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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

Creating a new administrative user


To change the default administrative user's login from "admin" to another value, follow this recipe.

Getting ready

Ensure these steps are performed:

  1. 1. Navigate to the OFBiz install directory.

  2. 2. If OFBiz is already running, shut it down.

  3. 3. Open a command line window.

How to do it...

To create a new administrative user, perform these steps:

  1. 1. Type in the following ant command where NewUserLoginName is the value for the user login identifier:

    ant load-admin-user-login -DuserLoginId=NewUserLoginName
    

    The NewUserLoginName as shown must be less than or equal to 255 ASCII characters in length, and not contain any back or space characters.

  2. 2. Restart OFBiz.

  3. 3. Log in to OFBiz as the administrative user using the new login name as entered in step 1 and using a password of "ofbiz".

  4. 4. When prompted to change the administrative user's password, enter the new password or "ofbiz" to maintain the existing value.

How it works...

Similar to the process for changing the admin user...