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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

Customizing Reports


In the available print format template, we are free to modify the template to suit our needs. We will play with our Purchase Order document in the Purchase Order window, and customize the print format template, which finally shows a report similar to the following screenshot:

Compare this report layout with the current, default print out of your purchase order document. There will be a difference in the appearance of the:

  • Logo

  • Header information composition

  • Layout of the detailed order information

  • Amount in words

We will try to alter the standard, default format and create a report in the format shown in the previous screenshot.

Creating new print format templates

As mentioned previously, there were two print format templates involved while producing the Purchase Order document reports. In the author's installation, the templates were:

  • Order_Header ** 1000000 ** &Copy Record 192611

  • Order_LineTax ** 1000000 ** &Copy Record 22157425

Take a look at the following screenshot...