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ADempiere 3.4 ERP Solutions

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ADempiere 3.4 ERP Solutions

Overview of this book

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are essential in today's business market. There are many options for ERP systems; however, ADempiere offers a solid foundation for developing a powerful ERP system that helps your business to manage data efficiently, streamline different processes, lower costs, and improve the efficiency levels without too much complexity. This practical book offers a comprehensive understanding of ADempiere and a look at its main features by way of developing and enhancing a sample case study from concept to deployment. This book will help you model complex business processes with ease. You will learn to install ADempiere followed by configuring the company structure and the initial client set up. You can start working with ADempiere immediately because this book will get you up and running quickly and assumes no knowledge or experience of working with ADempiere. ADempiere3.4 ERP Solutions enables you to set up the accounting parts, define the prerequisite data, learn about product and price management, and perform procurement and sales activities. When you read the book, you'll understand the concept behind the ADempiere workflow and the important function of managing the inventory. Activities such as making user-defined financial reports, procedures on importing data, and security will be covered in detail, and you will also learn about the application dictionary. ADempiere generates accounting facts/journals automatically. In this book, you will understand the impact of these accounting facts in detail. This book will give you a comprehensive study on how to easily implement ADempiere and make the best use of this open source ERP system.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
ADempiere 3.4 ERP Solutions
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Working with Role Data Access in detail


In the Menu | System Admin | General Rules | Security | Role Data Access window, we can define an access right on both the ADempiere database table and column, which is registered in the ADempiere Application Dictionary. We will elaborate on a sample use of this data access in the subsequent sections.

Restricting Table access

Suppose that you need to grant access to a role that can only read or view the Material Receipt window and cannot add or alter any information in this window. With User ID admin and using Sistematika Fashion, Ltd Admin as the role, you need to perform the following steps:

  1. Find the document's target table. You can get this information by opening the Material Receipt window and clicking on Record Info. In this case, the table name is M_InOut.

  2. Open the Role Data Access window, set your target role (for example, Restricted Access) in the Role tab, and then navigate to the Table Access tab. Enter and then save the following information...