OB 2.31b ReleaseNotes

Openbravo 2.31 beta release notes

Openbravo 2.31 is a beta version. This version is NOT recommended for production environments and it is intended mainly to gather feedback and bug reports and quality issues. This version supports Oracle and Postgres SQL database backends.

What is new in Openbravo 2.31 beta

• Improved data in the demo client included with the distribution to simplify the evaluation process
  • Data is improved in terms of quantity and quality, allowing anybody to try all of the functionality in the application without having to enter new data.
• The main application menu has been re-organized to group functionality more logically and make it more user friendly.
• Single signon. Replaces the default authentication mechanism of Openbravo ERP by other mechanism in common with other web applications. With this feature a user only has to login once to access all the corporate applications that include Openbravo ERP. To achieve this feature the current login flow has changed: To enter in Openbravo ERP only the user and password fields are required. The parameters: language, role, entity, organization and warehouse are now user preferences that can be modified in the "User options" window.
• Fine tuned the revision of the active elements in the application dictionary
  • Based on the testing conducted since the publication of the alpha release

What is new in Openbravo 2.30 alpha

Platform, Usability & Quality

• Full redesign of application user interface, using Dojo as user interface library.
  • The UI interface includes standard Dojo widgets and other controls enhanced by Openbravo.
  • Fully featured AJAX data grid that dramatically improves performance by dynamically requesting for just data needed to be shown.
  • Fully customizable look and feel using CSS.
• New UI layout
  • Design and implementation of a new layout that improves usability. The new layout is based on the conclusions of a usability study done for Openbravo.
• Support for skins (themes)
  • Inclusion of new skins defined with CSS styles.
• Complete revision of User Messages
  • All messages in the application are revised to ensure that they provide a clear explanation, in a homogeneous style and a consistent user interface.
• Revision of the active elements in the application dictionary
  • Not implemented and deprecated elements have been properly labeled and disabled by default. This aims to facilitate the configuration of the dictionary during the implementation phase.

New functionality

• Alarms defined by users (with e-mail notification). In Openbravo an alarm is a periodic check that is performed to verify certain conditions. If the result is not what is expected, a warning is delivered to the user. Examples of alarms are business partners without addresses, products with stock totals under predefined levels, customers that exceed their risk or any rule that the user defines.
  • Alarms are shown or sent to users or roles defined in the alarm management functionality.
  • Alarms are shown in the application windows, but are also shown proactively in the menu with a label that indicates the number of alarms that have not been managed.
• JasperSoft Report integration, allowing report registration in Openbravo and calling them. See our development manual for a full description of how to use it.

Pending

This is the list of issues that we are still working for the R2.3 branch:

• Complete revision of UI interface with
  • A new calendar control, with a skin more attuned to the new UI
  • A new skin for the calculator more attuned to the new UI
• Accounting tasks. Payment has been added as a new dimension in the accounting records allowing to track all the accounting entries related to an operation. New accounting reports have been developed allowin the user can define them in a hierarchy way. The general accounting report has been generalized to manage multiple nodes, so the user can define multiple views of the general account report.
• Complete revision of User Messages
  • All messages in the application are revised to ensure that they provide a clear explanation, in a homogeneous style and a consistent user interface.
• English & Spanish proof-reading. A complete review of the English and Spanish terminology and language used in the application. See this post for more details.
• Move all the reports from Openbravo's technology to JasperReports enhancing their design and look and feel.

List of bugs fixed in this release

There are 207 bugs fixed in this release (since R2.30 alpha). You can check the complete bug list at SourceForge

Downloading and installing it

You can download Openbravo 2.31 beta from SourceForge and install it following our quick installation guide.

Known issues

For a complete of know issues for this release check Openbravo tracker