ERP5 Handbook/Business Templates

Usage

Installation techniques

See http://wiki.erp5.org/HowToInstallBusinessTemplates.

Difference between Install and Upgrade

If you have installed erp5_forge business template, and are a bleeding-edge type, you can from time to time update your system to the latest svn revision - see http://wiki.erp5.org/HowToUseERP5Subversion#update_from_svn.

Usually, the recommended way would be to first update the source code (by running svn_update.sh script), then update all bt5 starting from the more basic ones and on to the application-level, so it'd go more or less like:

erp5_core
erp5_xhtml_style
erp5_mysql_innodb_catalog
erp5_pdm
erp5_trade
...

Creation

See http://wiki.erp5.org/HowToCreateBusinessTemplates

Generic Business Templates

erp5_rss_style

Capable of rendering ERP5 data in a format recognizable by RSS readers, very configurable. Can be used in hundreds of ways, for example:

sale manager can use a news ticker application to monitor new sale orders entered by his team
while checking your email you can immediately see what's new in document management system
someone working on a project can use his news reader to see new task being started or completed

See wiki HowToUseRSSStyle for usage and configuration information.

erp5_ical_style

Capable of rendering ERP5 data in an iCalendar format recognized by many calendaring programs (KOrganizer, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes, Novell GroupWise and many others). Very configurable, can be used for scheduling, user notification, presentation of project time schedule, and many other ways.

See wiki HowToUseICalStyle for usage and configuration information.