Good morning!
Let me share our experiences running ofbiz in a ofbiz tenant environment
with completely independent companies in separate databases.
We did this for about 2-3 years where we patched ofbiz to have:
1. multiple url's for a single tenant
2. add tenants without restart
3. a number of menus to add/disable tenants, delete and reload data and
make and restore backups.
4.We also had a way to enable certain components in hot-deploy for a
specific tenant.
This tenant component is not maintained any more but is still available
at: https://gerrit.antwebsystems.com/#/admin/projects/tenant
However, although it worked, it needed a lot of maintenance and
monitoring and got too complicated.
So, we now switched to a docker environment where we use ofbiz in a
docker container which is used in demo and production. Every company has
its own ofbiz docker image which is automatically built and installed in
production from Git once a day when there were changes in the
repository.(our GrowERP continuous everything platform) Now it is much
easier to have specific changes for specific companies. Further scaling
application servers is now much easier.
This is now running for over a year and is much easier to maintain.
All software required to run this setup is open source and can be found
at our gerrit.antwebsystems.com git repository as source; compiled
versions at https://www.growerp.com/control/main?contentId=GROWERP_DEMO
Regards,
Hans Bakker
CEO antwebsystems.com
On 31/01/17 16:14, Sharan Foga wrote:
Hi James
At one point the standard OFBiz demo had demo data that was that of a global
parent company with multiple subsidiaries. We decided it was a bit too
complicated a setup for most people so simplified the demo data to be a lot
simpler (i.e a single company).
This means that somewhere in our SVN there are some demo data files that could
help you if you are having problems setting things up.
Thanks
Sharan
On 2017-01-23 23:58 (+0100), <ja...@productive1.com> wrote:
Hi all I am new to this group so hopefully I am posting in the correct
areas. We would like to set up OfBiz with Multiple Companies that all
roll up into a Parent Company. We are looking for the following:
Separate Vendors (CRM tied to a separate company)
Separate Customers (CRM tied to a seperate company
Sales Associates can be tied to multiple companies
Each company can fulfill from each others warehouse (intercompany
transaction)
Should be able to invoice each other
Warehouses should be tied to a company
Stores should be tied to a company
Financials Should be tied to a company
Purchases Should be tied to a company
Each company could have separate currency
Each company could have separate language
We can use external reporting to handle the Intercompany consolidation
My question is does Ofbiz handle this OTB? If so what are the key areas
we need to configure for this to handle properly.
Thanks in Advance.
James
Productive One
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Regards,
Hans Bakker
CEO, http://antwebsystems.com
