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Main New features in OFBiz
November 2007
- Framework
- Webtools
- SECA details shown in available services screen
- The new parameter "widget.verbose" in debug.properties allows to show where code came from in html source
- Webtools
- 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.
October 2007
- Promotions
- 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)
- CRM
- 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)
- Surveys
- Vendor Specific Stores/Catalogs
- Added new data model elements, crud services, screens and seed data for modeling vendor-specific store settings and order with ship group per vendor
- Manufacturing
- Implemented service, triggered when a task is completed, that computes the actual/real production run routing task's costs
- Inventory
- Added ability to export warehouse inventory report in CSV format
- Ecommerce - Google Checkout
- New special purpose component for integration with Google Checkout
- Catalog - Google Base
- New special purpose component for integration with Google Base
- Business Intelligence
- New component and framework for an integrated Business Intelligence application
- Payments with Credit Cards
- Completed implementation for security codes (ccv2) for credit cards in the order component
- Localization
- Added geographic data for India
- Enhanced support for RTL (Right-To-Left) languages
- Framework - connection pooling
- 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
- Form widgets:
- 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)
- Misc
- Several small bug fixes and improvements for the framework and applications