[OFBiz] Users - feedback on tutorials

[Sinan Yatkin]

I think i now Understand a Little bit. The Applications outside could
be accesed from Other Business.. And the Applications Inside Circle
accessed only inside the Business..?

Sorry but I dont have any Experience on ERP Software and thats why i
am asking too many Questions.

On 6/16/05, Si Chen <schen at graciousstyle.com> wrote:
> Sinan Yatkin wrote:
> 
> >Hi si.
> >
> >Your OFBiz tutorials Page is really great. It makes me after 3 Months
> >to understand the Structure.
> >
> >But i have some Questions. At the First Picture you have beanshell in
> >the Business Logic but in your Pdf you have it in the Presentation
> >Layer.  I would say it belongs to Model ?
> >
> >
> >
> It can be used for business logic as part of the model, but most of the
> time, it's used in the presentation layer for data gathering.  So I
> tried to put into both places.
> 
> >One more Question on the Page 5 in your pdf you have all Applications.
> >But i dont understand how are they classified. What is the different
> >between Manufacturing and Accounting? I think some explanation about
> >your pdf would be helpful.
> >
> >
> >
> What do you mean by this?  Are you familiar with the general functions
> of applications in an ERP package, for example?  (I'm sorry, this seemed
> self-explanatory, so I'm trying to figure out what your question is.)
> 
> >As a newbie i think also Freemarker is easy. I think the business
> >Logic needs some more explanations.
> >
> >
> >
> Ok.  Good.  I'll try to get to it.
> 
> >So thanks again Si Chen.
> >
> >Sinan
> >
> >On 6/13/05, Si Chen <schen at graciousstyle.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi everyone.  Thanks for the help reading through this.
> >>
> >>I'll try to incorporate more graphics rather than text displays in the
> >>future...
> >>
> >>All of the code you are seeing is in the <pre> blocks.  Not really
> >>possible to highlight stuff in there, unfortunately.
> >>
> >>I'll put in a word about freemarker and eclipse in the tutorial.  Do you
> >>think I'm exaggerating by saying that freemarker is "very easy, intuitive"?
> >>
> >>Ruth--do you know why it's scrolling so far to the right?  I'm not quite
> >>sure but if you (or anyone) knows of a fix, please let me know.
> >>
> >>Si
> >>
> >>Ruth Hoffman wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Daniel Kunkel wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Si
> >>>>
> >>>>Your tutorial is brilliant, and is a wonderful addition to help jump
> >>>>start people with getting started with OFBiz. I think this will really
> >>>>help out the project!
> >>>>
> >>>>Mostly I just look forward to seeing additional installments which I see
> >>>>you've already started, but as you we're looking for feedback I did
> >>>>notice one thing...
> >>>>
> >>>>Would it be very difficult to note (bold?) the changes made to the
> >>>>hello1 controller file?
> >>>>Thanks for doing this!!!  Hopefully David can get a link to this in the
> >>>>OFBiz.org site soon.
> >>>>
> >>>>Daniel
> >>>>
> >>>>On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 16:55 -0700, Si Chen wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>I've made some ofbiz tutorials at
> >>>>>http://www.opensourcestrategies.com/ofbiz/tutorials.php
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I'd like to get your feedback and suggestions on these.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Thanks,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Si
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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> >>>>
> >>>Agreed. This is great. Thanks Si!
> >>>
> >>>A couple of things, which are not meant to detract from the usefulness
> >>>of this...
> >>>
> >>>1) If I were looking at this without any knowledge of OFBiz
> >>>development, I'd wonder why you are in the "Eclipse" root directory.
> >>>So, maybe a quick word or two about Eclipse and how it fits in. Maybe
> >>>all you need to say is something like this:
> >>>
> >>>Since OFBiz is relocatable and completely self-contained, it may run
> >>>anywhere on your system. For example, for this tutorial we have chosen
> >>>to deploy our OFBiz framework so that we may manage development using
> >>>the Eclipse IDE. This is not necessary. In fact, you may have several
> >>>versions of OFBiz resident on your computer at anytime, some installed
> >>>within the Eclipse directory tree, and others not. Of course, you may
> >>>only "run" a single version of OFBiz at any time.
> >>>
> >>>2) The part about Freemaker would also be confusing to me. Maybe a
> >>>word about why freemarker and not plain old .html files. I'm not sure
> >>>what would work here...but for a newbie, I think Freemarker is a real
> >>>red-herring that needs to be addressed right up front.
> >>>
> >>>3) OK, this is petty, but I'm just going to mention it anyhow - the
> >>>style sheet needs some work - on both Safari and Firefox, text scrolls
> >>>way to far to the right and I can't read the content without
> >>>scrolling. That makes following the tutorial flow  difficult.
> >>>
> >>>But, again, great job!
> >>>
> >>>Ruth
> >>>
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