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OpenOffice 3.2.0
Last February 11, 2010 the OpenOffice.org release their latest version of openoffice 3.2.0 with a lot of new features and improvement to their product. I’ve just download last night their latest version and trying it.
here are some improvement :
- Faster Start-up times
- Compare to the lower version when you open it.. the start-up times load slow while the last openoffice 3.2.0 it load faster reduced ‘cold start’ time by 46% since version 3.0 was released just over a year ago.
- ODF Support
-OpenOffice.org 3.2 has made further strides in compliance with ODF 1.2, including closer conformance to OASIS ODFF/OpenFormula specifications.
- As OpenOffice.org 3.2 currently requires a superset of the ODF 1.2 specification, the software now warns users when ODF 1.2 Extended features have been used.
- The document integrity check now proves whether an ODF document conforms to the ODF specification (this mainly affects ODF 1.2 documents). If an inconsistency is found, the document is treated as a broken one, and OpenOffice.org offers to repair the document.
- Proprietary File Support
- Password protected Microsoft Office XML files (supported document types: MS Word 2007 documents (*.docx, *.docm); MS Word 2007 templates (*.dotx, *.dotm); MS Excel 2007 documents (*.xlsx, *.xlsm); MS Excel 2007 binary documents (*.xlsb); MS Excel 2007 templates (*.xltx, *.xltm); MS Powerpoint 2007 documents (*.pptx, *.pptm); MS Powerpoint 2007 templates (*.potx, *.potm)).
- OLE objects, form controls and pivot tables can now be read from MS Excel 2007 documents (*.xlsx, *.xlsb).
-Encryption support within the Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP filter allows password protected Microsoft Word documents to be saved (using the Microsoft Office standard RC4 algorithm).
-Filters for AportisDoc and PocketWord now support type detection based on DocType. As a result, files in these formats can be loaded without explicitly selecting the document type in the file picker.
-When writing string data to SYLK files, embedded double quotes are no longer escaped by doubling; semicolons are now escaped by doubling. This improves compatibility with files created by other applications
- Support for Postscript based Opentype font
-There are many high quality commercial and free OpenType fonts that are based on Postscript outlines. They are now supported for formatting, printing, PDF-export and display.
OpenOffice 3.2.0 Feature: http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.2/
Download OpenOffice 3.2.0: http://download.openoffice.org/
Ubuntu Global Jam – 26 March – 28 March 2010
What is the Global Jam?
The Ubuntu Global Jam is an online and in person event that takes place all across the world. People get together with the interest of making Ubuntu better, while having a good time socializing with other people near you who have the same interest and passion about Ubuntu as you do.
What can your LoCo do?
The Ubuntu Global Jam has many different events that for users to participate in, just pick what you and your members like, and make it happen. You can pick from one or more of the following events:
Bug Jam – During a bug jam users would work on finding, triaging and fixing bugs.
Testing Jam – Lucid is due out the end of April and we need help testing it out prior to its release.
Upgrade Jam – Upgrade systems that are currently running older versions of Ubuntu and report your experience.
Documentation Jam – Write documentation about using Ubuntu, or joining the Ubuntu community, or work on making the existing documentation better.
Translations Jam – Help to make Ubuntu available to everyone. Help translate Ubuntu into your language.
Packaging Jam – Help out with improving packages in Ubuntu.
Other – If your team has some other aspect of helping out the Ubuntu Community, feel free to participate in that for the Global Jam.
You can find out more information about the different types of Jams on the Ubuntu Global Jams wiki page [1].
How do we run a Jam?
If you have never run a Global Jam event before, or if you have, but would like some fresh ideas, we have three training sessions scheduled between now and the Global Jam event. The training sessions will be held by JorgeCastro and will be held in #ubuntu-locoteams on freenode. The training sessions will take place on:
17 February 2010 at 18:00 UTC
26 February 2010 at 2100 UTC
10 March 2010 at 2100 UTC
All three training sessions will contain tips, tricks, pointers and advice on how to run a Jam. You can also find out more information at the Running An Event page [2] on the Ubuntu Wiki.
What is needed to run a Jam?
In order to effectively run a Jam, each event will need a place to meet that has a decent internet connection, as well as some computers, and an area that users can work in. Suggested places are Universities, schools, and neighborhood centers.
Don’t forget after you find a place to run your Jam and have decided what your LoCo wants to do during the Jam, you need to get the word out about your Jam! Blog about it, post it on Twitter and Identi.ca, place it on the Ubuntu Global Jam Events page [2], send emails to your LoCo’s mailing lists, and anything else that you can think of. The more people that participate, the more fun that you will have, and the more help that can be provided to improve Ubuntu.
Need more help?
Read about what other LoCo’s have done at their Global Jam events for more thoughts and ideas [3] and if you are still in need of more help, or have questions that aren’t covered anywhere, feel free to contact myself via email or on IRC, or attend one of the training sessions listed above.
[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Jams
[3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam/Events
[4] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam/Stories
OpenBravo Menu
Reviewing OpenBravo menu to be able customized it your company needs.
- General Setup
This menu tree system allow you to create your company setup a.k.a client, Username, changing Roles and creating your company Department.
- Master Data Management
This menu tree system allow to configure and create your customer data as well as setting up your vendor/supplier, Product/Services, including the Price list.
- Procurement Management
This menu tree system allow you to create requisition for the different department going to requisition to order.
- Warehouse Management
This menu tree system allow to to input your Materials or you can use this system to do the inventory system.
- Production Management
- Sales Management
This menu tree system allow to do Quotation for your customer , Sales Order and Print the Charge Invoice. It also allow you to generated a sales report using this menu.
- Financial Management
The Finanacial Menu tree is more on Accounting like the accounting receivable, Chart of accounts, and more.
Initial Configuration of OpenBravo
It’s been 3 days reviewing openbravo flow including it’s function. If you are new to openbravo you will be having a hard time configuring it out which will suite to your company needs. I list some two(2) important things that you have to keep in mind to be able to setup openbravo correctly.
Understanding Roles on OpenBravo
Roles are a way of grouping users together according to what parts of the system they are allowed to work with.You could set up a Role for use by the sales organisation that allowed access only to the Sales Management module and relevant reports. Whenever a new member of the sales team joined the organisation you could then allocated that role to them without having to configure each new user individually.
A user can have more than one Role, but each user can only log in under one role at any one time. For example, if a user has a Sales role and a Purchasing role, they could not log in under both roles at the same time. When you log into Openbravo ERP for the first time, the systems administrator role is already set up to enable you to configure the system.
You can change user by clicking on the top left user icon.
Setting up a client A.K.A. Company
The first stage in setting up basic data is to create a client. The Initial Client Setup process helps you complete all the steps in the correct order. When you set up a client you must specify which accounting schema the system will use. In this step you will need an accounting file depends on your country.
- Download the accounting file for your country and save it to a location on the computer where Openbravo ERP is installed.
- Log into Openbravo ERP under the System Administrator role.
- From the menu, select General Setup > Client > Initial Client Setup. The Initial Client Setup window appears.
- In the Client field, type your client name. This is usually the name of your company.
- In the Organization field, type the name of one of your company’s organizations, for example “MyCompany Paris” or “MyCompany Sales”. You can add other organizations later.
- From the Currency menu, select your company’s local currency.
- In the Client Username specify a user name for the Client Admin account.
- In the Organization Username field specify a user name for the Organization Admin account.
- From the Country drop-down list, select the country where the client is located.
- In the City field type the city where the client is located.
- In the Accounting Dimensions section, click Browse…. The File Upload box appears.
- In the File Upload box, navigate to the accounts file you downloaded in step 1.
- Click OK to close the File Upload box and return to Openbravo ERP.
- When you are happy with the information you have entered, click OK to create the client.
- When the process is complete a confirmation message appears, listing the database tables that have been created.
- Select the Information tab.
- If you plan to use the Warehouse module, clear the Allow Negative Stock checkbox. If you plan to use the Warehouse module, select Allow Negative Stock.
- Click Save.
