OFBiz on other sites

[tamer sezgin-2]

Hi,
It seems "ofbiz.dev.java.net" site contains some documents in addition to
the link to OFBiz web site.
They are not up to date, but especially "data model" drawings seems to be
useful.

Is there somewhere updated versions of these documents?

Direct access URL to the data model documents is below:

https://ofbiz.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=236&expandFolder=236&folderID=1193

Regards,
Tamer

[David E Jones-3]

Tamer,

Yes, those diagrams are rather old. They were pretty manually created  
and as far as I know no one has updated them.

However, currently OFBiz does support exporting entity definitions as  
eomodeld files which can be imported using a few different software  
packages (mostly Mac OS apps). As part of these exports (which can be  
done from webtools) the entities are grouped according to logical  
organization in smaller diagrams to avoid having one massive diagram.  
I then used these with OmniGraffle to create some initial diagrams.

Some people at Hotwax Media then took these initial diagrams and added  
color, applicable seed data to help describe entities, organize the  
entities logically on each page to make them easier to understand and  
find. For about the last year these have only been used by Hotwax  
developers and various clients, but an "anonymous internal source" at  
Hotwax tells me that these may soon be made openly available. Keep an  
eye on the ofbiz mailing lists, I'll make sure an announcement makes  
its way here when that happens.

-David


On Apr 23, 2009, at 11:45 AM, Tamer Sezgin wrote:

> Hi,
> It seems "ofbiz.dev.java.net" site contains some documents in  
> addition to
> the link to OFBiz web site.
> They are not up to date, but especially "data model" drawings seems  
> to be
> useful.
>
> Is there somewhere updated versions of these documents?
>
> Direct access URL to the data model documents is below:
>
> https://ofbiz.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=236&expandFolder=236&folderID=1193
>
> Regards,
> Tamer

[tamer sezgin-2]

David, thank you for the explanations and good news.


On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:35 PM, David E Jones <[hidden email]
> wrote:

>
> Tamer,
>
> Yes, those diagrams are rather old. They were pretty manually created and
> as far as I know no one has updated them.
>
> However, currently OFBiz does support exporting entity definitions as
> eomodeld files which can be imported using a few different software packages
> (mostly Mac OS apps). As part of these exports (which can be done from
> webtools) the entities are grouped according to logical organization in
> smaller diagrams to avoid having one massive diagram. I then used these with
> OmniGraffle to create some initial diagrams.
>
> Some people at Hotwax Media then took these initial diagrams and added
> color, applicable seed data to help describe entities, organize the entities
> logically on each page to make them easier to understand and find. For about
> the last year these have only been used by Hotwax developers and various
> clients, but an "anonymous internal source" at Hotwax tells me that these
> may soon be made openly available. Keep an eye on the ofbiz mailing lists,
> I'll make sure an announcement makes its way here when that happens.
>
> -David
>
>
>
> On Apr 23, 2009, at 11:45 AM, Tamer Sezgin wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>> It seems "ofbiz.dev.java.net" site contains some documents in addition to
>> the link to OFBiz web site.
>> They are not up to date, but especially "data model" drawings seems to be
>> useful.
>>
>> Is there somewhere updated versions of these documents?
>>
>> Direct access URL to the data model documents is below:
>>
>>
>> https://ofbiz.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=236&expandFolder=236&folderID=1193
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tamer
>>
>
>