Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Similarities between Last 2 matches of IPL6 !

'Fortune favors the Brave"...proves IPL - Team batting second fought great and won!

I am referring to the matches of IPL6 played on 21st April(KXIP Vs. PWI) and 22nd April(CSK Vs. RR)

I found some similarities:
- Last 2 matches were fought hard by team batting 2nd for same target 186 !
- Last over bowled by batting heroes.(Watson, Wright)...See 'W' too!
- Score of the team batting 1st : 20 Overs 185/4 !
- Highest Score by an Australian (1st Innings) ! (Finch, Watson)
- Left hander is the MoM ! ( Miller Hussy)
- Final Score 186 in 19.5 Overs ! (Winning team)
- Match won at Homeground ! (Chennai,Mohali)
- Captains belong to the same Country ! (Gilly - Finch,  RD-MSD)
- The winning Captain is the wicketkeeper ! (Gilly- MSD)

- Won by Kings !

Thanks.
Jay Vora.

Sunday, April 21, 2013

MultiCompany Configuration in OpenERP !

OpenERP Version 7 supports multi-company environment. We have created 3 companies to explain the feature. Go to Settings> Companies> Companies. See the image below.





Here, ‘Serpent Consulting Services’ is set as a parent company, ‘Sub Company 1’ and ‘Sub Company 2’ are set as children companies. You may see the structure of the companies as > follows:



Now, we have to configure chart of accounts for each company. To do that, go to Settings> Configuration> Invoicing. You have to select the company and you have to select Chart of Account Template. You have to click on ‘Install more chart template’ to see the list of country specific chart of account. You may select from the list. See the following image:


After configuring  chart of accounts for each company, you have to configure warehouse locations. For that, go to Warehouse> Configuration> Locations. If you are not able to see the option Locations, go to Settings> Configuration> Warehouse. In ‘Location and Warehouse’ there is a checkbox ‘Manage multiple locations and warehouses’. Check it and click on apply. See the image below.


After that, go to Warehouse> Configuration> Locations. Configure locations for each companies. In the form view, there is a ‘Company’ field.  Enter the name of respective company when you create Locations. Refer the image below.


Now, for Warehouse configuration, go to Warehouse> Configuration> Warehouses. Create separate warehouses for separate companies. For each warehouse you have to define Location Input, Location Stock and Location Output. And for each warehouse you have to enter the name of respective company. Image below is the list view of the Warehouses.




After warehouse, you have to configure Shop. You will find shop at Sales> Configuration> Shop. Create shop for each company. Each shop is integrated with one warehouse. While creating a shop, select correct warehouse for corresponding company. In the following image you can see 3 shops in the list view.



Next is the configuration of the products. You may configure any product as a global product or as a product specific to a company. You will see products in Sales, Purchase and Warehouse. Go to Warehouse> Products> Products.


In the Product form view, there is a field ‘Company’ in the third tab ‘Inventory’.


To make a product global, keep the company field blank. ‘demo product’ is a global product. ‘demo SCS product’ is a product belonged to Serpent Consulting Services company. ‘demo sub product 1’ is belonged to Sub Company 1 and ‘demo sub product 2’ is belonged to Sub Product 2. Admin use can see all products.

Now, you can configure users for different companies. To configure user, go to Settings> Users> Users. Click on ‘Create’ to create a new user. In the form view, you can enter the details like User’s name, Login name, password etc. You will also see ‘Company’ field. Here, 4 users are created. One is Admin user, ‘serpentcs’ user belongs to ‘Serpent Consulting Services’ company, user ‘Sub user 1’ belongs to ‘Sub Company 1’ and user ‘Sub user 2’ belongs to ‘Sub Company 2’. Users can only be assigned to the companies specified in the list of ‘Allowed Companies’ (It can be found at user’s form second tab). Check the following image of user form view.



Multi-Company configuration of OpenERP is done now. You can also configure Partners separately for different companies when you multi-company environment.
Now, in multi-company, sharing of information is done such as the user can see the products configured for child company and the parent company. But the user cannot see the products configured for another child company. Suppose the user of Sub Company 1, ssu1, logs in, user can see the products of Sub Company 1 and Serpent Consulting Services. See the following image.

Similarly, when the user who belonged to Sub Company 2 logged in, the user can see the product configured for the child company Sub Company 2 and parent company Serpent Consulting Services. See the image below.

When the user of parent company Serpent Consulting Services logs in, the user can see products of Parent Company and the children companies.
Now, Login as user of Sub Company 1. Create a Quotation. When you select product to create order lines, you will see the list of products as below.

You may also configure child company as a parent company for a company. You will have 3 tier structure of Companies in single database.
Thanks.
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  5. Its official now : OpenERP 7.0 has been released!
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OpenERP Training in India : May 2013

Dear Aspirants,
We feel proud to announce that Serpent Consulting Services is organizing a Functional and Technical Training on OpenERP version 7 which is going to rock the floors of ERP Market. We have chosen to be the DJs.
Serpent Consulting Services successfully completed 14 Training sessions of OpenERP Technical and OpenERP Functional Trainings for the year 2012, and 6 Training Sessions in the year 2013. It is a tremendous achievement for any company. The satisfaction of attendees and feedback can be seen on our testimonials page. We deliver the best quality in very less fees, you can search around for any check.
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Serpent Consulting Services feels immense pleasure to announce back to back OpenERP Technical and Functional Trainings Respectively.
Special attention this time is discounted Training Fees :-
1. Single ( Individual Trainee) : 830 USD per trainee.
2. Group (between 5 to 9 Trainees) : 730 USD per trainee.
3. Corporate (10 to 15 Trainees) : 680 USD for per trainee.
OpenERP Functional Training May 2013 :-
This Training is dedicated to partners, integrators and end-users who want to get a better functional understanding of OpenERP. This training is meant to give an overview of the OpenERP features allowing for a general understanding of the software.
The 7th Training programme will be OpenERP Functional Training version 7 to be held on 13th May to 17th May 2013. Aspirants join us for Training, and come out as expert after the completion of Training.
Training Outlines can be found at :-
OpenERP Functional Training
OpenERP Technical Training May 2013 :-
The technical training is a unique opportunity for anyone, who wants to develop and customize his own modules! This Training is exclusive to partners, integrators and new developers who need to gain knowledge of the OpenERP development process and also for IT professionals eager to learn more about the OpenERP technical aspects.
The 7th Training programme will be OpenERP Technical Training version 7 to be held on 20th May to 24th May 2013. It brings occasion for you to attend in India. We come with various new additions to the normal Training.
Training Outlines can be found at :-
OpenERP Technical Training
Duration : -
Both Training will be 5 days training. 8 hours each day.
Facilities:
Daily drinks (tea / coffee) and Lunch
Training material
Both of these Trainings are very important who are new to OpenERP world. SerpentCS organizing OpenERP Technical and Functional Trainings every month with a good success ratio is resulting in confident smiles of attendees.
We will be pleased to welcome you at this training!
You can also Contact Us for Remote and Onsite Training, OpenERP Support, OpenERP Offshore,OpenERP Migration and Tryton Services.
Register your seat at contact@serpentcs.com.
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Attrs in OpenERP Explained!

As an OpenERP Developer, you might come across such a situation where you would like to make one or some fields readonly or mandatory or hide (‘invisible’ in OpenERP terminology) based on the values of other fields.

Well, then you are getting OpenERP Training just by reading this as the solutions here are explained by well versed OpenERP Trainers.

The solution here to your situation is ‘attrs’.

The attrs is an element in OpenERP which is responsible to alter the attributes of a field, not the value. The ‘attrs’ attribute can be used to dynamically change the attributes of view components based on the value of other fields. Buttons in OpenERP use states attribute for dynamic visibility, they too can be used with attrs. It can be used on field, page, group, button and notebook tags. Remember, there is no RPC call ever made because this is a pure client side attribute at view level.

The structure of ‘attrs‘ is a dictionary carrying the key as the client attribute and value as a set of domain(s),the keys could be:
  • readonly
  • invisible
  • required

Structure : attrs=”{‘attribute’:Domain which is if true, the element will wear the new property ‘attribute’}”

Syntax of attrs : 
attrs=
”{‘readonly’:[('value','=','balance')],  ‘invisible’: ['|',('service','in',['OpenERP Support','OpenERP Training']),(‘company’,'=’,'SerpentCS’)]}”
/>
Result : If the domains are satisfied, the field ‘value_amount’ will be readonly in 1st case and will be hidden on 2nd case.
attrs=”{‘required’: [('parent_id', '=', False)]}”
/>
You can use any domains here but make sure there will be no server side calls made. So better to be limited at view level.

Attrs is reflected at view level per record, and hence that can never be applied at List view/ Tree view level.

Hope this makes you hungry to learn more about the beauty of OpenObject Framework. You can take the advantages of learning this greatly with us by attending our trainings.

Thanks,
Serpent Consulting Services

Sunday, April 14, 2013

25 Quotes to Inspire You to Become a Better Leader - Dave Kerpen


I was going through linkedIn and found a great set of quotes. Here they are!

Great quotes inspire us to change, to grow, and to become our best selves. So, I'm sharing my favorite quotes here- those which inspired me enough. Here are my 25 favorite likeable leadership quotes. I hope they inspire you as much as they have inspired me:

Listening
1) "When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen." - Ernest Hemingway
2) "The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them." - Ralph Nichols

Storytelling
3) "Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today." -Robert McKee
4) "If you tell me, it’s an essay. If you show me, it’s a story." —Barbara Greene

Authenticity
5) "I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier." -Oprah Winfrey
6) "Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust." -Lance Secretan

Transparency
7) "As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth." -John Whittier
8) "There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life." -Joseph Berber Lightfoot


Team Playing
9) "Individuals play the game, but teams beat the odds." -SEAL Team Saying
10) "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." - Helen Keller

Responsiveness
11) "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." -Charles Swindoll
12) '"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." - Bill Gates

Adaptability
13) "When you're finished changing, you're finished." -Ben Franklin
14) "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." –Charles Darwin

Passion
15) "The only way to do great work is to love the work you do." -Steve Jobs
16) "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." -Albert Einstein


Surprise and Delight
17) "A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless." -Charles de Gaulle
18) “Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.” - Boris Pasternak

Simplicity
19) "Less isn't more; just enough is more." -Milton Glaser
20) “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” -Leonardo daVinci

Gratefulness
21) "I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." -Gilbert K Chesterton
22) "The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude." -Friedrich Nietzsche

Leadership
23) “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” — Peter F. Drucker
24) "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." —John Quincy Adams
25) "Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other." —John F. Kennedy

Courtesy : Dave Kerpen
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Sunday, April 7, 2013

પ્રિયેશ - સૌનો પ્રિય !

Suddenly saw a Tweet from him and words just jumped up saying 'wow', what a tweet it is!

He was none other than "Priyesh Solanki"! Got him in the chat immediately and started talking in some rhythm. In 7 minutes or so, there was poem on this priyam Priyesh!

Though this is not the best yet, is surely good to enjoy. Will edit the one soon.



Aa vyakti ek jhakkas 6,
joyful ne bindaas 6!

Dost e sauno khaas 6,
ena par saune vishwaas 6!

jagdo to kankaas 6,
haso to mithaas 6!

Eno favourit Chaminda Vaas 6,
pote cricketer bakwaas 6!

hairstyle eni class 6,
6okraio jeni aaspaas 6!

Maane potane dabangg ane singham,
Pan haji le complan and chyavanpraash 6!

Mammi pappa roj roj khakhdave,
taaro to bhai bau traas 6!

- Jay Vora

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

How to Boost Your Confidence at Work !

Dear Reader,

I know you are curious to improve your productivity, read following lines and achieve it! Having a great amount of confidence separates you from crowd, Just like a confident Tiger is everywhere saluted and respected.

You’re probably already aware that confidence plays an enormous role in success. When you exude confidence, you naturally attract others. People listen to you, follow you, and even buy products from you. Displaying confidence assures people that you know what you’re doing.

Even people with the highest levels of self-esteem feel unsure of themselves at times. Consider how difficult it is to be confident when you first start a new job and you don’t know exactly what you’re doing, you don’t feel fully comfortable with the routine, and you haven’t developed strong relationships with your co-workers yet. You probably don’t appear very confident.

There are a few simple tricks though that can help you boost your confidence at work, even when it’s down in the dumps. Whether you’re new to a job or just suffering a momentary fit of self-doubt, give these tips a try:

Fake it till you make it

Remember that confidence is all about perception. Acting confident is the first step to feeling confident. In the process of convincing others, you may actually convince yourself. Have you ever felt really down but you had to pretend like nothing was wrong? What happened?
Most of the time, you’ll find that demonstrating a positive attitude (whether or not you really feel it inside) will actually help lead you to feeling the same way. Project the confidence you want to feel and it will come to you. It’s all about your thought patterns. See yourself as a self-assured, outgoing, successful professional and eventually that is exactly what you will be.

Soak up knowledge and don’t be afraid to ask questions

No Question is ever silly, only the answers are. I believe confidence comes very naturally when you have a great deal of knowledge. Some of the best sales people are those who know their product inside and out. They feel secure with even the tiniest details. Soak up knowledge and don’t be afraid of showing others that you’re doing it. Don’t be shy about asking questions & you’ll usually find that others respect your inquisitiveness. It shows that you’re thinking, not just going through the motions.

Delete negative self talk

Nothing brings you down quite like an inner monologue that says “you’re not good enough”. Take a moment to listen to that voice and see if you’re guilty of negative self talk. When you’re faced with a challenge, do you hear yourself saying, “There’s no way you can do that”? When you make a mistake, do you hear yourself chide, “There you go again, you dummy”?
If so, you need to reprogram your brain. And lucky you;  you are human and can do it. It takes a lot of time and some dedicated, thoughtful activity, but the first step is to recognize what’s happening in your head. Go ahead and listen to the voices; take not of negativity and stop yourself. You and your brain are in this together and don’t let your inner critic run the show.

Avoid saying “I can’t”

Just saying these words makes you that much closer to failing. These words scream; “I don’t believe in myself! I see my limitations! I am afraid of failing!” Those are not the words of a confident person.
Confident people look a challenge in the eye and say; “I can.” Just saying “I can” makes you that much closer to success. These words scream; “I believe in my abilities! I am capable of achieving anything! I am not afraid!” Remember that failure is not a crime, but not trying is. Give yourself the benefit of the doubt. Again, mindset is half the battle. In the famous word of William Ward; “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.”

Look the part

This is a fundamental rule of confidence. When you dress for success, you feel much stronger, more powerful. Also, how you present yourself has a big impact on how people perceive you. When you feel confident about the image you are projecting, you automatically project that confidence with it. It’s not vain to take pride in your appearance; it’s just good sense.

Inspiration : Life Coaches