[Web-erp-developers] Re: Web-ERP integration with other apps

[Daintree <p.d...@pa...>]

Hi Ciprian,

There is not SOAP interface built for import and export of data. One of the
developers Danie Brink is interested in adding some import/export
functionality - in more of a batch mode I think his intention is to allow
remote branches to upload transactions at other branches. It is not clear
how this will be done... I have some reservations as to how seperate sites
will retain full integrity, part of the beauty of the system is that only
one db is necessary accross branches and remote sites can access over the
net ..... The stumbling block is that bandwidth in South Africa is still
very expensive and full time connections to the internet are prohibitive.

I am currently working on EANCOM EDI orders. This will allow customers to
send flat file purchase orders that will be parsed and create a web-erp
sales order with no user input. A customer service person will be emailed
that the order has been created so it can be fulfilled.

EANCOM EDI invoices were added in version 2.8 - although these are only beta
until someone lets me have a go at implementing them live somewhere. These
EDI invoices, produce a flat file of the invoice in the UN/EDIFACT - in fact
the EANCOM subset format - with some flexibility about the fields that are
exported. Unfortunately, EDI is a little unweildy and is more a scheduled
batch process than real time exchange of data a la SOAP.

What sort of data would you be thinking of exchanging. Of course the data is
all retained in either a MySQL (and a Postgres database option is now
available).

In summary .... troublesome I would say. I would be prepared to go to some
trouble if there are serious functionality gains to be had from OsCommerce -
which I am not familar with. There are a number of people now wanting to add
some CRM functionality and I am not sure if this would be better to build or
patch on some well regarded third party software.

Phil

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ciprian Popovici" <sf...@us...>
To: <dai...@us...>
Cc: <sf...@us...>
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 9:57 PM
Subject: Web-ERP integration with other apps


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> Hello,
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> I would like to know if it's possible to integrate web-erp
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> with another application in any way. I would like to
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> integrate it with OsCommerce, but from the web-erp docs and
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> site as well as the functional demo it is not clear whether
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> any kind of import/export of data is possible. I found some
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> recent messages on the user mailing list that seem to hint
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> that such functionality is just now starting to be
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> considered for implementation in web-erp.
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> By "integration" I mean being able to move data both ways,
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> ideally with a real-time method such as SOAP. Exchanging
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> files in a common format would be the next best thing.
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> I've already done some major modifications to OsCommerce so
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> additional work to play nice with web-erp wouldn't be such a
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> hassle, however implementing this feature in web-erp in case
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> it doesn't have it already would be troublesome.
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> Thanks for your time.
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