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ERP5 Technical Notes

Technical Notes contain informations and snippets on specific topics and originate from internal discussions. They are made public to help everyone working with ERP5.

AccessorSearch

  • Accessor Grammar - Technical Note with overview of the grammar used when working with accessors.
  • Accessors - Information on accessors use in ERP5
  • Category Accessor - overview of getters and setters available on an object after adding a category
  • Purpose of Accessors in ERP5 - This page describes the reasons why accessors are generated in ERP5, and globaly the purposes of accessors.

AccountingSearch

AcquisitionSearch

ActivitySearch

  • Activities - ERP5 Documentation Technical Note showing definitions and scheduling of activities.

AlgorithmSearch

  • Unified Algorithm - discussion explaining the idea of a unified transformation algorithm

ArchitectureSearch

AuthenticationSearch

BackupSearch

Best PracticeSearch

  • Url Generation - Technical Note on how URLs should be generated in ERP5.

Bt5Search

Business TemplateSearch

Business TemplatesSearch

CatalogSearch

CategorySearch

  • Base Amount - Notes on inconsistency in current base_amount category design (2009)
  • Accessor Categories - This page explains the current status (october 2009) of the way of identifying category of classes. Note that for now there is not real use of categories, but the intention is really similar to categories.
  • Category Accessor - overview of getters and setters available on an object after adding a category

Category DefinitionSearch

Category DesignSearch

  • Base Amount - Notes on inconsistency in current base_amount category design (2009)

CmfactivitySearch

  • Activities - ERP5 Documentation Technical Note showing definitions and scheduling of activities.

CommunitySearch

ConfigurationSearch

ContributionSearch

ConversionSearch

CoreSearch

  • ERP5 Core - info on how to keep ERP5 core clean and minimal.

CrmSearch

DatabaseSearch

  • Zope SQL Connectors - showing how to query SQL databases from Zope server by using Zope SQL connectors.

DebugSearch

DeletedSearch

DeliverySearch

DesignSearch

DialogSearch

Digital SignatureSearch

  • Digital Signature - info on use of digital signature for documenting decision making process

DocumentSearch

  • Send Document - This document provides a description of the future API to send documents.

Document ManagementSearch

  • Send Document - This document provides a description of the future API to send documents.
  • Accessor Categories - This page explains the current status (october 2009) of the way of identifying category of classes. Note that for now there is not real use of categories, but the intention is really similar to categories.

Erp5Search

ExportSearch

FamilySearch

  • Family - Some data about working with families in ERP5

Field LibrarySearch

ForgeSearch

  • Release Process - Here is a summary of approach which is considered based on different proposals.

FormSearch

  • Web Forms - Here are some articles about web form design and styling.

FulltextSearch

Getting StartedSearch

GitSearch

  • Repository Structure - Information on how the erp5 repositories are structured
  • Release Process - Here is a summary of approach which is considered based on different proposals.

InstallSearch

IntegrationSearch

InventorySearch

InvoiceSearch

  • Tax Lines - showing how to calculate tax lines based on membership being set and implemented using categories.

LayoutSearch

  • Web CSS - Here are some informations about CSS.

ListboxSearch

  • Predicate - showing how to define a predicate to provide a list of documents on web section or it's default page.
  • Predicates Performances - This discussion is intended to track what are the current issues with predicate searching and help defining a solution.

MeasureSearch

MobileSearch

  • SyncML Design - Here is a quick review of the current design and implementation of ERP5SyncML.

ModuleSearch

  • Create Portal Type - Here are presented the two cases when one should create a new portal type.

MovementSearch

MysqlSearch

ObjectSearch

OoodSearch

  • Open Office - Some data about Open Office.
  • OOoTemplate Roadmap - On the one hand, OOoTemplate supports enough features to produce about any kind of complex report. On the other hand, ODT and ODS style are capapable of rendering any ERP5 Form or ERP5 Report into ODF text or spreadsheet.
  • OOoStyle - The purpose of this discussion is to define standard styles for use in ERP5 reports based on OOo.

Open OfficeSearch

  • Open Office - Some data about Open Office.
  • OOoTemplate Roadmap - On the one hand, OOoTemplate supports enough features to produce about any kind of complex report. On the other hand, ODT and ODS style are capapable of rendering any ERP5 Form or ERP5 Report into ODF text or spreadsheet.
  • OOoStyle - The purpose of this discussion is to define standard styles for use in ERP5 reports based on OOo.

Open Source ErpSearch

  • Free ERP - This page provides a list of Free / Open Source ERP / CRM solutions.
  • List of open source ERP - This page provides a list of alternative ERP software which can be used with the GNU/Linux operating system.

OrderSearch

  • Skin Folder Ordering - The purpose of this document is to define how to configure the BT5 to order to automatically handle skin folder ordering in the skin selections. This will help no to manually edit this order after an installation/update.
  • Tax Lines - showing how to calculate tax lines based on membership being set and implemented using categories.

PatchSearch

PayrollSearch

PaysheetSearch

PermissionSearch

PersistenceSearch

  • Persistency - Short explanation of persistency in ERP5.

PhoneSearch

  • Telephone Number Format - showing how to handle different format of telephone number by using regular expressions.

PitfallSearch

  • Common Pitfalls - ERP5 common pitfalls provides hints about why your code doesn't work as you'd expect.

Portal CatalogSearch

Portal SkinSearch

  • Skin Folder Ordering - The purpose of this document is to define how to configure the BT5 to order to automatically handle skin folder ordering in the skin selections. This will help no to manually edit this order after an installation/update.

Portal TypeSearch

PredicateSearch

  • Predicate - showing how to define a predicate to provide a list of documents on web section or it's default page.
  • Predicates Performances - This discussion is intended to track what are the current issues with predicate searching and help defining a solution.

ProcessSearch

  • Activities - ERP5 Documentation Technical Note showing definitions and scheduling of activities.

ProductSearch

PropertySearch

  • Property Sheets - ERP5 Documentation Technical Note showing arrow explanation

Property SheetSearch

ProxySearch

QuerySearch

  • Predicate - showing how to define a predicate to provide a list of documents on web section or it's default page.

ReleaseSearch

  • Release Process - Here is a summary of approach which is considered based on different proposals.

RepositorySearch

ResourceSearch

  • Resource Library - Here is a collection of links which are useful to ERP developers and consultants.

RestoreSearch

RoundSearch

RoundingSearch

SearchSearch

  • Persistency - Specifications of catalog uid handling
  • Predicate - showing how to define a predicate to provide a list of documents on web section or it's default page.
  • Quick Search Area - How the Quick Search Area works.
  • SQL Catalog Structure - showing the structure of the portal catalog SQL tables used in ERP5.

SecuritySearch

ServiceSearch

SimulationSearch

SlaposSearch

SolverSearch

SourceSearch

SubscriptionSearch

  • Subscription Service - We discuss here one specific case: subscriptions. Our goal is to show how to apply the 5 class ERP5 model to the case of subscriptions.

SyncSearch

  • SyncML Design - Here is a quick review of the current design and implementation of ERP5SyncML.

SyncmlSearch

  • SyncML Design - Here is a quick review of the current design and implementation of ERP5SyncML.

TaxSearch

  • Tax Lines - showing how to calculate tax lines based on membership being set and implemented using categories.

TelephoneSearch

  • Telephone Number Format - showing how to handle different format of telephone number by using regular expressions.

TestSearch

TradeSearch

  • Input Output API - GetInventory API accepts 'omit_input' to take into account only incoming movements and 'omit_output' to take into account only outgoing movement from a node.
  • Tax Lines - showing how to calculate tax lines based on membership being set and implemented using categories.
  • Subscription Service - We discuss here one specific case: subscriptions. Our goal is to show how to apply the 5 class ERP5 model to the case of subscriptions.

TroubleshootingSearch

UiSearch

  • Skin Folder Ordering - The purpose of this document is to define how to configure the BT5 to order to automatically handle skin folder ordering in the skin selections. This will help no to manually edit this order after an installation/update.
  • User Interface Guidelines - The purpose of this document is to define the guidelines of the User Interface in ERP5.

Unit ConversionSearch

Unit TestSearch

UrlSearch

  • Url Generation - Technical Note on how URLs should be generated in ERP5.

User InterfaceSearch

  • Skin Folder Ordering - The purpose of this document is to define how to configure the BT5 to order to automatically handle skin folder ordering in the skin selections. This will help no to manually edit this order after an installation/update.
  • User Interface Guidelines - The purpose of this document is to define the guidelines of the User Interface in ERP5.

User ManagementSearch

WatchdogSearch

Web AppSearch

  • Predicate - showing how to define a predicate to provide a list of documents on web section or it's default page.

WorkflowSearch

WorklistSearch

ZodbSearch

ZopeSearch

  • Zope SQL Connectors - showing how to query SQL databases from Zope server by using Zope SQL connectors.

ZopeSearch