Archive:OB 2.34 ReleaseNotes

What is new in Openbravo 2.34

Openbravo 2.34 is a stabilization release for the 2.3x series with no additional functionality. It is intended as a beta release. Openbravo users can start a new implementation project on this release but are recommended to upgrade to 2.35 for production purposes as soon as that release becomes available (estimated availability of 2.35 is October 2007). Existing Openbravo users are not recommended to upgrade their production systems to 2.34 and to wait for 2.35 instead.

Openbravo 2.34 leverages JasperReports to generate high quality reports. In order to properly print reports, the following browser configuration is recommended.

Internet Explorer. In the Tools menu, click Internet Options and select the Advanced tab. Under Settings, scroll down until you find the Printing category. Make sure Print background colors and images is checked, and then click OK.

Firefox & SeaMonkey.In the File menu, click Page Setup. In the Format & Options tab, under Options, select Print background (colors & images). Click OK.

List of bugs fixed in this release

There are 68 bugs fixed in Openbravo R2.34 beta (since R2.33 beta).

List of bug fixes for this release

• 1792223 AcctSchema_Default for Cash Flow Statement
• 1791308 Incongruous message generating invoice from draft receipt
• 1789960 Standardize the field length width and display length
• 1788715 Business partner selection for external POS fails
• 1788626 Create Sales Order from Project do not copy lines
• 1788437 An empty password when login produces an exception
• 1787633 Business partner missing IsWorker Checkbox
• 1787609 Error en Project Profitability
• 1787493 Report error Expiration Date Report, after number formatting
• 1786973 Bank address is not shown on address field
• 1785532 "Finantial" instead of "Financial" on New Budget
• 1784960 In tax rate window two tax category fields
• 1784900 Total Product Template Report not well format
• 1784342 Copy Client Process leaves DB with disabled triggers
• 1783086 SourceForge logo on login requires internet access
• 1783083 Changing company logo
• 1782479 Goods receipt -> create lines from
• 1782468 breadcrumbs not correct
• 1782340 c_convertion_rate trg
• 1781672 BPartner field, debtpayment tab updateable
• 1781118 Error: AccessTableNoView
• 1781113 General Accounting Report doesnt work
• 1781104 General Ledger Journal doesnt work
• 1781094 POS Order complete doesnt work
• 1780831 goods shipment reopening
• 1780151 validating work effort
• 1779569 CreateFrom Settlement UI bugs fixing
• 1779308 Error when trying to login with empty password
• 1778980 Add a Menu Entry
• 1778469 Initial Client Setup
• 1778465 storage bins search key
• 1778416 CreateFrom Remittance UI bugs fixing
• 1777583 Modified import xsql for postgre to enable error message
• 1776055 Missing Post Button in the Purchase Invoice
• 1775309 Product . It is not possible to create new Bill of Materials
• 1775091 Print invoices process
• 1774715 CreateFromShipmentData.java
• 1773497 "Create from remittance"
• 1773496 "Create from bank statement"
• 1773493 "Create from shipment" not well format
• 1773454 Create from bank. Business partner icon
• 1773024 Account info javascript message
• 1772942 Report payment tracker. Mandatory dates
• 1769491 Relation mode: Grid including integers can't be exported xls
• 1769419 Processed time-expense sheet headers and line can change org
• 1768422 BPartner selector doesn't work on EPS
• 1768251 m_production_run
• 1768232 Window Import Orders does not work
• 1767187 In Balance Sheet Report the "To Date" filter is required
• 1765565 Sales Invoice Transactional window
• 1765241 Error printing purchase order
• 1764863 Session Information appears twice in menu
• 1763564 Importing Files in OB Green Version
• 1761997 Jasper Reports names ending by JR
• 1761346 WAD generated code allows dirty writes
• 1759821 Export to Excel
• 1753567 Bottom buttons are not properly shown in Change Log
• 1753556 Bottom buttons are not properly shown in Show Session
• 1753551 Bottom buttons are not properly shown in PoolStatus
• 1752426 Menu Hide
• 1750494 Error message with GREEN background
• 1747433 The message when completing a no lines Order is not correct
• 1744060 Create Accounting Report window not well formatted
• 1744041 Spanish labels in report using English language
• 1743697 Report format
• 1737363 Some errors in Create from Settlement
• 1737075 DP Management window
• 1639573 Empty user password

What is new in Openbravo 2.33

• Complete revision of UI interface with
  • Possibility to define Skins and change the default look and feel.
  • A new calendar control, with a skin more in line with the new UI
  • A new skin for the calculator more in line with the new UI
• Accounting enhancements
  • Payment dimension. Payment has been added as a new dimension in the accounting records. Every operation that include a payment register this payment in the fact table. The payment as the other dimensions are transferred from one period to the next in the close and open process.
  • Payment tracking. As a result of include the payment as a dimension, it is possible to track all the accounting entries related to an operation. For example, from the accounting entry of an invoice you can see the accounting entry of the settlement and the accounting entry of the bank statement without going to the invoice.
  • Filter cancelled payments in General Ledger.An option has been included in the General Ledger report to filter the entries that the payment has been canceled with another entry. With this option it’s possible to show the pending amounts of an account (e.g. Business Partners, transitory accounts).
  • Accounting reports. The user can define accounting reports in hierarchical manner. The user selects the accounts he wants to report on and how to organize them. The accounting report is saved for later use.
  • General accounting reports. The general accounting report has been generalized to manage multiple nodes, so the user can define multiple views of the general accounting report.
  • Tax report. The user can define what tax rates must be shown in the report. The user defines how to organize the taxes in the report allowing to define a hierarchy with summary nodes. The tax reports are saved for later use. In this way, the user can define reports for VAT, withholding and others in use in their area.
  • Trial balance report. It allow to be broken down by account, in the same way that the General ledger report.
  • General ledger report. It includes an initial balance and a final balance and also total amount in debit and credit.
• 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 and the English_Language_Changes_OBR23.zip for more details.
• Move all the reports from Openbravo's technology to JasperReports enhancing their design, look and feel.

What is new in Openbravo 2.32

This version was built but never distributed.

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:

Manage “database code” (structure and metadata). Until now the database has been a single dump file with SQL statements that defined the structure and data of the database.

• Definition of database tables, procedures, functions and triggers using separate ASCII (XML) files.
• Allow full version control of the database code.

Acknowledgements

Openbravo wants to thank Centigrade for their creativity and help building the new Openbravo User Interface.

Downloading and installing it

You can download Openbravo 2.34 from SourceForge and install it following our quick installation guide.

Known issues

This is a list of important know issues know:

• 1792922 Delete/copy client corrupts Postgres database
• 1738983 Save changes
• 1796951 Initial client set up. Mandatory fields. No message
• 1806777 Some connections remain active in the pool
• 1811063 Upgrader using Postgre
• 1767320 Installer cannot find ant binary in some Linux distros

In Tracker bug system you have the complete list of know bugs.