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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

Retrieving forgotten passwords


If you do not know the plaintext password for a user, the password may not be retrieved. However, the existing password may be removed and a new one issued for the user either by implementing an HTML form similar to those found on the e-commerce demonstration and shown here:

Or by using the Party Manager application as the administrative user ("admin") and creating a new password for a user. To implement a form-based automatic password creation service similar to that shown above, follow the given recipe.

Note

Note: for security reasons, OFBiz password encryption is a one-way process. There is no way to programmatically recover the plaintext value of a password once it has been encrypted by OFBiz.

Getting ready

In the controller.xml file for the webapp from which your user's web page view will be providing the forgotten password e-mail service, make sure you have a request-map entry that maps the user's request for a new password to the OFBiz forgotPassword event...