Joel, Thank you for the supportive reply.
Regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 2:58 PM, [email protected] <[email protected] > wrote: > > 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. >
