Re: security permission

2008-05-10 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
hris Howe mentioned this quite a few times, about keeping primary keys clean and not incorrectly coupled to interpreted application data. But Chris is probably a database designer. Whatever works in OFBiz is useful. Jonathon Jonathon -- Improov wrote: I don't understand. Explain? Jonat

Re: security permission

2008-05-09 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
the permission settings (in SecurityGroupPermission) and the permission checking code don't care at all. The main reason for this is the support for entity-specific permissions, and there would be thousands of those so we don't want to create them explicitly. -David On May 8, 20

Re: security permission

2008-05-08 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Hi John, In this case, I think it is a mistake. It shouldn't be a "one-nofk" relation. Should be a "one" relation. Not sure why there is any reason for this to be "one-nofk". This isn't the usual "[primary key, fromDate]" composite key issue. That would have a reason for ditching the FK. Th

Re: AW: WG: SHA / SHA1 seed data and password encryption

2008-04-29 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
o other systems we introduce these ofbiz haches to may not use these without the ofbiz encryption - that’s bad - as it should comply to the standard or clearly state that’s its different/wrong as it seems not to be sha1. Kind Regards Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Jonathon -- Im

Re: AW: WG: SHA / SHA1 seed data and password encryption

2008-04-28 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
t pass again. So other systems we introduce these ofbiz haches to may not use these without the ofbiz encryption - that’s bad - as it should comply to the standard or clearly state that’s its different/wrong as it seems not to be sha1. Kind Regards Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachri

Re: WG: SHA / SHA1 seed data and password encryption

2008-04-28 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Martin, > A brief analysis shows that the implementation might start here being > problematic: > > getDigestHash in trunk/base/src/base/org/ofbiz/base/crypto/HashCrypt.java Yup. That's where the OFBiz-specific implementation (or rehashing) is. > Conclusion: the hashes in customer dbs are not re

Re: OrderReadHelper doubling some of the item subtotal calculations????

2008-04-21 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Anne, > So it is worth me making some effort to make my code good enough to be > integrated. I'm sure your codes will be good enough to be integrated; good codes make bug-catching easier, so that's a powerful incentive. As you mentioned in another post, you're finding [integrating your codes

Re: Benefits of dynmic view entity

2008-04-19 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
ase caching versus entity engine caching just setup your database to turn on caching for a certain table and then from the WebTools main page click on the "Entity Engine" link under the "Performance Tests" heading. BTW, the session management in OFBiz is handled by Tomc

Re: Benefits of dynmic view entity

2008-04-19 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
aching ever be faster than local caching? In other words, I was asking because I must be misunderstanding something as this doesn't seem to make any sense. Not sure what you mean by "Oh my goodness. Not again." It's really not that sensational, just basic computer stuff, real

Re: Benefits of dynmic view entity

2008-04-19 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
entries? :) You designed it, I believe. You would know. Thanks! Jonathon David E Jones wrote: On Apr 19, 2008, at 2:04 AM, Jonathon -- Improov wrote: Chris is right that dynamic view entities are exactly like view entities. Both run through the same Entity Engine. Caching by OFBiz is also good

Re: Benefits of dynmic view entity

2008-04-19 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Hi Ritz, First, the Entity Engine in OFBiz is really neat. You will want to avoid unstructured (and possibly mile-long) strings of SQL commands if possible. Also good to avoid RDBMS-specific native languages. Chris is right that dynamic view entities are exactly like view entities. Both run t

Re: OrderReadHelper doubling some of the item subtotal calculations????

2008-04-17 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
ated into the main code base. I don't need to worry about the accounting side yet, so I'm leaving that area of GST madness until (and if) I really need to deal with it. Thanks for the heads up with order items. I'm just now starting to look at that code properly. Cheers, Anne. Jo

Re: OrderReadHelper doubling some of the item subtotal calculations????

2008-04-16 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Hi Anne, Yes, you're right. In fact, for just about EVERY project I did involving rentals or similar, I've had to completely overhaul that Java file. I've found myself coding very unique order calcs and handling for every unique business. Not sure how any of those can be rolled into OFBiz for

Re: attribute "external-view"

2007-12-31 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
man sent the following on 12/31/2007 2:11 AM: http://ofbiz.apache.org/docs/control.html#RequestHandler to my knowledge it is not used in ofbiz. Jonathon -- Improov sent the following on 12/31/2007 1:33 AM: Does it work? I'm talking about the attribute "external-view" for subelement of a . How does it work? Jonathon

attribute "external-view"

2007-12-31 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Does it work? I'm talking about the attribute "external-view" for subelement of a . How does it work? Jonathon

Re: http://www.1800flowers.com/

2007-12-23 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Yes, that is possible. Jonathon Brendan Vogt wrote: I think they put restrictions on the site as to what country may or may not access it. All sites work from my PC, except this one. -Original Message- From: guo weizhan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 8:34

Re: svn update incomplete data

2007-12-15 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
About a few months back, I investigated similar OFBiz-SVN related issues. You just have to keep re-trying until it works. Or search for the thread I created for this. :) Let me know if anyone here knows about SVN server/client and internet protocol such and wants to discuss. But I doubt we hav

Re: FastMap Vs HashMap,

2007-12-15 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Cool. Reminds me of the controversy over using antiseptic to aid open wound healing. Most antiseptics were tested in vitro. In vivo tests results recently show marked differences from prior in vitro results. Hmm. Example... say... PVP-I and cadexomer iodine. PVP-I with low concentration actua

Re: Sequence on the appearance on module title

2007-12-11 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
display whatever i want, as it may be troublesome to update the java code when we upgrade ofbiz to higher version in future. Thanks! rgds, Ryan - Original Message ---- From: Jonathon -- Improov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: user@ofbiz.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, 11 December, 2007 2:17:24 PM Su

Re: FOP Issues

2007-12-11 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
gs all set up, so you really only have 6 days. I payed licensing fees for it for a couple of years, but stopped when the need went away. Skip -Original Message- From: Jonathon -- Improov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 10:07 PM To: user@ofbiz.apache.org Subject:

Re: Sequence on the appearance on module title

2007-12-10 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Ryan, Well, to answer your question specifically... you can't disable the sorting. In folder /framework/base/src/base/org/ofbiz/base/component , see file ComponentConfig.java line 276. All the webapp names are put into a java.util.TreeMap (webapp names are the keys). That TreeMap sorts its ke

Re: FOP Issues

2007-12-10 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Or just hire a reverse-engineer to take this apart for you quickly. On average, 100K lines of codes can be processed (or eliminated from "suspects list") inside of 1 hour. I still haven't found a profiler software that can do what my human engineers do well. Some things just can't be done by co

Re: managing the size of console.log

2007-12-05 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
rote: OK. I changed this line: $JAVA $VMARGS -jar ofbiz.jar $* >>$OFBIZ_LOG 2>>$OFBIZ_LOG& to $JAVA $VMARGS -jar ofbiz.jar $* >>/dev/null 2>>/dev/null& Not sure why OFBIZ_LOG is listed twice, but I'm no shell script guru. - Original Message - From: &qu

Re: Any plan to allow field widgets like inside ?

2007-12-04 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
at it's not completely correct coding form, sorry. Jonathon Jacopo Cappellato wrote: Jonathon -- Improov wrote: Forms can be written in total widget or total FTL, not a combination. That's the problem. See the editcontactmech.ftl example I gave. Also, see the skip-start and s

Re: Any plan to allow field widgets like inside ?

2007-12-04 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
eeman wrote: ignorant question. if you can include a screen and a screen can include a form. what am I missing. Jonathon -- Improov sent the following on 12/4/2007 9:49 PM: Skip, Yes, I knew we can include screen widgets in FTL. I told you "screens as building blocks", remember?

Re: Any plan to allow field widgets like inside ?

2007-12-04 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Sorry, it should be this: Jonathon Jonathon -- Improov wrote: Skip, Yes, I knew we can include screen widgets in FTL. I told you "screens as building blocks", remember? Also, check out ${sections.render('section_name')}, by the

Re: Any plan to allow field widgets like inside ?

2007-12-04 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
er("component://ar/widget/opentaps/collections/screens/Collect ionScreens.xml#collectionWorkArea")} <#if chartURL?has_content> <#else> No chart Image <#else> ${uiLabelMap.PartyNoPar

Re: managing the size of console.log

2007-12-04 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Skip, Agreed. I usually redirect console.log to dev null (discard). Log4J in OFBiz does capture output in rotated logs, so the console.log is just extra. Moreover, debug messages shouldn't be done with System.out.println. Jonathon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vince It is my view that a product

Re: Entity engine, "many" relations, foreign keys

2007-12-04 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
None of the responses pertain to this thread? :( Help? Anyone? Jonathon Jonathon -- Improov wrote: Ah sheesh, too late to correct my own thoughts. Responses came in. Anyway, notes to self here. - Foreign keys must point to UNIQUE or PRIMARY indexes I don't see a point in having a rel

Re: Entity engine, "many" relations, foreign keys

2007-12-04 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Skip, > First, I have read EVERY document I can get my hands on concerning Ofbiz > ... nowhere in them is the tag mentioned and I am betting many other > equally cool features. There's was a remark by Andy some years back, kind of apologizing for lack of documentation. Reason given was that OF

Re: Entity engine, "many" relations, foreign keys

2007-12-04 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Skip, > Ah well, "undocumented" is probably not the right word given that we all > have the source. Perhaps "hidden" might be better? But no, that would > imply the intent to hide something which is surely not the case. Perhaps > "unpublished"? Actually, for open source and free software, "as

Re: Entity engine, "many" relations, foreign keys

2007-12-04 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
s as well as ways to creating indexes on non-key fields. There is a great performance increase having an index in some tables. Now I have to do in manually inside of the DB which is fine. Skip -----Original Message- From: Jonathon -- Improov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, Dece

Re: Entity engine, "many" relations, foreign keys

2007-12-04 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
tables. Now I have to do in manually inside of the DB which is fine. Skip -Original Message- From: Jonathon -- Improov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 3:08 AM To: user@ofbiz.apache.org Subject: Re: Entity engine, "many" relations, foreign keys Ah, wait

Re: Entity engine, "many" relations, foreign keys

2007-12-04 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
quot; will mean a one-to-one foreign key constraint enforced by the application. No real foreign key will be created in database. What do you think? And now, to read the many responses... Jonathon Jonathon -- Improov wrote: More thoughts aloud. > Of course, that would mean we ca

Re: Entity engine, "many" relations, foreign keys

2007-12-04 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
fields. Speaking of "ON UPDATE CASCADE", should we allow an attribute in for this? Do we also want to auto-detect the RDBMS being used, and scream a warning if we encounter one that doesn't support "ON UPDATE CASCADE"? Am I missing a whole chunk of the Entity Engine?

Re: Entity engine, "many" relations, foreign keys

2007-12-04 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
chId such that no such combination exists. Advice? Or should we live without foreign key checks in such cases? Jonathon Jonathon -- Improov wrote: I found this from David Jones: > Foreign keys are done for type "one" relationships, not type many. A type > "many" relati

Re: Entity engine, "many" relations, foreign keys

2007-12-04 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
I found this from David Jones: > Foreign keys are done for type "one" relationships, not type many. A type > "many" relationship is usually just the reverse direction of a type "one" > relationship so the FK covers both. > > What would it mean to have a foreign key on a type "many" relationship?"

Re: error reading ofbiz-containers.xml nested '--'

2007-12-04 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
That's right. We cannot nest comments. The 1st "" closes the comment. The 2nd one is an error. Jonathon Vikas Mayur wrote: I do not see any nested comment in ofbiz-containers.xml in the latest version. Can you please mention which version are you talking about. If I am correct, We can not nes

Re: Any plan to allow field widgets like inside ?

2007-12-04 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
library of macros (sold, privatized, again, sigh). Jonathon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Widgets in FTL is the only way currently to get some things done if you want to use widgets. Skip -Original Message- From: Jonathon -- Improov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December

Re: Any plan to allow field widgets like inside ?

2007-12-03 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
are better. I did not see anything about including widget in FTL. guess I missed that. Jonathon -- Improov sent the following on 12/3/2007 5:36 PM: Actually, this isn't going backwards. It's going forward. Some screens are best done in ftl. This was discussed countless times before.

Re: Any plan to allow field widgets like inside ?

2007-12-03 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
ets. Jonathon BJ Freeman wrote: seems your going backwards. remove the ftl and use screen widgets that include formwidgets. add a class (style) and use the css for aligning tables. Jonathon -- Improov sent the following on 12/2/2007 8:48 PM: The problem I'm facing now is that form widgets a

Re: Any plan to allow field widgets like inside ?

2007-12-03 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
clude formwidgets. add a class (style) and use the css for aligning tables. Jonathon -- Improov sent the following on 12/2/2007 8:48 PM: The problem I'm facing now is that form widgets always have the start and end wrappers ( and wrapper. Getting form widgets to say skip-table could solve this probl

Any plan to allow field widgets like inside ?

2007-12-02 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
The problem I'm facing now is that form widgets always have the start and end wrappers (cellspacing...> and done in ftl. Attributes skip-start and skip-end only remove the wrapper. Getting form widgets to say skip-table could solve this problem, though it's not intuitive to use form widgets as

Re: Write to Browser

2007-11-26 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
red screen directly to the response's output stream. That wouldn't work because in the two file formats mentioned - xsl-fo and zip - there needs to be an intermediate document that is parsed and converted. -Adrian Jonathon -- Improov wrote: Adrian, The rest of my email (of whi

Re: Write to Browser

2007-11-26 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
that same method, it would solve your issue with serving up large files of arbitrary binary data. Jonathon Adrian Crum wrote: Jonathon -- Improov wrote: Why render to a temp file? Why not simply render to a byte array like ScreenFopViewHandler (pdf) does? Temp files need cleaning up. Because t

Re: Widgets, Forms, Containers, etc

2007-11-25 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
TED] wrote: I'd be happy to buy the first copy! Count me in for a paid subscription. -Original Message- From: Jonathon -- Improov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 7:32 PM To: user@ofbiz.apache.org Subject: Re: Widgets, Forms, Containers, etc Coming soon, so

Re: Widgets, containers, etc

2007-11-25 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Skip, A quick one here, since I'm currently writing on this privately. A screen widget is your stackable building block. Use it everywhere. Screen widgets can include other screen widgets. For what you want, use , which outputs a HTML . Use CSS to float the s left or right. Sometimes, you m

Re: Widgets, Forms, Containers, etc

2007-11-25 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Coming soon, soon. :) I'm currently ripping through the framework codes to write docs for framework usage and behavior. Quirks and all. Jonathon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well Jonathon, here a topic ripe for the author just breaking to get out. BTW, the author of the mention document, Torst

element inside

2007-11-25 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Currently, it seems that the element inside a merely triggers a re-reading of the 's element, where is the parent of . Is this true? Any plans to complete this implementation anytime soon? Jonathon

Re: compressHTML ON by default ?

2007-11-21 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
About SVN being development oriented, I agree! As for whether compressHTML would make any diff, I thought it won't. Extra spaces compress really well with zip, so traffic won't be affected much. Maybe javascript works faster (gets parsed more quickly) with compressedHTML on? Jonathon David E

Re: Write to Browser

2007-11-21 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Skip, If you're talking about being retarded and working many projects for fun without money, then yes, I'm worse than you. If it's just about being retarded, I think I'm in some hall of fame. I've been watching your personality, Skip. Pardon me. Are you a techie? I bet you are great with cus

Re: Write to Browser

2007-11-21 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Why render to a temp file? Why not simply render to a byte array like ScreenFopViewHandler (pdf) does? Temp files need cleaning up. The best way I can think of now is to have a generic ByteArrayViewHandler or similar, that outputs any arbitrary byte array to the browser (via HttpServletResponse

Re: Difficult Question

2007-11-16 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Not too difficult. In your controller.xml and in the "findTransaction" request map, have 2 "success" responses, 1 named "success" and the other named "onlyOne". In the , do your finding of transactions, and redirect to the proper response path depending on whether there is only one transaction

Re: VAT tax implementation

2007-11-15 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Yup, for a few UK clients. I thought it's already in OFBiz? Oh, wait. I think not. I remember a heated argument at beginning of this year. Some European folks complained that VAT isn't in OFBiz. By the way, I had also done GST for Singapore and neighbors. As for my "inputs", I notice that suc

Re: Entity-Condition to compare database fields

2007-11-15 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Now that you mention it, yeah, that doesn't seem possible. Even with , you cannot have "conditional joiners". Joins in are restricted to "key-to-key/field" (equality) joins only. What's , by the way? Anybody knows? I don't see it used? It shouldn't be difficult to extend so that it supports

Re: how to get value defined in web.xml ?

2007-11-15 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Sorry to come in so late in this thread. Did you mean you want to introduce your own new variable in web.xml, something like how "mainDecoratorLocation" works? Jonathon sqlien wrote: Unfortunately i have not succeed. Thanks for your responses BJ Freeman wrote: Did you secceed? If yes

Re: SQL help needed

2007-11-14 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Walter, SQL cross-products are quite simple, actually, although not immediately obvious to start with. Consider that every join you make is for a specific purpose. Here's a quick contrived example, for illustration only, not congruent with OFBiz entities. Say you join "Party.employees" to "P

Re: Best practice to merge your custom OFBiz with official weekly build

2007-11-13 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
sary(??). I think I misunderstood him again. Jonathon Jacopo Cappellato wrote: Hi Jonathon, Jonathon -- Improov wrote: Maybe we could write an eBook on "Keeping Up With Official OFBiz Updates -- Version Control Strategies"? Will that be useful to the OFBiz community. Jonathon

Re: Best practice to merge your custom OFBiz with official weekly build

2007-11-13 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
onathon BJ Freeman wrote: I am a simple person I find that keeping my code in a separate application folder lets me dump the newest version in and not worry about overwriting my code. and you make the human part of the individual evaluation as simple. from my experience of 25 years of programming I have

Re: Best practice to merge your custom OFBiz with official weekly build

2007-11-12 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Yes, the "vendor branch" is a clean copy. You're right. The point is to be able to bring in "official updates" into your customized branch in a systematic fashion. And that is to be able to identify *individual* official updates in as unit a granularity as possible. Some change sets can be huge

Re: Gotchas for SECAS's

2007-11-07 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
BJ, I would ask that you say your original message again too. I couldn't understand either. How would running any (typo "and"?) SECAs cause problems with a (typo "an"?) SECA, or any SECA at all? If I understand it right (I'm sure I didn't), it sounds very much like "eating bread and butter is

Re: i've seen this asked but not answered

2007-11-05 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Case, As long as your OFBiz is deployed on the server you want to access, you can access OFBiz via any names that server has. It can be 127.0.0.1 (if you're accessing from the OFBiz server itself), or whatever IP addresses the OFBiz computer has. Or even any domain names assigned to that mach

Re: Entity description - tables, columns & their use

2007-11-05 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Vedam, I'm gonna try to comprehensively document all such ERP-related stuff in OFBiz, starting next year Feb. You wanna join me? It's gonna be a huge project. Yeah, OFBiz is that huge. Currently, as suggested by BJ, we need to figure out the meaning of those fields by reverse-engineering on-t

Re: Using OSCommerce Encrypted Password in OfBiz

2007-11-05 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
lues. So it still doesn't address our issue of moving users (50,000+) to a new system. Is this correct, or are you suggesting the changes you outlined would also work with existing encrypted pw's from osCommerce. Vince Clark Global Era The Freedom of Open Source [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: great CPU optimisation on calculate price

2007-11-05 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
No problems with this approach. Except... Isn't it possible to clear specific cache lines in a cache? More fine-grained. We will need to do a good comb-through to find all spots in OFBiz where the price rule can be affected. For each of those spots, wire in a "cache clear" or "cache recalculate

Re: Using OSCommerce Encrypted Password in OfBiz

2007-11-01 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
e Clark Global Era The Freedom of Open Source [EMAIL PROTECTED] (303) 493-6723 - Original Message - From: "Jonathon -- Improov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: user@ofbiz.apache.org Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2007 9:58:00 AM (GMT-0700) America/Denver Subject: Re: Using O

Re: Using OSCommerce Encrypted Password in OfBiz

2007-11-01 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Check the length of the password hash in osCommerce. It could be 35 characters, 2 characters longer than MD5's 32 (with a ":" in between). Next, look into osCommerce password-generating codes. I believe osCommerce password hashes are salted. There's no way you can easily reverse-engineer thos

Re: Defining and implementing a short-medium term plan for OFBiz

2007-10-26 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
A christmas list is fine, IMHO. Always nice to have more feedback than less. The list should represent real-world requirements. With a longer list, we'll have more items to choose from. A long list isn't going to kill us, long as we can still exercise the prudence/right to pick the few we can c

Re: Management style for OFBiz project (was shipments made for out of stock items)

2007-10-25 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
----- From: Jonathon -- Improov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 11:14 PM To: user@ofbiz.apache.org Subject: Re: Management style for OFBiz project (was shipments made for out of stock items) > You're in Singapore, am I remembering that right Jonathon? Yup.

Re: Management style for OFBiz project (was shipments made for out of stock items)

2007-10-24 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
o think would be valuable for all, but not as a top-down management sort of thing, more as a chance for people to collaborate more effectively by communicating what we'd all like to see in the near and distant future for the project. -David On Oct 24, 2007, at 9:25 PM, Jonathon -- Improov

Re: shipments made for out of stock items

2007-10-24 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Jonathon, you obviously don't live in the U.S where there are two lawmakers for every citizen! :) -----Original Message- From: Jonathon -- Improov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 7:52 PM To: user@ofbiz.apache.org Subject: Re: shipments made for out of stock it

Re: shipments made for out of stock items

2007-10-24 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
I agree with BJ. A lawyer friend here (very good lawyer too) also had the same idea that patents make for good control. I told him the exact same thing that BJ just mentioned. Patents make for clear concessions (for the patent holder). But then, lawyers do make a living suing for patent infri

Re: find all products in the catalog admin

2007-10-24 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Well, I think you're being a "jerk" (firm?) about this. But jerks get the job done. I've been accused way too many times of being too soft. If I were married, my wife would complain that I'm always "fooling around" being Mr. Fun Guy. About finding yourself "coaching" people too often, maybe t

Re: shipments made for out of stock items

2007-10-24 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Certainly inappropriate. There are also many other inappropriate (or largely missing) parts in OFBiz, like EFT handling (different in my part of the world, maybe). But we have to consider that we have many cooks (we all want in on it), and just one soup (OFBiz, framework, foundation functionali

Re: shipments made for out of stock items

2007-10-24 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Skip, Just my rambling 2 cents here. :) It takes time to write "If it has wide appeal and does not break existing users, we can consider it". Quicker to write, "It'll most likely be rejected" (so ask me more about why, or just shoot me). I'd like to bring up a curious experience in my 13-year

Re: The competition

2007-10-18 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
A recent news also stated that SAP intends to target really small businesses, I think with an ASP or SAS model. Like NetSuite. Jonathon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thought you all might be interested as SAP is the only real Ofbiz competition: SAN FRANCISCO -- German enterprise software company S

Re: Jira submissions

2007-10-17 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Currently, I just go through them all. I maintain my own database of records that point to JIRA issues. Yes, it's true that there's a great wealth of submitted codes we can reuse. As for why it isn't in OFBiz, it's just not all that easy to fit every imaginable submission into a central framewo

Re: Odd Error

2007-10-11 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
I don't think Dynamic Views can help here. The "purchasing recommendation" is generated once, and is then presented again and again to the end-user. It is not generated every time the end-user needs to see it. How about creating a permanent table for both "purchasing recommendation" and aging A

Re: I am trying to display CMS mananaged content in ecommerce

2007-10-09 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Hi Vince, > I think where I am getting confused is that if you render content via CMS you > are already past the point of having access to lower level functionality such > as screen widgets and the controller.xml file. Like David said, this certainly is possible in theory. What it takes may be

Re: I am trying to display CMS mananaged content in ecommerce

2007-10-09 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
> The main reason is that version control of code for reliable rollouts of a > tested set of code is vital for most sites (unless their tolerance for errors > and bugs is very high). > > The more common approach is to have the templates in general in the file > system using current methods, and pu

Re: Will OFBiz work with XAMPP for Linux or Windows?

2007-10-06 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Yes, your interpretation is correct. It doesn't need an external database, since it has Derby. But it's usual to run OFBiz with a competent RDBMS. Derby is purely Java, and so may be slower than MySQL and other RDBMSes. All you really need is a JDK to compile OFBiz, and a JVM to run it. Jonat

Re: availableToPromiseTotal

2007-10-04 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Agreed. The field availableToPromise should only be updated when an actual commitment is made. Same for inventory reservations. Question is, will the availableToPromise field, if value is 1, be put into negative value when a few customers do an "add-to-cart" at the same time, and then check ou

Re: CRM - Customer Relationship Management facilities in OFBiz

2007-10-04 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
ork for a particular company. I would expect my work to be used by many, so the ROI increases with each installation. I see room for both methods depending on the customers' needs. Skip -Original Message- From: Jonathon -- Improov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 03

Re: CRM - Customer Relationship Management facilities in OFBiz

2007-10-04 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
t generate responses, typically HTML pages, to HTTP requests from clients much the same as ASP Java and JavaScript are commonly mistaken as somehow related to each other however this is not true cheers Phil -Original Message- From: Jonathon -- Improov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tag in services.xml

2007-10-04 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
I think the default is inclue="all". Which means, pk and nonpk fields are included. Jonathon sqlien wrote: if I make without include="pk" / include="nonpk", pk and non pk fields are implicitly passed IN or not ? sqlien wrote: hi, Can anyone tell me what mean these two lines in services.

Re: CRM - Customer Relationship Management facilities in OFBiz

2007-10-04 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Compiere has a similar "auto-deploy" mechanism. So that solves the "deploy" issue. There's still the issue of creating and maintaining 2 separate UI modules: one for Java app, the other for browser. Which reminds me. OFBiz browser UIs don't care about the case where javascript is disabled. Anyw

Re: CRM - Customer Relationship Management facilities in OFBiz

2007-10-03 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
at any time (and no associated aggravation). Their work is never interrupted or slowed (assuming the database server is not overloaded.) 5. "Those folks writing the "offloading algorithms" won't know how fast/slow my computer is." Gads Jonathon, I couldnt agree more. I

Re: CRM - Customer Relationship Management facilities in OFBiz

2007-10-03 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
> You might be surprised by how expensive such a solution would be to > create/maintain/deploy and how little it will help on server resources. I have many clients wanting to move away from that distributed (client codes) model to the centralized (server codes) model. Yes, it is proving to be ex

Re: tag in services.xml

2007-10-03 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Sometimes, when you need only the reference to an existing record, you will want service callers to pass in PK (primary key) fields. PK fields are combined to form the "key" to look up a particular record. Non-PK fields form the "data" for the record. Other times, when you need to update an exi

Re: Linux distro?

2007-10-03 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Er... correction. I think my clients needed to use SDK 1.4 . And there was no support for 64-bit AMD (or 64-bit anything, can't recall). There should be SDKs for 64-bit AMD and Intel from SDK 1.5 and above. Jonathon Jonathon -- Improov wrote: For 64-bit AMD? That'll be good. Last I

Re: tag in services.xml

2007-10-03 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Not sure if overrides an . There's . In , there's also , so you can selectively exclude some attributes in the entity specified in . Usually, you'll use to override the "optional" attribute of an attribute. For eg, I skipped several attributes in the above eg. Jonathon Amine AZZI

Re: Linux distro?

2007-10-02 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
rivers. C -Original Message----- From: Jonathon -- Improov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 9:27 PM To: user@ofbiz.apache.org Subject: Re: Linux distro? A couple of clients I have use 64-bit AMD machines. I recall there weren't any official Sun SDKs supporting

Re: Linux distro?

2007-10-02 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
A couple of clients I have use 64-bit AMD machines. I recall there weren't any official Sun SDKs supporting those machines. My clients were forced to use some other non-Sun SDKs. Not good. Lots of bizarre issues. As for 64-bit gotchas, I wouldn't be surprised. Newer hardwares often have new pro

Re: Users of the release4.0 branch?

2007-10-02 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
. Jonathon BJ Freeman wrote: Jonathon: I believe the original context was the manpower to do this. it sounds like you experiencing the same problem and want to shift it to the ofbiz svn. Still though it is a manpower problem even if the ideas put forth are good ones. Jonathon -- Improov sent

Re: Users of the release4.0 branch?

2007-10-01 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
OFBiz structure. Very convenient. A separate text file, conveniently copied and modified from the MD5 manifest, will serve as documentation of the version and source of the libraries, much like at http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/Libraries+Included+in+OFBiz . Jonathon Jacques Le Roux wrote:

Re: Download SVN Repository ... Linux distro?

2007-10-01 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
A Linux distro that works perfectly with the JDK/JRE needed. The JDK/JRE used now is 1.5. Beyond that consideration, you should just go with a distro you like most, one that feels most cuddly or shiny or something. Jonathon Philip Laing wrote: Thanks BJ ... Now what distro would be more sui

Re: Complicated pricing

2007-10-01 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
component.xml as The question is, how can I override the original definition without modifying Ofbiz code. i.e. can I put an identically named service definition in hot-deploy or somewhere and have all of Ofbiz use my new calculateProductPrice? Skip -Original Message- From: Jonathon -- I

Re: Complicated pricing

2007-10-01 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Roux wrote: Jonathon, Skip, I'm not sure of what Jonathon means (have not time to look at services_authorizedotnet.xml right now); maybe he wants to allude that there is an interface mechanism for services too. Just look for the word "interface" in services definitions. Jacques

Re: Complicated pricing

2007-09-30 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
ion is, how can I override the original definition without modifying Ofbiz code. i.e. can I put an identically named service definition in hot-deploy or somewhere and have all of Ofbiz use my new calculateProductPrice? Skip -Original Message- From: Jonathon -- Improov [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: Complicated pricing

2007-09-30 Thread Jonathon -- Improov
Yes, overriding that method will mean you won't touch the OFBiz codes. That could mean you can continue to use your custom method, while still conveniently watching the community's updates to the original method. Such a method override will also kinda "document" your custom method as "being rel

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