On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:26:56 -0700, Adrian Crum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Jones wrote: >> What is it that you are trying to implement Jacques? In other words what > sort of requirement do you have or feature are you trying to support? >> >> Or are you just trying to clean up the Content Manager? There is a lot > of stuff in the Content Manager that either doesn't work, or that is for > an unclear purpose, and personally I'd like to see a redesign of most of > it and eliminate a lot of what is there, possibly including the ListLayout > and related pages... > > Has anyone ever considered integrating OFBiz with an Open Source CMS? If > there was a way to do it, we could eliminate a good sized chunk of code > and the work required to maintain it.
The problem is that most CMS systems are really pretty limited in scope and capabilities, and are often meant for pretty specific purposes. A lot of people use them and work around these limitations with CMS supplementation, like like a lot of companies work around ERP systems and end up writing a lot of ERP augmentation stuff. There are a number of nice content and document management pieces that have been built on the OFBiz content stuff, with the CompDoc stuff that is in the Content Manager being just a hint at some of the possibilities (like Survey integrations, document combining, revision control, approvals, and so on). If we did go with an external content management system, even for simple things like ProductContent, a lot more effort would go into the indirect integration and getting them to work together. IMO what we really need is a decent UI for managing content, and if even if we started out by borrowing designs from one of the existing open source ones for web content management it would be great. Most of the efforts so far have been, well, half-assed and never finished. -David
