-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 You sound like i did when I started. One thing I am picking up, is your expectation of a finished program. More ofbiz, in IMHO, is a toolbox to let you build what you want. you mention that a party can have all sorts of possibilities. That is true however there is security in place as to who can do this. so it not something that everyone that logs in can do. you will find a infrastructure to implement business flow and be able to add you own flavor for the industry that you to set this up for. Though the UI, is getting better, it also uses a function I really like. if you add to the entity more structure, you don't have to spend a lot of time adding to the UI it is just there. Since this is a community effort any expertise you have to work on the areas you feel have sort comings is more than welcome.
you may have already found this http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/Apache+OFBiz+Getting+Started there is a section on contributing. and Welcome. Muhammad Aamir sent the following on 3/10/2009 9:22 PM: > 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJt5UkrP3NbaWWqE4RAmr9AKCrcFDQw7G+dlnwxbw8S4muoC0rpgCZARha VH2fz06VaV0sbNh7cGaI0dA= =MhDf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
