We already have some UI guidelines for the project that could be
extended to include these things. Adrian put quite a bit of work into
that and there are documents in the admin space on docs.ofbiz.org.
Creating a new standard... hmmmm... I think here at OFBiz we're more
into "de-facto" standards driven by what exists in the project. We're
really not setup to be a "standards body" or anything like it.
-David
On Nov 15, 2008, at 1:30 PM, BJ Freeman wrote:
Actually it was something I was suggesting, in starting. :)
as you can see by your search not much focus is done on this, but I
have
found that it is what most programming efforts miss.
David E Jones sent the following on 11/15/2008 9:57 AM:
This sounds interesting. What is the name of this standard? I tried
searching for ["Open Business UI"] (ie with quotes) on google and it
found no results, and without quotes an OFBiz resource was the first
result.
Do you have a URL or something?
-David
On Nov 14, 2008, at 12:21 PM, BJ Freeman wrote:
My favorite is Open Business UI standard.
Not from a programming point of view but from a business use.
1) lowering Key strokes
2) lowering Learning Curve.
3) error processing (bullet proofing User Entry)
David E Jones sent the following on 11/13/2008 7:03 PM:
NOTE: This is part of a more general effort to use some
requirements and
designs to guide what we do in OFBiz. I'll be sending out more
messages
along these lines.
In the new "OFBiz Requirements and Designs" space I have added a
page
with information about open standards used in OFBiz, or that we
could/should use in OFBiz. This is an initial pass at this and will
likely need a lot of reorganization and maintenance over time, but
already has some information that I hope will be useful for people
interested in pursuing implementation of open standards, or use of
implementations of open standards. Here is the page:
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBREQDES/Open+Standards+for+OFBiz
There are a few ways these might be useful:
1. for those interested in supporting open standards and want to
implement them
2. for those who want to contribute to OFBiz but aren't sure what
would
be good to implement
3. if you have an integration or standardized reporting need, why
not do
it based on an open standard like UBL, OAGIS, or XBRL? in this
way you
(or your client) will have a better thought out file format, and
one
that may already have some existing code to support it, or others
in the
community you can collaborate with to build it
If anyone has any questions, or any other standards you'd like to
see
represented there, please do write!
-David
