School project, chart of accounts

[Carl Gleisner]

Tomorrow is the first day of my senior year in high school and we are required to do a sort of exam-project. I'm studying science with an emphasis on computer science. Some of my friends study social science with an emphasis on economy. We have discussed a joint effort involving OFBiz.

The only problems we have right now is to implement the standard chart of account used in Sweden. I understand that messing with the ChartOfAccount.xml would lead to a copious amount of work. That is why I would like to ask the community what I should expect and keep in mind.

Sorry to say that the following document is only available in Swedish but I might give you some idea of the chart of account in question. BAS-2000 - Standard Swedish chart of accounts
Regards

Carl

[David E Jones-2]

Apache OFBiz is a pretty large project and the result of hundreds of  
thousands of man-hours of effort done by lots of people with lots of  
experience.

For any project like this I'd recommend that you keep your scope  
extremely small, unless you're really planning to invest a lot of  
time into this. In essence, if at first glance what you're trying  
seems really easy then that's a good way to go as it will take a lot  
more time that you might think to understand related parts of the  
system and such.

The main thing for the chart of accounts is to understand all of the  
related entities. Try searching all of the seed data files for  
something like "glAccountId" to see all of the data related to the  
GlAccount.

-David


On Aug 22, 2006, at 2:07 PM, carlj wrote:

>
> Tomorrow is the first day of my senior year in high school and we are
> required to do a sort of exam-project. I'm studying science with  
> emphasis on
> computer science. Some of my friends study social science with an  
> emphasis
> on economy. We have discussed a joint effort involving OFBiz.
>
> The only problems we have right now is to implement the standard  
> chart of
> account used in Sweden. I understand that messing with the
> ChartOfAccount.xml would lead to a copious amount of work. That is  
> why I
> would like to ask the community what I should expect and keep in mind.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Carl
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>

[Carl Gleisner]

Thank you David for the input, I'll start searching.

Carl

David E Jones wrote

Apache OFBiz is a pretty large project and the result of hundreds of  
thousands of man-hours of effort done by lots of people with lots of  
experience.

For any project like this I'd recommend that you keep your scope  
extremely small, unless you're really planning to invest a lot of  
time into this. In essence, if at first glance what you're trying  
seems really easy then that's a good way to go as it will take a lot  
more time that you might think to understand related parts of the  
system and such.

The main thing for the chart of accounts is to understand all of the  
related entities. Try searching all of the seed data files for  
something like "glAccountId" to see all of the data related to the  
GlAccount.

-David


On Aug 22, 2006, at 2:07 PM, carlj wrote:

>
> Tomorrow is the first day of my senior year in high school and we are
> required to do a sort of exam-project. I'm studying science with  
> emphasis on
> computer science. Some of my friends study social science with an  
> emphasis
> on economy. We have discussed a joint effort involving OFBiz.
>
> The only problems we have right now is to implement the standard  
> chart of
> account used in Sweden. I understand that messing with the
> ChartOfAccount.xml would lead to a copious amount of work. That is  
> why I
> would like to ask the community what I should expect and keep in mind.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Carl
> --
> View this message in context: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/School-project%">http://www.nabble.com/School-project% 
> 2C-chart-of-accounts-tf2148454.html#a5932726
> Sent from the OFBiz - User forum at Nabble.com.
>

[Carl Gleisner]

David,

I've searched the resources for GlAccountId and explained it to my friends. Seems like the types and classes are pretty tied up. However, we are pretty confident that we could make the chart of account if we just translate the entity labels and go thru them. Soon we will also consult our teacher on whether we can use the account classes available.

Carl

David E Jones wrote

Apache OFBiz is a pretty large project and the result of hundreds of  
thousands of man-hours of effort done by lots of people with lots of  
experience.

For any project like this I'd recommend that you keep your scope  
extremely small, unless you're really planning to invest a lot of  
time into this. In essence, if at first glance what you're trying  
seems really easy then that's a good way to go as it will take a lot  
more time that you might think to understand related parts of the  
system and such.

The main thing for the chart of accounts is to understand all of the  
related entities. Try searching all of the seed data files for  
something like "glAccountId" to see all of the data related to the  
GlAccount.

-David


On Aug 22, 2006, at 2:07 PM, carlj wrote:

>
> Tomorrow is the first day of my senior year in high school and we are
> required to do a sort of exam-project. I'm studying science with  
> emphasis on
> computer science. Some of my friends study social science with an  
> emphasis
> on economy. We have discussed a joint effort involving OFBiz.
>
> The only problems we have right now is to implement the standard  
> chart of
> account used in Sweden. I understand that messing with the
> ChartOfAccount.xml would lead to a copious amount of work. That is  
> why I
> would like to ask the community what I should expect and keep in mind.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Carl
> --
> View this message in context: <a href="http://www.nabble.com/School-project%">http://www.nabble.com/School-project% 
> 2C-chart-of-accounts-tf2148454.html#a5932726
> Sent from the OFBiz - User forum at Nabble.com.
>