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Bruno Busco updated OFBIZ-2118:
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Attachment: vt_bluelight.zip
AppMenuDropDown.patch
Please find attached a patch and a Visual Theme that I have written to
implement what shown in the screenshots.
This is not intended to be commited (yet) but to share the idea and possibly
discuss on a better implementation.
Here is what I have done:
The ApplicationBar and TabBar rendering has been moved from the CommonDecorator
to the header.ftl (including the appbar.ftl)
I am not really happy with this because it takes things back from widgets to
FTL but I did this to have the bar rendering implemented in the Visual Theme
(through a specific header.ftl file)
Then, in order to render the ApplicationsMenu and the TabBarMenus menu widgets
in the appbar.ftl file (I did not find a menu-render command usable into .ftl)
I defined two wrapper screens (ApplicationMenuWrapper and TabBarMenuWrapper)
that render rispectively the menu they find in the
applicationMenuName/applicationMenuLocation and
tabBarMenuName/tabBarMenuLocation variables.
This is the way the ApplicationMenu has always been rendered and now I extended
this to the TabBar also.
The <include-menu> tabbar has been removed from the screen decorators and
replaced with the two tabBarMenuName/tabBarMenuLocation setting.
A minor update is to remove the word "Application" from the label. This makes
the breadcrumbs shorter and does not take away any information. IMO the user
should think to use a SINGLE application named OFBiz.
At the moment, the only application that has been updated to use this new Menu
system is the Catalog.
I am more than sure that we could have a simpler implementation with less
changes but this is what I have right now and I think it is much better to
share as it is in order to leverage on the community to spedd things up.
> Drop-down Applications Bar
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>
> Key: OFBIZ-2118
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2118
> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: ALL COMPONENTS
> Reporter: Bruno Busco
> Attachments: AppMenuDropDown.patch, screenshot1.jpg, screenshot2.jpg,
> screenshot3.jpg, screenshot4.jpg, screenshot5.jpg, vt_bluelight.zip
>
>
> Hi all,
> we have discussed several times about a new backoffice layout with drop-down
> menus to have less crowded screens.
> I am experimenting some solutions and I would like to show you what I came to
> in order to discuss about it.
> What you can see in the screenshots attached is based on an new visual-theme
> but also on several changes in the decorators.
> The idea is to have a breadcrumbs that is a drop-down menu also.
> The leftmost Item is always "Home" and when the user hover on it the
> applications menu is shown up.
> Then the user can select an application and the application name is shown in
> the second position of the breadcrumbs.
> If the user hovers on it the selected application menu is shown and the user
> can select an option that is shown in third position on breadcrumbs.
> The idea is to have the breadcrumbs to incorporate both the applications
> menu, the single application menu and the tab bars.
> At the right ent of the same line of the breadcrumbs (in the white background
> region) the actual screen name should be visible.
> I think that this way of navigating offers to the user a complete view of all
> applications as a whole.
> For the moment I only attach screenshots to this jira because I need to clean
> my code to make a presentable patch. I just want to hear if you think this is
> a model that we can go through. If the community agrres on this that I will
> spend more time to clean the code and submit a patch.
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