OpenERP

OpenERP 7 integration with Moodle

OpenERP 7.0, The full featured ERP making the switch from an ERP to a suite of integrated business applications. So far, the world was split between ERPs and best of breed applications. With 7.0, OpenERP combines the key benefits of stand-alone apps (ease of use, quick to deploy, highly customizable, ...) with the integrations and feature coverage only ERPs used to provide to their customers.

OpenERP 7 integration with UPS Worldship and UPS Freight

OpenERP is a powerful ERP solution and it manages all the  processes in a company. We have developed a new module which enables us to manage the shipping through UPS World ship and UPS Freight from OpenERP. Using this module will be able to get rates for a particular shipment and we could also make the shipment request to UPS. The UPS responds with the UPS label which will be used on the shipment.

Attractive and Scalable POS (Point of Sale) using OpenERP

Touchscreen point of sale is one of the features of openerp, which enables to manage your shop (or multiple shop) very easily.Some of its advantages are,

1. It is completely web based.

2. It works in connected and disconnected modes so that you can continue to sell if you lose your internet connection.

3. Integrated with openerp, it uses openerp as its backend.

Magento for OpenERP 7

Magneto is a eCommerce platform build on open-source technology where the user have unlimited flexibility over his eCommerce store. Magento when integrated with OpenERP forms an strong platform for managing eCommerce store. Magento when integrated with OpenERP 7 created an eCommerce store management system with user friendly interface.

Multi-Company Configuration In OpenERP 7

OpenERP 7 support multi company configuration in which there can be number of sub companies under a main company or another company itself. The modules installed in my OpenERP 7 are :

• Sales

• Purchase

• Accounting

• Warehouse

Openerp Integration with Joomla Online Admission portal

Joomla is widely used for portals and business websites due to its flexibility and control.
We have created a joomla “component” for online admission which could easily customized to a portal. Forms and fields can be created dynamically without any coding knowledge. This component take cares of all admission procedures including payment.
The task is to synchronise the data in Joomla with OpenERP, this was accomplished by the “connector” written in php which acts as a server for the XML-RPC calls.

Dynamic Image From Database in Jasper Report

   When dealing with internal documentation in a company, images plays an important role. For example, company logo is a must in most of the documentation in a company. Here I am going to explain how to create dynamic images in jasper report fetched from the database.

   I am using iReport 4.7.1 with OpenERP. In my report I am passing the image to the report as a parameter. I have created a parameter in iReport as "logo" which holds image data passed from the python to the report. In python side, i am fetching my logo as: 

Translation of OpenERP Module in Different Languages (I18n - Internationalization)

Translations (Internationalisation) is one of the most useful features that OpenERP provides to its users all around the globe. Having an interface in their own language helps users to  interact more friendly with the system. OpenERP already has translations in almost all the popular languages. These translations are bundled within the modules itself. Here i am trying explain how to add a new language and its translations in OpenERP modules.

WYSIWYG Editor in OpenERP

         Here I am going to explain how to turn a normal text area into a WYSIWYG(What You See Is What You Get) area in Openerp.Before that let me explain what is WYSIWYG.This may be familiar to web developers, any how WYSIWYG is used in computing to describe a system in which content (text and graphics) displayed onscreen during editing appears in a form closely corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product, which might be a printed document, web page, or slide presentation.

Backup and Restore of complete OpenERP in Linux(Ubuntu)

This is just some simple tips for moving an OpenERP server instance and Database from a Linux server to another Linux physical server. Normally Debain based Ubuntu is recommend to install OpenERP. Hope this will help at least some beginners. Good luck :) This process is normally done using linux commands as mentioned below.

1) On Source Server
.ssh to existing OpenERP server as the user running OpenERP