Main New Features in OFBiz

April 2009

• Framework
  • Labels manager Label Manager in Webtools is completed ( for the moment).

March 2009

• Framework
  • Security : security against XRSF has been enforced.
• User Interface
  • You can now change the language used an stay on the page you where. This is working both in backend and eCommerce. It uses a new feature which allows to stay on a page (view-last) or/and to store a page to come back to it after (save-last-view)
  • Most of harcoded labels have been internationalized
  • More online help accessible (in accounting for instance)
• Debian
  • An effort to package to Debian is currently in progress and well advanced
• Order
  • Now while placing purchase order, orderId can be supplied explicitly. If not supplied then it will be created automatically.
  • Added new field for "cancelBackOrderDate", like others for OrderItem(purchase order). Field is shown in order detail page and on Purchase order PDF if exists;  Also added scheduled service (midnight daily) which searches for purchase orders with Cancel Back Order Date and cancels order if the date is in past.
  • Now possible to add more then one product at a time to purchase order in order detail page with single add form.
  • Now While recording PO, when the unit price of the item is edited the new value automatically gets set as last price on supplier record.
  • After placing purchase order estimatedShipDate and estimatedDeliveryDate can be entered by editing order items in order detail page.
  • Now while waiting for the inventory to arrive, user can lower priority on inventory allocation so that other orders can be fulfilled while waiting for sufficient inventory to fill the large sales order. Priority of order can be set from order detail page explicitly.

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