Release 390

ADempiere Release 390 was released on August 1st 2017.

Summary of functionality included in ADempiere 3.9.0

The functionality described below is the effort of more than two-and-a-half years of development and testing.

ZK User Interface Look & Feel

• Totally new look-and-feel style design
• New simplified icons
• New ADempiere logo
• Modernize ZK User Interface appearance, making it more similar to world ERP main players
• Goal: flat, minimalist, header blue, sky blue drops, two grays
• Characters more readable
• Change black letters to gray
• Eliminate Degradé
• Eliminate double headers of blue
• Shrink strap logo
• Eliminate blue cell lines
• Change icons to be more readable -Grids: gray and white alternating in rows
• Change colors in login portal
• Improved Menu Favorite Items with user-definable folder structure
• Document Status Indicators added to Dashboard
• Display Recent Items worked on by the logged in User and Role
• Display favorite documents
• Change Role functionality for changing role without logging in anew

POS

• Development of a totally new POS based on MVC "Model View Controller" requirements
• POS fully integrated to ADempiere
• POS functional on both KZ and Swing
• Each POS station highly configurable
• Supported input devices
  • Keyboard
  • Touchscreen
  • Mouse
• Access control for
  • Changing prices
  • Allowing discounts
  • Returning materials.
• Configurable to allow selected actions only executable by the supervisor
• Configurable to set time limit for execution of selected actions
• Supports standard ADempiere order and payment types
  • Credit Orders
  • Standard Orders
  • Return of material
  • Credit Notes
  • Quotes
  • Cash return
  • Prepayments
  • Partial Payments
• Payment of the POS invoice can be a combination of different tender types
  • Cash
  • Check
  • Credit card
  • Credit note
• Supports different Units of measure in the POS
• Selectable Products with image and text in quick-access menus
• Product kits
• Smart look-up when searching for products and Business Partners
• Cancellation of Orders (even of a whole POS Order, including Material issue and Payment)
• Change of Business Partner will change the prices and discounts of existing order lines, to price list of the new Business Partner.
• Intelligent buttons: buttons are enabled only when the semantic context allows it
• Find old Sales Orders either for payment(s) or for review
• Find old Sales Orders from the Invoice document number
• POS can be treated as a bank account allowing for cash reports as ADempiere bank statements.
• Displaying of old Orders - including orders that were not POS orders (for example to revert or return material).
• Refactoring of java classes to true MVC so different UIs can be integrated easily
• POS Closing for end of day or new operator.
• ServerSocket and additional classes for additional Printing, Display and Drawer
• Creation of Business Partner in the POS

Production Light

• Integration to ADempiere
  • Uses ADempiere BOMs and BOM lines (one Product with multiple BOMs)
  • Costing for Production integrated (process “CostDetail”), including deferred transactions
  • Production is now an ADempiere document with Document actions and Document status
  • Reversal of Production document including Storage adjustments
  • Product Reservation and Release as with other ADempiere documents
  • Inclusion of Attribute Set Instances
  • Order Batch as "Production Order"
  • Multiple partial or a single complete batch is handled
  • Simplified MRP Planning for next 20 weeks for Production and Purchase Ordering
  • Error correction in production quantity calculation due to rounding

Financial Reports

• Report lines enhanced
  • Overline stroke (dashed, dotted, solid, double dashed, double dotted, double solid)
  • Underline stroke (dashed, dotted, solid, double dashed, double dotted, double solid)
  • Shows ‘Actual to Budget’ Variance calculations with correct sign
  • Blank lines to allow improved layout
• Report columns enhanced
  • Shows values with opposite sign
  • Added “Report Source” to add filters to columns
• Header Print Format that ‘includes’ the standard report displaying context variables
• Indentation of account report lines
• Export to xlsx format
• Utilization of streams display “Y” or “N” instead of ‘tick’ and ‘cross’ icons in report lines (configurable)
• Trial Balance Drillable Report (drillable down to the document that causes the entry)
• Lots of fixes and enhancements

Human Resources

• Enhanced and improved configuration
• Improved Concepts and usage
• Improved Employee Dependents
• Improved Attribute Window
• Thorough Accounting integration
• Better synchronization with Business Partner
• Email to employees
• New Importer for Employee , create Department , Jobs , Employee Type , Skill Type while process to import.

Payroll

• Smart Browsers to improve usability

• Support of JSR 223 Scripting APIs for Payroll Rules

• New approach to import payroll movement

• Re-engineered transaction management for calculating payroll process yielding faster execution time.

• Generate invoice from payroll process.

• Now the importer for Employee Attribute support text, date , and reference no

• New reports (salary change, employee dependents, employee detail, bank account detail, etc.)

• Generation of additional periods for payments twice a month

• Enhanced rules, methods, processes

• Payroll concept increased functionality

• Smart Browser for Payroll Concept generation

• Include movements in payroll process

• Add Stop values for payroll process

  • Concept
  • Employee
  • Payroll Process

• Add new selection criteria for concept on payroll process engine

  • Payroll
  • Department
  • Job
  • Job Type
  • Skill Type
  • Employee Status
  • Project
  • Activity
  • Organization of Transaction
  • Employee Type
  • Job Education
  • Career Level
  • Race
  • Degree
  • Designation
  • Salary Structure
  • Salary Range
  • Work Group
  • Shift Group

• Improved for accounting fact on process payroll

• Integration with commission calculation for sales representative employee

Cost Engine

• Error fixing
• Update costing fixed
• Average Invoice and Landed Costs corrected (it works finally in ADempiere)
• Include Resource costs in Production Light

Commissions

• Commission definition for more than one Sales Representative
• Commission definition also for
  • Business Partner
  • Business Partner Group
  • Product, Product Category, Product Group, Product Classification…
  • Sales Region, Project, Campaign, Channel..
• Define commission also for partial payments
• Commission calculable until last payment done
• Now Commission is an ADempiere document (becoming more secure and manageable)
• Simulation of Commission Runs
• Prepare action re-calculates commission. Calculated commission can be - modified by user in charge; once done that, the commission document can be completed and thus become invariable.
• Flag for avoiding commission recalculation once Commission has been corrected
• Commission depending on provider
• Include management of Material Returns
• Include management of Payment voiding. In this case, the commission is reverted.
• Avoiding double calculations during Commission Calculation integration to Human Resources/Payroll
• Grouping of Commissions
• Executing Commission Runs either on Commissions or on Commission Groups
• Documentation of Commission Runs by explaining every step done and its results
• An explanatory Commission Detail
• Improve database views on commission
• Improve Run Commission Detail report
• New commission sales representative summary report
• Allow definition of commission amount definition also as percentage (up to now, only decimal commission was possible)
• Save commission calculation in every Commission Detail
• Clean up code

Smart Browser Improvements

• Fully MVC
• Allows for editing fields inside selected lines (these changes are available to an eventual process called by the Smart Browser)
• Callouts programmable for changing values inside the selected fields. this means, this automatic changes are available to an eventual process called in the Smart Browser. Similar to callout in fields.
• Include parameter validation
• Improved query loading, filtering
• Default values can be gotten from SQL
• Full working access to context variables (also from parent windows)
• Better info messages
• Added support as SAAS Module
• Collapsible Process panel

Additional Smart Browsers

• Massive execution of Order actions (Prepare, Complete, Void, Close)
• Massive generation of Shipments based on Order lines
• Massive generation of Invoices based on Order lines
• Create Payroll Concepts in HR
• Withdrawal by Tender Type in POS
• Closes the statement for POS Terminals
• Shows the employee history movements for a payroll process
• Material Receipt Distribution Order
• Generates Movement from Distribution Order
• Selects the Demand Order to generate an Outbound Order.
• Selects the Outbound Order Lines ready to be to delivery.

Replacement of Views by Smart Browsers

• Material Receipt create from: Order / RMA / Invoice
• Invoice create from: Order / RMA / Invoice / Receipt
• Invoice create from: Payment Selection lines (this is a different Smart Browser)
• Payment Selection create from: Order
• Payment Selection Lines create from: Invoice
• Payment Selection lines create from: Payment Request
• Bank Statement Create From Payments
• Payment Selection lines create from: HR Movements
• Process Parameters create from: Process or columns of Report View

Translation

• Complete Translation into Spanish MX
• Preparation for other Spanish languages

Warehouse Management

• Improve Warehouse Management Outbound process
• Change collection class replace to List , refectory method name and variables based on ADempiere Best Practices

Express Material Receipt

• Consolidate Material Receipt using PO Reference
• Fast Material reception entry using barcode and lot and serial #
• ZK Scan bar code for Material Receipts , Shipment , Movement , Physical Inventory

Inventory transaction

• Applies for Material Receipt , Shipment , Physical Inventory and Inventory Movement
• Improves to Inventory Transaction based in bar code entry and lot or serial #
• New form to generate inventory transaction using scan barcode and lot or serial #

Freight Calculation

• Add support to calculated freight for Sales Order, Distribution Order and Outbound Orden
• Add Shipper , Freight Category , Freight Cost Rule , Freight Amt in WMS

Fleet Management

• Capabilities to include the management of fleet resources (driver, power, equipment, etc) involved in fulfilling orders and shipments.
• Asset lifecycle management
• Driver hire, education, scheduling, and payroll
• Order capture and Customer Relationship Management
• Fleet planning – consolidation, fleet versus common-carrier trade-offs, multi-leg, multi-mode Driver and equipment assignment, and utilization
• Asset tracking
• Vehicle Licensing/ Regulatory compliance
• Asset inventory management at asset pool locations
• Driver dispatch, mobile communications, tracking
• Costing – fleet, external service providers, special services, accessorials
• Payables – driver pay, independent contractors and external service providers
• Billables – bill customers for service, asset usage
• Cost accruals and revenue recognition

Budget Management

• Add importer for Budget
• Budget Entry Movement

Request management

• Add project , project , phase project task
• Add the Manufacturing Order reference
• Add the Cost Collector reference
• Add the Distribution Order and lines reference

Payments

• Improved Payment process (Payments, Allocations, Bank Statements, Payment Selection)
• Add Payment Request from Order (Prepay), Invoice and Payroll Movement.
• Integration of Standard Payment Selection with Payroll movements (You can generate a payment selection from payroll process).
• Add document action for payment selection (Now it can Process, Complete and reversed).

Reporting

• Print format is configured by default in document type
• Add default summary for print formats
• Different report views with the same report possible
• Re-query on report (It allow relaunch the process parameters from any report)
• Fix Create a dynamic report for a different company , now a dynamic report is created with company prefix
• Saving and naming parameter configuration to be called repeatedly
• PDF Jasper report now can be included to send email
• Format elements with display logic, format pattern, barcode type

Miscellaneous functionality

• Hundreds of errors fixed
• Improved Migration Process
• Revamping of Forms, Info Windows in both Swing and ZK
• Overhaul of grid functionality
• EMail configuration by user (configuration of different servers for users)
• Windows and Forms displayed in "Modal" form
• Improved handling of process parameters
• Improved MRP and DRP in Complex Production
• Implementation of Command pattern to execute process action
• Replication improvements
• Workflow Manufacturing Editor now also in ZK
• Support to calculated freight for Sales Order, Distribution Order and Outbound Order
• Drop Shipment in Distribution Order
• Display logic on Print Item
• New report Open Items to date
• Two additional dimensions in Accounting (User3 and User4)
• Allow copy functionality revamped
• Improved Payment allocation
• Improved Print Engine
• Create Inventory Count List also depending on Vendor
• Budget Management Functionality
• Improvements and corrections in Trial Balance
• Promotions: allowing definition of gifts
• Drill down in accounting reports (HTML format): navigation to the causing entry possible.
• Many handy enhancements.

Miscellaneous

• Java 1.8 and backward compatibility
• Integration of Tomcat to ADempiere
• Compatibility with Postgres >= 9.1
• Maintaining Oracle compatibility
• Basic Refactoring (object naming, exception propagation, avoiding NPEs, removal of redundant and unused code, partial reorganization of code according to processes, changing code to MVC in selected areas)
• Improved Garden World data for testing
• Extensively code correction to best practices
• New ADempiere theme for a fresher view
• Order tab for process parameters
• Order tab for window tabs
• Updated POI, Jasper, Groovy, BeanShell libraries
• Added Sahi Test Framework to main project repository
• Export to XLSX format
• Updated Intellij usage
• Fix Local File Inclusion vulnerability
• 64-bit compliance
• Development now fully integrated to Git
• ZK buttons now in ADempiere standard
• Introduction of ProcessBuilder
• Standard constructor to classes missing it
• Clean-up Application Dictionary
• Add support to mariaDB connection
• Scala settings for IntelliJ
• Update Eclipse settings
• Improvements on SmallViewController
• Improved Class Generation
• Email Authentication implemented
• Added “Document” attribute for tables:
  • The columns Document No, Document Action, Document Status, Processed, Approved and Description are automatically created.
  • Process for Document Action is created.
  • Workflow and nodes for processing document is created.
  • M class with default workflow logic is created automatically when model class is generated.
• POSterita removed