Re: *.html file rendering in OFBiz screen

+1 ... although this might be a better thread for the dev mailing list. Bottom line: never try to make your customers adjust their processes prerogatives to match your product/service, because that's how bureaucracies conduct themselves. On 17-12-11 08:00 AM, Amit Gadaley wrote: Hello

Re: *.html file rendering in OFBiz screen

Ah, thanks very much for the explanation. On 17-12-11 10:14 AM, Michael Brohl wrote: Hi Amit, there seems to be a misunderstanding: ftl files are Freemarker template files (hence the extension). They can contain any text and also html or any other format along with the Freemarker language

Re: Some Information for Creating Modular Documentation

Documentation is never a liability, unless one considers consumers to be a liability (which would make one more of a do-as-you-are-told bureaucrat than an I-hope-to-please-you business manager). Consumers, far from being a liability, are the most important considerations within any healthy

Re: Some Information for Creating Modular Documentation

Yes, that is best practice for documentation, thanks for sharing the links. On 17-11-15 06:29 AM, Sharan Foga wrote: Hi All (I'm resending this message as the original message I sent this morning didn't get through to the mailing list. I seem to have an intermittent problem with posting

Re: [ANNOUNCE] The Big Book for Apache OFBiz Data Model 2017 Released

This is great news, and thanks to all who made it happen. Is this book sufficient to understand data modeling as it applies to OFBiz, or should users also take time to read those related third party titles (The Data Model Resource Book)? On 17-10-05 03:32 AM, Aditya Sharma wrote: Hello

Re: [FYI] Why Java numbers will maybe be alike Ubuntu and OFBiz

Yeah, as long as upgrades are smooth for end users, such a release schedule appears to be a good idea for all stakeholders. On 17-09-27 01:57 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: Well explained here : https://mreinhold.org/blog/forward-faster I wish I had the same good arguments when I proposed this

"All major browsers" to support W3C payment request API

I'm not sure how many developers using OFbiz on the back end will be interested in this, but here is the link. https://www.w3.org/blog/wpwg/2017/09/14/payment-request-api-now-being-implemented-in-all-major-browsers-advances-on-the-recommendation-track/

Re: Ofbiz vs Shopify or Magento

Comparing features & capabilities is one thing. Calling popularity a form of competition is irrelevant to this or that enterprise's business imperative. That said, I have no clue regarding a features matrix. Perhaps that'd be a good addition to the web page. On 17-09-15 09:44 AM,

Re: [INFO] Trunk demo back

Thanks very much. On 17-06-24 12:57 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: We had it again tonight. Actually for a reason, the shutdown did not work, the process got stuck. Killing (-15) the pending shutdown and previous start processes allowed to restart cleanly I'll wait a bit and if this happens

Re: [SURVEY] Name for the task which load demo and all data

I'm in agreement with the last two posts of this thread. I'm not a contributor, though, so there's that whole armchair QB thing going on from my end. On 17-05-15 08:12 AM, Mike wrote: gradlew "ofbiz --load-data readers=seed,seed-initial,ext,ext-demo" Just leave it "as-is". These are

Re: Permissions Profiling

Heck, I'd appreciate a table to that effect within the wiki. Just saying. On 17-03-30 04:23 PM, Ryan Moriarty wrote: I've been asked to do a review of user permissions in our OFBiz installation. Is there any good method (besides searching through the code base one-by-one) of determining

Re: Tutorial Videos

I haven't had a chance yet to take a look, but the effort is much appreciated. On 17-03-09 04:48 AM, Deepak Dixit wrote: Hi Everyone, Pranay has created two video tutorials, these have been published on our OFBiz YouTube channel : 1 - Apache OFBiz Mailing

Re: Blog Post: How and Where to Get Started with OFBiz

Concise and informative. Great job. On 17-03-07 04:35 AM, Sharan Foga wrote: Hi Everyone Pranay has written a nice blog post about how and where to get started with OFBiz. It has been published on our OFBiz blog at the link below:

Re: OFBiz 16.11.01 docker demo-data image

ately. For example, an OFBiz release would be a collection of docker images - one for SOLR, one for Postgres, one for Tomcat, and one for the OFBiz application layers. —P On Jan 17, 2017, at 1:41 PM, Todd Thorner <tthor...@infotinuum.com> wrote: Great stuff, thanks. Have you any opinion on

Re: OFBiz 16.11.01 docker demo-data image

OFBiz application layers. —P On Jan 17, 2017, at 1:41 PM, Todd Thorner <tthor...@infotinuum.com> wrote: Great stuff, thanks. Have you any opinion on leaping straight toward something like CoreOS? Is the difference mostly a matter of codebase maturity, or is it something more

Re: OFBiz 16.11.01 docker demo-data image

Great stuff, thanks. Have you any opinion on leaping straight toward something like CoreOS? Is the difference mostly a matter of codebase maturity, or is it something more fundamental to the design/architecture which might leave docker as being more compatible with OFBiz? - Todd On

Re: Proposal: sending the specialpurpose/oagis component to Attic

I did a quick search for a dog food solution within the ASF, and found this page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/plugins/viewsource/viewpagesrc.action?pageId=92973 It points toward a project hosted outside the ASF, and codehaus.org appears to be temporarily unresponsive (at least on my

Re: OFBiz Blog - July 2016 Update

lease feel free to add your comments and feedback. Thanks Sharan On 2016-08-09 20:28 (+0200), Todd Thorner <tthor...@infotinuum.com> wrote: Yes, the work being accomplished is admirable. There have been quite a few new contributor sign-ups lately, so hopefully the codebase will continue to

Re: OFBiz Blog - July 2016 Update

Yes, the work being accomplished is admirable. There have been quite a few new contributor sign-ups lately, so hopefully the codebase will continue to progress & excel. Here's a question: is there a process within the OFBiz project, beyond JIRA, for gathering feature requests from users? A

Re: Ofbiz Cookbook

for hot-deploy. I think with this book, you are well prepared to write new applications assuming previous Java experience. -Original Message- From: Todd Thorner [mailto:tthor...@infotinuum.com] Sent: Friday, August 05, 2016 1:00 PM To: user@ofbiz.apache.org Subject: Re: Ofbiz Cookbook

Re: Ofbiz Cookbook

Thank you for the recommendation. I read Ms. Hoffman's "OFBiz Ecommerce Out-Of-The-Box" as a primer of sorts, and based on that positive experience will consider saving my pennies so I can purchase her OFBiz cookbook. Is there any reason to anticipate a need for an updated edition? Have

Re: Update on Support for 14.12 and 15.12 branches

Thank you for this update. Looking forward to 16.x and beyond. On 16-07-12 07:08 AM, Sharan-F wrote: Hi Everyone A quick update following on from the discussions last week about the 14.12 and 15.12 branches. The final result of the community discussions were as follows: - There will

Re: [DISCUSSION] Anticipate the end of life of the 13.07 branch and backport some non-bug related changes to the 14.12 and 15.12 branches

Thanks for this, Mr. Foga. The Downloads page of the ofbiz.apache.org site mentions 14.x and 15.x only as part of the project's tentative release schedule. Would end user newcomers be wise to wait out the transition? On 16-06-28 09:55 AM, Sharan Foga wrote: Thanks Jacopo for the details

W3C brief on Payment Request API

Hi all, Once again, I'm not sure if something like this is appropriate to post here, but it seems relevant to e-commerce (be sure to click through to the FAQ). https://www.w3.org/blog/wpwg/2016/04/21/first-public-working-drafts-of-payment-request-api/ Also, those with production-ready OFBiz

Re: [MARKETING] Who Owns the OFBiz Youtube Channel ?

Someone might have asked this already: would it be easier to set up a new channel with a slightly different name? On 15-11-10 12:50 PM, Sharan-F wrote: > Hi All > > Another update on this. I’ve contacted a few people including Bruno who set > up the OFBiz Youtube channel originally but no one

Re: [MARKETING] OFBiz New Website Structure Proposals – Feedback Required

That's looking great, Sharan, thanks for the effort. Does anyone like the idea of having one of those slideshow things as a page header (right beneath the menu), sliding between images which showcase the various items from the Solutions group? I'm rather behind the site development curve, so I

Re: [MARKETING] OFBiz New Website Structure Proposals – Feedback Required

For what it's worth, I prefer Option B. Consumers tend to seek innovation from products themselves while expecting familiarity from the product's web page navigation/design. Is there any way to sneak the term "Entrepreneur" in there somewhere as a sub-menu item? Feature creep, yes, although I

Re: Beginner's Tutorial CRUD operations

Sorry to say that I am not a source of SME information, but I would like to thank you for creating another tutorial. On 15-08-12 03:22 AM, Tiwonge kawonga wrote: Hi all, I am working on the tutorial to become familiar with ofbiz development and I have encountered this: in Controller.xml

Re: [DISCUSSION] OFBiz Online Documentation

I'm pretty much sitting this one out (seems to have jumped right into the tech selection and I don't understand OFBiz well enough yet to be useful as a writer-contributor so I wouldn't be able to offer much quality input), but for what it's worth the most important considerations for a typing

Re: [DISCUSSION] OFBiz Online Documentation

, Michael Brohl wrote: Todd, do you mean this Prezi http://prezi.com/qqp54gt46pn_/apache-ofbiz-development/ from Jad El Omeiri? Am 28.05.15 um 16:52 schrieb Todd Thorner: I'm pretty much sitting this one out (seems to have jumped right into the tech selection and I don't understand OFBiz well

Re: [DISCUSSION] OFBiz End User Wiki Documentation

to use Confluence in an environment that includes a number of source formats and desired output. I use DITA for software docs and like the way that it integrates with Eclipse/STS. Ron On 21/05/2015 1:22 PM, Todd Thorner wrote: The key to minimizing effort is single-sourcing

Re: Multi-Tenant with MySQL or Postgress - Working?

Thanks, Fernando, I look forward to overcoming a bit more of my ignorance by way of e-following your progress. On 15-05-21 08:20 AM, FGomez wrote: Jacques, Pierre and Arum Thanks for the technical answer. I agreed with the advantages of a DB per Tenant and the scalability of the HW

Re: [DISCUSSION] OFBiz Online Documentation

I'm willing to pitch in, but as I stated in a message earlier today I'm still rather ignorant about OFBiz (I've had zero free time to take the figurative plunge). First and foremost for documentation: single-sourcing and DITA/DocBook. Discuss ... On 15-05-21 09:45 AM, Sharan-F wrote: I'd

Re: [DISCUSSION] OFBiz End User Wiki Documentation

The key to minimizing effort is single-sourcing. That is the business requirement (maybe), now the community must settle on appropriate technologies. My opinion is that DocBook is obsolete. One non-committer vote for DITA. On 15-05-21 09:59 AM, Sharan-F wrote: Hi Everyone i'd like to put

Re: OFBiz Twitter Account

Good call, Mr. Brohl. On 15-03-25 09:58 AM, Michael Brohl wrote: Hi Sharan, don't know who owns this account but maybe https://twitter.com/ApacheOfbiz would be better to aim on? Regards, Michael ecomify.de Am 25.03.15 um 17:40 schrieb Sharan-F: Hi All Does anyone own (or knows

Re: Ofbiz JCR/Jackrabbit Integration - Future plans

cents. Ron On 28/02/2015 1:58 PM, Todd Thorner wrote: I can appreciate where the devs are coming from. It is possible that the OASIS-by-way-of-AIIM standard will not become anything big enough to bother implementing. CMIS has been making steady progress since 2008 (longer if you count

Re: Ofbiz JCR/Jackrabbit Integration - Future plans

Although my lack of contribution skills makes the idea of me-merit rather dubious, I feel obligated to chime in about my preference for a CMIS implementation over JSRs. Seems more language/vendor agnostic and possibly more future-proof. My merit is so dubious that I realize this might not even

Re: Ofbiz JCR/Jackrabbit Integration - Future plans

zaterdag 28 februari 2015 heeft Todd Thorner tthor...@infotinuum.com het volgende geschreven: Although my lack of contribution skills makes the idea of me-merit rather dubious, I feel obligated to chime in about my preference for a CMIS implementation over JSRs. Seems more language/vendor

Re: mailing list usage request

For looking up information that might already be covered in previous ML threads (but possibly missing from the online documentation), try searching the OFBiz category at markmail.org. On 15-02-21 07:39 AM, Davide Ciofetti wrote: Hi everybody, i subscribed an account into user and dev mailing

Re: [PROPOSAL] Increase community involvement by enabling contributors to assign themselves to their own issues.

Did you know that Jira is underneath using the OFBiz Entity Engine? That is interesting, could you elaborate? On 15-01-31 09:58 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: Jira is really easy to use, at least when you being and don't try to setting it from the inside This could help you

Re: More ApacheCon 2015

My comment is of the thank you variety. On 14-12-22 08:26 AM, Ruth Hoffman wrote: Hi List: Sorry about the previous duplicate posts. Having some issues signing up for the list. About ApacheCon 2015: I also submitted a proposal for a presentation titled Apache OFBiz Top 10. The

Re: Help needed to update an OFBiz Wiki Graffle Diagram

What happens if you change a .graffle file's extension to something else like SVG or XML? Any luck? I know very little about Mac lock-ins, but if you can get a text-based file to display (e.g. if .graffle is .xml underneath) you might be able to edit the text. You could also try taking a

Re: Help needed to update an OFBiz Wiki Graffle Diagram

charts in HTML format. Ron On 15/12/2014 12:04 PM, Todd Thorner wrote: What happens if you change a .graffle file's extension to something else like SVG or XML? Any luck? I know very little about Mac lock-ins, but if you can get a text-based file to display (e.g. if .graffle is .xml

Re: Help needed to update an OFBiz Wiki Graffle Diagram

I'm sold ... for what that's worth. Is there any UML-type facility for the project's future of design spec-chasing? On 14-12-15 10:41 AM, Ron Wheeler wrote: On 15/12/2014 1:30 PM, Todd Thorner wrote: Yeah, graphs charts represent special cases. For the first applications of our ETVL

Re: Notes from Apachecon EU Budapest Meeting

...used throughout the industry is known as argumentum ad populum -- and besides it isn't even a very accurate assertion. Perhaps Mr. Z is referring to the use of Confluence within the ASF, and available support is of course a decent argument for sticking with wiki-only documentation as long as

Re: Notes from Apachecon EU Budapest Meeting

Quick opinions on the rough ideas... 1. Turn the kernel into something based around containers (e.g. docker). This approach could also apply to many dev-ops considerations that are internal to the project. 2. Make DITA the basis of all documentation. On 14-11-26 04:13 AM, Sharan-F wrote: Hi

Re: Notes from Apachecon EU Budapest Meeting

Services and Retail Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Todd Thorner tthor...@infotinuum.com wrote: Quick opinions on the rough ideas... 1. Turn the kernel into something based around containers (e.g. docker). This approach could also apply to many dev-ops

Re: ShipmentCostEstimate is the Supplier Shipping Price

Sorry, Forrest, I'm still pretty clueless about OFBiz and can't begin to help anyone with the project's wiki accessibility. I was actually kicking myself in that message for not yet being able to help the project by turning someone else's generous mailing list contribution (e.g. your

Re: ShipmentCostEstimate is the Supplier Shipping Price

Thanks, Forrest, for making time to add valuable information that benefits future MarkMail answer-hunters. Such details would make a good tutorial for beginners to OFBiz services. On 14-11-03 08:50 PM, Forrest Rae wrote: Hi Again, First, apologies for the length of this mail, but I learned

Re: [VOTE] PROJECTMGR in upcoming release

This sounds good. But then, what do I know? I am still willing to pitch in on documentation, once I wrap my head around the project (or a potential sub-project). For now it's a matter of free time and all that ... On 14-10-01 07:46 AM, Ron Wheeler wrote: The sub-project is a very useful

Re: OFBIZ manual??

Great to know, thanks for sharing. Thanks especially to those involved with the current doc effort, it might actually be time for me to give OFBiz implementation another one of my amateur tries. On 14-10-01 12:35 PM, joelfrad...@gmail.com wrote: I thought I was seeing things. I read most of

Re: Mike's response to Project morale

Thank you, sir. I have been biting my cybertongue this whole time, knowing that the flames would die and hoping in the meantime to avoid perpetuation of the childishness -- but this call for bureaucratic big guns to bully other bureaucrats into some sense of bureaucratic order is just too much.

Re: OfBiz workflow

Forgive the amateur-speak, but would it be ok to invent an abstracted layer of vendor-neutral APIs service bindings such forth that engenders implementation interest among entities like SugarCRM and its competitors? It'd be kind of like what SQL did for the database industry, or what CMIS is

Re: OfBiz workflow

to. Cheers Ted On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Todd Thorner tthor...@infotinuum.com wrote: Forgive the amateur-speak, but would it be ok to invent an abstracted layer of vendor-neutral APIs service bindings such forth that engenders implementation interest among entities like SugarCRM and its

Re: Actionable tasks of the week - volunteers?

Thank you, Mr. Cappellato, for this initiative. It's a great idea IMO, please keep 'em coming. I will watch for more emails such as this one, hoping to find something that isn't too challenging for my meagre skill set. Already, though, this first email has inspired me to make time over the

Re: Reposting from David Jones on Moqui

All I know is I'm more confused than ever, and that's saying something because I'm always a bit of a drooler. For the time being, I hitch my business wagon to neither project. My business is lucky that way, being at the moment completely ERPa derpa it will be able to adapt to one or the other

Re: Reposting from David Jones on Moqui

I just found out about Moqui, but I refuse to sign up for LinkedIn so I won't be joining that community anytime soon. Pity party for me, I suppose. Considering how I'm just barely getting on board with the whole ERP/E-Commerce framework thing, I'd prefer to start off with the latest

Re: Reposting from David Jones on Moqui

Cool, thanks for the information and for the framework contribution. One thing I do like is Moqui's public domain non-license arrangement with potential users (my opinion is that IP stands for Imaginary Property). If that project wanted to use your type conversion framework (or anything else from

Re: Ofbiz data model

Perhaps look toward presenting the data model with one of those Prezi/Sozi poster-zoom thingies. If the data model changes frequently, I'd recommend Sozi because at the end of the day Sozi presentations are merely SVG files (which are of course XML files that can be spun-up from various editable

Re: OFBiz Performance, a good story

page https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Requirements+gathering with children pages You can edit and create you own pages in the wiki as soon as you are registered as a contributor (see explanation at top of each wiki page) HTH Jacques Le 13/02/2014 20:22, Todd Thorner

Re: OFBiz Performance, a good story

of traction. Here's hoping it gets beyond just a few people talking around one another. On 14-02-13 10:12 AM, Ted Byers wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Todd Thorner tthor...@infotinuum.comwrote: Thank you, Mr. Byers, for posting such a remark-worthy suggestion, and thank you, Mr

Re: WEBINARS

Thank you, Mr. Smits, for starting this webinar project. I wish you the best success and I hope to get a chance to learn some things. Is there a way to have a general theme in the webinars featuring two fictional people who are trying to implement similar but not identical configurations of

Re: intro to Ofbiz dev presentation

For those who Linux, check out the Sozi extension to the Inkscape application. On 14-01-15 01:13 AM, Jad El Omeiri wrote: Welcome all! it's great to see that I'm able to at least give a 'little something' back to the community! My presentation is in fact just a summary of the book /Apache

Re: intro to Ofbiz dev presentation

://www.orrtiz.com On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Todd Thorner tthor...@infotinuum.comwrote: For those who Linux, check out the Sozi extension to the Inkscape application.

Re: intro to Ofbiz dev presentation

This noob thanks you. On 14-01-14 10:16 AM, Jad El Omeiri wrote: Hi all, I just recently made a presentation about Ofbiz development. I thought it would be good sharing the link with you: http://prezi.com/qqp54gt46pn_/?utm_campaign=shareutm_medium=copyrc=ex0share

Re: Updated OFBiz Manufacturing MRP Book

directly. With regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM http://www.orrtiz.com* Services Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Todd Thorner tthor...@infotinuum.comwrote: Hi Sharan, Thank you

Re: Updated OFBiz Manufacturing MRP Book

Hi Sharan, Thank you very much for updating your book. Considering that I'm an OFBiz newbie, might the book help me get a handle on general aspects of OFBiz as well as its manufacturing/MRP facilities? Thanks for any insight, Todd On 13-11-12 10:08 AM, Sharan-F wrote: Hi Everyone Just

Re: Anyone know a way to apply condition to view-entity and then left join to another view-entity?

I'm very new to OFbiz and very rusty at MVC programming (haven't done any since Struts 1.x), but I bumped into this page when I was researching ecommerce front-ends: http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/33703/ Not sure if that has anything to do with what you're trying to accomplish,