For a while , we have been trying out different possibility for our Malaysia SME Clients to handle their business processes and we are definitely a supporter for Cloud OpenERP solutions but because of internet connections are not available for some clients, i have been toying idea of
ONLINE and OFFLINE for my apps , so i wrote a XMLRPC engine for Delphi which has
- CRUD features
- Return Dataset for Delphi while READ
- Return ID for CREATE
- it can UPDATE with a given ids and
- it has a field mapper for local fields map to openERP fields
- it can use the ir.model.fields as a field object during development which able to detect the field size , field type ,etc.
A simple proof of concept apps is as follow , please feel free to comments so that i can improve it , thanks.
PROOF OF CONCEPT : online/offline model for HR Leave application Apps
1.
Set up the Leave Type at
OpenERP.
2.
At the Instant-Payroll
interface, synchronize the Leave Type data from OpenERP.
3.
Set up the leave details at Instant-Payroll
(e.g. leave grouping). Allocate the number of leave days for each leave type.
- Leave the Leave Setup , do not have to
configure for the moment , as this is only a Proof Of Concept .
- And the Leave allocation is the place
where you can configure to actually effect the Employee's entitlement for ANNU
, ANNUAL leave only at this moment and for NONE category.
As my Proof Of
Concept employee is 0671 (openerp user is administrator) , with department
"NONE" and service year around 8 year 1 month , so it should be on
the 1st row and if you change the entitlement column to any day , it will then
sync back to openerp .
it will look for
OpenERP whether this record exists , it will either CREATE new or Edit Existing
but it will ALWAYS overwrite. (1 way from Payroll leave to OpenERP )
4.
Process to generate leave
entitlement for all the employee records.
(Currently the
“Process” is still pending, so temporarily need to manually update the Employee
Entitlement for each records. There is already an employee record with
entitlement updated, user code: 0761) , it will be a automatic process which
will generate all employee leave entitlement records. The record for Proof Of
Concept can only be generated from the Employee Leave entitle form , select
employee 0671 and then select leave code "ANNU" , it will generate
and calculate the leave entitle.
5.
Synchronize the leave
entitlement to OpenERP.
what it does is that , whatever we
generate from the payroll leave locally , it will be sync back to openERP.
6.
Execute the leave transactions
(apply leaves, approve/disapprove leaves) at OpenERP.
7.
Synchronize the leave result
from OpenERP to Instant-Payroll.
once we have
sync form OE the leave record , it will show in the entitlement screen.
.
So that is all and hope this can be useful to my Malaysia SME clients , so that they can opt for offline if they want or somehow , some clients are concerns for security , then they can keep an offline DB at their site as well !
And for the rest of the communities from OpenERP ,do drop me a notes or in the forum let me know your answers or comments.
Cheers !
