Re: Using Derby ij To Browse Demo Data

2017-05-23 Thread stimits
Hi, I got squirrel sql running and able to connect to PostgreSQL. However, I'm a bit confused about Derby connections...either I need a network address with port ("Apache Derby Client" driver), or else it seems perhaps a direct file access ("Apache Derby Embedded" driver). I didn't see any sep

Mapping Derby Sample Data Foreign Keys

2017-06-06 Thread stimits
Hi, There are 861 tables in the ofbiz Derby database under ofbiz-16.11.02 for demo data. I'm trying to learn to load this data manually using SQL queries, and thus making a dependency list of tables with foreign key requirements (or even references to other tables which are allowed to be null)

Re: Mapping Derby Sample Data Foreign Keys

2017-06-08 Thread stimits
e.orgSent: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 07:31:52 - (UTC)Subject: Re: Mapping Derby Sample Data Foreign Keys Hi stimits, I agree with Taher about the most productive way to solve your problem. For an overall understanding of the data model, seehttps://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Data+Model

Re: Mapping Derby Sample Data Foreign Keys

2017-06-09 Thread stimits
first goal...I can't do that from within the existing interfaces (due to WebPOS requirements). Thanks! - Original Message -From: Mike To: user Sent: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 15:56:07 - (UTC)Subject: Re: Mapping Derby Sample Data Foreign Keys Hey stimits. Are you finding that the

Re: GL Defaults

2017-06-10 Thread stimits
There is a SQL table which is easier to see than XML. If you have direct access to the OfBiz SQL tables look at table GL_ACCOUNTS (loaded from this file and other GL_ tables). - Original Message -From: Yash Sharma To: user@ofbiz.apache.orgSent: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 09:00:19 - (UTC)Sub

Re: Mapping Derby Sample Data Foreign Keys

2017-06-10 Thread stimits
Hi, I will probably be interested in this. I have just switched from trying to do this under Derby to doing this under PostgreSQL after looking at pgadmin3. It looks like this tool provides more information than SQuirrel-sqL (possibly because of Derby, not necessarily because of the tool) and

Re: Error: Template location is empty (Template location is empty)

2017-06-12 Thread stimits
Don't know if this will help, but I have to change VISUAL_THEME to a non-default because of a different failure. I like BLUELIGHT. Go here: framework/common/config/general.properties Edit the VISUAL_THEME line to be BLUELIGHT instead of TOMAHAWK, see if this helps: #VISUAL_THEME=TOMAHAWKVISUAL_

Re: Cash Register App?

2017-06-13 Thread stimits
Is there a login name/pass for demo? - Original Message -From: Shi Jinghai To: user@ofbiz.apache.orgSent: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 05:36:36 - (UTC)Subject: Re: Cash Register App? Hi Jacques, Updating the status of our new webpos development, we have just released the new webpos implement

Re: creating new facility in Ofbiz

2017-08-25 Thread stimits
+1 Probably the same topic worded differently: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-9330 - Original Message -From: Jacques Le Roux To: user@ofbiz.apache.orgSent: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 08:56:20 - (UTC)Subject: Re: creating new facility in Ofbiz +1 Jacques Le 25/08/2017 à 10:36

loadDefault Source Code

2018-01-14 Thread stimits
This is probably a naive question, but on 16.11.04 I am searching for the actual code which runs for the "loadDefault" part of: ./gradlew loadDefault I'm looking for what I might edit to create my own version of loadDefault after observing what the existing loadDefault actually executes. I see

Re: loadDefault Source Code

2018-01-15 Thread stimits
Hi, I guess what I should do is rephrase...if I wanted to run this under a debugger and get a stack frame (which I'm not actually set up to do), where would I find the source code which specifically understands which XML files to read and load for loadDefault? The build.gradle is more of a dec

Re: loadDefault Source Code

2018-01-16 Thread stimits
I am interested in how the list of files is chosen, along with the rules for order of choosing. I am thinking of custom loading for my own testing, but mostly I just feel I need to better understand what the "All" of "loadAll" is. - Original Message -From: Jacques Le Roux To: user@ofbi

Re: loadDefault Source Code

2018-01-16 Thread stimits
The trouble with that is I'm interested in dumping the logic of how the load order is determined specifically with the loadDefault. If there were a command such as "./gradlew --explain loadDefault", where it verbosely named which file is chosen, what kind of sorting is used, and what it was doin

Re: loadDefault Source Code

2018-01-23 Thread stimits
Hi, Thanks, I think this is what I need. I wrote an application which diagrams PostgreSQL databases and creates SVG maps of table pk and fk dependencies...it graphically shows what needs to be modified in which order versus primary/foreign key dependencies. I'm thinking of ways to extend it to

Re: loadDefault Source Code

2018-01-28 Thread stimits
riginal Message -From: Paul Foxworthy To: user@ofbiz.apache.orgSent: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 02:24:33 - (UTC)Subject: Re: loadDefault Source Code Hi stimits, Can you contribute the results of your research? There are data model diagrams athttps://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Data

Hot-Deploy in 16.11.04...and Later?

2018-01-31 Thread stimits
Hi It was quite some time back (well, a year...that's like 7 dog years or 14 programmer years) it was announced that hot-deploy was being deprecated: https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/entry/apache-ofbiz-news-march-2017 The directory still exists in 16.11.04. Would it be correct to assume that eve

Re: Hot-Deploy in 16.11.04...and Later?

2018-01-31 Thread stimits
In order to be closer to how release 17 will be, would it be advisable to completely avoid the hot-deploy directory for now (this is limited to custom data loading)? - Original Message -From: Taher Alkhateeb To: user@ofbiz.apache.orgSent: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 23:25:37 - (UTC)Subject:

Current PostgreSQL Instructions

2017-03-12 Thread stimits
Hi, I'm just trying to evaluate ofbiz for some simple POS needs (which is of course not really simple). I see there is a lot of ofbiz development activity, and thus a lot of documents which are actually out of date. Sometimes for example the instructions use "ant" directly and do not know of t

Re: Current PostgreSQL Instructions

2017-03-12 Thread stimits
Hi, ...logged in to psql as user postgres... psql (9.4.9)Type "help" for help. postgres=# \du List of roles Role name | Attributes | Member of ---++--- ofbiz |

Re: Current PostgreSQL Instructions

2017-03-13 Thread stimits
Hi, I had been using this as reference: https://blogs.oracle.com/robertlor/entry/ofbiz_and_postgresql Your check made me realize the db was name "ofbizdb" and not "ofbiz". Once that was fixed it worked. I still need to see if I can make it work for a simple store cash register function (with

Cash Register App?

2017-03-13 Thread stimits
Hi, Browsing through some of the setup for the demo data, I'm wondering if there is a specific app which would demonstrate what a salesman at a cash register might use for a retail customer in the store buying something? There seems to be a lot of ability to add and set up the store and variou

Deleting Catalogs in Sample

2017-03-16 Thread stimits
Hi, While figuring out how ofbiz is configured via the sample data I've been slowly editing things to look like a real store (the store which would potentially use ofbiz to replace its existing POS software). One thing I'm kind of stumped on...it's easy to create catalogs...but how do I delete

Mouse Hover-Over Menus

2017-03-17 Thread stimits
Hi, Attached is an ofbiz screenshot taken from firefox. I'm wondering why some menus are visible but not accessible. In the upper left corner there is a hierarchical list of where the user is currently at. In the attached screenshot this is "Applications > Order Manager", and the mouse is ho

Re: Mouse Hover-Over Menus

2017-03-17 Thread stimits
go further into whichever application. The bug or issue is that I can't move the mouse down to any of those items...as soon as the mouse isn't hovering over the main part of that menu the hover-over menu goes away. - Original Message -From: stimits@comcast.netTo: user@ofbiz.apache.

Re: Mouse Hover-Over Menus

2017-03-17 Thread stimits
yone here is aware of the problem or has a comment on how to proceed. Thanks! - Original Message -From: stimits@comcast.netTo: user@ofbiz.apache.orgSent: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 19:22:48 - (UTC)Subject: Re: Mouse Hover-Over Menus Sorry, it looks like the email list strips attachments. A

Re: performance

2017-03-18 Thread stimits
... - don't use gradle to start up, but use java - jar ofbiz.jar - set 'check-on-start' to false - set 'add-missing-on-start' to false - set 'check-inidices-on-start' to false ... I am curious if gradle and the others are just start up time issues...I am assuming these have no effect after sta

Order Entry: Anonymous Orders?

2017-03-22 Thread stimits
Hi, I'm looking at the sample data, and it appears that the app is designed to enter a customer name before an order. However, in a retail store at the cash register, many people use cash and do not want to create accounts. What would be the correct way to handle anonymous in-person cash trans

Updates to Tutorial?

2017-03-23 Thread stimits
Hi, The tutorial here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/OFBiz+Tutorial+-+A+Beginners+Development+Guide ...is not current for 16.11.01. Is there an equivalent to this somewhere for 16.11 (gradlew seems to be the change)? Thanks!

Equivalent Steps for Creating Sample Data

2017-03-24 Thread stimits
Hi, I'm wondering about what individual steps are equivalent to loading the sample data? Some steps I've tried (perhaps I used seeds I didn't need...however, I configured for PostgreSQL so I assume "ext" for that): ...build, load default demo data, browse... ./gradlew cleanAll ./gradlew "ofbi

Re: Equivalent Steps for Creating Sample Data

2017-03-25 Thread stimits
Hi, I'm just learning the lingo, but this is just for one company, so I think that is single tenant. I'm wanting to put together the steps for manually bringing up a small sample for a single company with a single retail store and no remote warehouse. Presumably with in store POS and online sa

Re: Equivalent Steps for Creating Sample Data

2017-03-25 Thread stimits
Hi, I was wanting to break down the steps equivalent to cleanAll and loadDefault...if I want to manually load my own data, and not demo data (instead of expiring demo products and catalogs I'd like to start with nothing and create my own catalog, company, admin user, and products): How do I c

Re: Equivalent Steps for Creating Sample Data

2017-03-26 Thread stimits
... > cleanAll deletes everything as long as you are using an embedded database> > (default) otherwise you have to clean itup yourself. ... This is the reason why I'm trying to better understand if loadDefault and cleanAll have a series of smaller commands which are equivalent...I am not using

First Customer: Business Without First/Last Name

2017-03-28 Thread stimits
Hi, I'm just experimenting with trying to add some real customers to a new ofbiz install without sample data. I'm wondering about "First Customer" making "First name" and "Last name" mandatory when the customer is another business (first and last name don't apply). How to handle this if not mo

WebPOS Setup

2017-03-29 Thread stimits
Hi, I was looking at this document regarding the POS setup: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/POS+System This in turn mentions another document here, described as "POS Setup Process": http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBTECH/Apache+OFBiz+Technical+Production+Setup+Guide#ApacheOFBiz

Re: WebPOS Setup

2017-03-30 Thread stimits
Hi, Thanks for the update, links now work. I still see older docs which don't seem to be correct for gradlew. In particular I'm thinking the command for starting a standalone POS might help as this would maybe create a terminal...and the current WebPOS can't be logged in to without a termina

Re: Special char

2017-03-31 Thread stimits
Consider the possibility that this is a font issue, and not an encoding issue. Every font used to display a character has an index, but not every index in a given font has a graphical glyph to render it. I would try to convert the characters to hex first and see if something in the viewing is si

Re: WebPOS Setup

2017-03-31 Thread stimits
Since WebPOS replaced any previous POS this is what I'm interested in bringing up. My observation is that when ofbiz starts and has the demo data that there are three POS terminals listed when logging in to the WebPOS. There was no special command to start any standalone POS, so either the defin

Re: WebPOS Setup

2017-03-31 Thread stimits
Additional question: Is this URL current? It doesn't look anything like the WebPOS sample data, perhaps it is from the older POS instead of WebPOS: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/6553725/OFBiz%20POS%20User%20Manual%20-%20version%209.11.pdf?version=2&modificationDate=13919

Re: WebPOS Setup

2017-04-01 Thread stimits
Hi, I had hoped I could export the POS data and get a more or less empty XML dump which I could edit, but unfortunately empty tables do not export. I guess the next step is to put sample data back in, export, and edit the sample data XML files, drop sample data, re-seed, and then import the ed

Re: WebPOS Setup

2017-04-01 Thread stimits
Just an update on an attempt to work around missing terminals. If I import the sample data and then export it to XML I get this: If I then clean the database and seed (no sample data), followed by webtools import of the XML, the WebPOS still has no terminals. There may be some other

Re: WebPOS Setup

2017-04-01 Thread stimits
Just an apology for prior email formatting. It was nicely formatted and readable, but comcast web mail strips the formatting and throws away my work sometimes.

Re: WebPOS Setup

2017-04-02 Thread stimits
Hi, I'm sure you are correct on this, I need to add facilityId MyRetailStore...I have facilityId Company with a retail store type, but this is not the same (and editing facilityId from MyRetailStore to Company does not help). I used the setup app originally on the seeded (but not data demo add

Re: WebPOS Setup

2017-04-03 Thread stimits
-From: stimits@comcast.netTo: user@ofbiz.apache.orgSent: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 02:20:27 - (UTC)Subject: Re: WebPOS Setup Hi, I'm sure you are correct on this, I need to add facilityId MyRetailStore...I have facilityId Company with a retail store type, but this is not the same (and editing

Re: WebPOS Setup

2017-04-03 Thread stimits
part of the > retail> store edit since terminals would be associated that retail store. > When> editing the information for the existing sample data retail store there > is> (unfortunately) no link or clue as to how to edit any WebPOS terminals> > associated with that st

Re: WebPOS Setup

2017-04-03 Thread stimits
fortunately) no link or clue as to how to edit any WebPOS terminals> > associated with that store.>> - Original Message -From: > stimits@comcast.netTo:> user@ofbiz.apache.orgSent: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 02:20:27 > - (UTC)Subject:> Re: WebPOS Setup>> Hi,

Re: WebPOS Setup

2017-04-06 Thread stimits
Hi, Thought I'd summarize with some specific steps since I've made progress, but still fail (writing down to explain to others might help me catch my own mistakes too). Problem: I need WebPOS to work on a brand new install using my own hand-entered data for a real retail store (versus demo d

Re: WebPOS Setup

2017-04-07 Thread stimits
Hi, I did try readers of both seed and seed-initial, this does not seem to have changed anything. So...how was the retail store in the sample data added? Was the building itself added by XML file edit/import (I don't see how asset management can be used to do this...loosely speaking one could

Re: WebPOS Setup

2017-04-08 Thread stimits
Hi, Yes, this is how the problem started, and the end goal, to add a terminal so WebPOS can be logged in to. However, this also exposed a chain of issues with no ability to enter data through a standard mechanism while trying to create a retail store via "Catalog Manager->Stores, click New P

Re: WebPOS Setup

2017-04-08 Thread stimits
Hi, Before I file the JIRA bug report, I want to check one more time about any ideas anyone might have on the particular blocker in the chain of requirements resulting in "Inventory Facility Id Required". This is currently at the root of the chain of details blocking WebPOS. In summary, I have

Strange OfBiz List Message

2017-04-11 Thread stimits
Hi, I think I receive messages from the list, but sometimes I get a copy of what I'm forwarding below...my email has never stopped working (that I know of), so I'm wondering if anyone knows what causes this? The title of the email is always "Warning from user@ofbiz.apache.org". I did get a

Added JIRA Report for WebPOS Missing Data Entry Functionality

2017-04-22 Thread stimits
Hi, Not long ago I was trying to figure out how to get WebPOS to work with an actual retail store...lots of emails here. Just letting people know I finally added the JIRA report here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-9330 I did find out that some of my email from this list has been

Stable Release Schedule?

2017-05-09 Thread stimits
Hi, I'm wondering how often stable releases occur? I see on the downloads page it doesn't seem to be very often, perhaps a year or more between releases. Would it be safe to assume I won't be seeing any fixes for WebPOS for at least another year if I wait (this would be terrible news)? I haven

Using Derby ij To Browse Demo Data

2017-05-22 Thread stimits
Hi, I'm still trying to find a way to load Web POS data for non-sample/real world, and it seems the actual SQL tables are not too complicated for this purpose (at least under PostgreSQL). I had been going through load logs when loading sample data and then trying to recreate by manually loadin