erpnext.com - On Open Day, all team members present what they did in the month out of their own initiative. What features did they make or what documentation they wrote, or test cases, or a new product, or a new marketing initiative. It could be anything that adds value to ERPNext. All the Open Day presentations are made public on the ERPNext blog. This also means Open Sourcing our management. So look forward to our presentations at the end of the month and follow us to understand how this experiment is working out for us.

1. open
day august 2012
erpnext.com anand doshi

2. what’s • supplier quotation
[released]
new
# new feature
• newsletter
[send newsletters to customer contacts, leads or
blog subscribers]
# new feature, unicode branch

3. fixes • check permissions in tree view
• save report filters in forms having multiple fields
with same name
# bug fix
• password reset
# unicode branch
• optimized patch to repost stock due to packing
list bug

4. in-house - users who are halfway into their erpnext trial
• auto-send reminder emails to
- paid users whose accounts are about to expire
[mails are also stored in communication and
tagged against serial nos.]
• auto-create lead on trial account setup
• blog - how erpnext uses erpnext

5. [ver. 3] headway • refactored - doc, controller, mapper, utils and
purchase request
what’s • complete purchase cycle
• versioning, audit trail
next • print formats - server side
• a better HR
• reports

6. some • Document is abehavior -of dict and dict]
[doc has dual
subclass
object
technical dictionary elements and object attributes
# coding is less verbose as python auto-segregates
details DocList is a subclass of list
•
[doclist has dual behavior - object and list]
# filtering a doclist is very intuitive
• DocListController parent class is the gatekeeper -
controls loading, validations, saving of a doclist
# better document integrity

7. didn’t
quite
get
that? Salman with bodyguards
Salman is now a bodyguard

8. thoughts store difference as json
• versions for masters, transactions
[doctype, name, modified, modified by, difference]
# effects: audit trail, knowledge base more wiki
like, allow on submit option deprecated, cancel
deprecated, auto-save after the first save, revert to
previous version
• print formats - server side
using jinja templates, can inherit / include other
print formats
# effects: predefined styling can be applied to any
print format, recurring invoices sent using selected
print format

9. little shifted to permissions, instead of doctype
• allow email, allow print, allow copy should be
things
• default print format option to be shifted to a
checkbox in the print format form
• address / contact to be a child table of party, lead,
employee
• refactor db schema generation
• email thread as a component of contact
mark / create contact based on raised by against
support ticket

10. wish-list • visual representation using d3.js)data with
interactivity (possibly
of report
• in developer mode, edit docfields from within the
form (possibly a form builder)
• wiki pages / knowledge base - tree style display
• print format editor with draggable elements
• scheduled reports