BrightSide is getting new updates to stable modules. As a well-structured platform, changes spread among all parts, improving the whole. Wizard-like forms, welcome panels, summaries.

The goal, making things easy for final users, while keeping the scalability. Most of the improvements were include as self-contained plugged components.

Welcome panel

Source code browsable at Full report.

BrightSide is now running on top of ZK new version, ZK 6.0.1. Code upgrade went smoothly, as if previous issues were all solved, an effect of the ZK project activity. Some improvements shine by themselves:

• Speed, new version runs faster.
• Control over UI, components layout is close to perfection, while composers handle the hard part. 

While the purchase system grows in the ERP module, Financials documents are stressed to its maximum. I stop by to clear my mind and, amid words, better understand the whole.

The way resource and product movements get reflected on the enterprise accounting system, is quite special in the BrightSide Financials way. Stores are attached to departments and services through contracts. Information about cost centers and business lines, go down the line, to Financials registry. Even more, a relation is saved along using the RelatedPaths API. The next Financials release will feature having lines locked by external sources, in this case: the purchasing system.

ZK is a Java Framework for building web applications, with over 1,500,000 downloads worldwide. BrightSide uses ZK as primary user front-end.

We are proud to announce that now, BrightSide is a Case Study on ZK web site.

Everything started as a Resource Planning feature. Human resources could be operators from external providers, owning aptitudes as normal human resources do. Financials came in help providing contract interventions and yes, you guess it, one of them was the operator intervention. But, why stop it there? As if in a feverish interventionism, we added titulars, usufructuaries, legal representatives and others. So, did we stop then? No!