You watched the introductory video and the customer success stories, you overviewed the product features, the solutions and the services around, you tried the demos… and you liked it! What is the next step? What else can Openbravo do for you?
Openbravo Wiki is the documentation repository around Openbravo ERP: hundreds of articles covering topics such as the installation, the localization and the development of this product. Don’t get lost among this vast number of free resources: these are the key articles that you can not miss.
- The Functional Documentation will help you to better understand the functional footprint of Openbravo ERP: Procurement, Manufacturing and Sales flows, Financial concepts and Platform related topics such as Modularity or Alerts are some of the topics covered.
- The Openbravo ERP demo is nice, but you want to have the absolute control over Openbravo ERP installed into your local machine. The Installation Guide details the steps to install Openbravo ERP by yourself, depending on your expertise: Virtual Appliance and Ubuntu installation for beginners and Custom installation for experts (including the installation of the Openbravo ERP environment stack made of the Sun JDK, Apache Ant, Oracle or PostgreSQL databases and Apache Tomcat).
- Once you installed Openbravo ERP, you would like to know how to use it. The User Manual will tell you the meaning of every single window, tab and field within Openbravo ERP.
- Now that you have an understanding of your Openbravo ERP installation from an end-user perspective, let’s configure it following the steps of the Configuration Manual: model your enterprise, setup accounting, taxes, roles and users, import your legacy data, etc…
- Your Openbravo ERP installation is now nicely configured and running smoothly, but you want to get more: let’s develop it! The Developer’s Guide, presented some time ago by Martin Taal, will provide you with theory and examples to take advantage of the Openbravo open source platform. No more excuses not to develop Openbravo ERP extensions and localizations! 🙂
- Doubts and questions? Resolve them contacting other Openbravo ERP users in the Openbravo Communication Channels: free mailing lists, forums and IRC channels open 24/7 to the Openbravo Community.
- Now that you are an Openbravo ERP expert, would you like to contribute to this open source project and help growing its Community? Take a look at the Contributor’s Guide to discover how you can help other Openbravo ERP users.
Seven must read articles have been presented but there are many others: find them using the built in Mediawiki search engine, the Google Custom search engine or external tools such as Ubiquity, presented by Iván Perdomo some days back.
The topic that you were looking for is incomplete, out of date or does not even exist? Openbravo ERP documentation is evolving and growing daily: you are welcome to provide your feedback, opinions and requests for improvement.
Enjoy Openbravo ERP documentation on-line or download it all with ScrapBook as explained by Galder Romo: c’mon, it’s free! 🙂
Rafa Roda Palacios 
Rafa, what an excellent post!! It really put things into perspective and sequence for a newcomer to Openbravo.
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Thanks Rok 🙂 I hope it helps.
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Very good, you should add this to the wiki as a sticky at the top IMHO!!
Michael
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I subscribe the previous comment. Top wiki page now!
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Thanks all for the comments 🙂
I sticked a forum thread talking about the blog post in the Openbravo ERP documentation forum [1] and I also mentioned it in the Openbravo Wiki Getting Started article [2].
Ragrds.
[1] http://forge.openbravo.com/plugins/espforum/browse.php?group_id=100&forumid=650009
[2] http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Getting_started_with_Openbravo#Introduction
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I was curious if you ever thought of changing the structure of your site?
Its very well written; I love what youve got to say.
But maybe you could a little more in the way of content so people could connect with it better.
Youve got an awful lot of text for only having one or two pictures.
Maybe you could space it out better?
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Thank you very much for your nice comments and feedback Ishi 🙂
For the good and for the bad, my current startup, Ubiquads [1], and our first product, Yarr TV [2], are absorbing all of my time and I can not devote to my blog all the time that it should…
I hope that, in any case, you keep finding useful information on it 🙂 Which topics interest you the most?
Best regards!
[1] http://www.ubiquads.com
[2] http://www.yarr.tv
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Hello Rafa, thanks for your walk through. I would like to know about the Core System Design of Open Bravo, not technical the functional one such as what are the core models and how they are interlinked and what features they contain. I have been searching this on the wiki for few days but still unable. Could you please help me with it.
thanks
Shihab
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Hi Shihab!
Openbravo Core has evolved since I wrote this post and you can now find updated documentation at:
* Openbravo Developer’s Guide http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Category:Developers_Guide
* Openbravo Core Architecture http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Openbravo_3_Architecture
* Some Openbravo development how-tos http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Category:HowTo
I hope this helps 🙂
Best regards!
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Hello Rafa, actually i was not looking for this. I was looking for the functional documentation i.e what has been implemented In the System function means what are the modules and what can user do, a software requirement specification documentation not the technical architecture.
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OK:
* This is the Quick Start Guide http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Quick_Guide
* And this is the detailed and extensive User Guide http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/User_Guide
Enjoy! 🙂
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