On Thursday, January 09, 2014 11:32 AM, [email protected] wrote
> Since i could not find any suffucient informaiton about payrolling in ofbiz
> i want to ask the community. I've found that opentaps is based upon ofbiz
> and that it provides a payroll module... however i don't know if i can
> combine the opentabs module with ofbiz or at least use the source of it.

Opentaps is more and more going in other directions than OFBiz. I'd not 
recommed to try reusing something from Opentaps.
I had an experience with Funambol 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-4247, so I know what I'm talking 
about..
 
> So to my questions:
> It's probably best to build the payroll upon the HR module. Do i extend the
> HR module or do i create a new module which uses the HR module?

IMO it makes sense to extend the HR module. But you certainly noticed that HR 
is a top level applications (in applicationd folder).
So I believe indeed it would be better to create a new module which uses the HR 
module and, as Taher said, certainly related to accouting module

> Probably someone already did an effort in this matter. Maybe someone could
> point me in the right direction?

AFAIK, nothing that has been contributed. If you want to share your work with 
the community(and benefit of reviews, tests, etc.) , the best would be to 1st 
exchange in this ML (or even better, in the dev ML) about the requirements and, 
once a consensus is found, open a Jira issue 
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/OFBiz+Contributors+Best+Practices

> As there are many tutorials and documentation about how to develop with
> ofbiz, which "parts" are the core parts of building a new module with
> extends or interacts with another?

I'd recommend the tutorial to begin 
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/OFBiz+Tutorial+-+A+Beginners+Development+Guide
Then the books 
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/OFBiz+Related+Books

HTH

Jacques
 
> I will be able to install and mess with ofbiz in a few weeks. However at
> this point im not allowed to spend the time doing so.
> 
> Regards,
> Dove

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