Base app configurations

Application Config

Access: Application Config → Apps management → select the app and click on "Configure."

Save

To ensure the changes that had been made at the application configuration level are taken into account, it is essential to save any modification and then refresh the browser.

Activate a Feature in the Application Config

In the Application Config, activate a feature. Then click on the Save icon.

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Some features, once activated, are saved automatically. However, this is not a rule, and it is better to save every change made.

Refresh the browser.

Save modifications on a file

When you create a new record or make modifications, remember to save by clicking on the floppy disk icon.

Base Configuration, Configuration Tab

Access: Application Config → Apps Management → Base, configure.

Here, you will find many useful basic configurations. Activate or deactivate these configurations according to your needs.

Enable trading name management

Activating this feature allows you to enable a finer subdivision of the company in the application. This feature is useful when entering data. For example, you can specify the relevant business unit when creating a quote, an invoice, etc.

Activate sending mail

Activating this feature allows you to send emails when the SMTP configuration has been set up.

Manage mail accounts by user

Instead of using a shared SMTP account for sending emails on the application, it is possible to configure a connection to email boxes for each user profile.

Manage mail accounts by company

Instead of using a shared SMTP account for sending emails on the application, it is possible to configure connections to email boxes for each company.

Default Units

Define the units used by the system by default. For example, determine the duration of a workday. The default values can be changed later on a particular file.

1.1. Access: Application Config → Apps Management → Base, configure. On the Base configuration page, activate the features according to your needs. 1) Enable trading name management; 2) Activate sending mail; 3) Manage mail accounts by user; 4) Manage mail accounts by company.

Manage Multi Banks

By activating this feature, you can use several bank accounts for the same company. This option will allow you to select a bank account that you can use in certain features (e.g., Payment Entry, Bank Order etc).

Messaging, Calendar, Documents, Team Management

Activating these features results in the appearance of the menu entries Messenger, Calendar, Team Work, and Documents.

Messaging: this feature activates the Messenger, which is an internal messaging system with an inbox. You will receive all internal ERP notifications in this messaging system.

Calendar: manage events with the Calendar.

Documents: this option activates e-document management. The Documents application menu appears on the left side among other menus and is used to import and export files, create documents and folders, and manage their organization.

Teamwork: allows you to manage teams and team tasks.

1.1. 1) Manage Multi Banks ; 2) Messaging ; 3) Calendar ; 4) Documents.

Number of digits for Tax Rate, Unit Prices, and Quantities

These three fields allow you to configure the precision after the decimal point.

Default Partner Localization

When selecting a country in this field, it will select a default language that will be used for generating documents.

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Currently the language feature is available for French and English languages only.

1.2. 1) Default Partner Localization ; 2) Number of digits for Tax Rate; 3) Number of digits for Unit Prices; 4) Number of Digits for Quantities.

Manage subsidiaries on Partners

This option allows to associate a parent company partner from a partner record. A list is also displayed in this record containing the associated subsidiary companies (Partners with the consulted record as the parent company).

Check existing sequence on Generation

This feature allows to verify that the automatically generated sequence does not already exist in the application. If it does, an error message will be displayed, asking to correct the sequence configuration.

Draft Prefix for Sequences

It is possible to configure the default prefix associated with the sequences of records in draft status. The default value is # (e.g., for an invoice: #102).

Activate Barcode Generation for products

This feature activates the barcode management on a product file.

Generate a Sequence for Partners

Generate a Sequence for Partners: this field allows assigning a sequence number to each created partner as configured in the sequence table (Document concerned = 'Partner') via a specifically configured sequence (General Data / Sequences).

Manage Product Variants

Once this option is activated, you can create product models in the product referential files (Application Config → Repository → Referential). From a model, you can create different variants of a product, each one possessing certain attributes (color, size, etc.).

Template for changed password

With this feature, you can use an email template for password changes.

Number of Tasks Generated at most at once

Corresponds to the maximum threshold of recurring tasks at generation.

Timeout for processes (seconds)

The maximum waiting time that a process that has been launched by a user takes before continuing in the background.

Enable Multi-Company Management

Enable multi-company management on the application. When this option is disabled, it is only possible to manage one company in the program.

Store streets

When activated, this feature will copy street numbers and names directly on the address form, instead of being dynamic (on the internet).

Shared address

This option allows you to define whether an address can be shared or not.

Enable tax numbers

This option allows you to enter tax numbers from the Company record.

Company-specific product fields

Define which Product fields will be overridden by the company.

Default mail message template for notifications

Configurate the default email template. It will be used once an email alert is sent.

Manage related CC & BCC emails

This option allows managing CC & BCC during email sending.

Email template list for notifications

Depending on the app, you will be able to use a default email template when an email notification is sent.

Base Configuration, Interfaces Tab

Click on the Interface tab to access the external web services configurations.

Mapping

Enter in this field the link to the Mapping service provider to use for all map functions. There are two choices: Google or Open Street Map.

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Google Maps may charge a fee for its services.

QAS Address Validation

When this feature is active, configure the QAS web service that is used to format and validate addresses.

You can verify the connection to this service by clicking the button: “Test connection to QAS web service”.

Web Services: Currency WS URL

This feature helps you to connect to a web service to retrieve exchange rates. By default, the proposed exchange rate is ECB (European Central Bank). It is also possible to connect to the Fixer web service (https://fixer.io/).

Geonames

Here, configure the folder where are located the dumps for the address base and the ZIP file (the fields "GeoNames Dump URL" and "GeoNames Zip URL").

1.1. 1) Mapping; 2) QAS Address Validation; 3) Currency Ws URL; 4) Geonames.

Base Configuration, Currency Conversion Tab

In this tab, you can manually create inter-currency exchange rates. The Update & Historize Conversion Rate button is used to perform an automatic update from the web service configured in the Currency WS URL field (Currency Exchange Rates URL, Interfaces tab). You can also archive the rates by clicking on this button.

1.1. Currency Conversion tab allows creating inter-currency exchange rates manually. The Update & Historize Conversion Rate button is used to perform an automatic update and archive the rates.

Base Configuration, Global Tracking Configuration Tab

Track object fields with it. Actions performed on this field are traced and viewable within a global tracking configurations lines table. These can be actions of creation, modification, deletion, export, or reading. In this example, we trace every action performed on the fields: simple full name, full name, and first name of the Partner object with a partner category that corresponds to x.

1.1. Global tracking allows certain fields of the application to maintain a traceability of actions performed in creation, deletion, update, export, and reading with the possibility of defining tracking conditions.

Base Configuration, Printing Tab

Regroup Products on Prints

This option activates the possibility of grouping lines by products during the generation of print documents (sales quotes, purchase orders, stock movements, invoices).

Templates

Templates allow associating a BIRT template for printing certain documents (product catalog, directories).

BIRT Printing Settings

BIRT printing settings allow associating a template (BIRT) with a data model.

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The BIRT templates are not available on versions 8.1 and higher. You can still however configure BIRT templates via Application Config → BIRT printings → BIRT templates.

1.1. 1) Regroup Products in Printing tab: this option activates the possibility of grouping lines by products in the generation of print documents (sales quotes, purchase orders, stock movements, invoices).

Base Configuration, Signature Tab

The Certificate field adds a PFX digital certificate in the application that will be used to sign deposited documents. One way to use it in Axelor Open Suite is to provide compelling value to expense report receipts, deposited on the expense report lines.

1.1. This certificate field adds a PFX digital certificate in the application that will sign the deposited documents. One way to use it in Axelor is to provide compelling value to expense report receipts, deposited on the expense report lines.

Base Configuration, Pricing Tab

In this tab, click on “Enable pricing scale” to activate the pricing scales. The Pricing menu entry will appear in the Sales module. Other settings will be available in the Application Config menu, in the Sales module configurations (for example, there is a feauture “Enable calculation of the entire quotation's prices”).

Pricing in AOS serves to create calculation rules to evaluate a field (an integer, a decimal, a date, etc.) of an object (an order line, an order, a quote, a stock movement, etc.), based on parameters (called classification rule).

The pricing scales also apply when the product is added as an additional object.

1.1. Click on “Enable pricing scale” to activate the scales. The Pricing menu entry will appear in the Sales module. Other settings will be available in the Application Config menu, in the Sales app configurations (for example, “Enable calculation of the entire quotation's prices”).