David I'll commit, and get started this weekend. I need these for my company, because Quickbooks is being annoying with their licensing.
I have in fact been looking for documentation on where OFBiz is, plans etc to improve the accounting module. Where do I start? (I'll be joining the dev list before the day is out as well.) Is everything in trunk? You mention needing specs? What's the starting point? What's been done? Where do I find all this out? Let me summarize.. step one is what? On Nov 20, 2007 2:41 PM, David E Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's why everyone keeps asking about this... clearchris just wrote > to me personally and I didn't notice it wasn't through the mailing > list. Here is my reply to him: > > ============================ > I wish... As far as I know there is no funding anywhere for this so it > is being done as different people and teams contributing to OFBiz have > the free time. > > There are lots of ways you could help. An these basic financial > statements are fairly straightforward, but also only a small part of > the reports people usually like to see. We could use a lot of help > with writing up specs for the reports based on the OFBiz data model. > If that's beyond what you're interested in we could really use your > help once the reports are written to test and review them. > ============================ > > What fascinates me is how many people have replied about this on and > off list... and how nothing has happened for years on this because no > one has wanted to fund and contribute in this area (just a few > individuals working on it in free time). The notable semi-exception is > the OSS financials module, but I say semi-exception because that isn't > part of OFBiz and isn't the sort of foundation that a community can > gather around and build and maintain going forward. > > In any case, there is no big news, no big change, it is as it has > always been: no end-user client sponsoring the effort, just > individuals working on it in their own free time. At Hotwax we have a > list of a number of these items we'd like to have our people working > on, but this is a VERY new situation so we don't know when we'll have > free people and how things will go when we do. We're attempting to > group resources so we can take on larger contracts and get OFBiz into > places it hasn't been before because of a lack of available service > providers of a certain category. In short, this is one of various > things on a list we have, and most of which I've mentioned in other > emails. > > I hope that clears things up. I also hope the excitement I've seen > about this will translate into something productive... > > -David > > > > On Nov 20, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Scott. wrote: > > > > > This is great news David. When do you think they will be available? > > > > > > > > BJ Freeman wrote: > >> > >> Great !!! > >> > >> David E Jones sent the following on 11/19/2007 2:02 PM: > >>> > >>> ... and being worked on right now in OFBiz itself. > >>> > >>> -David > >>> > >>> > >>> On Nov 19, 2007, at 2:56 PM, BJ Freeman wrote: > >>> > >>>> those are in the Finanical package from opentaps. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Christopher L sent the following on 11/19/2007 1:46 PM: > >>>>> Is there an income statement report currently implemented in > >>>>> ofbiz? > >>>>> I see a menu item buried in the accounting tab, but get an error > >>>>> when > >>>>> I click on the report. To find the menu, follow these links: > >>>>> > >>>>> Accounting -> Companies -> Account -> Income Statement > >>>>> > >>>>> This is the error I get: > >>>>> > >>>>> org.ofbiz.webapp.control.RequestHandlerException: > >>>>> Unknown request [IncomeStatement]; this request does not exist or > >>>>> cannot be called directly. > >>>>> > >>>>> This also occurs when I click "Balance Sheet" in the same menu. > >>>>> > >>>>> Thanks! > >>>>> > >>>>> Chris > >>>>> > >>> > >> > >> > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > > http://www.nabble.com/Financial-Reports---Income-Statement-tf4839746.html#a13865672 > > Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > -- James A Barrows
