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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

Obscuring information


When working with a system that involves many people, we need to make sure that sensitive data, such as the user IDs password information, and financial information such as credit-card numbers, are secure.

As an ADempiere standard feature, the system has a mechanism to obscure information. We will elaborate on how ADempiere accomplishes this in the following sections.

Enabling the encrypted feature

When we interact with the Menu | System Admin | General Rules | Security | User window, we can define the user ID information, including the Password. By default, the Password field does not show the actual password characters. The information in the Password field will be as shown in the following screenshot:

We will now take a look at the Window, Tab & Field window to understand how ADempiere makes this work:

  1. Log in with user ID System, password System and using System Administrator as the Role. Open the Menu | Application Dictionary | Window, Tab & Field window. In...