I agree, this will let the Example application to be a demonstration for both the menu widget based AppBar and the dynamic portal pages.
-Bruno 2009/2/4 Jacopo Cappellato <jacopo.cappell...@hotwaxmedia.com> > Bruno, Hans, > > thanks for the info and insight... well I see two different interesting > items in this: > > a) enhancing the Menu Widget to support dynamically retrieved menu items > (as you propose) > b) having the Example application document the most common best practices > > What I am suggesting is to: > > 1) move the example of a dynamic menu of the Example application to a > specific screen (out of the decorator) > 2) take some time to study and design the proper extensions for the menu > widget and then convert the ftl file > > The reason for #1 is that, even if having an example of a dynamic menu is > great, it is not still the most common way of rendering menus in OFBiz, and > this could cause some confusion to new developers that are exploring the > Example application. > > Does it make sense? > > Jacopo > > > > On Feb 4, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Hans Bakker wrote: > > Hi Jacopo. >> >> I completely agree with you and perhaps you can help here? The thing we >> can do in ftl and not in a menu is the processing of a list of buttons. >> >> If there could be a iterate function in a menu (similar to a <#list in >> ftl) to list the buttons from a list, then sure we can use a menu >> again..... >> >> Regards, >> Hans >> >> >> On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 12:36 +0100, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> due to recent work on the Portal now the Example application is >>> rendering the top menu using an ftl template and not as a Menu widget >>> definition (as it was previously, if I am not wrong). >>> Is there a reason for the switch (sorry but I still don't know much >>> about the Portal framework)? >>> I think the Example application should demonstrate all our best >>> practices, and using menu widget is one of them. >>> >>> Jacopo >>> >> >> -- >> http://www.antwebsystems.com : >> Quality OFBiz support for competitive rates.... >> >> >
