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


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