https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/OFBiz+Documentation+Index
If you do google search for ofbiz documentation this is one of the links. It has URL to development help and end user help. There are several books available depending upon what you need help with. This list is excellent source of help as well. I am new to Ofbiz (3 months now). I found it a bit overwhelming at first, but it is pretty easy to make it do what you need. The platform itself is very rich. You can do special projects easily using a ant create command. It is built on tomcat, so out of the box you get a bunch of components (like you mentioned you probably want to wrap them in your own front end if you wish to simplify and control errors). I can tell you I almost never get errors any more running the app, so you get used to the order of which things need to be set up. As mentioned Sharon has some good books on accounting and MRP from a user standpoint. Ruth has a good dev book (work book, but I found it very helpful). The platform has FTL (freemarker) and widgets (XML) for front end and minilang, java, and groovy for back end. In 3 months I have done a front end allowing my users to work with inventory using a much simpler interface (I did not re-write any of the services for the most part; just adjusted the frontend and messages etc). I created an EDI app that uses configuration from files (Ofbiz has a great entity engiine, easy to add data on first load and add tables to the data base). My best advice is to pick up a few of the books (I really like the accounting one by Sharon as it takes you step by step on how to configure the system). I did not buy any books the first month or so (with the exception of the cook book by Ruth Hoffman), and I found it very hard to understand all the components, their relationship to each other. After I got some documentation (and there is plenty of new documentation out that I found a bit later, so could be you could get by with free docs now). I understand the system much better, and get far fewer errors. I am not very experienced compared to others pn the list, but this is a great place to get help. ----- Joel Fradkin -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/OFBIZ-manual-tp4656272p4656314.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
