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Main New Features in 2008

December 2008

  • Framework
    • Support for the Unified Expression Language added to the framework.
  • User Interface
    • Beginning of amendments in Internationalisation area using specific tools (duplicates removed, sorting of labels by languages, etc.)
    • Complete French translation of Human Res, all Special Purpose and Webtools components (we are near a complete French translation, but still some months of work I guess...)
  • MyPortal
    • This is a new application, a portlet based version of the MyPage application

November 2008

  • User Interface
    • Complete French translation of Manufacturing component
    • A Dashboard system based on portlets has been introduced in the framework and is now available in the Example application
    • A new way of grouping fields in OFBiz Widgets has been introduced and used in Store main and "Shipping Estimates" pages
  • Work Effort
    • iCalendar support added to the Work Effort application. Work efforts can be "published" in iCalendar format.

October 2008

  • Web Pos
    • Add a new "terminalName" on PosTerminal entity and then show it on web pos login
  • Party
    • Show party status and externalId on partyscreens, and popups only show parties which have the status party_enabled
  • Accounting
    • Now possible to apply a payment on an invoice of another currency, removed the convertinvoice service.
  • Projectmgr
    • First new version of a html only ganntchart because the old dojo chart did not work in firefox3
    • Make selection on email address more accurate and show completion button on mytask list
  • Assetmaint
    • Conversion of bsh scripts to groovy
  • Workeffort
    • Improvements: added fixed asset assignment. Added availability (transparency) to party and fixed asset assignments
  • Framework
    • CrossSubdomainSessionValve for Tomcat, allows a session cookie to be shared across multiple subdomains
    • Visual theme improvements.
    • Disabling the session valve for now, for some reason the browser stops storing the session cookie when domian=.localhost.
    • Some cleanup on artifacts on all components.
    • Allow to define NOT NULL Fields in database from Entities declarations. Useful when for instance setting/handling the DB from outside of OFBiz.
    • It's now possible to retrieve password directly from login screen
  • User Interface
    • Better French translations
    • Better Italian translations
    • Column sort feature for List and Multi forms
    • Field-groups can now be collapsible and a field-group title can be shown
  • POS
    • A new comment field has been added to Paid In/Out. Now the reason comes from Enumerations staying no longer in a properties file but in DB.

September 2008

  • Workeffort
    • Added Temporal Expression support to Work Effort. Recurring work efforts appear in the calendar.
  • Party
    • Some improvements to the financial history screen.
    • Fix an issue with Upload CSV in "Address Match Map" Party menu (importAddressMatchMapCsv).
  • Web Pos
    • New special purpose component for a pos web based application.
  • LDAP
    • This new special purpose component add LDAP functionalities to OFBiz
  • Ecommerce
    • Added a new event "setUserLoginFromEmail" that set userloginId from an email address. If user edit email address then set it as a new userLoginId and
      disabled date to far in the future for existing userLoginId. This is a feature available on new profile page.
    • Added a new convenient Ajax one page checkout option with 4 sub-sections
    • Improvement in Manage Addresses feature in Ecommerce. Changed the behaviour of the phone numbers available for billing and shipping.
  • Accounting
    • Improve the timeentries on an invoice overview
  • Ordermgr
    • Some Request ftl to form conversion
  • Projectmgr
    • Re-generate an invoice from project
  • Assetmaint
    • Conversion of bsh scripts to groovy
  • Product
    • Added support for migrating FacilityRole to FacilityParty
  • Mypage
    • Improvements of email templates
  • Framework
    • Temporal expression recurring event framework.
    • Temporal Expression UI artifacts.
    • Visual Themes framework.
    • Set the autoLoginCookie's domain to what is specified in url.properties.
    • Fixed the DateRange class so it will work properly when java.sql.Timestamp is used in its constructor.
  • User Interface
    • Italian label translation for ecommerce
    • Selectable Visual Themes can now be installed into OFBiz hot-deploy folder. Backoffice users can select their favourite Visual Theme.
    • The page header is now collapsible so that more screen space is available.
      • Complete French translation of Facility, Project, Party and Asset Maint modules

August 2008

  • Accounting
    • A couple of improvements to fixed asset maintenance
  • MyPage, ProjectManager
    • It is now possible to create a customer request from an incoming email
    • Creation of a project task from a customer request
    • Allow the customer to login to the backend system in mypage using OFBiz security system and showing the status of the customer requests.
    • Customer can now add new requests and update the priority of exiting requests.
    • Customer can also see and download his own invoices in his currency in pdf format
    • Many enhancements in receiving email into the system.
    • Last but not least: create an invoice from all hours reported per timesheet on not yet invoiced project tasks"
  • Order Component
    • Miscellaneous enhancements to the order detail screen, mostly related to the action links for shipment related operations.
    • Moved all the links to run quick actions on shipments/returns that affect the whole order
    • Enable sales tax calculation when a purchase order is created from a requirement
    • Configurable products with Virtual product options
  • POS
    • New virtual keyboards (alphanum and num) automatically accessed from fields needing them (usefull with touch screens, can be disabled with a property)
  • Fixed Asset Maintenance
    • Meter readings can be entered without creating a maintenance.
    • Automatic maintenance generation. If a product maintenance is based on meter readings, then maintenances will be created automatically when the meter reading crosses a threshold. If a product maintenance is based on time intervals, then maintenances will be created automatically when the time interval is passed.
    • New party roles for maintenance worker, maintenance manager, and maintenance supplier (outside service).
    • Automatic assignment of parties to maintenance tasks.
    • Additional parties can be assigned to a maintenance task.
    • Improved user interface in the Asset Maintenance component.
  • Ecommerce
    • First pass on updating the ecommerce style sheet
    • One page checkout improvements and bug fixing
    • Improvements in new profile and customer pages
  • Product
    • Misc small enhancements to the Product Catalog "Inventory" screen
    • Improvement in Inventory Item look up
    • Converted the FindProductConfigItems screen to use a form widget
    • Added support for status for non serialized items to the production run issuance routine
    • Add possibility for entering comments for configurable product options. The comments are attached to production runs as notes
    • Added support for uploading additional Product Views (images)
  • Manufacturing
    • Added support for status for non serialized items to the production run issuance routine
  • Framework
    • Generics markup added to several Java classes.
    • Refactored FlexibleStringExpander - less memory used.
    • Fix breakage with IN type operations
    • Added visitId persistence to EntityAuditLog stuff
    • Ignore property for condition-expr tag
    • Sort related entities in ViewGeneric
  • User Interface
    • German translations for ordermgr module
    • Removed deprecated CSS style sepBar, removed unnecessary align="left" HTML element attributes.
    • Removed deprecated class inputBox and unused code.
    • Better French translation.
  • All Components
    • Buf fixing of the converted to Groovy scripts

July 2008

  • My Page
    • New application currently under development and is now fairly complete.This component shows all information for a specific user such as personal email, project tasks assigned, timesheet and company events such as holidays, When a person has acces he can also edit the email of other users such as company email send to info@company.com
  • Party Component
    • Enhanced the communication event screens and created specific forms for emails and internal notes.
    • Created the possibility to create Customer requests from incoming emails which allows the import into the project manager component where request can be converted into project tasks.
    • When emails come into the system and the email is not known, a form is added which allos the quick creation of new parties. Also has a mass delete button to delete incoming spam.
    • Make viewing own tasks possible in profile
    • Introduction of a sheduled job which is executed every 5 minutes and which send entered emails. This job also allows to send emails in the future
    • Converted Party Manager->View Profile->Subscriptions screenlet to form widget
  • Order Component
    • Enhanced the Customer request screens and changed them according the OFBIz interface standards.
    • Implemented returns of purchase orders to suppliers
    • Converted ftl form to the widget; enhanced the "Edit Return Header" form so that it can be used for supplier returns
    • Initial version of the supplier return implementation
  • Accounting Component
    • CapturePaymentsByInvoice service doesn't return not optional parameter while processing multiple orders invoice
    • Updated Cybersource configuration and code; code changes are minor only changes for java 5 (unboxing and generics)
  • Ecommerce Component
    • One Page Checkout page process improvements and bug fixing
    • Fix shipping options not coming on IE7 along with misc. UI fix
  • Product Component
    • Problems in virtual product's detail page if productFeatureTypeId contain non alfa characters
    • Create a hyperlink from the contentId on the productContent form
  • AssetMaint Component
    • Asset Maintenance improvements
    • Fixed Asset Meter refactor
  • Pos Component
    • Actually the numeric keyboard makes more sense in Paid In and Out
    • Use resource in UtilProperties.getMessage in place of file name hardcoded
  • BI Component
    • Moved the bi component from specialpurpose to the framework folder
  • Framework
    • Added support for default entity-group for entities: now, if an entity belongs to the org.ofbiz group, there is no need to explicitely specify this
    • Removed hack fix for getting a count of results when there is a GROUP BY in the select; now lets the database do the count instead of iterating through every single result in order to get the count, so is WAY more efficient; note that this also uses the COUNT(1) instead of
      COUNT(star) approach for better performance, ie getting the same result but asking the database to do less
    • Copy usersettings from a template if not found for a certain user
    • FreeMarkerWorker.java improvements
    • Enhancements to the Autocompleter integration with form widget dropdown
    • Initial implementation of Ajax InPlaceEditor for form widget Display field
    • Minilang's first-from-list operation now sets the field to null if the list is null or empty, previously the field was left unchanged
    • Expanded entity-auto engine to support auto fromDate; a bunch more changes to example component services to eliminate implementations possible so far; now there are just a few left
    • Misc cleanups to the widget tree code, still a lot to do to improve the readability of the code but this is hopefully a small step in that direction
    • Added flag to disable the cached classloader; conflicts with certain libraries which plug into the servlet container (i.e. JSF)
    • ObjectType.java simpleTypeConvert(...) improvement - now converts Long to Date and back, and Long to Timestamp and back
  • All Components
    • A bunch of Beanshell scripts have been converted to Groovy scripts
    • removed all the, no more needed after recent enhancement, entity-group.xml files
  • User Interface
    • Removed deprecated CSS styles from the maincss.css file. I skipped the eCommerce component because it doesn't use that style sheet, and I also skipped the content component because it is used in eCommerce
    • Removed deprecated CSS styles from back office applications
    • Additional german translations for framework

June 2008

  • Accounting/Product/Party/Content/Ecommerce/Humanres/Manufacturing/Marketing/Order/Workeffort/SecurityExt
    • Conversions to new field attribute of minilang scripts
  • Accounting/Party/Marketing/Manufacturing/Projectmgr/Example/Product/Ordermgr/Workeffort/Content
    • Conversions of bsh scripts to groovy
  • Accounting
    • Improved Fixed Asset tree
    • Move Billing Account permissions to follow new the pattern
    • POS: CVV2 code is not always deleted from the DB
  • HR (Human ressources)
    • Miscellaneous enhancements and bug fixing.
  • Product
    • Added support for non-serialized status to mark items as defective or on-hold and exclude
      them form the inventory reservation and issuance services
    • JUNIT testing the process of Receive Inventory (Non-Serialized items)
    • JUNIT test case for Inventory Receive
    • Weight/Quantity/PriceQuantityBreak records may be used by other ShipmentCostEstimate records;
      if the service is unable to delete them it should not throw an error message
  • Specialpurpose/workflow
    • Moved the workflow related data to the workflow component
  • Ecommerce
    • Now the agreement will be applied for the Registered user in Ecommerce Section
    • New one page checkout process feature
  • Order
    • Pagination controls should not be displayed on a single page list
    • Small change so that shipped quantities don't show up as remaining quantities in the order view
    • Edit order - promotion calculation problem
    • Fix problem with creating a shipment after a canceled shipment on the Input status
  • AssetMaint
    • Changes to Asset Maint component to re-use existing screens better
  • SFA (Sales Force Application)
    • Miscellaneous enhancements and bug fixing
  • Manufacturing
    • Small enhancements to the algorithm that computes start/end dates of production runs
  • Workeffort
    • Improved Workeffort Task List
    • Added possibility to filter WorkEfforts by type in WorkEffort -> Calendar screen
  • Shark
    • Finally deprecating the old workflow engine which hasnt been used in years; moving it to the specialpurpose directory
  • Pos
    • Modal windows require keyboard and mouse
    • Introduce a ShowKeyboardInSaveSale parameters in a new parameters.properties file to allow showing the virtual keyboard or not. Used for the moment in Save Sale screen only
  • Framework
    • Application servers (new option in appserver, see http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/gB)
      • JBoss422
    • Embedded Tomcat has been upgraded to 6.0.16
    • Embedded Geronimo TX Manager have been upgraded to 2.1.1
    • LDAP Authentication
    • Screen Widget refactor - changed StringBuffer arguments to Writer arguments to help make the screen widget API more consistent. Also added some parameterized data types to cut down on the unchecked warnings
    • Improved Find Screen decorator
    • Refactor all the widget rendering methods and some of the content and Freemarker rendering classes to use Appendable instead of Writer
    • Small enhancement to the UtilGenerics class. Added two helper methods to make it easier to
      write type-safe code
    • A basic implementation of a help system
    • Started effort of cleaning up element and attribute names in simple-methods
    • Screen widget improvements: better screenlet collapsible implementation, new widget horizontal-separator
    • Added support for the skip-end attribute to form widgets of type "multi": now it is easier to add "global" form parameters to multi forms by concatenating a single form to a multi form with skip-end set to true
    • Improved Lookup decorator
    • Fixed encoding issues with SOAP responses; now ignoring all internal parameters for SOAP client
      calls (when TimeZone was added it broke the encoding)
    • Fixed problem with old credit card and other old encrypted fields from before fixing the hex
      encoding, ie using what the rest of the world uses instead of the buggy old hex encoding that
      was previously used in OFBiz; now credit card numbers and other entity fields that are encrypted
      should unencrypt properly, ie it tries the new way and if decryption fails then is tries the
      old way
    • Configure cookie use for a module through the ofbiz-component.xml
    • Cleaned up a bunch of warning messages for deprecated methods; in preparation for the framework release
    • JSON handler for simple method events
    • Generied most of framework classes.
    • Replace with Number.valueOf instead of creating new values
    • Removed entitygroup.xml files now that they are not needed
  • User Interface
    • New and faster popup calendar
    • New collapsible lookup interface is slowly spreading in OFBiz (Ajax style)
    • Added support for Collapseable Panel. Now All the Panels rendered using screenlet screen widget
      are collapseable using Effects library and not server round trip if javascript is enable
    • Colors and localisation for the calendar
    • Removed deprecated CSS styles
    • Adding Autocompleter options to form widget dropdown

May 2008

  • Marketing
    • JUNIT testing process of create/update contact list
  • Manufacturing
    • New MRP event type for Sales Forecasts
    • Added partial support for lot id in production runs
  • Product
    • JUNIT testing shipment process
    • Added field to search inventory items by lot id
  • Accounting
    • Add Application level menu/tools for AR
    • Save an Invoice as Invoice Template
    • JUNIT testing process Payments sent to suppliers for Purchase Invoices
    • JUNIT testing accounting transaction on Sales Invoice
    • JUNIT testing accounting transaction on payment received from customer for a sales invoice
    • JUNIT testing accounting transaction on Manufacturing :- Production Runs: materials issuances from the warehouse
    • JUNIT testing process of accounting transaction on production Runs: actual manufacturing costs
    • JUNIT testing accounting transaction on adding finished products into the warehouse
  • Party
    • Misc improvements in email notification on new account creation
  • Order
    • Cleaned up the services and secas around quote report emails: instead of using the QuoteAttribute
      entity and seca to trigger the email
    • Fixed a bug for canceling some quantity of order Items
    • Replacement returns were creating duplicated replacement orders
    • Split Pay Pref Per Shp Grp incorrectly calculates max amounts for Payment Preferences
    • Store Order Item changes
    • Clean up labels between order and ecommerce application
    • Added UI for entering Order Item Change reason and comments during Order Item update/cancel/append
    • Extend the support for by hours and by days in recurrence info and use them as part of conditions for promotions
    • Improved screen widget Ajax support
    • Improved Find screen decorator
    • JUNIT testing sales order shipments process
  • Framework
    • Groovy : now Groovy can be used in place of BeanShell (work in progress...)
    • Improved the way failonerror was used for subtasks: now, it fails on errors happening in subtasks
      only if the specialpurpose and application folders are present
    • Fixed the menu widget - the "extends" feature didn't work
    • IE7 and general layout fixups for the Example and ExampleExt components
    • Added ability to render the report in landscape format
    • Entity delegator deprecating find methods
    • Various clean ups and improvements on artifact tool
    • Fixed a bug in the Form Widget where alt-target elements in extended forms were being added to the parent form's alt-targets. Also overriding an alt-target in an extended form works now
    • Removed some calls to deprecated GenericDelegator methods
    • Implemented page size defaults for the form widget lists. Some code was already there, but it wasn't being used
    • Added JavaScript detection to the framework
    • Added support for third party policy servicers
    • Some Ajax JavaScript helper functions
    • Added groovy support
    • Locale and Time Zone refactor and bug fixes
    • Implementation of Ajax.Autocompleter enhancement for form widget text box
    • Convertion of some bean shell scripts to groovy
    • Add a new form widget field sub-element called on-field-event-update-area - intended initially for Ajax support
  • SFA (Sales Force Application)
    • Miscellaneous enhancements and bug fixing
  • HR (Human ressources)
    • Miscellaneous enhancements and clean ups
  • User Interface
    • Localisation
      • Major cleanup of localisation in progress...
      • Complete French translation of the Catalog and Order modules
      • Miscellaneous enhancements in French localisation of Backoffice modules
    • IE7 and tab-bar style fixups for Party Manager component.
    • UI work in the Example and ExampleExt components, fixed minor layout issues
    • Set the style for selected menu items

April 2008

  • Accounting
    • Miscellaneous Enhancement of the component
    • Implement new service to get an aggregate set of accounting
      preferences for a company
  • Manufacturing
    • Enhanced the MRP algorithm to generate requirements also for products with qoh less than minimum
      stock that don't have any event associated to them
  • Order
    • New product variant selection method
  • Ecommerce
    • Cleaning up javascript code and now using prototypejs library
  • Product
    • Rename FeaturePrice entity to ProductFeaturePrice and move the the related screens in the
      feature detailed info
  • Framework
    • Application servers (new options in appserver, see http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/gB)
      • Geronimo 2.0.3 or WASCE 2
      • Tomcat 5.5 et 6
    • Added a simple example of using prototype (ajax) with screens
    • Various improvements on artifacts tool
    • Removed xml header from fop files
  • SFA (Sales Force Application)
    • New pages for adding leads
    • New sales opportunities

March 2008

  • Facility
    • Implemented JUNIT test case for physical inventory adjustment
  • Product
    • Implemented JUNIT test case for receive other shipment
  • Framework
    • Added run-install-extseed-initial target to install data including the new seed-initial
    • Added docs-all target for building javadocs of all applications
    • New Geo data for Columbia
  • Marketing - new SFA application
    • Added a new Sales Force Automatimation application
  • Content - new seed for MP4 mime type
    • Added mime type data for mp4
  • User Interface
    • New look and feel for most of the forms into Webtools application
    • There are now two menu groups: "main", for the main applications, in the top bar, and "secondary" for applications (specialized or not still 'mature'), in the footer.
    • Added artifact forms to get informations about services, forms, entities used in OFBiz, see Webtools module

February 2008

  • Order
    • A new product store email has been created for new quote creation
    • Implemented JUNIT test case for creating a sales order
  • User Interface
    • Look and Feel
      • New look and feel for all the forms in the Content, Business Intelligence, eBay, Google Base, Oagis, Asset Maintenance, Project Manager applications
    • Localisation
      • Localisation is now done with XML files and no longer properties files: less files, all translations at a glance (with correct fonts in Eclipse also for Asian languages (16 bit character) can now be maintained without any additional tools
      • OFBiz now completly translated into the Thai Language.
      • Complete French translation of the eCommerce module
  • Product
    • Implemented JUNIT test case for stock moves and inventory items transfer

January 2008

  • User Interface - Look and Feel
    • New look and feel for all the forms in the Catalog, Facility, Order (except for order entry), Party, Marketing, Manufacturing, Human Resources, Work Effort, Accounting applications
  • Content
    • Data resource screens: fixed errors and added paging.
  • Workflow- JUnit test cases
    • Implemented JUNIT test case for party communication
  • Project Manager
    • Security now fully implemented on a screen and service level
    • Resource tab now have more features and can update rates.
    • Timeregistration now possible with different rates
    • Resourcemanager extended
    • Timeregistration management function
  • POS
    • POS uses now XUI 3.2
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