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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

Installing ADempiere on the client side


With the application server started, we can access its 'service' from our client computer. Open your browser (Firefox Mozilla, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, or your own favorite browser), and type http://your_ipaddress/admin/ in the browser's address bar.

We will have a screen similar to the one shown in the next screenshot:

ADempiere provides two types of ADempiere client installation: Web Start and Local Install. For easy administration, we recommend you to set up the ADempiere client installation using the Web Start feature.

Web Start client installation

This is the easiest way to install the ADempiere client on a client computer. Click on Click Here to WebStart Me Now!, and the installation process starts automatically.

While accessing Web Start for the first time, the system will download the application from the ADempiere server, perform verification of the application, and launch the ADempiere client application itself.

The system will check the latest client application configuration on the server side, before launching ADempiere client application the next time. If there are updates available, then the system will download the application again and launch the latest client application. With these features, all clients connected to the server will always use the updated ADempiere client application.

Tip

You can create a shortcut pointing to http://your_server_ip_address/admin/adempiereHome/adempiereDirect.jnlp to access this ADempiere client Web Start feature.

Verifying the ADempiere client installation

Before using the ADempiere client application, we need to verify the ADempiere client connection through the ADempiere application server. Launch the Web Start application by double-clicking on the previously-created shortcut. The system will prompt us with the Adempiere License Agreement window. Read it carefully, and accept the license.

This opens the Adempiere Connection window. Here, you need to change the following information:

No

Field

Default value

Set value to

1

Application Host

MyAppServer

your server ip address

Leave the other fields unchanged. For example, on the author's computer, the application host is 10.10.101.107.

Click on the Test Application Server button, followed by a click on Test Database. Ensure that both buttons result in a green check mark, as shown in the following screenshot:

If you click on the Ok button (green check mark) on the bottom right-hand side of the window, then you will be directed to the ADempiere login window. For now, click on the Cancel button, and we are done.