OpenERP - Way to success !: November 2009

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.

For windows download the following packages
Install Python 2.3.5 - Download
Install PyCairo 1.0.2 - Download
Install PyGtk 2.8.6 - Download
Install Dia 0.97 - Download with python Plugin support see the screenshot below
You must start the installation of dia after installing first 3 dependencies of python, pycairo,pygtk
The module is located in the extra_addons branch: https://code.launchpad.net/openobject-addons
To use the module you need to make codegen_openerp.py accesible from dia, usually in your C:\Program Files\Dia
For Linux usually it may be: /usr/share/dia/python directory
Open Dia, open a Python Console from the Dialog Menu, and type there “import codegen_openerp”
Open Dia Design your Application using UML and you will have the export function in Dia.
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.