Re: Ofbiz for restaurants - please advise

2007-09-14 Thread BJ Freeman
I have been chunking away at Restaurant from some software i wrote in cobol in 84. The concept is a chain of restaurants. the actual menu separate Catalog with BOM for dishes, that eventually become products. This allows the manufacturing to be implemented for ERP and kitchen displays of preparat

RE: Ofbiz for restaurants - please advise

2007-09-14 Thread clearchris
I missed a great thread. Here's my 2c on the POS issues that have been brought up. 1) Touchscreen: This is handled by the OS and is basically translated into mouse clicks. I haven't yet seen a pos web application that would work well with a touchscreen, because touchscreens aren't exact like a

Re: Ofbiz for restaurants - please advise

2007-09-14 Thread Bilgin Ibryam
ting them, when possible. Thanks for showing me the possibilities of pos. I appreciate that. Bilgin Ibryam -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Ofbiz-for-restaurants---please-advise-tf4414083.html#a12672387 Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Ofbiz for restaurants - please advise

2007-09-14 Thread Bilgin Ibryam
ch >UI using html can be hard work, it may have gotten easier with AJAX and >others but you need to prove there won't be to much latency with server >round trips or get bogged down with lots of java script code which is >always a nightmare. Bilgin -- View this message in context:

Re: Ofbiz for restaurants - please advise

2007-09-14 Thread Bilgin Ibryam
Dale, Thanks for your interesting comments on this issue. Pos is the most hardware dependent/connected component. I will keep in mind that. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Ofbiz-for-restaurants---please-advise-tf4414083.html#a12671408 Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing

Re: Ofbiz for restaurants - please advise

2007-09-14 Thread BJ Freeman
for history sake here is a good post about POS from 2005 Hi Matt and BJ, I know what you mean about TCP/IP reliability in legacy equipment environments, most companies are STILL RUNNING FLAT NETWORKS! With thousands of hosts! There are a few options to consider here one is RS485, this protocol

Re: Ofbiz for restaurants - please advise

2007-09-13 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Hi Dan, De : "Dan Shields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I spent much of the last year fiddling with jpos and reading and > learning about the internals of the POS application within OFBiz, and > I feel confident that I could take on a few of the issues listed by > Jacques. > > Please allow me to voluntee

Re: Ofbiz for restaurants - please advise

2007-09-13 Thread Dan Shields
I spent much of the last year fiddling with jpos and reading and learning about the internals of the POS application within OFBiz, and I feel confident that I could take on a few of the issues listed by Jacques. Please allow me to volunteer to do work on the following issues which are crucial for

Re: Ofbiz for restaurants - please advise

2007-09-13 Thread Jacques Le Roux
De : "Jacques Le Roux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Comments inline. > > > Jacques, > > > First i tried to go extending POS. I saw your message in opentaps forum > > > saying that customer recording will be soon implemented in pos. Then there > > > is issue in jira for manipulating configurable products t

Re: Ofbiz for restaurants - please advise

2007-09-12 Thread Ray Barlow
Jacques Le Roux wrote: >> Don't misunderstand me I'm not fanatical about keeping XUI but I would >> like to see your implementation replace the existing POS as an >> improvement, where by it provides the same features and more. But rich >> UI using html can be hard work, it may have gotten easier w

Re: Ofbiz for restaurants - please advise

2007-09-12 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Comments inline. De : "Ray Barlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Comments below... > > Bilgin Ibryam wrote: > > Ray, Jacques, thank you for answering. > > > > Ray, first i will answer your questions. > > I will need to run multiple pos terminals, possibly with own peripherals and > > some shared (printers

Re: Ofbiz for restaurants - please advise

2007-09-11 Thread Ray Barlow
Comments below... Bilgin Ibryam wrote: > Ray, Jacques, thank you for answering. > > Ray, first i will answer your questions. > I will need to run multiple pos terminals, possibly with own peripherals and > some shared (printers may be). As you guessed for this purpose i will use > applets. But the

Re: Ofbiz for restaurants - please advise

2007-09-11 Thread Bilgin Ibryam
there any other way to group products in the shopping cart? I guess only for ship groups. Thanks for your valuable time and comments. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Ofbiz-for-restaurants---please-advise-tf4414083.html#a12624061 Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list

Re: Ofbiz for restaurants - please advise

2007-09-10 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Ray, Bilgin, Quickly, first, no surprise I'd rather suggest to extend the POS. De : "Ray Barlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Any thoughts out > there as to whether the XUI layer could be bundled through a browser and > us something like RPC for the server calls? This might turn interesting : http://x

Re: Fw: Ofbiz for restaurants - please advise

2007-09-10 Thread Jacques Le Roux
ed by another moderator, don't know why this > > answer makes sense ! > > > > Jacques > > > > > > - Message d'origine - > > De : "Anidar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > À : > > Envoyé : lundi 10 septembre 2007 19:3

Re: Fw: Ofbiz for restaurants - please advise

2007-09-10 Thread Adrian Crum
i 10 septembre 2007 19:30 Objet : RE: Ofbiz for restaurants - please advise Not entirely sure you can do a "web based" implementation with a touch screen. How can you guarantee the location of the browser? Skip -Original Message- From: Bilgin Ibryam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Fw: Ofbiz for restaurants - please advise

2007-09-10 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Forwarded because it was rejected by another moderator, don't know why this answer makes sense ! Jacques - Message d'origine - De : "Anidar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> À : Envoyé : lundi 10 septembre 2007 19:30 Objet : RE: Ofbiz for restaurants - please advise &

Re: Ofbiz for restaurants - please advise

2007-09-10 Thread Ray Barlow
It would be nice to see a web deployable POS implementation of OFBiz, unfortunately it's only a wish for me to see it as I have no time/paid development to do it. I know the current POS can be setup to work remotely for a central system providing extra resilience by being self contained, so if the

Ofbiz for restaurants - please advise

2007-09-10 Thread Bilgin Ibryam
idea to do a web based pos and to manipulate lots of orders at the same time (like one order) regarding fast working needs of a pos system ?) Please advise and thanks in advance. Bilgin Ibryam -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Ofbiz-for-restaurants---please-advise-tf4414083