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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

Changing the administrative user's password


If you are the OFBiz administrator and you forget this user's password, you could be out of luck since the administrator (the "admin" user login) has all the privileges necessary to perform any OFBiz task, including logging in and assigning the admin user a new password.

If you find yourself in this situation, there is no easy way to retrieve this password such that you may use it to log in. The only solution to this problem is to reset the password by directly manipulating the correct entity in the database, or let OFBiz do that for you using the following recipe.

Getting ready

Before following this recipe, ensure these steps are performed:

  1. 1. Navigate to the OFBiz install directory.

  2. 2. Open a command line or console window.

  3. 3. If you are running OFBiz, it is best to stop it at this time.

How to do it...

To reset the admin password, follow these steps:

  1. 1. From the OFBiz install directory, run the following command:

    ant load-admin-user-login -DuserLoginId...