April 2020 in iDempiere

April 2020 was an active month in the iDempiere project! There were many contributions from our supportive community. Here we highlight those contributions that were outstanding and at the end, we invite you to vote for the April 2020 hero of the month.

For a complete list and suggest contributions you can refer to this spreadsheet. There you can see the contributions of each month and suggest ones that we might have missed.

Content contributions:

• Diego Ruiz
  • Website content creation
  • Welcome Bot in Mattermost configuration
• Nasi Chassoulas
  • iDempiere introduction document creation (soon to be released)
  • Initiative to create the newbies forum – a very welcomed initiative.
• Vanessa Castro
  • Conference videos and social media management.

Core contributions:

• Diego Ruiz
  • Web Services not working with UUID
  • Run process via web services does not validate inactive parameters
  • Line with missing mandatory content disappears when save in detail tab
  • Duplicated FillMandatory message on process dialogs
  • Hard to find exceptions when using restrictive rights
• Hideaki Hagiwara
  • Wrong tooltip at Tab title in particular case
  • Process that run from web service can not roll back
• Hiep LeQuy
  • Implement the ability to track open DB connections (NPE)
  • When key columns has date column then save record make error ORA-01861
  • Help plugins dependent on idempiere.p2.parent has own groupId and version
• Martin Schönbeck
  • Importing products hangs on many products
  • Allow workflow to be suspended until after commit of actual transaction
  • Importing product doesn’t ignore inactive products
• Nicolas Micoud
  • Set GL Category automatically for GL Journal
  • Web Services : AD_User_OrgAccess table is not used on login
  • WTableDirEditor – missing public methods
  • Web Services : Query should use MRole.addAccessSQL with RO
• Orlando Curieles
  • OSX Mac Compatibility
  • Fill Testing Asset Data
• Ray Lee
  • Counter Document” doesn’t exclude deactivated document

Testing and reporting issues:

• Andrea Belloto
• Angel Lara
• Chuck Boecking
• Diego Ruiz
• Hideaki Hagiwara
• Hiep LeQuy
• Marco Longo
• Martin Schönbeck
• Michael Powacht
• Murilo Habermann
• Nicolas Micoud
• Norbert Bede
• Patric Massing

Forum and Mattermost support:

• Chris Mberi
• Chuck Boecking
• Deepak Pansheriya
• Diego Ruiz
• Florian Boj
• Hiep LeQuy
• Jesús Castillo
• Luis Amesty
• Marco Longo
• Martin Schönbeck
• Nasi Chassoulas
• Orlando Curieles
• Paolo Formaro
• Patric Massing
• Ricardo Santana
• Saúl Piña

Additionally, we would like to mention that in April we got two money donors: Hideaki and BlindMotion.

Carlos Ruiz and Heng Sin Low were not contestants for the Hero of the month contest due to the great disparity between their continuous contributions and the other community members. They are always the heroes of iDempiere. Among their contributions in this month are:

• Heng Sin Low
  • Session timeout shown sometimes when changing roles
  • Do not cache MSession that’s not thread safe
  • Align ServerPush implementation
  • Clean up org.adempiere.extend
  • Remove code for Media and Knowledge management
  • Remove usage of vflex/height + rows.
  • Platform Refresh for 7.1z
  • Peer review tickets from community
  • Forums support
  • Mattermost support
• Carlos Ruiz
  • Column names (Reserved, Ordered) in …
  • Approval Workflow Node does not validate inactive User
  • Columns that must not be copied
  • Disable C_Charge IsTaxIncluded and SameTax
  • Allow Mixed Invoice (Assets And Products) / drop local
  • Performance: Replace use of StringBuffer and String
  • Move Webstore out of core
  • Web Services Query : using User Org Access
  • Payment could not be committed due to wrong …
  • Error runnig Jasper file on Report
  • Peer review tickets from community
  • Marketing Committee meetings
  • Wiki maintenance
  • Devops (jenkins, wiki, test servers)
  • Forums support
  • Mattermost support

Do you think you should have been added to this list? Please tell us why on the marketing forums or Mattermost channel. Want to be included in the next “Month in iDempiere” post? Get involved with the project.