1 Reply by Royce

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Hi there, the basic issue is that our users refuse to use webERP because its god-awful to look at.  Our management agrees and they can't use it either so that's why I built the front end using ExtJS.  ExtJS is not as bad as it seems.  I built custom distros of it that only uses the pieces that we need so the footprint/hardware requirements is very small.  I also implemented some keyboard shortcuts but that wasn't a requirement for us. 

FA is an improvement in the UI, but again, our users are used to the friendly UI of Quckbooks and find webERP/FA too difficult to navigate.  Please don't take that personally, I'm a techy and totally comfortable with command line etc. but I don't make the decisions for my company ;-).

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2 Reply by Royce

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'Ambitious' is very kind, more like 'insane'!  How close is the new version? 

Some backstory.  Management wanted to move away from Quickbooks because it wasn't meeting our need.  They wanted me to develop a new system that would accommodate our various businesses (e-commerce, construction, services, etc).  I looked around the net and found webERP and wanted to use that as the backend DB.  We have actually implemented a production system that uses ExtJS for the front end and automatically gets our data feeds from eBay, our other e-commerce systems, our vendors, credit card processors, etc.  It uses webERP for the DB and is working pretty well for our internal order processing system.

Our next project 'may' be to go towards a much more sophisticated frontend similar to http://www.extjs.com/blog/2010/04/08/implementation-spotlight-xero/ and possible market it or customization services for it.  So thats why I am very interested in a 'clean' system that would make the implementation of a new UI much easier ;-)

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3 Reply by Royce

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Thanks for your response.  Sorry for the newbee questions, but is there a timeline for V2.3?  Is there a data model available for a starting point?  If it is reasonably simple to create a new UI, we will open source the product if the community participates in the design and implementation.

Also, for anyone else reading this, any other ideas on creating a new front end are appreciated.

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4 Topic by Royce

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Hi there, I am brand new to FA but I have some experience with WebERP.  My company is in the process of completely rewriting the front end of WebERP to a more user friendly design.  In doing the research for this project, I found out about FA from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrontAccounting.

The thing that interested me most were the statements about:

# Clean separation of database access and business logic from user interface routines.
# Separated ui framework and code reuse ensure consistency of modules and easy development of extensions.

However, when I look at a random program, I see the SQL statements mixed in with the HTML view logic??  Am I missing something?  I was hoping to see a total separation into a MVC type architecture, which would of course make my life a lot easier in building a new front end.

I subscribed to the developer forum, but I'm not sure how to search it to see if this issue has been discussed.

Any ideas or comments are appreciated.

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