Pierre,
OK, good. As I mentioned in my initial post we've yet to come across a
requirement that we couldn't solve within OFBiz. We have had to be
creative sometimes but that's what makes it fun.
We've been using OFBiz for years now -- for both ERP and eComm solutions
and I'm constantly surprised as to the data model flexibility. It wasn't
obviously apparent at first, and somewhat daunting, but after a little
while we all "got it". We all have to remember that what OFBiz is trying
to solve is very complicated -- ERP is extremely challenging -- and a
great deal of flexibility is required to solve everyone's requirements.
The key for me is to always look within OFBiz for a solution (it's there
somewhere) and work within the intent of the project design. Our very
first implementation we did not do this -- and paid for it later.
Lastly, I'm excited about the documentation effort (great job by Sharan
and Ron to take this on) -- this can only enhance the project as a
whole. It would be nice to think that we can continue to get adoption --
and having great documentation is a pre-requisite for that, imo.
Good to share war stories! Even better to share successes.
Nick
On 10/1/2014 11:11 AM, Pierre Smits wrote:
Nick,
Yes, this is exactly what I intended to be shared with the community. That
way community members can learn what the possibilities of OFBiz are and
where the intricacies might be when considering customized implementations.
It also shows that people are willing to share experiences and that this is
a healthy community.
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 4:58 PM, Nick Rosser<[email protected]> wrote:
Pierre,
The custom Alumni Network has some key features:
* Access
o The Locate a Practitioner is available for general use, given
that they want the general public to be able to find one of
their Alumni practitioners)
o Other features require authentication and user setup
* Authentication
o Alumni use their Student#, First Name and Last Name to gain
access to the site
o We make a callout to a back-end Student Mgmt System -- if
authenticated then a user profile is setup and access granted
* Locate a Practitioner
o Re-purposed the Store-Locator functionality we developed in BigFish
o Integrated into Google Maps
o OFBiz Entities:
+ PARTY (and associated GROUP/ROLE/CONTENT)
+ CONTACT_MECH / POSTAL_ADDRESS
+ GEO_POINT / PARTY_GEO_POINT
* Private functions (Jobs, Rental Office, Volunteer, Message Board)
o The idea is that this is a private community and allow Alumni to
communicate with other Alumni
o "Postings"
+ Jobs: if someone has a Acupuncture practice and are looking
for additional practitioners then a job offering is posted,
and other Alumnis can apply for that position
+ Office Rental: someone has additional office space available
for rental
+ Volunteer Posting: someone needs volunteers for a specific event
+ OFBiz Entities:
# For the primary data collected we created specific
POSTING entities (e.g. JOB_POSTING)
# With associations back to standard entities within OFBiz
(PARTY, PARTY_ASSOC, ENUMERATION etc.)
o Message Board: general board to share ideas, thoughts and
solicit feedback etc
+ OFBiz Entities:
# we use the CONTENT, CONTENT_ASSOC and CONTENT_TYPE
Is that what you meant?
Nick
On 10/1/2014 10:30 AM, Pierre Smits wrote:
Hi Nick,
Thanks for the endorsement. Can you elaborate a bit more on how you built
the Alumni Network application? E.g. what kind of functionalities are used
there to accomplish it?
Best 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 4:23 PM, Nick Rosser<[email protected]> wrote:
All,
I thought it may be interesting for some community members to share one
of
recent successful implementations. I would welcome others to do so,
seeing
how OFBiz is being used for real implementations is good knowledge
sharing
and good for the community as a whole.
Check out http://online.swedishinstitute.edu.
The Swedish Institute is a leading educator for massage, acupuncture and
personal training with a large facility in New York City. Like many
educational institutions they offer Continuing Education classes -- a
great
way for their Alumni to keep up with the latest techniques and an
excellent
source of revenue!
We used our OFBiz extension BigFish for this implementation. There were
some interesting special requirements given that the offerings were not
traditional products but registration for continuing education classes.
As
usual we found that the OFBiz data model and service layers provided
everything we needed to pull off this project (we have not yet been
stumped, OFBiz is truly Open for Business!).
In addition to the eCommerce site we built a custom Alumni Network
application using OFBiz. This offers any Alumni the ability to
authenticate
their Alumni status, and participate in a number of private features such
as Rental Office offerings, Volunteer Postings and a private Message
Board.
For a quick look, there is public access to the Locate-a-Practitioner
function at http://online.swedishinstitute.edu/alumni/
control/locatePractitioner
For more information about BigFish check out http://bigfish.solveda.com.
Nick
