Hi,
Yep..Thats what I used. The questions I have ask about that very article...In essence why use the open port when Portforwarding pane is built in to SME 7. Does portwarding with * as the destination do the same thing as open port?
No, it doesn't.
You are correct though, that there is no need to use the "port opening"contrib, which has always been deprecated. The port will be open if you follow this part of the advice in the howto:
config set openvpn service status enabled access public UDPPort 1194
signal-event remoteaccess-update