Re: [Web-erp-developers] wegs-erp

[Jake S. <ns...@us...>]

skaill wrote:

>Before doing extensive work you may want to check with Phil.  With the
>Multilanguage going on almost all of the files have some sort of changes
>being done to them.
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Of course

>Sounds like the two biggest challenges are:
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>1) Getting to a place of one common DBMS.  Personally, I would choose mysql
>because you get two benefits:  You can then offer postgres and mysql
>versions of your product and the two products would then be much better and
>easier to integrate. I guess you could move webERP onto postgres but it
>wouldn't be my first choice.
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OK, my preference is postgresql, but I agree with what you say above, 
and if we all work on it then getting it to work on both DBMS 
(mysql/postgresql) would not be much extra work but ensures both get a 
reasonable amount of testing

>2) Identifying all of the common database tables and seeing how they vary
>from one product to another.  If there are parts where it varies
>substantially then deciding whether to bring it to one common ground or have
>some duplication and providing interfaces between.  Sort of an automated
>referential integrity thing but this is probably not that wise.  I doubt the
>common tables will present that great a challenge in combining.
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This could be interesting and I wonder the best way to go about it. I'm 
not sure email would be the optimal method, perhaps IRC, but then there 
is the issue of time differences. I think it is mainly the 
contacts/address book and authentication tables that will have things in 
common.

The main issue that I can see is that the authentication in EGS is quite 
powerful. With a contact for example you can assign the follow access:

Restricted Read - can see contact details, people etc but no account data
Read only - as above but can see account data
Write Acceess- User can view all details and edit them

This access applies to both users and groups. In addition, for example 
if a user is allocated to a group with write access, and also on an 
individual basis as a user with restricted read, the database view joins 
across the tables and ensures that the highest access prevails, in this 
case the user is given write access since it is higher than restricted read.

I may be wrong but I don't believe this is the case with weberp so may 
need some additional coding in weberp.

>Also, it would be good to identify which operations they have in common to
>figure out the best way to resolve it so one does not negatively affect the
>other.
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>Just some thinking out loud...
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>One thing is for sure.  Combining both products would be a more powerful all
>round solution ;)  Combining teams makes all of us much more powerful as
>well.
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My thoughts exactly

Jake

>Steve
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Jake Stride" <ns...@us...>
>To: <web...@li...>
>Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 8:01 AM
>Subject: [Web-erp-developers] wegs-erp
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>>As Dick Stins mentioned in one of hs previous email :
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>>"The design of these issues should be loosely connected or we should
>>create one big project (wegs-erp?)."
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>>Is this something that people would be interested in?
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>>I for one have little knowledge of ERP, but from a coding and CRM/project
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>management side of things, I am fairly well versed and have enough knowledge
>of ERP to see how the two systems could work together to form a pretty
>comprehensive business tool.
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>>I am now in a position to start working on integrating EGS/weberp but
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>would like to know peoples views on the situation and the best way to
>proceed. For example the address book for EGS is a core component to the
>entire system and indeed the CRM functionality runs from it so perhaps the
>first issue i have is now to over come the integration of the two address
>books.
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>>Thanks
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>>Jake
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