[WebERP-developers] Intention to roll up new version and future plans

[webERP D. <web...@li...>]

Hi Team,

I am wondering about a new version, it is 5 months since 4.10.1 was released
now. I was holding off pending the new installer work that Exson was doing, but
this can wait if it is still some way off. We have some good new functionality
in the trunk, with:

1. The bank transaction importer and analysis - currently only works with MT940
format bank feeds, but could easily be adapted to work with others (let me know
off list if you need another format - keen to work with businesses as usual).
2. The fixed asset maintenance module - that allows a planned maintenance
schedule to be set up for fixed assets and email reminders sent to engineers and
managers as necessary.
3. The back end functionality that is required for webERP to work with webSHOP -
new configuration parameters and webSHOP sales categories, currencies etc.
4. Exson's smtp mail options
5. Sales person now recorded against the debtor transaction
6. Quite a few important bug fixes too

Not sure if there any reason not to just do this now as we are stable to the
best of my knowledge.

I am keen to kick off with the transition to jQuery - I have only done 1 script
so far the AccountGroups.php and have had a couple of off-list discussions about
it and think we should move to jQuery date-picking and tables too - but being
mindful of the bandwidth implications for the really big result sets in
searches. I would like to get going on this across all scripts - but after I
have webSHOP stable with freight API links etc. it would be great if there were
a team of us working on this as is it a big task and looking for volunteers to
follow the work done on AccountGroups.php and roll it out across all scripts.

The aim is to have:
1. Messages against each error to show users how to correct
2. Trap errors before forms are submitted
3. Ensure all fields required are entered before the form is submitted
4. Prevent incorrect entry as it is attempted to be entered
5. More functional and attractive date picking
6. Table filtering and sorting capabilities especially on searches

These are major usability enhancements in my view and should go a long way to
resolve the most often criticised shortcoming of webERP. This functionality is
pretty much expected in modern web-applications and we have fallen a bit short
here previously due to the reluctance to get stuck into javascript and the
various incompatibilities that dogged it.

This "jQueryisation" should give the application a serious face-lift as well as
functional and usability improvements which are so important to first
impressions - where I think we have suffered in the past.

So, after this next release this is the direction I would like us to head. Hope
there are a few of you guys who can see this value of this vision and keen to
help me make it happen :-)

Phil

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