On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Mario Arias <[email protected]>wrote:
> Fabien, Antony... > > Great job so far! > > Quick questions... we will need some kind of "light user" for web > customers, so they can eventually check order status, RMAs, enrollment to > events... > They won't have access to the full system as they will be limited to > website front end... similar to "portal" users... > > Do you already have this in your roadmap? > How will they count towards monthly cost of OPW ? > Hello Mario and others, notice that technically speaking, using OOOR and AKTOOOR https://github.com/akretion/aktooor you can achieve that "light user" thing. The website I'm building will have thousands of users interacting with OpenERP, but only a few dozens of ERP users at most. The way it works is that a web user is a Devise user https://github.com/plataformatec/devise potentially using a different database (or not) of OpenERP. Then by overriding OOOREST authentication method, you map a logged Devise user to an OpenERP user (based on the email). But you could in fact very well map 1 million of Devise users (hey they have encrypted passwords ;-) to a single OpenERP portal user if you like (they will just have the same OpenERP profile) So far it looks like it's just a normal OpenERP portal user. BUT, the user email will be passed in the context in every RPC call to OpenERP. That can be used to implement a special rule check_access_rule override that can for instance let you edit only the objects for which the email is in the list of allowed users. For instance in my website, a logged user is able to edit only the announces (a product) related to the partner they are mapped as, and only their partner data. Then you will think but what about the user interface? Well AKTOOOR is a kind of Ruby on Rails web-client for OpenERP (to be demoed soon). It doesn't feature all OpenERP web-clients features of course, but it features a reasonable set of features: navigation, CRUD, form/list, inner views, most types of widgets, relational ones too, native Kaminari pagination... The main part that is currently missing is dynamic on_change and dynamic domains. AKTOOOR is based on simple_form (hey it's done by Plataformatec, one of the few noticeable Brazilian start-up around, the Rails committers guys behind Devise or Elxir killer Erlang Ruby like derivative). simple_form is Rails form_for on steroid, adapted for Twitter Bootstrap, see https://github.com/plataformatec/simple_form http://simple-form-bootstrap.plataformatec.com.br/ simple_form is a no fluff framework but OpenERP forms themselves looks more complete of course, I'll demo that soon. But AKTOOOR isn't meant to be a full blown web-client. You already have the one of OpenERP one for that. Instead, it's mean't so that you can develop any killer Rails scalable app where you can embed OpenERP forms that do everything you want in the CSS/HTML style you want without any data duplication. It's also multi-OpenERP instances by the way (we have one OpenERP for every city in the project I build). So if you use AKTOOOR to develop the forms you want these light OpenERP users to interact with, then you don't need to make them real OpenERP users and that should enable business models that the AGPL license or OPW woul forbid otherwise (notice that OpenERP modules themselves are still subject to the AGPL of course, but the the front-end website that is MIT compatible). I think the website we will soon make buzz about will be the first web2.0 business model web-site with all it's logic based on OpenERP, with a proper encapsulation of the AGPL and non AGPL things and even compatible with the OPW model eventually despite thousands of users. Contact me if you are interested (though I apologize because I often lack of time to answer). Regards, -- Raphaël Valyi Founder and consultant http://twitter.com/rvalyi <http://twitter.com/#!/rvalyi> +55 21 2516 2954 www.akretion.com
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