 PM:
The ofbiz demo store looks very tired compared to stores such as magento
commerce demo (http://demo.magentocommerce.com/)
Has anyone considered copying magento's look and feel for ofbiz?
Many thanks,
Chris
, Christopher Snow
sno...@snowconsulting.co.uk wrote:
In the party find screen, there is a column to show the Party's Main
Role.
Where is the party main role stored?
Many thanks in advance,
Chris
Is it possible to get hold of older ofbiz versions (e.g. 3.2)?
I know they wont be supported - I'm just interested to see how the
architecture has changed.
Many thanks,
Chris
When I create a component with ant create-component, the web.xml contains:
context-param
param-namewebSiteId/param-name
param-valueEXAMPLE/param-value
descriptionA unique ID used to look up the WebSite
entity/description
/context-param
What is the main purpose for
I have started drafting a tutorial at:
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/GAri
Please let me know if this is useful
I had quite a few problems with the SOAP implementation.
I did manage to get working with an axis client using AXIOM:
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/b4KV
I am using the following client XML to call the getOrderStatus
service as a
SOAP service. The Ofbiz getOrderStatus service takes
1) replace the ofbiz component loader (i.e. ofbiz configuration) with
technology like OSGi or DI (e.g. spring)
BENEFITS:
+ reduce the amount of time a new ofbiz developer working on the ofbiz
framework will have to spend understanding the component loader
+ help manage the dependencies and
Does the plugin work with other groovy projects?
What operating system are you using? The groovy plugin doesn't work for
example with the ubuntu supplied eclipse.
Ravindra Mandre wrote:
Using its plug-in may solve your problem.
Ravindra
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:21 AM, zhiyongcui
to
create separate bundles for framework components such as entity
engine,
service engine, security, Geronimo etc. IIRC, problem was with entity
engine depending service engine due to some other component ( I think
securityext).
Thanks,
Raj
Christopher Snow wrote:
Hi Raj,
Why
I have put together some instructions for running a standalone entity
engine.
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/zQDi
Any comments / feedback will be appreciated.
Many thanks,
Chris
AGoens wrote:
From my perspective, small business owners need OFBiz, they just don't know
it.
Really? I've found that small business owners find ofbiz much too complex.
, 2010-03-01 at 09:31 +, Christopher Snow wrote:
AGoens wrote:
From my perspective, small business owners need OFBiz, they just don't know
it.
Really? I've found that small business owners find ofbiz much too complex.
--
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To turn this into a positive, perhaps we need somewhere on the wiki
where we catalog the issues of the community? that way we won't need to
keep fighting these battles. This shouldn't become an area for slating
ofbiz, it shown be used to document actual issues and what is happening
to resolve
I'm spending some time looking through how the container principle works
in ofbiz. I'm trying to get a minimal entity engine + catalina working.
I have reduced the framework component-load.xml to only the following
components:
load-component component-location=geronimo/
load-component
,
I agree that OSGI would be a better option than Grail. And yes, you
put some good cards on the table, but... challenging isn'it ?
If we succeed in removing components dependencies and take the time
to think well about it, then why not?
Jacques
From: Christopher Snow sno
Hi BJ,
It was definitely ant run. Interestingly though, startofbiz.sh did
work ok.
Many thanks,
Chris
BJ Freeman wrote:
looks like you did and ant install which normally does a shut down at
the end of the install.
have your done startofbiz?
Christopher Snow sent the following on 2/28
How can I get a reference to the delegator in a jsp / servlet?
Many thanks,
Chris
migrated from JSP to ftl is you can not pass the
context back to ofbiz.
Christopher Snow sent the following on 2/28/2010 7:43 AM:
How can I get a reference to the delegator in a jsp / servlet?
Many thanks,
Chris
Hi Forum,
I've been pondering how a stable binary release of ofbiz (i.e. upcoming
10.04) could be kept up-to-date with the latest patches. One potential
method would be have each components' config directory configurable to a
folder external to the $OFBIZ_HOME, in the case of linux this may
once the
image is up and running with no modification.
when I want to update from the trunk I make a separate folder to put in
the new version
then I add my customization and test it, once satisfied I update my
original code.
Christopher Snow sent the following on 2/27/2010 8:06 AM:
Hi
and use it
for a couple of month. So if I have made some mistake in the following post,
criticisms are welcomed :clap:
Does anyone using OFBIZ interested in porting OFBIZ to leverage a mature
and decent web platform, more specifically Grails?
The idea comes from the post from Christopher Snow
One more - inline...
Christopher Snow wrote:
Hi Miles,
I'm currently doing some work on making a standalone ofbiz development
framework (i.e. no business functionality). Your questions have got
me thinking:
what does the ofbiz framework give you that the grails framework
doesn't
That's fantastic news - learning the ofbiz ajax implementation has been
on my list for a while. Thanks for making my life easier!
Divesh Dutta wrote:
Hello Users,
I have introduced new section in Practice application of OFBiz ,
which is all about How to write Ajax request. By following
, Christopher Snow wrote:
I can't think of anything other than this that the ofbiz framework provides
that grails doesn't.
If you are blind, all you can see is darkness.
Jacopo
:27 PM, Christopher Snow wrote:
Hey come on Jacopo - overall I'm actually trying to promote the use of ofbiz.
I've invested a considerable amount of time in it.
I was hoping that my question would get ofbiz supporters to list some of the
benefits of ofbiz over grails.
Eh eh
Hi Forum/Adrian!
We are about to make heavy use of temporal expressions on trunk. Before
we do, would you consider them stable at the moment?
Many thanks,
Chris
the high road.
Ruth
Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
On Feb 26, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Christopher Snow wrote:
Hey come on Jacopo - overall I'm actually trying to promote the use
of ofbiz. I've invested a considerable amount of time in it.
I was hoping that my question would get ofbiz supporters to list
Thanks Adrian. Neat solution btw.
Adrian Crum wrote:
They are stable. The only potential changes are bug fixes.
-Adrian
Christopher Snow wrote:
Hi Forum/Adrian!
We are about to make heavy use of temporal expressions on trunk.
Before we do, would you consider them stable at the moment
.. and grails has many plugins : jBPM, drools, birt, quartz, rest, soap,
etc that facilitate building enterprise systems.
huang.mi...@gmail.com wrote:
Please see inline...
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 12:20 +, Christopher Snow wrote:
One more - inline...
Christopher Snow wrote:
Hi
There's a set of instructions at:
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/nYTW
Or I can send you a in progress hack of my latest attempt - it's 90mb.
Interesting work. Will future OFBIZ official release based on this
framework? Is there any preview working code in repository now?
Plugins could be used for separating the modules, this will be more
interesting in Grails 2.0 when the plugin framework will use OSGi -
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRAILS-2221
Rather than bring ofbiz to grails, you may find it would be easier to
bring grails to ofbiz, for example it
There was some interest in porting openerp to jython - now that would
have really rocked!
http://rvalyi.blogspot.com/2009/02/openerp-running-on-java-jython-round-1.html
Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Maybe the future of OFBiz in Europe (and even in USA it seems) will be
harder...
interested in porting OFBIZ to leverage a mature
and decent web platform, more specifically Grails?
The idea comes from the post from Christopher Snow, There was some
interest in porting openerp to jython, and the recent hot topic groovy
service code instead of minilang. Excuse me, I'm going a step
Hi everyone,
I have put together some instructions for using ofbiz (trunk) as a
standalone development framework. The instructions are at:
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Ofbiz+as+a+development+framework+-+upcoming+release+10.04
Anyone interested in this topic, can you
Hi users,
How do you get the short url for wiki pages?
E.g.
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/eIOJ
instead of
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Ofbiz+as+a+development+framework+-+release+9.04
Many thanks,
Chris
Thanks Ashish!
Ashish Vijaywargiya wrote:
On any page go to Tools(refer top right corner) - Info and get the
link from there.
--
Ashish
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Christopher Snow
sno...@snowconsulting.co.uk wrote:
Hi users,
How do you get the short url for wiki pages?
E.g.
http
I was wondering why groovy is not used for service code instead on minilang?
Any thoughts?
Many thanks,
Chris
I'm receiving timeouts trying:
https://ofbiz-vm.apache.org/catalog/control/login/main?USERNAME=adminPASSWORD=ofbizJavaScriptEnabled=Y
Is demo down?
Many thanks,
Chris
I've added this link to the FAQ as neither google, or www.ofbiz.org
search found it.
Christopher Snow wrote
Thanks Hans!
Hans Bakker wrote:
Hi Chris,
we did a small description of setting up ofbiz whith CAS at:
http://ofbiz-vm.apache.org/cmssite/cms/APACHE_OFBIZ_HTML#N23366
regards,
Hans
?
The excel sheet I have uploaded here
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Framework-only+distribution
can be used as a tool for this.
What do you think about?
-Bruno
2010/2/7 Christopher Snow sno...@snowconsulting.co.uk:
Also, splitting components down into small functional areas could
Are there are any instructions on CAS enabling ofbiz trunk?
I have seen the document
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/6553844/ArlSettingUpCasOnOfbiz5.pdf
but it makes no reference to the ldap component in specialpurpose.
Many thanks,
Chris
Thanks Hans!
Hans Bakker wrote:
Hi Chris,
we did a small description of setting up ofbiz whith CAS at:
http://ofbiz-vm.apache.org/cmssite/cms/APACHE_OFBIZ_HTML#N23366
regards,
Hans
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 10:27 +, Christopher Snow wrote:
Are there are any instructions on CAS enabling
, maybe the eclipse ofbiz IDE could provide a
consolidated view?
Cheers,
Chris
Christopher Snow wrote:
Good work Bruno! I'm putting some thought into the dependency issues
- I will provide some more feedback when I have a clearer view.
However, my current view is this:
1) Developers should
Matt, what was the 300 - 400 hours for? I think that time would give
you the capability to develop a standalone solution. If you want to use
existing functionality (order mgt, invoicing, shipping, mfg, workeffort,
etc) you need a lot more time depending on which functionality you use.
I've
Hi Jacques,
In my comment about the lack of overall system documentation, I meant
about the business processes behind the components. Technical
documentation is actually quite good for ofbiz.
Cheers,
Chris
Jacques Le Roux wrote:
From: Christopher Snow sno...@snowconsulting.co.uk
[Snip
to the party component.
Kind regards,
Jacopo
On Feb 5, 2010, at 11:46 PM, Christopher
Snow
wrote:
In the party component, there is a
view
dependent on
the accounting component:
view-entity
entity-name
Crum wrote:
Chris,
Since you didn't answer my question on what you are trying to achieve, I'm
going to guess: You are trying to achieve component independence.
That will not happen. Some components are inherently dependent on each other.
-Adrian
--- On Sat, 2/6/10, Christopher Snow sno
Hi Bruno,
What are the current points of view on what should be included in the
framework?
Many thanks,
Chris
Bruno Busco wrote:
This is something we discussed in the DEV ML:
http://www.mail-archive.com/d...@ofbiz.apache.org/msg36156.html
-Bruno
2010/2/6 Adrian Crum
As long as we don't build a dependency on it from the framework!!!
Bruno Busco wrote:
May be a stupid question...but...couldn't we think to have the plugin
developed in the OFBiz project itself?
-Bruno
2010/1/26 Sascha Rodekamp sascha.rodek...@lynx.de:
Hey everybody,
yep Daniel Rosowski,
,
no, the PartyAcctgPreference entity is defined in the accounting
component
(it is used to define accounting preferences for a given organization)
and
so it cannot be moved to the party component.
Kind regards,
Jacopo
On Feb 5, 2010, at 11:46 PM, Christopher Snow wrote
Hi Babu,
1) I found this very frustrating too.
2) I requested the site to be indexed by google, but in the meantime I
always do my search from the search box on www.ofbiz.org. Make sure to
prefix your search term with 'ofbiz' so you don't get back stuff from
all apache projects.
3 4) I was
to contribute
meaningful and error-free code.
-Adrian
--- On Fri, 2/5/10, Christopher Snow sno...@snowconsulting.co.uk wrote:
From: Christopher Snow sno...@snowconsulting.co.uk
Subject: what a mess! is framework independence ever going to be possible?
To: user@ofbiz.apache.org
Date
Are there any example services written in groovy that someone could
point me to?
Many thanks,
Chris
Christopher Snow wrote:
Are there any example services written in groovy that someone could
point me to?
Many thanks,
Chris
Are nightly builds actually used?
Anyone who already does ofbiz development would want to use svn?
Anyone new to ofbiz would only want ofbiz-rel9.04-current.zip or
ofbiz-trunk-current.zip?
Just curious...
Tim Ruppert wrote:
Ruth, I'm sure there's some good that could come out of your
On a similar vein to style checking, a great tool to include as part of
the framework build process would be dependency checking / reporting.
This tool could help alert to incorrect dependencies (such as entity
engine depending on service engine).
Any thoughts?
Cheers,
Chris
any
earthly reason for links to 10 nightly builds for each version on page
1. Just creates confusion, IMHO.
On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 22:09 +, Christopher Snow wrote:
Are nightly builds actually used?
Anyone who already does ofbiz development would want to use svn?
Anyone new to ofbiz
Perhaps this functionality would be best situated in the eclipse ofbiz
ide tool that is currently being developed?
Christopher Snow wrote:
On a similar vein to style checking, a great tool to include as part
of the framework build process would be dependency checking / reporting.
This tool
In the party component, there is a view dependent on the accounting
component:
view-entity entity-name=PartyAcctgPrefAndGroup
package-name=org.ofbiz.party.party
title=PartyAcctgPreference and PartyGroup Entity
member-entity entity-alias=PTYACCPREF
what is the purpose of the commonext component?
many thanks in advance,
chris
I'm back to the process of working out how to get a standalone framework
running based on trunk, but I have found that the dependencies have got
out of hand (if I've understood the code right):
Framework depends on Themes
Themes depends on Content
Content depends on Party
The questions I'm
Is it possible to do a createOrUpdate with the new entity-auto engine?
I.e. the operation depends on whether or not the primary key is supplier?
Many thanks in advance,
Chris
Is it likely that this will get implemented at some stage?
Divesh Dutta wrote:
No its not possible now. Refer EntityAutoEngine.java
Thanks
--
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Christopher Snow wrote:
Is it possible to do a createOrUpdate with the new entity-auto
engine? I.e. the operation depends on whether
The Data Model Resource book volume 1 really helps with this.
Brendan Vogt wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to understand how the party manager works, and how everything
fits in together. Is there any documentation about understanding the party
better? Like for example, how do I find out what the
From memory:
Product Management
Ordering
Invoicing
Shipments
Workeffort
HR
Brendan Vogt wrote:
With what else does it help with?
On 3 February 2010 13:46, Christopher Snow sno...@snowconsulting.co.ukwrote:
The Data Model Resource book volume 1 really helps with this.
Brendan
things are done is not understandable for me. Will these 3
books help me?
On 3 February 2010 14:03, Christopher Snow sno...@snowconsulting.co.ukwrote:
From memory:
Product Management
Ordering
Invoicing
Shipments
Workeffort
HR
Brendan Vogt wrote:
With what else does it help
.
Any ideas where to start looking for a novice beginner? I am a .NET
programmer and don't have much experience with anything Java related.
On 3 February 2010 14:10, Christopher Snow sno...@snowconsulting.co.ukwrote:
I bought all three, but haven't got past book 1!
What are you
Hi Gavin,
I'm currently implementing ofbiz for a government project in the UK.
Cheers,
Chris
Gavin Mabie wrote:
Hi list
Is there anybody on the list that tried or implemented OfBiz in the public
sector / government?
Gavin
, Christopher Snow
sno...@snowconsulting.co.uk wrote:
Hi Zhang,
Would you be happy to provide some documentation on how to do this?
Many thanks,
Chris
Zhang Shiqian wrote:
Ofbiz services can be exported as standard web services, you can use Flex
to
call the web services. We have
Is it possible to do a cascade delete in an ofbiz service?
Many thanks in advance,
Chris
I would recommend the following for stable:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/branches/release09.04
Jeroen van der Wal wrote:
- In Explorer right click on a directory (eg your home or documents
directory)
- Select SVN Checkout
- Enter URL of repository:
this get updated frequently, or only on major releases like once a
year?
On 1 February 2010 14:45, Christopher Snow sno...@snowconsulting.co.ukwrote:
I would recommend the following for stable:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/branches/release09.04
Jeroen van der Wal wrote
Hi Abdullah,
On my current project, we initially used xml-rpc using a flex xmlrpc
library sent to me by Andrew Zeneski.
We had tried using the new ofbiz soap implementation, but it didn't play
nicely with flex.
Have a look at XMLRPC in the faq:
I HAVE connected to ofbiz with flex using xmlrpc.
Did you see my post? http://n4.nabble.com/forum/PostLink.jtp?post=1458842
Bilgin Ibryam wrote:
Abdullah Shaikh wrote:
Hi Bilgin,
The client can be in any RIA technology, I need to communicate with
ofbiz
from flex, in this case I guess I
with flex, gwt etc.
I will have a look at the link provided.
Thanks,
Abdullah
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Christopher Snow
sno...@snowconsulting.co.uk wrote:
Hi Abdullah,
On my current project, we initially used xml-rpc using a flex xmlrpc
library sent to me by Andrew Zeneski.
We had tried
represents an object.
Thanks,
Abdullah
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Christopher Snow
sno...@snowconsulting.co.uk wrote:
Sorry - just seen this.
The approach we currently use is having a dedicated web app in ofbiz which
is used to expose ofbiz services using REST (the organisation favors
in this model, and introduced as3corelib to deal with
JSON format data.
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Christopher Snow
sno...@snowconsulting.co.uk wrote:
We are not automatically exporting objects with REST.
We are exporting some services with REST. Each one has to be manually
coded
Hi Ruth,
When you have figured out how to use ofbiz for a consulting firm, will
you be including this in one of your books? I would certainly like to
know how to do this, but without having to go through all the pain
that you have gone through!
Many thanks,
Chris
Ruth Hoffman wrote:
OK,
Is it possible to set the ofbiz database connection to read only?
Many thanks in advance,
Chris
Hi Forum,
I noticed that the following command wasn't loading any data:
./ant run-install-readers -Dreaders=ext,ext-demo
The log is showing:
[java] 2010-01-14 10:05:48,514 (main) [
EntityDataLoader.java:104:INFO ] Could not find entity-data-reader
named: ${data-readers}. Creating a
It is a bug - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-3410 - patch
supplied
Christopher Snow wrote:
Hi Forum,
I noticed that the following command wasn't loading any data:
./ant run-install-readers -Dreaders=ext,ext-demo
The log is showing:
[java] 2010-01-14 10:05:48,514 (main
, I now need to do ./ant run-tests and I am getting the error
message?
Many thanks,
Chris
Christopher Snow-2 wrote:
I'm getting the following error on ubuntu 9.10, with sun-java6
Any ideas anyone?
2009-12-19 18:27:13,492 (main) [ Http11AprProtocol.java:109:ERROR]
Error initializing
There has recently been some CMS documentation made available at:
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/OFBiz+Content+Management+How+to
Kaushik Chakraborty wrote:
Hi,
I am looking for any CMS tool/product which is based on OFBiz. I did search on
web but I could not find anything.
Hi Forum,
I have a requirement to represent some legal concepts in ofbiz. We are
still clarifying the business data model, but roughly, we have a (court)
hearing which consists of:
- reading time
- hearing duration
- judgement time
The hearing such as Smith vs. Jones will have a judge
During developing my component, I am frequently creating new demo data
as my component grows and pasting the data into the webtools import
screen.
Is there a way to automate loading the demo data for my component?
Running ant run-install is not practical because it installs the demo
data for
in entityengine.xml.
Then you can use run-install-extseed. See the main build.xml file.
Also, from OFBiz main dir, ant -p is your friend.
Jacques
From: Christopher Snow sno...@snowconsulting.co.uk
During developing my component, I am frequently creating new demo data
as my component grows
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