TaxWare status of 9.04

2010-07-01 Thread Mike Z
Does anyone actively use TaxWare on 9.04? If so, are you satisfied with it? Since I live in WA state, I would have to charge deistination tax to customers. Can TaxWare properly support WA state? There are 350 different sales tax jurisdictions in WA state, each requiring monthly/quarterly

Re: Ofbiz vs Openbravo

2010-07-06 Thread Mike Z
Not intending to start a war, but I evaluated OpenTaps (both the older version and the new 1.4 versions) and what I immediately noticed was it's huge memory footprint. Now I've worked with and deployed java applications for many years, and have seen all kinds of problems, but the most insidious

News: Democrats push for new Internet sales taxes

2010-07-07 Thread Mike Z
I came across this news article this morning, and I immediately thought of my previous question were I asked about the TaxWare status of ofbiz. It was also noteworthy (to me) that only BJ responded to my inquiry. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20009603-38.html So: Is ofbiz ready for the

Re: News: Democrats push for new Internet sales taxes

2010-07-07 Thread Mike Z
, 2010, at 8:30 AM, Mike Z wrote: I came across this news article this morning, and I immediately thought of my previous question were I asked about the TaxWare status of ofbiz.  It was also noteworthy (to me) that only BJ responded to my inquiry. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20009603-38

Re: TaxWare status of 9.04

2010-07-12 Thread Mike Z
Specialtymarket.com  http://www.specialtymarket.com/ Systems Integrator-- Glad to Assist Chat  Y! messenger: bjfr33man Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=key=1237480locale=en_UStrk=tab_pro Mike Z sent the following on 7/1/2010 4:19 PM: Does anyone actively use TaxWare on 9.04?  If so

Cancelling an order in Ecommerce

2010-07-14 Thread Mike Z
I'm testing my new store, when I decide to login as a user and cancel an order (which is suppose to work). The user sees this: The Following Errors Occurred: Error calling event: org.ofbiz.webapp.event.EventHandlerException: Service invocation error (Could not commit transaction for service

Re: Cancelling an order in Ecommerce

2010-07-14 Thread Mike Z
. On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Scott Gray scott.g...@hotwaxmedia.com wrote: Each release is only as good as the community makes it.  Community is the key word here, nobody gets paid to make sure Mike Z is downloading a bug free release. My guess is that most implementations have chosen

Re: Cancelling an order in Ecommerce

2010-07-14 Thread Mike Z
it paces. Ofbiz, at best, is a semi complete application that has room for improvement and completion of features. to Start using Ofbiz as a complete application like say Word or Open office is a mistake. Mike Z sent the following on 7/14/2010 9:55 AM: I'm testing my new store, when I

Re: Cancelling an order in Ecommerce

2010-07-14 Thread Mike Z
. H. Maybe that won't work so well. There must be some sort of better way... -David On Jul 14, 2010, at 6:01 PM, Mike Z wrote: The community (Abdullah Shaikh) took the time, researched, identified, coded, and submitted a patch.  I don't know what more could have been asked

Re: Cancelling an order in Ecommerce

2010-07-14 Thread Mike Z
community attention then the committers are far less likely to jump in and deal with it unless it affects them directly.  Our time is limited and we do the best we can. Regards Scott On 15/07/2010, at 12:43 PM, Mike Z wrote: My apologies to all.  I didn't mean to offend.  I think ofbiz

Multiple DropShippers and Shipping Options

2010-07-30 Thread Mike Z
I'm trying to understand how this works. As far as I can tell, shipping seems to be tied to the store. However, if the store has multiple suppliers (who are dropshippers), each having potentially different options for shipping (fedex/ups/etc), is it possible to present to the shopper the

Re: Multiple DropShippers and Shipping Options

2010-07-30 Thread Mike Z
more order history. then you can put your averages in the estimates. Mike Z sent the following on 7/30/2010 9:17 AM: I'm trying to understand how this works.  As far as I can tell, shipping seems to be tied to the store.  However, if the store has multiple suppliers (who are dropshippers), each

Re: Purchase Order emails

2010-08-11 Thread Mike Z
What is the status of 10.04? Is anyone using it for real production? I noticed that it isn't (yet) on the download page. On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Rene Scheibe rene.sche...@tngtech.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OFBiz 10.04 On 08/11/2010 10:02 AM, Info

Re: Optimistic locking based on timestamps

2010-08-13 Thread Mike Z
This has been a very useful thread. I now know that I need to dump MySQL asap. I planned on running multiple ofbiz instances for ecommerce and had no idea that this may cause issues. Thanks for the input. On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Brett Palmer brettgpal...@gmail.com wrote: James, We

Re: Trunk ecommerce main screen 4 times slower then 1.5 year ago.

2010-08-22 Thread Mike Z
Any update on this? Thanks. On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Hans Bakker mailingl...@antwebsystems.com wrote: We tried the newer version but is also slow. we are are now looking into moving back to the 2.3.10 version. Regards, Hans On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 09:22 +0200, Jacques Le Roux wrote:

Re: MySQL DB creation with demo data

2010-08-31 Thread Mike Z
That's pretty dog slow. You probably need to tune mysql. Ofbiz has a lot of tables. Here is what I was using: # # * Fine Tuning # key_buffer = 64M max_allowed_packet = 640M thread_stack= 192K thread_cache_size = 8 max_connections= 256 table_cache

OFBiz Employee Training Procedures

2010-09-03 Thread Mike Z
Do any documents exist that show step-by-step instruction of ofbiz suitable to be used to train employees on ofbiz screens and procedures, and ERP workflow? For instance, purchase a product using the ecommerce module, go to the order manager, verify that x exists, etc. Go to the accounting

Re: OFBiz Employee Training Procedures

2010-09-03 Thread Mike Z
powered! Jacques From: Mike Z mz4whee...@gmail.com Do any documents exist that show step-by-step instruction of ofbiz suitable to be used to train employees on ofbiz screens and procedures, and ERP workflow? For instance, purchase a product using the ecommerce module, go to the order

Re: Ofbiz installation tutorial???

2010-09-08 Thread Mike Z
I never knew there was a difference. Maybe it would be better to create a script that forces the use of ./ant, and/or create a Makefile that builds various flavors of ofbiz. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Jacques Le Roux jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com wrote: You should preferably use the ant

Re: OFBiz Contributors Best Practices link broken

2010-09-12 Thread Mike Z
Clicking Business Setup Guide doesn't work either. On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:33 PM, BJ Freeman bjf...@free-man.net wrote:  https://cwiki.apache.org/OFBADMIN/apache-ofbiz-getting-started.html  click on  OFBiz Contributors Best Practices = BJ Freeman  

Tax bug --or-- The best way to override a single java file.

2010-09-17 Thread Mike Z
I found an odd behavior with the tax handling in ofbiz. If you need to charge local sales tax based on ZIP-4 (like in WA state), I found the following: 1) User enters exact ZIP-4 zip code (which is in ofbiz), local sales tax is charged correctly. 2) User just enters ZIP (which is in ofbiz),

Re: Olap and tenant tables not created after doing ant run-install-extseed

2010-09-24 Thread Mike Z
I used this as a reference. Worked great; http://www.toivari.com/devblog/2010/06/16/configure-ofbiz-to-use-postgresql-server/ On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:07 AM, BJ Freeman bjf...@free-man.net wrote: if you follow the entityengine layout you will see that each has a different db. you need

Re: ApacheCon2010 and the new OFBiz Cookbook

2010-09-29 Thread Mike Z
Hey Ruth. I also bought your book through Amazon.com for $38.86. http://www.amazon.com/Apache-OFBiz-Cookbook-Ruth-Hoffman/dp/1847199186/ref=sr_1_2?s=booksie=UTF8qid=1285769286sr=1-2 Looking forward to reading it. Good luck! On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Pierre Smits pierre.sm...@gmail.com

Why doesn't the wiki properly render IE?

2010-10-15 Thread Mike Z
This happens throughout the wiki, at least for me. Example: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBREQDES/UBPL+Introduction Works on Chrome, FireFox, but displays improperly using IE (latest). On IE, the above page doesn't display anything after the first paragraph: OFBiz is maturing.

Re: Why doesn't the wiki properly render IE?

2010-10-15 Thread Mike Z
. = BJ Freeman Strategic Power Office with Supplier Automation  http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation/viewforum.php?f=52 Specialtymarket.com  http://www.specialtymarket.com/ Systems Integrator-- Glad to Assist Chat  Y! messenger: bjfr33man Mike Z sent the following on 10/15/2010 8:23 AM

Re: Non IT-person evaluation of ERP

2010-10-18 Thread Mike Z
I think the reference to no IT staff may have come from here: http://www.infoverto.com/2010/03/now-you-can-run-your-erp-without-it.html An interview with Ruth. However, I think she qualifies as her own IT staff member. On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:09 AM, David E Jones d...@me.com wrote: On Oct

RE: Obfiz 12.04 way slower than 9.x

2013-06-28 Thread Mike Z
Can you explain how you switched from minerva to dbcp? I also noticed a drastic reduction in performance so you may have nailed down the cause. Well done! Sent from my BlackBerry® PlayBook™ www.blackberry.com -- *From:* Skip s...@thedevers.org *To:*

Re: Shipment cancellation doesn't revert inventory accounting quantity total

2013-09-13 Thread Mike Z
What version are you running? Sent from my BlackBerry® PlayBook™ www.blackberry.com -- *From:* Christian Carlow christian.car...@gmail.com *To:* user@ofbiz.apache.org user@ofbiz.apache.org *Sent:* September 12, 2013 7:59 AM *Subject:* Re: Shipment cancellation doesn't

Re: Multiple server setup (HAFO)

2014-01-02 Thread Mike Z
You probably have to define sticky sessions in your mod_jk Config. Sent from my BlackBerry® PlayBook™ www.blackberry.com -- *From:* Pierre Smits pierre.sm...@gmail.com *To:* user@ofbiz.apache.org user@ofbiz.apache.org *Sent:* January 2, 2014 4:17 AM *Subject:* Re:

Re: WEBINARS

2014-02-11 Thread Mike Z
What interests me the most is accounting. Thanks. Sent from my BlackBerry® PlayBook™ www.blackberry.com -- *From:* Pierre Smits pierre.sm...@gmail.com *To:* user@ofbiz.apache.org user@ofbiz.apache.org *Sent:* February 10, 2014 2:30 AM *Subject:* WEBINARS Hi All, I

Re: ecommerce multicurrency

2014-09-10 Thread Mike Z
This may be related. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-4412 -- *From:* Josip Almasi j...@vrspace.org *To:* user@ofbiz.apache.org user@ofbiz.apache.org *Sent:* September 10, 2014 6:08 AM *Subject:* Re: ecommerce multicurrency Hi Pierre, sure, glad to

Re: OFBIZ project health (was: Re: Latest OFBiz board report to the ASF about the health of the project)

2014-09-22 Thread Mike Z
Guys. All this does not help the project. It's time to stop. Sent from my BlackBerry® PlayBook™ www.blackberry.com -- *From:* Adrian Crum adrian.c...@sandglass-software.com *To:* user@ofbiz.apache.org user@ofbiz.apache.org *Sent:* September 22, 2014 2:35 AM

Re: sendMail service over online MS Office365

2014-09-26 Thread Mike Z
Maybe some clues? http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/how-to-configure-SMTP-td4628571.html -- *From:* Brett Palmer brettgpal...@gmail.com *To:* user@ofbiz.apache.org user@ofbiz.apache.org *Sent:* September 26, 2014 12:12 PM *Subject:* sendMail service over online MS

Re: New to Ofbiz and Ofbiz POS

2014-11-12 Thread Mike Z
Pierre has a point. Throwing little used components in trunk will just make them completely unsupported and unable to compile, then just try to get them fixed. If a developer changes code in a branch so much that it renders a component in trunk to not compile, then soon none of them will work

Re: Tomcat Unresponsive

2014-11-27 Thread Mike Z
My guess is maybe the JDK. What java version are you running and settings are you launching ofbiz? Sent from my BlackBerry® PlayBook™ www.blackberry.com -- *From:* darrell73s darrellof...@gmail.com *To:* user@ofbiz.apache.org user@ofbiz.apache.org *Sent:* November 26,

Re: Notes from Apachecon EU Budapest Meeting

2014-11-28 Thread Mike Z
I think that recently the docs have made a great leap forward thanks to the good folks here on the mailing list. The more comfortable people are with the wiki the more it will be used. Confluence is a standard wiki used throughout the industry and I think it would be a mistake to change things

Re: Data File Tools and Hierarchical Flat Files

2014-12-13 Thread Mike Z
Take the csv, convert it to xml, and just manually load it from the command line. Of course, order is significant. You have to load in catalog and categories prior to loading products. Each of these can be a separate xml (recommended) or you can create one gigantic xml that does it all. If

Re: Data File Tools and Hierarchical Flat Files

2014-12-14 Thread Mike Z
duplicate ids in row 7 and 167 ) who have to fix the original system and don't want to decipher SQL errors Constraint violation while creating record. It was developed to support the transfer of HRIS (payroll data) to LMS (Learning Management Systems). Ron Ron On 13/12/2014 4:46 PM, Mike Z wrote: Take