Openbravo 2.40 on OpenSolaris Toolkit released

Openbravo 2.40 on OpenSolaris Toolkit is now available which will help users get better user experience with Openbravo 2.40 on OpenSolaris.

The project home is on an Openbravo Forge project.

The toolkit consist of the following:

• SMF Manifest to ease start and stop of Openbravo with dependencies
• Scripts to take ZFS Snapshot backups and restore of entire Openbravo, database filesystems.

A Toolkit Guide is also available on the Wiki Section of the project home.

Translations @ Openbravo

Hi everyone!

Translating a piece of software is a key part of the process to make an application more friendly to non English speakers. The best software cannot reach all its potential audience if it is not translated to other languages than English. Localization is key to reach new users and markets in ERP, and in Openbravo we have always devoted lots of attention to it.

Today we are introducing a new tool for translators, http://translations.openbravo.com. It shows the translation statistics in real-time for the languages that are available for Openbravo ERP.

To build these translations, we download the translations files from the source code control system automatically and create these statistics. Everything is recalculated every 15 minutes. If you are translating Openbravo ERP, we encourage you to keep updating the Subversion repository so you will be able to keep track of your progress and see the amount of work that has to be done to reach the 100% mark.

Words and Strings

To get a better picture of what is missing, the statistics not only provide the strings that are left to translate, but also the words that those strings contain.

Usually translators prefer to count by words since it's a fine-grained quantity over strings. If there are only 3 strings, but each one has ~1000 words it's not the same work as 100 strings with only one or two words.

For this reason, each table line has a double progress bar and statistics, one for strings and another for words. This can be seen in the top-most field of the line.

Files

Each language and version have their own detailed page showing the statistics per file (Italian from trunk for example). If there's a reference language (or more concrete a corresponding directory in the C directory structure in Subversion) it will update the language file if the translated file is older than the reference file.

With this all statistics are up to date and show the exact numbers of strings and words that are missing.

Warnings

Maybe you have already noticed the and icons.

The first one means that the language has some files with the same icon, in which case means that the xml file has some errors. Most of them are related to errors occurring while parsing the xml file; just opening the file in a web browser usually says what the error is (for example the AD_ELEMENT_TRL_ro_RO.xml).

The second one means that the language or file has more than 80% of the user interface translated (such as the Bulgarian translation). This is a good indicator as to whether enough has been translated for use. With 80% of the user interface translated, it's most likely that you will find just a few strings not translated.

Missing and extra files

As time passes it's most likely that new files for translating appear and others are removed because they are no longer used. This is also reflected in the statistics.

If there's a file in the reference language, but not in the translated language, this file will be displayed in the files table with a white background (see Catalan for example).

The extra files (the ones that are in the directory structure but are not in the reference language) are grouped in a list at the bottom of the files table (see the Finnish for an example).

Next steps?

Every piece of software can be improved and we want to improve it to match our translator´s needs. Any suggestion, concern and comment is more than welcome at our Translations & Localizations forum at Sourceforge.

Any feature request or issue can be logged at our issue tracker in the Translations stats project.

Categories

Our wiki is improving as days goes by.

If some days ago I talked about the new hierarchies system today is for categories.

Some months ago Jordi made a proposition a new category layout for our wiki and now I'm really excited to come here and say that it's already done!

What means for users? Basically that it will be a lot easier to browse inside the categories, Openbravo POS is a full citizen of our wiki with its owns categories and that this is the ground for keeping up with all new articles that are created daily.

The full category hierarchy can be seen in the wiki administration article (or interactively in the category tree article). We are satisfied with the new category system, but don't hesitate to send recommendations, there's always space for improvements.

Thanks for reading!

Hierarchies

Hi all!

A new feature has landed in Openbravo's wiki: Hierarchic content.

With this new feature one should be able to navigate wiki articles like if it was a single article but split with several articles.

A nice index will be shown in the articles top-right:


Also at the end of the articles there will be a couple of links to the next and previous articles.

As always, the Help article has been updated to show how to use it.

You can already see it in action in the Modularity Videos.