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Cecile Debois: OpenERP : plan de formation 2ème semestre 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Cécile (Open ERP)) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:59:06 +0000

Camptocamp est heureux de vous donner ci-dessous la liste des formations OpenERP pour le 2ème semestre 2009.

Découverte (1/2 journée) : 7 septembre 2009 et 3 novembre 2009
Finance et facturation (2 jours) : 8, 9 septembre 2009 et 5, 6 novembre 2009
Gestion commerciale (2 jours) : 14, 15 septembre 2009 et 10, 11 novembre 2009
Gestion de projets (1 jour) : 23 septembre 2009 et 16 novembre 2009
Gestion de production (1 jour) : 24 septembre 2009 et 17 novembre 2009
ERP Manager (1/2 journée) : 25 septembre 2009 et 18 novembre 2009

Ces formations sont données dans nos locaux de Lausanne en cours inter-entreprise. Nous sommes également à disposition si vous souhaitez organiser une formation OpenERP au sein même de votre entreprise (intra-entreprise) ou dans nos bureaux de Chambéry.

Pour plus d'informations, n'hésitez pas à nous contacter par email Cette adresse email est protégée contre les robots des spammeurs, vous devez activer Javascript pour la voir. .

Olivier: Hiding documentation comments.

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:02:43 +0000

Comments in the documentation are becoming very numerous. They begin to hinder the reading.

If you want to read the Open ERp documentation without those comments, we have added a small utility to control the appearance of these comments. There is now a small selection list on the right of the next, previous links:

You can now choose to read the documentation without these comments if you want.

Your choice will be remembered from page to page and even if you start a new web session (a cookie is used to store your choice)

OpenERP 5.0: Feeback for May '09 Developments

noreply@blogger.com (dso (tiny erp)) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:40:00 +0000

Hello,

Here is the feedback of the last month's work.

1.Report Engine :
Open ERP Report Engine has added new type of report called mako2html to parse HTML reports using MAKO template for faster and formatted output. See more detail : http://openerp-team.blogspot.com/2009/05/faster-formating-of-html-reports-using.html

2.Multi-Company :
Now User can directly change the company without having to log out, directly by going through the user preferences. and also Current company is displayed on status bar.

3.Google MAP in Open ERP :
We can see our partner information on google map(name, code, address,...) with icon on map.
Display country wise Partner Turnover, country appears in different colors like
light red color => high turnover
dark red color => low turnover
Display Delivery routes from Warehouse location to Customer location by cities with 10 different colors (by number of delivery to that city from warehouse)

Note : It generates KML file so you can save it on your computer and upload it on google map or google earth.
Required python packages : Google direction package

4.Google Translation in Open ERP :
Now we can translate Open ERP terms / fields / objects etc. in any language using integration of Google Translate. And also we can see unreviewed terms and review easily
see more information : http://www.openerp.com/planet/

5.CRM :
*On Case Section, we can configure the mailgateway through fetchmail to specify the parameters pop address, port, user, password, mailgate script path. When save mailgateway configuration, parameter file will be created per section in "server > bin > .fetchmail > dbname" . and scheduler will be read this file and call system command to fetch mail
*After click on Reminder button in case form, Window will be display message "Email Successfully sent !" if mail successfully sent
*Improve openerp-mailgate.py to accept html body

6.Base Quality module :
This module has been reviewed and should now be more accurate and more usable. As reminder, the base quality module allow you to check the quality of a module using different criteria (pylint, speed efficiency, coding standard followed by openepr, etl...).

It evaluates score in percentage (%) for whole module as well as it can provide score for individual tests, also it can skip some tests if module is not installed in server (workflow test...) so that your score is not bad for no reason.
Use Ponderation value to calculate score. It allows you to save the result of test (Save Report button)
Module also provide generic framework to define your own quality test.
Note : For more information (README.txt)

7.Document modules :

document_rules :
Document Rule module is mainly developed for creating rules on documents.
There are four types of rules which are defined in server actions: To copy document, To move document, To Assign partner to a document and To assign user to a document.
These rules are fired when rules criteria match on the basis of time defined in the scheduler.

document_extention :
Document extension module keeps track of versioning of documents.
Any change is made to the document and saved then it creates version of that document and the versioned document gets locked. The user cannot modify the document if it is versioned.

8.Usability Improvement :

*Make Partner Category structure view, Products Categories structure view, Analytical Account Structure View same like Stock Locations Structure view
*Rename “Administration > Security > Grant Access to Menus” into "... / Manage Menus"
*Change Order of menus in Product menu. Before, It was like this: Configuration,
Product's by Categories, Pricelists, Products. But Now It is like this: Configuration, Pricelists, Products by Categories, Products
*Rename field "Rentable Product" by "Can be Rent" in Product Form.
Reorder invoicing menus, the New ... Invoice is always the first menu of his level. It should be the latest one. For example, "New Customer Invoice" must be after "Unpaid Customer Invoices".
*On a task form View, second tab, put the text fields.function bellow the one2many and many2one for parent task.
*On a Task View : the fields Importance, Starting Date, Sequence, Partner, can be changed when the task is draft. (can always be changed). Currently, they are readonly.
*In the project management menu, rename "Template of Projects" by "Templates of Projects".
*On a tracking lot, put a link on the right of the lot to get the stock by location.
*On Periodical Inventory, Add the state cancel and the buttons for the following transitions: draft -> cancel, cancel -> draft
*On Outgoing products form, the stock.move lines must have a colour according to their state: grey for confirmed, black for others, blue for done
*The menu: Reporting / Traceability / Stock by Lots should open in list view instead of form view.
*On stock.picking, rename the state: Cancel -> Cancelled
*Now The report dates of inventories displays product field instead of ID of products
*On a purchase order, rename the state "Confirmed" by "Waiting Supplier Ack.".
*On a purchase order form, the “Address” should be renamed to “Supplier Address”. “Partner Ref” has been renamed to “Supplier Ref”.
*In manufacturing, put good icon of the menu Production Orders Planning .
*Change the cases segmentation form, user department form, Scheduler action form to be compliant with v5 guidelines of the form view. (a few fields on the top of the notebook)
*Add Gantt view on CRM Meeting
*Override the name_get method on a stock.location object. If you have 'full':1 in the context, return the full path instead of simply the name: "Tiny Sprl / Stock / Stock Wavre". Change the report Stock by Lots so that it displays the location like this

9.New System in Planning Management :
The module report_analytic_planning has been completely reviewed.
*New integer field for 'Business Days' in planning
*Improve view and do a fixed area in top (as for new design since 5.0)
*Change the default name to be the current month instead of the current day
*Put link between planning and project.task
*New a boolean field on planning line: "Assigned to task(s)" to check task assigned or not for planning line.
*Display Planning By User with him department' user, total of remaining hours of tasks, total plan hours, total open hours, total of Valid holidays Requests between the 2 dates of the planning, calculate free hours, total of timesheet lines between the dates of the planning
*Display Planning By Account with above information

10.ETL :
Improvement
- Pause and restart the job (Under developement)
- Thread server implement on demo
- pickle object to store the current job status

- Python Cprofile
- added concept of cprofile on job in run

New components:

google calendar
- connector => Provide connection to google calendar
- in => fetch events from google calendar
- out => send events to google calendar

google documents
- connector => Provide connection service to google documents
- in => Fetch files from google doc
- out => send files to google doc

gmail contacts
- out => send contacts to gmail contact for given user

Blogger
connector => Provice connection to blogger service
out => send blogs to blogger

XML RPC :

New Test Files
test file for xml_in and xml_out (demo data in xml with different companies):
- added test files which convert xml to dictionary format and vice versa
- try to use XSLT for import and export of xml files (Under development)

etl_interface:
Views:
New components views added(google calendar, google documents)
Dynamic views creation of all components
views improve for job
Wizard:
Add components and transitions from job object
Workflow:
Modified workflow for pause and restart the job

11.Ported etree object instead of minidom object

12.Thurnderbird pluging :
Here are few enhancements, improvements and bugfixing have been done on thunderbird plugin.

* If the thunderbird plugin is not installed or if it's not correctly configured, the proper error message will appear.
* Restructure module addons-extra/thunderbird
* When you want to archive a mail containing an attachment, it opens a window saying "Mail contains attachment!". This window is not useful so removed.
* Rename "Create" button on the bottom left corner to "Create Contact".
* When you archive an email with attachments, it asks Would you like to also save attachments of the email:
- Cancel (don't save anything)
- No (create case only)
- Yes (create case + attachments)
* If it's linked to a partner or address, it will fill in the partner and/or address when it creates a case.
* We have two buttons to archive from the archive window:
* Create Case (the current action)
* Attach (don't create a case but save the email as a normal .eml
file + his attachments, on the selected object). -> this one does not need a section.
* Select all model and search.
* Reviewed all dialogue window. It will ask for Cancel and Ok at the right in each window.
* We have found few bugs and enhancements at the time of testing. We will fix it soon.
Testing on windows platform is going on.
Some modules are in trunk community addons :

1.l10n_nl
Contributor : Veritos - Jan Verlaan (http://www.veritos.nl)

2.printjob
Contributor : Pegueroles SCP (http://www.pegueroles.com)
Featutes :
* Enables batch printing
* Correct memory leak when printing crashes
* Permits reprinting lost PDFs
* Possibility to send jobs to a printer attached to the server

3.price_adjust
Contributor : Niels Huylebroeck (http://www.bubbles-it.be)
Features:
* Price Adjust Wizard :
This wizard will allow you to adjust Cost Price and Sale Price for entire categories.
We can either set a fixed price or use a multiplier to increase or decrease the price.

4.account_customer_ref
Contributor : Alberto Garcia & Tiny
Features :
* Add Sale Customer Ref to Invoice
* In each invoice line show the customer ref of Sale Order origin

5.sale_report_html
Contributor : Tiny (http://www.openerp.com)
Features:
* New HTML report of sale order using MAKO template
* Note: Your system should have mako 0.2.4 installed.

6.account_receipt
Contributor : Paulino
Features:

1.report_truetype
Contributor : EduSense BV (http://www.edusense.nl)

Features :
Module to add any TrueType font to reports. This module transparently extends the report machinery to use TrueType fonts. The normal mechanisms used in Open ERP use the standard Type1 fonts in a latin1 encoding. This prevents usage of wide char character sets, known as UTF-8 and UTF-16 fonts.
This module enables the usage of any TrueType font, which are by definition UTF-8 encoded. The implementation chosen is a one-time registration of all found TrueType fonts in locations as advertised by rl_config.TTFontSearchPath during startup of the server. The path can be adapted to your needs. See reportlab's documentation for the details.
The consequence of this implementation is that new fonts will only be loaded after restarting the Open ERP server. Advantage is that the penalty for scanning and registering is paid only once every server run.
After loading, all reports generated by Open ERP can use these fonts by stating their formal mapped Type1 name, which can be found by running 'ttmkfdir' in the directory containing the fonts (unix like platforms). The typefaces will be listed in the file 'fonts.scale'.

TODO:
* One should be able to replace existing fonts using a map.
* One should know the registered fonts without peeking into the file system, let alone using rare utils.

Fabien Pinckaers: Meet us at Euro Python - Birmingham, UK

noreply@blogger.com (Fabien Pinckaers) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:21:00 +0000

This year, the world's biggest Python event, Euro Python, will be organised in Birmingham (UK), the 28th of June, up to the 4th of July. Fabien Pinckaers, Open ERP's founder and CEO will do two conferences: one on Open Object, one on Open ERP. these conferences are scheduled for the 30th of June and the 1st of July.

The complete time table is available on the Euro Python website:

http://www.europython.eu/talks/timetable/

We will attend Euro Python for these two days. We hope to meet you in UK to discuss Open ERP issues. If you want to organize a meeting with Fabien Pinckaers during this period, contact cde AT openerp.com

OpenERP 5.0: Open ERP Integration With Google Map

noreply@blogger.com (dso (tiny erp)) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:35:00 +0000

Hello,

We have come up with new features, which gives you flexibility to get your data like, partner information : individual partner information, country wide partner information on Google MAP with just one click. It is very simple to have your data from any Open ERP database on Google MAP.

Now, we have made it easier to trace partners information with name, address, code, receivable and payable, etc on a single click from Google map. More over you can get contry wise data for total number of partners, complied with number of invoices made and total turnover for respective country. Also you can find delivery routes with customer and warehouse locations, with number of deliveries and number of products sent.

This will provide great ergonomic and rich ERP interface to end user. With this, in few clicks you can analyse and keep track of your business in real time.

How to use:
- Install Google_earth on your Open ERP database.
- You will find this module at Menu -> Partners -> Google Map / Earth
- You will get
- Customer on map with turnover
- Partners country on map
- Delivery routes find

- By running these wizard, you will get KML file, upload it in your google map account
- Now, enjoy looking at analyze data on Google MAP.

Thank you,
Open ERP Team.

Fabien Pinckaers: Manufacturing Capacity Planning

noreply@blogger.com (Fabien Pinckaers) — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:04:00 +0000

Here is a one minute screencast that shows the Gantt chart features of Open ERP and how we use it to manage the manufacturing planning. Enjoy the power of the Open ERP user interface. That's a good proof we can do smart applications with web interfaces today.

You must install the mrp_operations module to do this.

The screencast has two parts.

Part 1: Work Orders Planning

We compute a manufacturing order (a PC2) that has 4 work orders related. Two of these 4 work orders can be launched in parallel and the others must be serialized. We use the gantt chart to planify the operations. Open ERP is smart enough to:

Serialize some operations, recomputing dependencies
Adapt length of work orders according to day/time (because workcenters are configured to work from monday to friday, 8 hours a day)
Synchronize work orders and manufacturing orders.

Part 2: Manufacturing Orders Planning

The phase 2 show the production of a PC0, that has two others manufacturing operations in make to order (PC2 and CPU_GEN). It shows the different dependencies between the orders and how Open ERP computes automatically length, durations and partsdependencies. Of course, work orders on the different work centers synchronize automatically with manufacturing orders.

If you are interrested by logistic or manufacturing processes, I suggest you to have a look at the new Open ERP book.

OpenERP 5.0: Open ERP made language translation easy with Google Translate

noreply@blogger.com (dso (tiny erp)) — Fri, 29 May 2009 01:03:00 +0000

Hello

Now translate Open ERP terms / fields / objects etc. in any language, as we have made it easier for you with the integration of Google Translate.

We have developed new module which can translate your terms using google translate, You can find menu here: Administration / Translation / Application terms / need review terms…

Google Translate

After Translation

Enjoy using your favorite OpenERP application with Google Translation.

You can get these modules on launchpad in trunk-extra-addon

Name of the module

1. Google_translate

Thanks,

OpenERP Team.

Cecile Debois: New Open ERP Book : Retail and Industrial Management

noreply@blogger.com (Cécile (Open ERP)) — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:59:00 +0000

Open ERP for Retail and Industrial Management

We are proud to announce the new Open ERP book - Retail and Industrial Management, steps towards Sales, Logistics and Manufacturing Integration
in the Open Source & Management Collection.

This book is about the use of Open ERP in a leading ERP system for manufacturing and stock management.

It's one of a series of books from Open Object Press on the use of Open ERP in a range of enterprise settings.

Availabilities

This book is available in english on our website at the price of 29,9 € at the following link : http://www.openerp.com/fr/buy/books.html

Introduction

Do you dream of the perfect company ?

That's the company where information moves freely between all functional areas, where you never have to enter data a second time, and everything is centralized in a single enterprise management system. This is the place where you rarely work on anything in a panic because everything is planned and well-structured, where everybody has permanent access to all useful information, and where all routine tasks are automated and easily controlled. This book represents a modern approach to retail and industrial management, giving you the tools for implementing this type of integrated management based on Open ERP.

The Authors

Fabien Pinckaers is the founder and director of Tiny sprl. In four years he created a group of over 80 employees with no borrowings or need for capital. In this Collection he presents his management methods and the software that enabled such organic growth.

Author of articles and books on the precesses and technologies of innovation, Geoff Gardiner is the managing director of Seath Solutions Ltd in the UK. Seath Solutions is a leader in improving working processes and integrating management information.

About Open ERP

With more than 1000 downloads per day, this is the most admired and used free and open source management software solution in the world. It covers all the modular and flexible enterprise functions, including customer relations, sales management, accounting, finance, stock management, project management, internal organization, human resources, purchase management, and manufacturing management.

Next books to come

- Customer Relationship Management
- Service Company Management
- Accounting

OpenERP 5.0: Html Reports Using Mako Templates

noreply@blogger.com (dso (tiny erp)) — Fri, 22 May 2009 04:41:00 +0000

Hello Every One,

Now you can create your HTML reports using Mako Templates for faster and formatted output.Open ERP has added new type of report called mako2html.

Mako is a template library written in Python. It provides a familiar, non-XML syntax which compiles into Python modules for maximum performance. This enables end user to make changes in format of report easily and faster as per her need.

Advantages:

1. Fast: simple three-sectioned layout mako template report takes 1.10 ms
2. Control structures constructed from real Python code (i.e. loops, conditionals) Which will allow user to create reports faster.
3. Straight Python blocks, inline or at the module-level

You can format the report as you need using HTML.

Requirements:

Mako 0.2.4 should be installed on your system.
openERP-server : Trunk version
openERP-client : Trunk version
openERP-addons : Trunk version

As an overview lets see a small example,

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN”>
<html>
<head>
<%include file=”mako_header.html”/>
</head>
<body>
% for o in objects:
<div style=”white-space: nowrap; float: left;”>
<address>
Shipping address :
${ o.partner_id.title or ‘ ‘ } ${ o.partner_id.name }
${ o.partner_shipping_id.title or ‘ ‘ } ${ o.partner_shipping_id.name }
${ o.partner_shipping_id.street }
${ o.partner_shipping_id.street2 or ‘ ‘ }</address>
</div>

% endfor
</body>
<%include file=”mako_footer.html”/>
</html>

for your company header you need to include <%include file=”mako_header.html”/>
for your company footer you need to include <%include file=”mako_footer.html”/>
This files will bring the header and footer that you have defined for your company in the database.

Sale Order

For Complete Example of Sale_order please Refer the module sale_report_html from : https://code.launchpad.net/~openerp-community/openobject-addons/trunk-addons-community

Thanks & regards

Open ERP team

OpenERP 5.0: IRC Community Meeting on 18 May 09

noreply@blogger.com (dso (tiny erp)) — Fri, 15 May 2009 05:31:00 +0000

Hello Everybody,

We remind you the next IRC meeting of this Monday May 18 at 3:00 PM (GMT+2), we suggest you to take note of the points which we will approach during this event:

Branch stability
Installation of an integration server
Creation of a forum which talking about the specifics developments
Creation of a virtual machine intended to help the new users to start with open erp
Contribution to edition of data demonstrations
Call to volunteers to enrich the data of openerptv
Road map: Talking about the last and future developments

Here thus the principal points which will be approached, but all new topics of discussions are welcome ( http://openobject.com/forum/topic11012.html)!!

Thanks and Best regards,

Open ERP team

OpenERP 5.0: Business Analysis On Click With Open ERP BI

noreply@blogger.com (dso (tiny erp)) — Thu, 14 May 2009 04:20:00 +0000

Hello friends we are happy to announce improvement in our BI (Business Intelligence) module. Now one can easily get analysis on various facts and figures based on Sales, Purchase, Production cycles and more....

We have made it very simple for end user, You can enjoy its functionality with just click of mouse and make the analysis of business data in few seconds. Starting with simple drag and drop, end user can make the simple report, which can be refined with the drills to deep levels and making the complex and detail reports based on business data. Filtering of data can be done with one click allowing end user to filter data according to the need. Reports generated can be seen in the form of graphs and charts too. With every step the MDX query is generated, which can be edited to change the output. Output can be saved as query and can be viewed or can be extended later.

Here is an example of sales data analysis using Open ERP Business Intelligence. In this example one can see how end user can easily configure BI cube and analyse sales data for - product category wise total sale, sale of particular product in particular region, date wise product sale, product sale based on number of unit, further end user can increase criteria for analysis as per need.

Cube browser in action

So, enjoy the futuristic BI application with Open ERP application and get the accurate analysis of your data as per your choice.

To get OLAP module go to lp:~openerp-commiter/openobject-addons/trunk-extra-addons

To get Web Client go to lp:~openerp/openobject-bi/client-new-trunk

Please note that these developments are still a prototype developed on trunk version. It’s fully working but not yet fully integrated in the main branch of Open ERP. We plan to integrate new client developments, like BI and Webmail in the new version of the web client, because this new version will integrate a client side plugin system. So, it’s better to wait for a few months before using the BI system, the v5.2 (or v5.4).

Thanks & Regards,

OpenERP Team.

OpenERP 5.0: Open ERP Web - What's going on?

noreply@blogger.com (dso (tiny erp)) — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:42:00 +0000

Most of you, if following the latest development on Launchpad project area, might be aware of the big changes with Open ERP Web Client. We migrated the web client to CherryPy3 droping the TurboGears completely and migrated Kid templates by faster Mako templates as a major step to make the Web Client much more faster and easier to deploy.

All the Kid templates are converted to faster Mako templates, i18n/l18n features have been partially reimplemented using Python Babel, CherryPy2 (TG is built on top of CP2) was replaced with CherryPy3, the latest, much better version of CherryPy Server.

This greatly reduced the pain of getting started with and deploying of Open ERP Web client. Now the number of third party dependencies are reduced to 3-4 pure Python libraries which you can install within the local lib dir with the help of `populate.sh` script, found under the same lib directory. Just get the source from Launchpad, run the populate.sh and launch the web client...

The initial test results are very impressive. We have seen almost 3-5 time speed improvement. Here are the benchmark results of the latest trunk version against the stable 5.0 branch which is running over TurboGears.

The benchmark test was done using Apache Benchmark Tool against relatively bigger Customer Invoice Form view. The command was used like this:

$ ab -C session_id=$session -n 100 "http://localhost:8080/form/edit?model=account.invoice&id=1"

where $session should be replaced with session id (you can use firebug to see the session id).

Here is the comparison between before and after improvements in Open ERP web client

Result of Open ERP Web 5.0 (TurboGears + Kid)	Result of Open ERP Web Trunk (CherryPy3 + Mako)
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 $Revision: 655654 $> Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/ Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/ Benchmarking localhost (be patient).....done Server Software: CherryPy/2.3.0 Server Hostname: localhost Server Port: 8081 Document Path: /form/edit?model=account.invoice&id=1 Document Length: 79965 bytes	This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 $Revision: 655654 $> Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/ Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/ Benchmarking localhost (be patient).....done Server Software: CherryPy/3.1.2 Server Hostname: localhost Server Port: 8080 Document Path: /form/edit?model=account.invoice&id=1 Document Length: 90394 bytes
Concurrency Level: 1	Concurrency Level: 1
Time taken for tests: 166.323 seconds	Time taken for tests: 42.054 seconds
Complete requests: 100	Complete requests: 100
Failed requests: 0	Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0	Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 8022000 bytes	Total transferred: 9063400 bytes
HTML transferred: 7996500 bytes	HTML transferred: 9039400 bytes
Requests per second: 0.60 [#/sec] (mean)	Requests per second: 2.38 [#/sec] (mean)

Time per request: 1663.228 [ms] (mean)	Time per request: 420.543 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 1663.228 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)	Time per request: 420.543 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 47.10 [Kbytes/sec] received	Transfer rate: 210.47 [Kbytes/sec] received
Connection Times (ms)	Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max	min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 0 0 0.0 0 0	Connect: 0 0 0.0 0 0
Processing: 1556 1663 71.3 1663 1856	Processing: 382 420 27.7 415 523
Waiting: 1555 1662 71.3 1662 1855	Waiting: 381 420 27.7 415 522
Total: 1556 1663 71.3 1663 1856	Total: 382 420 27.7 416 523
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)	Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 1663	50% 416
66% 1681	66% 418

75% 1695	75% 420
80% 1715	80% 424
90% 1775	90% 436
95% 1801	95% 512
98% 1829	98% 520
99% 1856	99% 523
100% 1856 (longest request)	100% 523 (longest request)

Conclusion

You can see significant performance boost in second test result. We observed 3-5 time speedup. There are still room to improve the performance further. Like reducing RPC calls, catching results of some computationally heavy functions. Implementing a way to directly call server methods if web client and server are installed on the same system (completely eliminating TCP layer).

What's next?

Besides this, we also planned to make web client modular implementing plugin system which let you create your own plugins to extend the functionality of the web client. We appreciate your ideas and suggestions in this regards.

Also, we have planned for a better main menu & tabified interface (similar to GTK client) where you always have access to the main menu and all views will be opened in tabs inside the same html page instead of utilising browser tabs. We had discussion about such interface previously, you can search the forum for a very good mockup implementation.

We are also thinking of writing some automated unit tests using CP3 testing API. We already wrote some basic tests to check how to proceed. You can run all tests by launching `run-tests.py` script...

We greatly appreciate you ideas, suggestions in this regards...

Thanks and regards to all contributors

Open ERP Team

Save time/money with Open ERP web client.

Fabien Pinckaers: Open ERP teams - Organisation of the community.

noreply@blogger.com (Fabien Pinckaers) — Sun, 10 May 2009 03:12:00 +0000

I am getting more and more emails from contributors or communities that organized themselves to do some contributions, discussion groups or translations on Open ERP.

I will summarize here how we propose to work to easily collaborate and consolidate efforts. If you have a group of people, I suggest to create a team on launchpad, or join an existing one. Don't forget to subscribe your team to the openerp-community team.

Then you should do all your contributions as modules, in the community or addons-extra branch, instead of doing a dedicated branch. We have now 213 active branches on launchpad, with some containing more than 200 modules. It's quite difficult to manage, have a look at contributions and consolidate efforts.

Please also avoid to create projects. Projects are dedicated to very big projects (kde clients, web clients, ...). It's better to create groups and join your efforts in the community branches. Your modules will have more visibility. Our daily generated documentation on modules, since a few days, also reports on community branches. You can check and download our 500 modules there.

Do branch only if:

you want to modify core or modules where you don't have access rights. Then do a request for mergal.
you want to experiment some devs before commiting them to "public" branches.

Our policy is to give commiters rights based on meritocracy. Every one can commit on the community branch. Once you have contributed 2 good modules on community branch, you can request to join the commiter team that have write access on addons-extra modules.

For details about the community organisation, read our community slidecast on OpenERP.tv.

OpenERP 5.0: Integration of Open ERP with Google Calender and Google Blogger

noreply@blogger.com (dso (tiny erp)) — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:44:00 +0000

Here is a new development from our core technical team, now enjoy functionalities of google calendar and google blogger with Open ERP.

We have developed a module which synchronize Google-Calender events with Open ERP events. So, now get updates of calender schedules from google calendar in Open ERP and vice-versa. Users can change event schedule form any where, with her google calendar which automatically updates Events in Open ERP.

Google Calender

Open ERP Event Management Module.

Another development is integration of Google Blogger and Open ERP Task Management, which exports task to blogger and one can get comments on his / her activity on mentioned tasks. A very useful feature of blogger, that is open discussion will be enhanced the development efforts. This feature helps in managing large projects with many tasks and many users working on different task (simultaneously), with this functionality all users can share their progress for the task with others and give their comments for the same.

Google Blogger with Open ERP Tasks.

Open ERP Tasks / Project Management Module.

Enjoy using your favourite Open ERP application with Google Calender and Google Blogger.

You can get these modules on launchpad in trunk- extra- addons. https://code.launchpad.net/~openerp-commiter/openobject-addons/trunk-extra-addons

Name of the modules
1. Google_calendar
2. Google_blogger

Thanks
Open ERP Team.

Fabien Pinckaers: Open Object Introduction

noreply@blogger.com (Fabien Pinckaers) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:54:00 +0000

One of the biggest advantage of Open ERP is that it is built on a very powerful architecture, the Open Object platform. It allows you to customize your applications in a few hours without development or to develop new features very quickly. We just released a small explanation of the

You can get more information and see OpenObject in action on OpenERP.tv.

Olivier: New filtering option on the documentation search page

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:40:24 +0000

The Open Object Documentation is very big and the default search facilities offered by Sphinx displays a lot of pages in sections you probably do not need.

For example, if you search for the account word in the documentation, you will get 373 results (out of 389) dispatched like this:

Module Index: 228
Community Book :4
Open ERP Book: 81
Installation Manuals: 3
Business Intelligence: 0
Open ERP Features: 34
Developer Book: 23

But most of the time, you probably wanted to search in one or two specific sections.

This is now a possibility with the new search option list:

You can choose one or several sections and Sphinx will only search in these sections.

By default, Sphinx will search in all sections.

OpenERP 5.0: Post Screen Cast @ OpenERP.tv

noreply@blogger.com (dso (tiny erp)) — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:20:00 +0000

Hello all, Greetings from Open ERP !!!

We are happy to tell our partners, admirers and large community of users and developers that, now they can showcase their work in live form as screen casts on www.openerp.tv , for this user will find direct link on the home page of the website instead going through www.blip.tv . This is to provide easy platform, so that everyone can share their work and knowledge with others.

This will help every contributor to reach large community of Open ERP and potential users for Open ERP to get recognitions and rewards. Open ERP contributor can submit her screen casts which mainly focuses on the matters related to- features of Open ERP, success stories, how to develop new functionalities, Open ERP screen cast in different languages and so on...

User can upload her screen casts in few minutes, which will be reviewed by administrator and put on the site if it matches with the required criteria for publishing. In this we have provided ‘Quality Information’ to produce good quality screen casts, we suggest user to read it carefully before submiting screen casts to avoid chances for rejection.

There are only three mandatory fields title, thumbnail and screen cast file to submit screen casts.

Screen casts should be in any of 'mov', 'wmv', 'avi', 'flv', 'm4v', 'swf','mpg', 'mp4', 'mpeg', 'ogg', 'ogm', 'ogv' format. Where as thumbnail for the same should be in 'gif', 'jpg', 'png' format.

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Olivier: New features in the Module Index.

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:03:27 +0000

The Module Index lists all the available Open ERP modules. Each page displays a list of important information about a module:

some metadata:
- last module version
- module author
- …
the module description
the module dependencies
its menus, reports and views
its objects (useful for developers)

Download links

There is now a Download links section listing the available download files for a specific module.

The following version are checked for availability:

4.2 (old stable version)
5.0 (last stable version)
trunk (development version)

The file to be downloaded is a zip file.

Rate your favorite modules

Beside download links, you can now rate your favorite modules in this section. For example:

You can give from 1 to 5 points to each module.

This will help the Open Object Community understand which modules should be improved.

Fabien Pinckaers: Designing Applications in a Few Minutes with Open Object

noreply@blogger.com (Fabien Pinckaers) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:10:00 +0000

We just released a new screencast that shows how to quickly design complete applications with Open Object, the Open ERP's framework. In 17 minutes, we develop a complete school management applications, including:

Management of teachers and students,
Management of courses, classes and sessions,
The classes availabilities and courses planning,
The document management system for training material,
Selling and invoicing courses through sales orders,
Statistics about courses.

Check this video to discover the power of Open Object to customize existing applications, or build new ones.

You can get more screencasts on OpenERP.tv.

OpenERP 5.0: Challenges And Opportunities for Open ERP

noreply@blogger.com (dso (tiny erp)) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:46:00 +0000

After interacting with many software end users in different industry verticals, we found that when it comes to open source there are main two concerns, first is to get required documentation to start with and second is to get proper timely support for training, customization and maintenance. Also as open source product evolves on every day basis from contribution of its large community, some end users afraid of improper code and bugs while using it.

Looking at these scenarios new version 5 of Open ERP comes with a full review of the web site giving access to more than 1500 pages of documentations on business management and a reorganisation of the community sources build upon the Open Object framework. Also Open ERP offers to customers a set of editions that bundle Open ERP with commercial maintenance and services.

We at Open ERP sense these concerns of end users and developed new documentation for our product and also introduce new products as additional services. We continue our efforts to release a very good documentation on Open ERP. Now end users and developers can enjoy free and an improved version of our different documentations: The user book on enterprise management, The developer book, The community guide, The modules documentation.

Access these documentations on: http://doc.openerp.com . We also encourage all admirers of Open ERP to contribute in this documentation by providing their insight for their expertise in respective fields. If you want to contribute in the documentation process, please join the launchpad project: http://launchpad.net/openobject-doc

The set of service editions for Open ERP provides the end users guarantee to run Open ERP in a professional environment. These editions are second level maintenance contracts, as first level support is being provided by Open ERP certified partners.

These Open ERP editions are not differentiated on functionalities of software, all editions are based on exactly the same code, software and documentation. The differences between the 3 editions is only related to the service level agreement and the guarantees you, or your customer, require. For more detail one can visit http://openerp.com/discover/open-erp-editions.html .

As a result of these new developments, interest and acceptance for Open ERP is increasing by leaps and bounce. We are seeing record increase in downloads for the software which is near about 5000 downloads per day this is 10 times higher than its close competitors. We are looking forward to increase our partner network in near future to cater this growing demand for Open ERP.