Or even better, raise JIRA issues. That way progress can be tracked. 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 4:17 PM, Ron Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote: > We are working on the on-line documentation and if you find errors or > confusing descriptions, please do not hesitate to raise these as issues in > this forum. > > Ron > > > On 01/10/2014 8:58 AM, [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. >> >> > > -- > Ron Wheeler > President > Artifact Software Inc > email: [email protected] > skype: ronaldmwheeler > phone: 866-970-2435, ext 102 > >
