On Jul 10, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:
We just rolled out the Work Effort component where I work, and users
are complaining about the UI - it's confusing and a little too
"techie." I'd like to start working on making it more user-friendly.
Don't freak out - I'm not going to make any major changes, I'll just
clean up the labels a little and maybe re-arrange a few things.
If anyone has any suggestions, or if your users have any
suggestions, please share them with me.
I guess the main thing to keep in mind is that the priorities for the
"base applications" (in the components in the ofbiz/applications
directory) are:
1. easy to customize and reuse development artifacts
2. easy to use
In other words, decisions to make it easier to use are secondary to
keeping/making it easy to customize.
The solution for the ease of use is to create something that is
organized around roles/actors or business processes, instead of around
the data model as the base applications are (so that they will be
easier to customize and reuse).
To do this you might want to consider creating a specialpurpose
application, like Hans did with the project stuff based on WorkEffort,
and then reuse as much as possible from the WorkEffort app and
component but feel free to change whatever you want. You can bootstrap
this by doing something similar to the "ecomclone" webapp so it is
exactly like the workeffort webapp, and then override screens, menus,
forms, etc, etc as needed.
-David
