Monday, December 14, 2009

Openbravo ERP documentation walkthrough

You watched the introductory video and the customer success stories, you overviewed the product features, the solutions and the services around, you tried the demos… and you liked it! What is the next step? What else can Openbravo do for you?
Openbravo Wiki is the documentation repository around Openbravo ERP: hundreds of articles covering topics such as the installation, the localization and the development of this product. Don’t get lost among this vast number of free resources: these are the key articles that you can not miss.
  1. The Functional Documentation will help you to better understand the functional footprint of Openbravo ERP: Procurement, Manufacturing and Sales flows, Financial concepts and Platform related topics such as Modularity or Alerts are some of the topics covered.
  2. The Openbravo ERP demo is nice, but you want to have the absolute control over Openbravo ERP installed into your local machine. The Installation Guide details the steps to install Openbravo ERP by yourself, depending on your expertise: Virtual Appliance and Ubuntu installation for beginners and Custom installation for experts (including the installation of the Openbravo ERP environment stack made of the Sun JDK, Apache Ant, Oracle or PostgreSQL databases and Apache Tomcat).
  3. Once you installed Openbravo ERP, you would like to know how to use it. The User Manual will tell you the meaning of every single window, tab and field within Openbravo ERP.
  4. Now that you have an understanding of your Openbravo ERP installation from an end-user perspective, let’s configure it following the steps of the Configuration Manual: model your enterprise, setup accounting, taxes, roles and users, import your legacy data, etc…
  5. Your Openbravo ERP installation is now nicely configured and running smoothly, but you want to get more: let’s develop it! The Developer’s Guide, presented some time ago by Martin Taal, will provide you with theory and examples to take advantage of the Openbravo open source platform. No more excuses not to develop Openbravo ERP extensions and localizations! :)
  6. Doubts and questions? Resolve them contacting other Openbravo ERP users in the Openbravo Communication Channels: free mailing lists, forums and IRC channels open 24/7 to the Openbravo Community.
  7. Now that you are an Openbravo ERP expert, would you like to contribute to this open source project and help growing its Community? Take a look at the Contributor’s Guide to discover how you can help other Openbravo ERP users.
Seven must read articles have been presented but there are many others: find them using the built in Mediawiki search engine, the Google Custom search engine or external tools such as Ubiquity, presented by Iván Perdomo some days back.
The topic that you were looking for is incomplete, out of date or does not even exist? Openbravo ERP documentation is evolving and growing daily: you are welcome to provide your feedback, opinions and requests for improvement.
Enjoy Openbravo ERP documentation on-line or download it all with ScrapBook as explained by Galder Romo: c’mon, it’s free!


Source:http://planet.openbravo.com/
Posted by Thirumalai Kandasami

Friday, December 4, 2009

Getting started with Openbravo



Contents

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Introduction

This document provides a list of resources for people evaluating or getting started with Openbravo ERP.
NOTICE: We are in the process of updating this page please go to the forum "Getting Started" page - your opinions please for more information.

About Openbravo

What Openbravo ERP can do

Modules at Openbravo ERP

Evaluating Openbravo ERP

In order to optimize the time you invest in discovering Openbravo, we recommend that you follow the following approach.
  1. Start with the on-line demo. This is a very easy way to get your hands on the product and start exploring its capabilities. You can follow our step by step tutorials to experience some of the main business flows.
  2. Install a Community Appliance. Since the on-line demo is a shared demo environment, there are some limitations on what you can do with it. In particular, we cannot give you system administrator privileges and we are refreshing the system on a daily basis. If you want to evaluate Openbravo's flexibility and experiment with different configurations, or if you want to have a persistent data set to complete your evaluation, you need your own system. The easiest way to get one, is to install a Community Appliance which is intended to allow you to get a full Openbravo ERP server for evaluation purposes with minimal installation hassles.
  3. Once you have completed your evaluation, you are ready to start your implementation project, either with the Community Edition or with the Professional Subscription.
Starting a new project
Understanding Openbravo Releases
Forums and FAQ's
As many open source project, Openbravo ERP has its own Forge where our Community collaborates around the project. There you can access the project forums and review on going projects to extend the ERP functionality through modules, integrate it with external solutions, or to deliver services around it.
For Frequently Asked Questions, visit Openbravo FAQ. This repository of questions is updated every day with Openbravo forum posts.

Full installation guide

Openbravo installation has two different flavors.
Openbravo ERP virtual appliances
Openbravo ERP virtual appliances are a quick and easy manner of setting up Openbravo ERP for testing or development purposes since environment stack is already included and configured.
Openbravo ERP custom installation
Openbravo ERP custom installation is the mean to install Openbravo ERP in a production environment. This way of installation, requires a previous installation and configuration of the whole environment stack.
Openbravo ERP upgraders
Openbravo ERP can be upgrade from several versions to newer ones using a graphical assistant.

Functional documentation

In the link below you can find the functional documentation of Openbravo ERP. The purpose of this documentation is to describe, from a logical stand point, what business processes and what functions are supported in the product and how they are implemented. This documentation gives you a very good idea of what can be achieved with the product; it is NOT, however, a detailed step by step implementation guide or a user guide

Configuration manual

In the link below you can find a document that explains how to set up the ERP in order to succeed working with Openbravo ERP. This is a step by step manual and very useful. Still in progress

Developing with Openbravo

The Openbravo development environment includes a mix of tools and methodologies that make Openbravo developers' life easier.
  • Openbravo Developers Guide: a detailed guide on setting up your development environment, understanding the system architecture and how to build new features.

How to contribute to Openbravo

There are many ways to make Openbravo ERP a better product.

QA process. Acceptance testing

Openbravo QA team makes sure that all the releases have a minimum quality.
Whenever a a release is launched, an acceptance process is executed.
Retrieved from "http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Getting_started_with_Openbravo"
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Posted by Thirumalai Kandasami

RM updates: upgrade automation, documentation, appliance security

RM updates: upgrade automation, documentation, appliance security

by Juan Pablo Aroztegi

Following with our round of updates, here’s the latest news from the Release Management Team:
  • Continuous Integration: there is a new job that tests upgrading from the last stable MP to the latest daily OBX file. This has been done using the command line. A graphical test is in progress.
  • Live builds: the main page has been refactored and it now includes detailed build information as well as the runtime Tomcat log.
  • Appliance security updates: previous versions of the appliance are vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack during TLS session renegotiation. This vulnerability has been addressed in this update. Check the full changelog at the newly created appliance release notes.
  • Documentation: check the new document explaining our stack configuration in the appliances.
  • Issue Tracker: we are working on upgrading to version 1.2.0, which includes new interesting features. Many things have changed in this version so this process will take longer than a regular update. A new testing server will be announced soon.
  • Download area: the SourceForge download area has been updated to include only the latest 3 releases. The older ones have been moved to the 09-openbravo-old-releases directory.
For a complete list of the on-going stories we’ve been working on, check the Sprint 28 page of our Scrum spreadsheet.
Tagged: Continuous Integration, Issue Tracker, Security, testing
posted in Continuous Integration, Issue Tracker, Openbravo, Security, testing


Source:http://planet.openbravo.com/
Posted by Thirumalai Kandasami

Openbravo ERP 2.50MP9 available Release date: December 1st, 2009

 Openbravo ERP 2.50MP9 available


Check out what's new, the fixed issues and frequently asked questions about the latest release of Openbravo ERP. As always, you are encouraged to tell us what you think, by raising an issue in issues.openbravo.com or discussing it in the Open discussion forum.

Fixed issues

  • 11567: columns using reference Number are mapped to Float instead of BigDecimal. As a result there has been the following critical API change.
  • 11099: Show user in session tab.
  • 11239: The images on a field filled by a user can not be seen by other user with other role with access to the window.
  • 10991: Export language does not work properly when core is not indevelopment.
  • 11055: export.database and update.database could be 1min faster always.
  • Several fixes to improve support on modularity and build process:
    • 11319: Not possible for 2 different modules to add windows with same name.
    • 11228: The ad_menu is not correctly managed with modularity.
    • 10792: Initial client setup not working using two datasets.
    • 11014: Module dependencies must be taken into account while installing several dependent modules.
    • 11029: Templates shouldn't allow *data package* to avoid database objects.
    • 11096: create.database should stop if database could not be created.
    • 11127: If the rebuild process fails when installing a module, the next rebuild deletes the content from ad_module.
    • 11238: If generated entities do not correspond with the content of the application dictionary, export.database doesn't work.
  • 11260: The accounting process through Background and DB tables did not work properly in same scenarios (depending on the structure of accounting schemas).
  • 10621: The general ledger journal report cut the gl_entries in HTML format.
  • 10752: System gets blocked while installing modules.
  • 10574: The conversion rate table has to save the rates with more decimals.

Check the complete list of fixed issues.

API changes

There has been a critical change in Openbravo 2.50 public API. The DAL implementation of columns referenced as Number in the Application Dictionary are mapped now to BigDecimal instead of Float. Getters and setters for those columns are no longer using the Float data type but BigDecimal. See a more detailed explanation in this forum post.
Check the complete API changes.

Download Details

MP module
Appliance

Source code tarball Mercurial
OBX file QEMU-Parallels VirtualBox VMware Xen Download Clone (tag: 2.50MP9)


Image:Bulbgraph.png   These are Community deliverables. The Professional Subscription can be downloaded from the Partner Restricted Area.

Installation, updates and upgrades

  • To install or evaluate this Openbravo ERP release, follow the installation guide.
  • To update an existing Openbravo ERP from an earlier release of 2.50 follow the update instructions.
  • To upgrade your existing system from 2.3x or 2.40 to the latest version of 2.50 follow the upgrade here

Other resources and links

  • Get information about previous releases in the Release History page.
  • If you are looking for the Openbravo ERP Cloud Appliance release notes, check this page instead.
  • Get more details on Openbravo ERP.

Special thanks

Finally, we give our thanks to the Openbravo Community which continues to support us with their valuable time and knowledge. We also thank all Openbravo users for making Openbravo ERP a huge success.
Retrieved from "http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/ERP/2.50/Release_Notes/2.50MP9"
This page was last modified 08:26, 3 December 2009. Content is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Spain License.

Category: Release Notes ERP


Source:

http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/ERP/2.50/Release_Notes/2.50MP9
Posted by Thirumalai Kandasami

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Volume / Sound Problems in Fedora 11


Source:http://satyajitranjeev.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/volume-in-fedora-11/

If you seem to be having trouble using the new volume control in Fedora 11, as in you cannot hear anything. In my case with headphones plugged in sound was perfect but the speaker seemed to fail. Looking at the release notes I got the answer. Use this command to increase volume:
 
$ alsamixer -c0

This should give you a screen like the one below:
Screenshot-satyajit@gandalf:-files-workspace-lessons
Now all i had to do was increase the Speaker and the PCM-2 volume to maximum. The channels might vary for you depending on your sound card. If you want to increase microphone volume use

$ alsamixer -c0 -Vcapture
Posted by Thirumalai Kandasami
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