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XML-RPC can be used with Python, Java, Perl, PHP, C, C++, Ruby, Microsoft’s .NET and many other programming languages. Implementations are widely available for platforms such as Unix, Linux, Windows and the Macintosh. You can download the xml-rpc library from apache, and test the following code to do the login, create, write read, search, I will test and put the correct syntax for the rest of the service like wizard workflow and report. currently i have tested this library for the common and object service only. Login to OpenERP using Java XML-RPC Code for Login :  http://bpaste.net/show/tG1FZrl18FdL2GRUQmAj/ Code for Create Record :  http://bpaste.net/show/pJ6SCtfunRqoFmdmUOEf/

Tooltip The tooltip is a common graphical user interface element. It is used in conjunction with a cursor, usually a mouse pointer. The user hovers the cursor over an item, without clicking it, and a tooltip may appear — a small "hover box" with information about the item being hovered over. The term tooltip originally came from older Microsoft applications (like Microsoft Word 95), which had a Toolbar where moving the mouse over the buttons (the Toolbar icons) displayed these Tooltips, a short description of the function of the tool in the Toolbar. More recently, these Tooltips are used everywhere, not only on Toolbars. OpenERP have done many improvements in the usability, tooltip is one of them, you will be getting surprise but there are many small changes have made for the tooltips. Lets see one by one.  Tooltip on Label Do mouse hover when you see the "?" before any label, Form example below in the screen detailed description for the Sales Team field on ...

The Free Software Movement of India (FSMI), a coalition of 14 organisations in different states, has a mission to create awareness among the computer users for alternative models of computing- using free software. “There are a lot of free softwares available on internet which can be downloaded for use. Use of these alternative computing is not only cost affective, but also virus protective’, said the general secretary, FSMI, Kiran Chandra. He along with some other IT professionals of IT were addressing the students in a series of workshops held at different engineering colleges including National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), Degree Engineering College (DEC) of SMIT Group and Khallikote Autonomous College here recently. Source: http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/fsmi-promotes-usefree-software/410551/

Look and Feel is one of the important factor in the software to attract people. OpenERP is one of the best management software now looking forward to the most important issue that is faced by majority softwares now a days and that is Usability of softwares. In the version 5.0 there ware many changes made compared to the version 4.2 and version 4.0. Partner Form - Tiny ERP 4.2 A normal Tabbed form Version 5.0 came up with the biggest changes in the view that was implementation of the search view where we have the primary search fields select="1" and extended search fields by select="2". Search view with Primary fields Second major change was in the form view, which was the six columns view on the top of the form instead of the normal 4.0's tabbed page form. Partner Form - OpenERP 5.0 Visible six column top fields on all tabs  Now finally in the upcoming OpenERP Version 6.0 we all are exiting about the new look. Usability is  one of the impor...

OpenERP is doing lots of Improvement from the usability point of view. There is a small but good improvement in the reports that is allows to print the currency symbol on the report. Currency configuration with new field Symbol All accounting reports are improved, now all reports are displaying the currency symbol with the amount. It helps lot when the reports are showing the multi-currency transactions. Look at the partner ledger reports which is heaving the multiple currency transaction. Partner ledger report Are you waned to add the Indian currency symbol ₹ to OpenERP ? Click here

OpenObject is foundation of the OpenERP Project, OpenObject is written in python and it is having the rich GTK / KDE / Web clients. It has well defined set of API's to design, create, deploy and access the application rapidly, i.e (predefined orm, set of fields and their visual mappings), that's why it is also called as a RAD Framework. The simplicity of the API's make it a powerful framework. We can divide the OpenObject into the following components. ORM - Object Relational Mapping Business Process - workflow Services - manages the Data, Workflow, Report, and Wizard services  Report Engine GTK / WEB and KDE Clients ORM - Object Relational Mapping OpenObject orm is tightly coupled with the PostgreSQL database. The set of orm api's are only defined for the PostgreSQL, may be this is the disadvantage of the Framework, but I am considering it as an advantage that use the powerful open source database, There is also a branch available for the framework tha...