the alpha360 erp blog

We just made available v1.0 of the alpha360 core erp [WINDEV and WEBDEV versions] to all our  commercial subscribers. Next week we are going to publish v1.0 of the Open Source version . We have decided to include both WINDEV and WEBDEV configurations in the WX Open Source version, so more developers can have the opportunity to see and appreciate (?) the product. Just note that the Open Source version will have LIMITED capabilities and the "terms of use" will not allow you to distribute code and sell it to your customers. With the Open Source version, you can only distribute and get paid for BINARIES (or compiled applications). At first, we had decided to publish WINDEV and WEBDEV DEMOs of the product, for anyone who wanted to evaluate the commercial versions. But because of various "hacking scenarios" we had second thoughts ... So as soon as we post the Open Source version, download it, install it and take a closer look. If you are interested,...

In the  third week of August 2017  we are going to release v1.0 of the  Open Source  WX alpha360 erp. The Open Source version includes: 1. The full alpha360 WX analysis [identical to the WX commercial version] 2. Limited set of BPs (Business Processes) 3. Limited set of UI (Screens, Pages, UI code)  It now includes - by popular demand - both a WINDEV and a WEBDEV configuration . So you can "test" BOTH the WINDEV and WEBDEV applications and if you need the complete functionality you can order the WX commercial version. Note that we have extended our introductory offer, until the end of August 2017, so you can have more time to make your decision. We have also published a roadmap for the project on our website  http://www.alpha360.biz Just don't forget to refresh your web browser so you can see the new info. the alpha360 team

In the second week of August 2017 we are going to release v1.0 of the commercial WX alpha360 erp. All commercial subscribers will receive an email with the download instructions and information on how to send us bug reports and ask for support. Just note that developers who have ordered before 31.8.2017 are entitled to free upgrades (both to major and minor versions) and free lifetime support. We have also published a roadmap for the project on our website  http://www.alpha360.biz Just don't forget to refresh your web browser so you can see the new info. the alpha360 team

Product:  WX alpha360 erp [commercial] - v0.95 Description: A single WX project (v21) that includes Windows and WEB configurations. Download Instructions:  go to www.alpha360.biz, click on COMMUNITY, LOGIN to your account and select WINDEV PRO or WEBDEV PRO from the side menu. What's new: 1. Completed the implementation of the ideas behind the UI for the WEBDEV app/configuration. These "ideas" can be seen in the following Pages/Procedures: a. Page_Main -> Home page of the application - uses iFrames. b. PageB_SalesOrders, PageB_SalesShipments, PageB_Sales, PageB_Parties, PageB_Customers, PageB_Accounts, PageB_Products etc. -> Page Browses c. PageF_Party, PageF_Product, PageF_Sales etc. -> Page Forms d. PageB_BusinessUnits -> a combined Browse and Form Page for simple dimension tables. 2. Changed the zTranslate table. The windows version automatically modifies previous HFSQL Classic data for this version - otherwise just de...

Product:  WX alpha360 erp [commercial] - v0.9 Description: A single WX project (v21) that includes Windows and WEB configurations. Download Instructions:  go to www.alpha360.biz, click on COMMUNITY, LOGIN to your account and select WINDEV PRO or WEBDEV PRO from the side menu. What's new: 1. A single WX project, now includes both the WINDEV and WEBDEV applications. These applications (or configurations) share the Analysis, the Business Processes, the Queries and the Reports.  2. New documentation site is now live - go to  www.alpha360.biz for the link. 3. Updated and enhanced the UI for the WINDEV and the WEBDEV configurations. 4. Deleted ALL WIF.* windows/procedures from the WINDEV configuration - they are not need anymore with the new UI implementation. 5. Pages have now LESS css and we stopped using and downloading google fonts. 5. Recreated ALL windows and pages in the configurations. They are now "more identical" for devel...

We have just released version 0.8 of the alpha360 ERPs - WINDEV PRO version. If you haven't received the email with the announcement of the PRO version, please look at your spam folder or send us an email. Download instructions:  go to www.alpha360.biz, click on COMMUNITY, LOGIN to your account and select WINDEV PRO from the side menu. What's included in this version: A. GL Accounting * Data Models   Complete * Business Processes  Complete B. Inventory  * Data Models   Complete (added consignment trading) * Business Processes  PERIODIC vs PERPETUAL inventory systems. The Data Models support both PERIODIC and PERPETUAL inventory systems. The current BPs support only PERIODIC inventory systems Product Costing Complete -> AVG Yearly Complete -> AVG by Inventory Periods FIFO and LIFO will be available in v1.0 Product Families (colour/size etc), Serials and PartNumbers will be available in v1.0 Produc...

We have just released version 0.7 of the alpha360 ERPs - WINDEV PRO and Open Source versions. If you haven't received the email with the announcement of the PRO version, please look at your spam folder or send us an email. Download instructions: go to www.alpha360.biz, click on COMMUNITY, LOGIN to your account and select WINDEV PRO or Open Source from the side menu. What's included in this version: Parties ( Customers, Suppliers and Employees), Products and Inventory, GL Accounting, Purchases and Expenses (with posting to GL), A/P Payments (with posting to GL), Sales (only wholesales in this version). The Open Source version does not include all the functionality of the PRO version. Here is a complete list of planned features:  http://www.alpha360.biz/editions.html Changes and Fixes: 1. The WD version used from the beginning a Browser/Form UI "paradigm". Due to a couple of "bugs" in our UI code and WD21, we had to have 2 different forms for eve...

we just posted a video for the new version of the alpha360 ERP - v0.5 [WD] You can find it here: https://youtu.be/SelINykOXAs It includes: Parties (Customers, Suppliers and Employees) Products and Services Inventory Cost Evaluation (Mean, Average, Unique, FIFO/LIFO, Last Purchase and Standard Cost) Accounting - General Ledger Business Objects Inventory and Accounting Periods Expenses Purchases (Quotes, Orders, Shipments, Invoices) and Workflows

We have just released version 0.5 of the alpha360 ERP - WINDEV PRO version. If you haven't received the email with the download link, please look at your spam folder or send us an email. This is the commercial version - NOT the Open Source version. We will announce availabilty of the Open Source version in a couple of days. What's in this version:   Parties - Customers, Suppliers and Employees. Inventory - Products, Product Families [supporting Colors and Sizes] and Product Packaging, Inventory Transactions, Period and Fiscal Year SUM tables, FIFO and LIFO Cost tables, Average Costs per period tables, Lot Number and Serial Number tables. Accounting – Accounts, Journals, Batches and Period and Fiscal Year SUM tables. Purchases and Expenses   Quotes, Orders, Shipments, Invoices, Return Shipments, Credit Invoices etc. [can handle items (products) and expenses in the same document]. Support for transforming say Orders to Shipments [the UI /BPs/datamodels, can handle...

WINDEV Project https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzia_XVkIbc8WjdfeE9KX2hNMk0/view?usp=sharing alpha360erp DEMO exe https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzia_XVkIbc8YnZNMFFDTTdXVTg/view?usp=sharing *** WEB IMPLEMENTATION *** We have sent download links to all the WEB subcsribers. If you haven't received the links, send us an email and we will resent it. This version has fixes for all the reported bugs _and_ we have also added ALL the CRM entities in the analysis. Full CODE functionality for the CRM module will be posted, after we complete the Inventory, Purchases, Expenses and and Sales modules. **** Delete your previous Data **** Don't forget to delete your previous data and uninstall the previous DEMO exe. **** New Documentation **** We where going to introduce a NEW website for the alpha360 erp documentation this week. Because of the earthquakes in our area, it will have to wait ... We will do an announcement as soon as we are ready. **** Next Version **** The next versio...

Open the WEBDEV alpha360 Project and select Project Code Search for alpha360.inii and change it to alpha360.ini Note the double ii in .inii This is the .ini file that controls the actual database connection for the WEBDEV implementation. If you are NOT using the .ini file, the app defaults to a CLASSIC HFSQL database in the data folder c:\a360_DATA\v04 and you will never see the problem. If you don't wan't to bother with the .ini file you can change the default data folder in the code.  Sorry for any trouble we may have caused ...    the alpha360 team     

Please read the instructions, before installing v0.4 You need to be very careful, if you want to install the WEBDEV DEMO on your developers machine. *** Download Links *** WINDEV PROJECT WINDEV DEMO EXE WEBDEV PROJECT and WEBDEV DEMO EXE The download links have been emailed to the commercial subscribers *** Installing the WINDEV and WEBDEV alpha360erp Projects *** 1. DELETE your previous alpha360erp WINDEV v0.3 Project 2. Uninstall v0.3 of the EXE from your computer [if you have installed it] 3. Delete your previous v0.3 LOCAL Data [probably in c:\a360_DATA\v03] 4. Delete your previous v0.3 HFSQL Database [probably alpha360erp]  and then 5. Download and Restore the v0.4 WINDEV Project - use a unique directory 6. Download and Restore the v0.4 WEBDEV Project - use a unique directory The first time you open the WEBDEV Project, you will be asked for the analysis Just point to and select the analysis of the WINDEV v0.4 project *** Running the WINDEV and WEBDEV alpha360erp DEMO appl...

1. Problems with some fields not showing correctly in screen analysis BELOW 1024 * 800. This affects ONLY the FLAT UI and is fixed in the next version [v0.4] 2. You cannot add currencies in v0.3 - they will be added with Accounting [v0.4] 3. Special Currency formating for INDIA 99,99,99,999.99 will be available in the next version [v0.4] Note the mix of 2 and 3 digits in the above formating. 4. Selecting a record in a treeview does not always fire up an event. A workaround will be available in v0.4 There is also a post in our blog about HOW to do editing in SIMPLE BROWSES (usually dimensions) the alpha360.biz team

Since many developers do not have v21 of WINDEV, we have created a setup for a DEMO v0.3 installation . Anybody can now t est the application . If you don't have a v21 HFSQL C/S installed on your machine or your internal network, select the Classic HFSQL [Demo] company _and_ if you are going to test the document area, create a c:\temp directory on your PC. We didn't want to automatically create any director ies for this DEMO, for obvious security reasons ... Select the A dminist rator area from the left menu and add your basic dimension records. Since these are Simple Browses and do NOT have independent forms to add data, they work directly from the tables. To Add a record Click [+], to Edit a record Click [the pencil] so the tables will allow editing etc. After that you can go on and Add/Edit/Delete Products and Parties ... Don ' t forget to change the UI for the application and see how things work . Click the [ User picture] in the Bottom Left area of...

The alpha360 erp User Interface is based on the Browse/Form paradigm. Browses Every Business Object[BO] is presented in a Browse Window - this window is always an internal window, has one or more tables and starts with IWB. Example : IWB_Parties is the Browse Window for the BO <Party>. Every Browse Window "belongs" to one of the menu entries and is handled automatically by Dynamic Tab Controls.  You just need to do a simple call : 360_DynamicInterface(e_DynamicWindow), where e_DynamicWindow is the ONLY structure we use to pass variables to windows [see below]. Forms For each Browse there are 2 Form Windows , used for the actual data entry, IWF_* and WIF_* windows. IWF_* are internal windows and WIF_* are simple windows.   Example : IWF_Party and WIF_Party are used for the BO <Party>. IWF_* is an internal window and WIF_* is a simple window. They share the same fields and 99% of the code and it depends on the user’s choice of the UI, which one is actuall...

Controlling user access in alpha360 erp User access in alpha360 erp is implemented with the BO <UserRole> - all users belong to a user Role. For every functional area [CRM, Accounting, Sales etc] in the erp, a user Role can have one of the following access rights: None [cannot access the functional area] Simple User [has access to the functional area] Full User [has access to the functional area _and_ has access to the Dimensions supporting the functional area] Head of ... [FULL ACCESS + all permissions needed from users are directed to these users] The above access is “verified” through System Processes, tied to the MENU system. But this is not the end of the Story …. For every user Role, you can DENY ACCESS to various actions on BO or TABLES. This is done through the entries in the table uRole_Deny [available in commercial editions only]. And if you are CRAZY about security – and using HFSQL C/S - you can implement, on ...