Main New Features In The OFBiz Trunk

January 2011

• Applications components
  • Most of the java compilation warning has been removed.
  • Most of the java services having hard-coded return messages that has been internationalizated.
• Specialpurpose components
  • Most of the java services having hard-coded return messages that has been internationalizated.
• Framework
  • A new Groovysh container, like the old Beanshell one. They are now both commented out by default for security reason
• Marketing
  • The email list function has been completed and extended. More.....
• Multi-tenancy
  • It is now easier to create a new tenant in OFBiz with ant task 'run-create-tenant'
• E-Commerce
  • A popular categories section was added to the ecommerce frontpage which is generated from the data warehouse of real orders. Also adjusted the sales reports from the data warehouse by week/month/year.
• Catalog
  • Improved the category maintenance screens using a combined catalog/category jquery tree and added a new 'category' find and list function.
  • DHL shipping integration now use the new Shipment Gateway Config features.
  • USPS shipping integration now use the new Shipment Gateway Config features.
• Ebay Store
  • Many improvements and bug fixes. The ultimate goal is to replace the Ebay component

December 2010

• Framework
  • Remove all the fail-message tag into services with fail-property
  • We discovered a blocking deadlock issue while tweaking the trunk demo. It's fixed at r1050452
  • Upgrade to Apache Derby 10.7.1.1
  • Integrating Apache ivy 2.2.0, for downloading PostgreSQL JDBC driver and cobertura
  • Migration to Apache lucene 3.0.3, adding small test for it
• Catalog
  • Fedex shipping integration now use the new Shipment Gateway Config features.
  • UPS shipping integration now use the new Shipment Gateway Config features.
  • Product with different packaging or unit of measure using the same inventory location.More.....
  • It's now possible to create prices with VAT included. It works for all types of prices, so Prices Rules and Promo can also be used (using List Price type)
• jQuery branch
  • The branch has been merged back to the trunk. The trunk no longer uses any other scripts than jQuery (no more Dojo, Prototype, etc.)
  • A beforejQuery tag has been put just before the merging.

November 2010

• Framework
  • Multi tenant can now be allocated to a certain domain name, so the tenant selection on the login screen is not shown anymore.
• Setup
  • Component updated and simplified. More....
• Applications
  • Almost complete Traditional Chinese translation
• jQuery branch
  • elRTE http://elrte.org/ editor added to replace the old WYSIWYG Editor
  • The development/migration is complete, we need more volunteers for the testing phase...

October 2010

• Accounting
  • New payment processor: Securepay from securepay.com.au
  • New 'Birt' driven reports.
• Content
  • Improved and fixed blog function. More.....
• EbayStore
  • Change Active list screen to be the Open List screen: Open screen shows the items that which have the active status in Ebay.
  • Merge the Sold- and the Unsold screen to be the Closed List screen: The Closed List screen shows the items that are sold and the items which are out of date.
  • Create the services to get transactions and orders from eBay and show it in the Transaction screen and Order screen.
  • Create the services to import the transactions and orders from eBay to OFBiz
• Ecommerce
  • Speed improvements by using the OFBiz cache as much as possible. More....
• jQuery branch
  • We almost finished the development/ migration and started with the testing phase
  • All Dojo, Prototype and Calendar libraries, and calls to these libraries, have been removed
  • A new feature in Jquery branch allows to set a dependent field using autocomplete in lookups. Convenient when, for instance, you want to allow you users to handle names instead of Ids but need to set an Id key in a hidden field. Demonstrated with Geo in example/control/FormWidgetExamples
• Product/Catalog
  • Refactored Price Rules screen. The same mechanism will be used later for Promo Rules, hopefully before merging jQuery...

September 2010

• Framework
  • New Geo Management in Webtools
  • The effort to remove dependencies from applications continue
• jQuery branch
  • Work on jQuery branch continue : The Link Zones New Geo Management is using asmselect for improving multiple-select in Widget Forms. Also used as an example in Example component and in Accounting/Commission Run screen. WIP for using it also in Freemarker templates

August 2010

• Framework
  • Added a dependent dropdows example in the Example component, also used it in Party
  • BIRT charts are now usable
  • Added demo data for example, graphs/reports are now using it
• jQuery branch
  • Work on jQuery branch is steadily going

July 2010

• jQuery branch
  • A new jQuery branch has been created, the ultimate goal is to replace propotype and Dojo, no risks of conflicts as it uses jquery() and not $(), WIP...
• Framework
  • Improved the internationalization of the current calendar (will be replace by a jQuery calendar later)
  • Migration to FOP 1.0
• Applications
  • Better French labels

June 2010

• Framework
  • Adding possibility to pass parameter on engine by serviceengine.xml
  • Adding new service engine xml-rpc-local
• Applications
  • Improved Dutch language

May 2010

• Framework
  • Help text tooltips can be created for form fields. For example, hover your mouse over some field labels on the Product Store form on the demo server (username=admin, password=ofbiz).
  • Charting capacity with flotr
  • Screen widgets are constructed using the factory pattern. Users can create their own screen widgets.
• Applications
  • All lookups are now layered but an example of popup in the Example component (for nostalgics)

April 2010

• Framework
  • UtilCache now automatically removes expired(ttl and softref) items in the background.
  • Migration to Tomcat 6.0.26
• Order
  • loadCartFromOrder can now read OrderItemShipGroup
• Applications
  • Almost all lookups now use the layered presentation. We will fix some bugs which prevent us, for the moment, to generalize to lookups called from lookups.
• Portals
  • Adding a bunch of new portal generic screens

March 2010

• Product
  • Products inside categories can now be filtered by introductionDate
• Workeffort
  • enhanced workeffort calendars: it is now possible to select a calendar type ("personal", "manufacturing") and then specify further search constraints; simple stat information (like total number of people allocated in a day by all the events happening in that day) are available; improved information for specific work efforts (like production run or production run tasks)
• Accounting
  • implemented LIFO and FIFO costing methods for accounting
• Project manager:
  • Adding milestones to Gantt charts
• Framework
  • Removed of several previously deprecated methods in base and entity engine.
  • Improve startup time, by reducing heavy debug logging in catalina and axis. In a production environment, this gave a 40% speedup during startup.
  • Found/fixed several cases where an entity value would fall back on using the "default" delegator.
• Framework: Multitenancy
  • First steps to an integrated multitenant functionality.

February 2010

• Accounting
  • implemented fixed asset depreciations and associated accounting transactions
• Theming
  • New theme Tomahawk

January 2010

• A single badly formed email address will not abort sending an email to any other recipients.
• Added autocompleter support to some screens in accounting, party, product, and workeffort components.
• Added web analytics support, with support for google and bing analytics.
• Started work on layered lookups; instead of a separate popup window for form field lookups, do an ajax request and do it dynamically as a layered div.
• Added some ordermgr reports that make use of birt.