Openbravo connector

FrePPLe provides an integration with Openbravo, a leading open source agile ERP system.

The connector provides the following functionality:

  • Two-way integration:
    • Synchronizes the frePPLe database with items, locations, bill of materials, routings, resources, sales orders, customers, inventory, production orders, purchase orders from Openbravo.
    • Uploads new production requirements, purchase requisitions and expected delivery date of sales orders from frePPLe to Openbravo.
  • Uses the standard XML web service to access Openbravo.
  • For optimal performance the connector allows net-change download. Only the objects that have been created or changed in Openbravo within a certain time frame are extracted.
  • You can still maintain additional data in the frePPLe user interface. I.e. Openbravo doesn’t need to be the only source of data for your model.
  • Easy to customize.
  • The connector has been developed with Openbravo 3.0.

Configuring the connector

  • Edit the configuration file djangosettings.py
    The file is found under /etc/frepple (linux) or <install folder>bincustom (Windows).
    The following settings need updating:
    • INSTALLED_APPS: Add or uncomment freppledb.openbravo in the list of applications.
    • NAMESIZE: Increase the value from the default value to at least 120. The long names are required because the connector often concatenates the name of 2 Openbravo entities to generate a unique name of an object in frePPLe. Names in Openbravo can be up to 60 characters.
    • CATEGORYSIZE: Increase the value to at least 32. This is required since Openbravo uses UUIDs of 32 characters.
  • Regenerate the frePPLe database schema
    The edits impact the size of a lot of database fields.
    You can create the database tables with the following command. Erase any frePPLe tables that might already exist in your database before running the command.
    frepplectl syncdb
    
  • Configure the following parameters
    In the frePPLe user interface, the menu item “admin/parameters” opens a data table to edit these.
    • openbravo.host: host where the Openbravo web service is running
    • openbravo.user: Openbravo user used to for the connection
    • openbravo.password: Password for the connection

Importing data from Openbravo to frePPLe

You can run the import interface in 2 ways:

  • Interactively from the frePPLe user interface.
    The execute screen has a specific section where you can launch the import connector.
    You can specify the number of days of recent changes you want to extract from Openbravo.
Import from openbravo
  • From the command line script.
    The script is especially handy when you want to run the interface automatically.
    Issue one of the commands below.
    frepplectl openbravo_import
    frepplectl openbravo_import --delta=7
    

Exporting data from frePPLe to Openbravo

You can run the connector in 2 ways:

  • Interactively from the frePPLe user interface.
    The execute screen has a specific section where you can launch the export connector.
Export to openbravo
  • From the command line.
    Issue the command below. The script is especially handy when you want to run the interface automatically.
    frepplectl openbravo_export
    

Mapping details

The connector doesn’t cover all possible configurations of Openbravo and frePPLe. The connector is very likely to require some customization to fit the particular setup of the ERP and the planning requirements in frePPLe.

Download mapping documentation as pdf

openbravo mapping details