Main New

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Features In The OFBiz Trunk

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• Web Pos
  • New special purpose component for a pos web based application.
• Ecommerce
  • Added a new event "setUserLoginFromEmail" that set userloginId from an email address. If user edit email address then set it as a new userLoginId and
    disabled date to far in the future for existing userLoginId. This is a feature available on new profile page.
  • Added a new convenient Ajax one page checkout option with 4 sub-sections
• User Interface
  • Selectable Visual Themes can now be installed into OFBiz hot-deploy folder. Backoffice users can select their favourite Visual Theme.
  • The page header is now collapsible so that more screen space is available.

August 2008

• Framework
  • Generics markup added to several Java classes.
  • Refactored FlexibleStringExpander - less memory used.
• MyPage, ProjectManager
  • It is now possible to create a customer request from an incoming email
  • Creation of a project task from a customer request
  • Allow the customer to login to the backend system in mypage using OFBiz security system and showing the status of the customer requests.
  • Customer can now add new requests and update the priority of exiting requests.
  • Customer can also see and download his own invoices in his currency in pdf format
  • Many enhancements in receiving email into the system.
  • Last but not least: create an invoice from all hours reported per timesheet on not yet invoiced project tasks"
• Order Component
  • Miscellaneous enhancements to the order detail screen, mostly related to the action links for shipment related operations.
• POS
  • New virtual keyboards (alphanum and num) automatically accessed from fields needing them (usefull with touch screens, can be disabled with a property)
• Fixed Asset Maintenance
  • Meter readings can be entered without creating a maintenance.
  • Automatic maintenance generation. If a product maintenance is based on meter readings, then maintenances will be created automatically when the meter reading crosses a threshold. If a product maintenance is based on time intervals, then maintenances will be created automatically when the time interval is passed.
  • New party roles for maintenance worker, maintenance manager, and maintenance supplier (outside service).
  • Automatic assignment of parties to maintenance tasks.
  • Additional parties can be assigned to a maintenance task.
  • Improved user interface in the Asset Maintenance component.

July 2008

• My Page
  • New application currently under development and is now fairly complete.This component shows all information for a specific user such as personal email, project tasks assigned, timesheet and company events such as holidays, When a person has acces he can also edit the email of other users such as company email send to info@company.com
• Party Component
  • Enhanced the communication event screens and created specific forms for emails and internal notes.
  • created the possibility to create Customer requests from incoming emails which allows the import into the project manager component where request can be converted into project tasks.
  • When emails come into the system and the email is not known, a form is added which allos the quick creation of new parties. Also has a mass delete button to delete incoming spam.
• Order Component
  • Enhanced the Customer request screens and changed them according the OFBIz interface standards.
  • Implemented returns of purchase orders to suppliers
• Framework
  • Added support for default entity-group for entities: now, if an entity belongs to the org.ofbiz group, there is no need to explicitely specify this
• All Components
  • a bunch of Beanshell scripts have been converted to Groovy scripts
  • removed all the, no more needed after recent enhancement, entity-group.xml files

June 2008

• Accounting/Party/Marketing/Manufacturing/Projectmgr/Example/Product/Ordermgr/Workeffort
  • Conversions of bsh scripts to groovy
• Accounting
  • Improved Fixed Asset tree
  • Move Billing Account permissions to follow new the pattern
• HR (Human ressources)
  • Miscellaneous enhancements and bug fixing.
• Product
  • Added support for non-serialized status to mark items as defective or on-hold and exclude
    them form the inventory reservation and issuance services
• Ecommerce
  • Now the agreement will be applied for the Registered user in Ecommerce Section
• Order
  • Pagination controls should not be displayed on a single page list
• AssetMaint
  • Changes to Asset Maint component to re-use existing screens better
• SFA (Sales Force Application)
  • Miscellaneous enhancements and bug fixing
• Manufacturing
  • Small enhancements to the algorithm that computes start/end dates of production runs
• Workeffort
  • Improved Workeffort Task List
• Shark
  • Finally deprecating the old workflow engine which hasnt been used in years; moving it to the
    specialpurpose directory
• Framework
  • Application servers (new option in appserver, see http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/gB)
    • JBoss422
  • Embedded Tomcat has been upgraded to 6.0.16
  • Embedded Geronimo TX Manager have been upgraded to 2.1.1
  • LDAP Authentication
  • Screen Widget refactor - changed StringBuffer arguments to Writer arguments to help make the screen widget API more consistent. Also added some parameterized data types to cut down on the unchecked warnings
  • Improved Find Screen decorator
  • Refactor all the widget rendering methods and some of the content and Freemarker rendering classes to use Appendable instead of Writer
  • Small enhancement to the UtilGenerics class. Added two helper methods to make it easier to
    write type-safe code
  • A basic implementation of a help system
  • Started effort of cleaning up element and attribute names in simple-methods

• User Interface
  • New and faster popup calendar
  • New collapsible lookup interface is slowly spreading in OFBiz (Ajax style)
  • Added support for Collapseable Panel. Now All the Panels rendered using screenlet screen widget
    are collapseable using Effects library and not server round trip if javascript is enable
  • Colors and localisation for the calendar

May 2008

• Marketing
  • JUNIT testing process of create/update contact list

• Manufacturing
  • New MRP event type for Sales Forecasts
  • Added partial support for lot id in production runs

• Product
  • JUNIT testing shipment process
  • Added field to search inventory items by lot id

• Accounting
  • Add Application level menu/tools for AR
  • Save an Invoice as Invoice Template
  • JUNIT testing process Payments sent to suppliers for Purchase Invoices
  • JUNIT testing accounting transaction on Sales Invoice
  • JUNIT testing accounting transaction on payment received from customer for a sales invoice
  • JUNIT testing accounting transaction on Manufacturing :- Production Runs: materials issuances from the warehouse
  • JUNIT testing process of accounting transaction on production Runs: actual manufacturing costs
  • JUNIT testing accounting transaction on adding finished products into the warehouse

• Party
  • Misc improvements in email notification on new account creation

• Order
  • Cleaned up the services and secas around quote report emails: instead of using the QuoteAttribute
    entity and seca to trigger the email
  • Fixed a bug for canceling some quantity of order Items
  • Replacement returns were creating duplicated replacement orders
  • Split Pay Pref Per Shp Grp incorrectly calculates max amounts for Payment Preferences
  • Store Order Item changes
  • Clean up labels between order and ecommerce application
  • Added UI for entering Order Item Change reason and comments during Order Item update/cancel/append
  • Extend the support for by hours and by days in recurrence info and use them as part of conditions for promotions
  • Improved screen widget Ajax support
  • Improved Find screen decorator
  • JUNIT testing sales order shipments process

• Framework
  • Groovy : now Groovy can be used in place of BeanShell (work in progress...)
  • Improved the way failonerror was used for subtasks: now, it fails on errors happening in subtasks
    only if the specialpurpose and application folders are present
  • Fixed the menu widget - the "extends" feature didn't work
  • IE7 and general layout fixups for the Example and ExampleExt components
  • Added ability to render the report in landscape format
  • Entity delegator deprecating find methods
  • Various clean ups and improvements on artifact tool
  • Fixed a bug in the Form Widget where alt-target elements in extended forms were being added to the parent form's alt-targets. Also overriding an alt-target in an extended form works now
  • Removed some calls to deprecated GenericDelegator methods
  • Implemented page size defaults for the form widget lists. Some code was already there, but it wasn't being used
  • Added JavaScript detection to the framework
  • Added support for third party policy servicers
  • Some Ajax JavaScript helper functions
  • Added groovy support
  • Locale and Time Zone refactor and bug fixes
  • Implementation of Ajax.Autocompleter enhancement for form widget text box
  • Convertion of some bean shell scripts to groovy
  • Add a new form widget field sub-element called on-field-event-update-area - intended initially for Ajax support

• SFA (Sales Force Application)
  • Miscellaneous enhancements and bug fixing

• HR (Human ressources)
  • Miscellaneous enhancements and clean ups

• User Interface
  • Localisation
    • Major cleanup of localisation in progress...
    • Complete French translation of the Catalog and Order modules
    • Miscellaneous enhancements in French localisation of Backoffice modules
  • IE7 and tab-bar style fixups for Party Manager component.
  • UI work in the Example and ExampleExt components, fixed minor layout issues
  • Set the style for selected menu items

April 2008

• Accounting
  • Miscellaneous Enhancement of the component
  • Implement new service to get an aggregate set of accounting
    preferences for a company

• Manufacturing
  • Enhanced the MRP algorithm to generate requirements also for products with qoh less than minimum
    stock that don't have any event associated to them

• Order
  • New product variant selection method

• Ecommerce
  • Cleaning up javascript code and now using prototypejs library

• Product
  • Rename FeaturePrice entity to ProductFeaturePrice and move the the related screens in the
    feature detailed info

• Framework
  • Application servers (new options in appserver, see http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/gB)
    • Geronimo 2.0.3 or WASCE 2
    • Tomcat 5.5 et 6
  • Added a simple example of using prototype (ajax) with screens
  • Various improvements on artifacts tool
  • Removed xml header from fop files

• SFA (Sales Force Application)
  • New pages for adding leads
  • New sales opportunities

March 2008

• Facility
  • Implemented JUNIT test case for physical inventory adjustment

• Product
  • Implemented JUNIT test case for receive other shipment

• Framework
  • Added run-install-extseed-initial target to install data including the new seed-initial
  • Added docs-all target for building javadocs of all applications
  • New Geo data for Columbia

• Marketing - new SFA application
  • Added a new Sales Force Automatimation application

• Content - new seed for MP4 mime type
  • Added mime type data for mp4

• User Interface
  • New look and feel for most of the forms into Webtools application
  • There are now two menu groups: "main", for the main applications, in the top bar, and "secondary" for applications (specialized or not still 'mature'), in the footer.
  • Added artifact forms to get informations about services, forms, entities used in OFBiz, see Webtools module

February 2008

• Order
  • A new product store email has been created for new quote creation
  • Implemented JUNIT test case for creating a sales order

• User Interface
  • Look and Feel
    • New look and feel for all the forms in the Content, Business Intelligence, eBay, Google Base, Oagis, Asset Maintenance, Project Manager applications
  • Localisation
    • Localisation is now done with XML files and no longer properties files: less files, all translations at a glance (with correct fonts in Eclipse also for Asian languages (16 bit character) can now be maintained without any additional tools
    • OFBiz now completly translated into the Thai Language.
    • Complete French translation of the eCommerce module

• Product
  • Implemented JUNIT test case for stock moves and inventory items transfer

January 2008

• User Interface - Look and Feel
  • New look and feel for all the forms in the Catalog, Facility, Order (except for order entry), Party, Marketing, Manufacturing, Human Resources, Work Effort, Accounting applications
• Content
  • Data resource screens: fixed errors and added paging.
• Workflow- JUnit test cases
  • Implemented JUNIT test case for party communication
• Project Manager
  • Security now fully implemented on a screen and service level
  • Resource tab now have more features and can update rates.
  • Timeregistration now possible with different rates
  • Resourcemanager extended
  • Timeregistration management function
• POS
  • POS uses now XUI 3.2

December 2007

• Order - JUnit test cases
  • Implemented JUnit test case for Creating a Purchase Order
• Catalog - Advanced Product Search
  • Implemented in the advanced product search the filter by product good identification type/value
• Catalog - eBay
  • New special purpose component for integration with eBay
• Accounting
  • Added ability to setup multiple net days payment terms to agreements/orders/invoices (for example: "after 30 days pay the 50%, after 60 days pay the 40%, after 90 days pay the remaining 10%"); added screens to filter for invoices by due date of the payment terms (for example: "show past due date invoices").
  • Implemented financial period closing routine
  • Implemented service to automatically post the gl transaction for manual inventory variances
  • Implemented service to automatically post the gl transaction for inventory transfers and inventory owner change
  • Implemented service to automatically post the gl transaction for inventory cost changes
  • Implemented service to automatically post the gl transaction for inventory consumed by work efforts (e.g. production runs)
  • Implemented service to automatically post the gl transaction for inventory produced by work efforts (e.g. production runs)
  • Implemented service to automatically post the gl transaction for work effort's actual costs accounting (e.g. production runs' costs)
  • Implemented service to automatically post the gl transaction for sales invoices
• ProjectManagement
  • Template function created to enable the creation of new project from templates
  • Project copy function added.
  • GanttChart now available for phases and tasks.
  • Added a resource manager, resource assignment to project and tasks.
  • Timesheet for one week for easy entry.
  • Project and phases information now show planned and actual data from the lower levels
  • Added demo data to be loaded with ant run-install
• Framework
  • Webtools
    • An entity references PDF may be generated (1250+ pages but FOP is quick enough)

• POS
  • You can now buy a configurable item

November 2007

• Framework
  • Webtools
    • SECA details shown in available services screen
  • The new parameter "widget.verbose" in widget.properties allows to show where code came from in html source
• Inventory
  • New screen to search (by product, date, type etc...) and display the inventory movements (inventory item details) with information about shipments, sales/purchase orders, returns, manufacturing orders, physical manual variances; there are three views of the movements: by inventory item, by product or by date.
• POS
  • Password entry is now hidden
  • You can now enter a promo code to be applied to the current sale via the promo menu
• Accounting
  • Implemented the Trial Balance report
  • Implemented new screens to search/list accounting transactions and accounting transaction entries
  • Implemented new screen to manage organization's mapping from GL account types to GL accounts
  • Implemented new screen to manage organization's mapping from products to GL accounts
  • Implemented service to automatically post the gl transaction for sales shipment issuances to the GL
  • Implemented service to automatically post the gl transaction for inventory receipts (purchase or return shipments, manual receipts) to the GL
  • Added screens to define gl journals and added ability to define an error journal, where all failed accounting transactions are moved
  • Improved screen for accounting time periods: it is now possible to define new time periods for the selected organization
• Project Manager
  • Create the first version of a design document here Comments welcomed!
  • Bug fixing
  • in a project make the 'phase' and 'task' structure mandatory.
  • reporting on status and dates only done on task level.

October 2007

December 2013

• Framework
  • It's not new but was not working for a moment. The geo location works again, for both Google Map and OpenLayers

November 2013

• Framework
  • Introduced Tomcat's JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener (read why at OFBIZ-5395), most useful when used with an external applicaiton server (whith redeployment phases)

October 2013

• Framework
  • It's now possible to use a port offset parameter to run an instance on another set of ports (all are handled with the offset). See ant -p for more, look for "portoffset". It works also for tests (ant run-tests) but a weird issue with testSOAPSimpleService service, so I did not commit this part yet.

June 2013

• Framework
  • More Czech translations
  • Allow to dynamically set the log level for a class or package

May 2013

• Framework
  • Added a mean to collect and show the Requests Events durations using Metrics framework added (there is no threshold handling for event metrics)
  • Some more Russian common labels

April 2013

• Framework
  • Added the possibility to force the user to reset his password in a pre-defined regular interval of time
  • Some more Russian common labels

Februrary 2013

Complete Chinese translation

January 2013

• Framework
  • Allow a whole controller or/and request/s to override a default 302 in case of redirect

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• Implemented validity dates for the ProductPromoCode entity: it is now possible to specify the validity period for a promotional code
• Enhanced support for manual promotions (i.e. promotions that are associated to a store but are applied only if the order entry clerk explicitly selects them)

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• Surveys
  • Implemented feature to allow to set default values for survey questions; response can be generated by setting values (via a map) in the wrapper before rendering
  • Implemented GEO and ENUMERATION types for Survey Questions; now ANY Geo Group or Enumeration Type can be listed as survey option lists
• Implemented code to support pre-account email verification (verify email before account is created)

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• Added new data model elements, crud services, screens and seed data for modeling vendor-specific store settings and order with ship group per vendor

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• Implemented service, triggered when a task is completed, that computes the actual/real production run routing task's costs

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• Added ability to export warehouse inventory report in CSV format

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• New special purpose component for integration with Google Checkout

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• New special purpose component for integration with Google Base

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• New component and framework for an integrated Business Intelligence application

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• Completed implementation for security codes (ccv2) for credit cards in the order component

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• Added geographic data for India
• Enhanced support for RTL (Right-To-Left) languages

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• Implemented new integration with the Apache DBCP connection pool that is now the default connection pool manager in OFBiz (the old Minerva connection pool has been disabled by default)
• Several enhancements for the framework: code cleanups for Java 1.5, Java 1.5 markups, optimizations, improvements to memory usage etc...
• Moved common controller entries and login screens in the framework/common component: they are now shared by all the applications

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• Added ability to specify an event/action pairs on an hyperlink field of a form widget: useful to define Javascript events, for example, to quickly implement confirm/warning popup screens on mouse clicks
• Added examples of widget usages in Example component
• Added ability to call a local request when reusing a form from an other application (target-type=inter-app)

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