Wednesday, November 18, 2009

RAD with OpenERP

Rapid Application Development with Open ERP
  • Complete Application can be designed without single line of code using dia module of open erp.
  • You need to download the uml_dia module from the extra_addons modules of OpenERP.
  • Here are the steps for the windows to setup openerp with dia using python.
  1. For windows download the following packages
  2. Install Python 2.3.5 - Download
  3. Install PyCairo 1.0.2 - Download
  4. Install PyGtk 2.8.6 - Download
  5. Install Dia 0.97 - Download with python Plugin support see the screenshot below
  6. You must start the installation of dia after installing first 3 dependencies of python, pycairo,pygtk
  7. The module is located in the extra_addons branch: https://code.launchpad.net/openobject-addons
  8. To use the module you need to make codegen_openerp.py accesible from dia, usually in your C:\Program Files\Dia
  9. For Linux usually it may be: /usr/share/dia/python directory
  10. Open Dia, open a Python Console from the Dialog Menu, and type there “import codegen_openerp”
  11. Open Dia Design your Application using UML and you will have the export function in Dia.
  12. If everything goes alright you will have a new option in your “Export...” dialog named “PyDia Code Generation (OpenERP)” that will create a zip module from your UML diagram.
References:
http://dia-installer.de/index_en.html
http://doc.openerp.com/developer/7_23_RAD_tools/index.html
http://fptiny.blogspot.com/2008/03/rad-with-tiny-erp.html
http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia

Saturday, August 15, 2009

OpenERP Developers Community !

Hello OpenER Fens !

This is the beginning - OpenERP Blogging !!.

we will have a great OpenERP Blogging Service - Lets hope for the best ;).
This is not an official OpenERP Team Blogs - You are an OpenERP Developer, You are welcome !

Few Links:

OpenERP Official Site: http://openerp.com
OpenERP Forum: http://openerp.com/forum/
On Demand Open Object: http://www.odoo.com/
OpenERP Thailand Community: http://www.openerp-thai.com/
OpenERP Official Blog: http://openerp-team.blogspot.com
OpenERP on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenERP
OpenERP CEO Blog: http://fptiny.blogspot.com
OpenERP Documentation: http://doc.openerp.com
OpenERP Launchpad Community: https://code.launchpad.net/~openerp-community
OpenERP Spanish Articles: http://www.openerpsite.com/