That helps. Thanks for the clarification. David E Jones wrote: > > This line isn't easily drawn. Initially opentaps financials was just > an add-on to OFBiz, but these days they are working on replacing > functionality in OFBiz accounting, so the functional areas overlap > quite a bit. > > In general OFBiz has all of the data model, low level posting > services, etc but we don't yet have automated posting services or > financial reports and those are the big gaps that opentaps fills. > > -David > > > Vince Clark wrote: >> David >> >> Speaking of OpenTaps, can you provide some clarification on where the >> line is drawn between OFBiz functionality and the OpenTaps Financials >> module? >> >> For example, does OFBiz take transactions all the way to posting to the >> GL? If so, is OpenTaps really just enhanced functionality and reporting? >> >> I'm trying to understand when it makes sense to pull in that module or >> just use OFBiz OOTB. >> >> David E Jones wrote: >>> Hmmm... if you are actually using any of these things it must be with >>> the opentaps financials module or something as these aren't actually >>> built into OFBiz. >>> >>> There are some efforts coming to build all of this out in OFBiz >>> itself, but that is really not close to done yet. >>> >>> If you are using opentaps, the opentaps forums/lists/whatever might >>> yield more helpful information. >>> >>> Good luck! >>> -David >>> >>> >>> Xavier Olivella wrote: >>>> Ok, thanks for your note, but I would like ofbiz to POST to a specific >>>> account, not to get the report (which is working fine by the way). >>>> >>>> The second one is not working for me, but I don't know if there's >>>> another thing to set up plus the parent-child relationship. >>>> >>>> Thanks anyway. >>>> >>>> >>>> El dt 17 de 07 del 2007 a les 12:52 -0600, en/na David E Jones va >>>> escriure: >>>> >>>>> Just a quick note: those both sound like things you could do after >>>>> the fact in the reports and such that you write. In fact, the second >>>>> one is already implied and part of what OFBiz does. >>>>> >>>>> -David >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Xavier Olivella wrote: >>>>>> Hi everybody >>>>>> >>>>>> I am setting up my own GL Chart of accounts with Spanish model and >>>>>> it's >>>>>> working quite good (thanks to documentation!) except for the >>>>>> nightmare >>>>>> of converting the defaults and accountTypes to its Spanish GL >>>>>> equivalent :-( >>>>>> >>>>>> Anyway I have a couple of questions. >>>>>> >>>>>> 1- I know how to set up all receivable and payable invoices to its >>>>>> default GL account but, can I set up some specific GL account for >>>>>> some >>>>>> customers and some providers? It's very usual here, so it would be >>>>>> perfect for my accountant. The idea is that all invoices to (or >>>>>> from) a >>>>>> particular PartyID may be posted to a GL account "linked" or >>>>>> associated >>>>>> to that Party. >>>>>> >>>>>> 2- The second one is related to previous. If there's a parent GL >>>>>> account >>>>>> that has several child accounts, how can I set up the parent >>>>>> balance to >>>>>> be the sum of all child balances? You can figure it would be very >>>>>> useful >>>>>> in above case among others. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I've been looking in docs and google lucklessly :-( >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks in advance! >>>>>> >>
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