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Accounting

• MISC Accounting Links
• Billing Account
• If you get accounting related issues and are not interested in posting accounting transactions, see here
• Show prices with VAT included in eCommerce
• How are managed transactions in different currencies from the one of GL ?
• glAccountClass vs glAccountType : follow the links
• A thread about glAccountType

Apache HTTPD (Apache Web server)

• How to use mod_proxy_ajp

Ajax - Javascript - Json

• Disable Browser Cache for Module
• Integrate OFBiz with Yui-Ext
• An easy way to get a data structure from server to Javascript in client browser

Applications server

• How to run inside a non embedded application server
• Adding Lambda Probe in OFBiz for monitoring Tomcat
• How to make redirection inside an application server without using mod_rewrite

Asset Maintenance

• Asset Maintenance Setup

Barcodes

• The Barcodes in OFBiz are done with Barcode4j. See the Barcode XML format documentation for howto specify the format.

CAS

• Setting Up CAS with OFBiz (PDF) (This document speaks about OFBiz release 5, this release will never exist but will certainly be 9.4 or hopefully at least 9.x (x<=12)...)

Certificate

• How to set up certificates
• How to configure authorize.net certificates

CMS

• Magnolia CMS Integration Guide (note though that the recommended way in OFBiz is still to use the content component...)

CSS

• OFBiz maincss.css HTML Element Collection Styles
• If you get this problem The horizontal menu in the right column is causing the HTML elements below it to drop down to the bottom of the screen

DataBase

• Derby
  • Change a field type in Derby
  • Working with multiple databases
  • Browse a Derby database and more using SQuirrel

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• Oracle
  • Some tips from Jacopo

Development tips

• What is the best practice to modify an existing component or create a new one?
• What is considered the best practice in creating a custom web application with OFBIZ?
• How to Extend an existing component in customized application?
• How to manage your source differences?
• Which variables are available in screen context?
• Tips & Tricks while working with Groovy
• Deprecating entities
• Add a WAR file
• Using locale XSD files instead of OFBiz remote (at http://ofbiz.apache.org/dtds) for validation and content completion
• UBPL Introduction
• How to know which ant tasks are available : ant -p

Eclipse

• Running and Debugging OFBiz in Eclipse
• Eclipse Tips
• Plugins

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

• Setting up PostGIS spatially-enabled PostgreSQL database
• Connecting OFBiz to PostGIS spatially-enabled database

Google

• Google Base Integration
• Google Checkout Integration

Groovy

• Tips & Tricks while working with Groovy

Licences

• About Apache Software Fundation Licence and more...

Miscellaneous

• Sending mails to contact lists
• Issue with createAcctgTransAndEntries service
• Steps to process a Configurable Product
• How to display all information of a single party
• Product Promotion Example

Netbeans

• OFBiz in NetBeans 5.*
  This page may be a bit outdated but most informations are still relevant. You should also look at the nbproject.zip file in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-3
• OFBIZ in Netbeans 6
  Bit of trial and error so if any one has a better way please inform me.

Payment

• VeriSign PayFlow Pro set up
• Use cvv codes in OFBiz
• Using gift-card in OFBiz

POS

• More about POS
• How to get rid of "Terminal is closed" message
• How to syncrhonise POS terminal(s) with a central database

Production Tips

• Monitoring and Maintaining the database
• Cleaning the database from unimportant data
• Users with disabled accounts are still able to login
• How to make redirection inside an application server without using mod_rewrite
• Handling of External data
• OAGIS
• How to hide products in eCommerce ?
• Performance : Server Hardware for Ofbiz hosting

Quick Start Guides

• Getting and Running OFBiz in 5 steps (look, there are more Quick Start Guides under Jacopo's Wiki space)

RMI

• Got this error on client side?

  Code Block
  Caused by: java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find bundle for base name cache, locale en_US

• How to use RMI without SSL
• How to test easily if RMI is working (using a simple client)
• Somethings you should know about RMI

Reporting tools

• Birt : how to integrate in OFBiz
• Jasper : how to integrate in OFBiz

Searches

• Plugin search tools for Firefox using Nabble or Mark Mail

Selenium

• Some Selenium tips

Soap

• How to use SOAP
  • A tutorial from Vincenzo Di Lorenzo, see Attachements
  • A tutorial from Opentaps documentation (version 0.9v5), see Attachements
  • Export Ofbiz Services that use complex type parameters via SOAP using AXIS2
    You could also be interested by these links
    Complex types

Arrays
Another approach
For those who are familiar with Spring, you may be interested by Apache CXF instead of AXIS2. You will find a quick comparaison between AXIS2 and CXF here

SSL

• How to set SSL?

Translation

• Tips for UI labels translation
• How to localize Product and Categories descriptions and more ...

Windows

• Patch on Windows
• Run OFBiz as a Windows service
• Export to Excel

Workflow Engines

• What's the recommended workflow engine in OFBiz? Is it Shark?

XSL:FO (FOP)

• Is there any WYSIWYG editors for XSL:FO ?

ZK (work in progress)

A tuto (screencast) for a ZK view handler

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Patch on Windows

Creating patches

• Using Eclipse => Subclipse (Create Patch, Apply Patch context menu options, the clipboard one is the easiet)
• Using Toirtoise from Files Explorer (Create Patch, Apply Patch context menu options)
• Making a diff with subversion on command line : svn di fileName > filename.patch

I let you find the tools (with google :Eclipse/Subclipse, Tortoise, Subversion client, patch.exe, todos.exe with google ;o), etc.

Applying patches

To patch on Windows you have to download patch.exe. But you may encouter EOL problems with patch.exe.
That's why I prefer to use Tortoise's "Apply Patch" option in a 1st step. Tortoise is the best SVN and CVS UI existing, either on Linux or Windows. Besides Tortoise comes from Tigris too.
Then if I get problems with Tortoise (or Eclipse's "Apply Patch" option wich is near Tortoise for patching but less supple for this option and far more ingeneral) I use the patch command. Something to understand is that Tortoise actually use "SVN merge" so in certains cases problems arise.
To avoid EOL problems with the patch command, I use a bat file patchdos.bat :

todos %1

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patch \-p0 < %1

where todos is and exe to download (search with Google). Of course you will have to deal with path. But at this stage I guess it's easy...
I just learned from https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=508633 that the "--binary" option may be used in that case, did no try yet...

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Advices from Peter Goron

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