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Apache OfBiz Cookbook

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Apache OfBiz Cookbook

Overview of this book

Apache Open For Business (OFBiz) is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that provides a common data model and an extensive set of business processes. But without proper guidance on developing performance-critical applications, it is easy to make the wrong design and technology decisions. The power and promise of Apache OFBiz is comprehensively revealed in a collection of self-contained, quick, practical recipes in this Cookbook. This book covers a range of topics from initial system setup to web application and HTML page creation, Java development, and data maintenance tasks. Focusing on a series of the most commonly performed OFBiz tasks, it provides clear, cogent, and easy-to-follow instructions designed to make the most of your OFBiz experience. Let this book be your guide to enhancing your OFBiz productivity by saving you valuable time. Written specifically to give clear and straightforward answers to the most commonly asked OFBiz questions, this compendium of OFBiz recipes will show you everything you need to know to get things done in OFBiz. Whether you are new to OFBiz or an old pro, you are sure to find many useful hints and handy tips here. Topics range from getting started to configuration and system setup, security and database management through the final stages of developing and testing new OFBiz applications.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Apache OFBiz Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Working with temporal expressions


OFBiz "temporal expressions" are a formal system or grammar used to describe the timing associated with the occurrence of recurring system events. Each expression represents a declaration about when and how often an Event may occur. Expressions may be used as single declarations, for example, run a Service every day at 9:00 pm or as a union, intersection, or difference of one or more ranges of time.

Using the OFBiz temporal expressions tool, you may edit an existing expression—OFBiz comes with several predefined—and/or create your own expressions and use them in conjunction with other OFBiz business processing logic.

Getting ready

To get started with the Temporal Expressions WebTools tool, either navigate to the WebTools main web page and select the Temporal Expressions link, or go directly to the tool's URL located at:

https://localhost:8443/webtools/control/findTemporalExpression

If you have not already logged in, you will be prompted to log in. Enter...