OB 2.33 ReleaseNotes

Openbravo 2.33 release notes

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 attuned to the new UI
  • A new skin for the calculator more attuned to 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 cancelled 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 hierarchy way. The user selects the accounts he wants to report and how to organize them. The accounting report is saved for later use. When the user executes the accounting reports input the filtering data and get the report.
  • 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 rates taxes must we shown in the report. The user define how to organize the taxes in the report allowing to define a hierarchy with summary nodes. The tax reports are saved for later use. The user can define in this way reports for VAT, withholding and other in use in ther area. When the user executes the tax report input the filtering data and get the report.
  • Trial balance report. It allow to be broken down by account, in the same way that the General ledger report.
  • General ledger report. It include 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 and look and feel.

What is new in Openbravo 2.32

This version was build 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.

List of bugs fixed in this release

There are 269 bugs fixed in this release (since R2.31 beta). You can check the complete bug list at SourceForge

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.

Downloading and installing it

You can download Openbravo 2.33 from SourceForge and install it following our quick installation guide.

Known issues

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