It sounds like you're starting to scratch the surface. Best wishes on
a more thorough and deep review.
-David
On Mar 10, 2009, at 10:22 PM, Muhammad Aamir wrote:
I am new to ofbiz ERP and trying to understand how it works. I've
just read
Party and Accounting chapters from Data Model Resource Book Vol 1.
After a
quick glance on the modules (Party and Accounting) of ofbiz,
following is my
first impression I would like to share with you and request you to
correct
if I am assuming anything wrong:
- The data model presented in Data Model Resource book captures the
static model of the system and doesn't focus on the business rules
that
validate, generate, drive or process that data.
- ofbiz might be a beautiful implementation of data models
presented in
the book, however it is merely a collection of ugly screens that
ignores
significant business rules and just provide data entry mechanism
for the
tables that implement the models mentioned in the book.
- For example in Party module, a Person, who already has a role
Employee,
can have additional roles of Organization Unit, Internal
Organization and in
fact any other role (which of course doesn't make any sense).
- According to the Data Model Resource book, Internal Accounting
Transactions are not associated with any party and when doing
External
Transactions we usually need to refer party(ies). However, I was
able to do
a GL transaction for asset depreciation and also referred Party
and in fact
any other detail.
Numerous examples like above can be easily given. Is it really like
this
that ofbiz is only a mechanism to quickly populate the tables that
implement
the models presented in that book and may be in some other book(s)?
Regards
Muhammad Aamir
