0006445: Project XL - umbrella - Openbravo Issue Tracking System

Openbravo Issue Tracking System - Openbravo ERP

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0006445

Openbravo ERP

B. User interface

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2008-12-10 13:17

2011-05-02 14:59

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rgoris

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rgoris

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normal

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major

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have not tried

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fixed

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OBNetwork customer

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0006445: Project XL - umbrella

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The project XL "eXperience Lift" aims to revamp the user interface and total user experience of Openbravo ERP.

For this project we will use the term consumability as the focus of our efforts to dramatically improve customer’s acceptance of our products.
Consumability involves having functionality that can be used effectively
Highly consumable products enable customers to achieve :

- fast time to value
- get their solutions up and running quickly on our software
- deal simply and effectively with product maintenance throughout the product lifecycle
- Consumability looks beyond usability of a product in common usage when it is up and running but wants to cover the different phases in the product life cycle:
- Pre sales evaluation
- Installation
- Integration
- Configuration
- Up & running usage
- Upgrade
- Maintenance
- Deinstallation

Project XL should focus on those phases that have been identified as important for our and our customer's business. We should use our customer and product satisfaction data for this (see earlier in this document).
Ideas and focus areas that have come up:

- Effective data entry (see earlier)
- Master detail, think Yahoo Mail
- In grid edit
- More natural search, split indexed search and SQL based
- Combined searches
- Saved searches
- Portal style
- Modules, related to main object
- Guidance, help, e-learning from a module on tasks, processes
- Guidance on field and form level
- Integration, open APIs
- Googlemaps, customer location
- Chat
- CRM
- Google Calendar
- Plug ins ins, e.g. Excel: “save-as OB Expense”
- Provide “Smart Linked Items”, which allow users to drill around the most useful functional links rather than just the data model relationships (example: from sales order to related invoices rather than from sales orders to sales order lines to invoice lines to invoices).
- Enable index based searches from Openbravo on Openbravo data as well as any other data source (company intranet, document management system, etc.) in order to make Openbravo the central cockpit of corporate searches.
- Sticky notes on transactions
- Comments and tags that can be added anywhere
- Work management for ERP transactions
- Integration with Collaboration tools
- Visual redesign overhaul
- Navigation
- Access
- Task based support, suggestions and notifications such as “Related Actions” from each screen that guide users through their most frequent tasks (example: create invoice from the sales order window)
- Home page, overview, dashboards, feeds
- Mobile ERP
- Expensess
- Approvals
- Warehouse
- Camera
- Messaging
- Help
- Synchronized marketing efforts

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depends on	feature request	0005428		closed	rgoris	User interface should not reload so often and should behave as a true Ajax application
depends on	feature request	0005337		acknowledged	rgoris	When creating new records, some options should be disabled
depends on	feature request	0005256		new	Triage Platform Base	Show how many lines are available
depends on	feature request	0005249		acknowledged	rgoris	Add links to invoice numbers and the likes
depends on	feature request	0004816		closed	rgoris	Save and go to child/parent tab
depends on	feature request	0005055		closed	rgoris	A light interface for mobile devices
depends on	feature request	0004467		closed	rgoris	Replace pop-ups by Ajax boxes (dialogs)
depends on	feature request	0003313		acknowledged	rgoris	Favorites menu
depends on	feature request	0003377		closed	rgoris	Usability improvements for windows (Grid, Edit, New)
depends on	feature request	0004134		closed	rgoris	Ability to add notes to documents and transactions
depends on	feature request	0000494		acknowledged	rgoris	Bookmarking transactions
depends on	feature request	0000381		closed	rgoris	Contextual Menus
depends on	feature request	0006072		closed	rgoris	User experience redesign
depends on	feature request	0004433		closed	rgoris	Replace tables by DIVs where it is beneficial
depends on	feature request	0000421	pi	acknowledged	dbaz	Make interface components HTML standard
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