Replace popup lookups by layer lookups
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Key: OFBIZ-3442
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-3442
Project: OFBiz
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: ALL COMPONENTS
Reporter: Jacques Le Roux
Priority: Minor
Following Sascha Rodekamp's work on layer lookups OFBIZ-3374 and improvements
OFBIZ-3430, I propose now to replace old the popup lookups by layered
(Ajaxified) lookups.
For that please find a patch attached. In this patch I followed a simple S/R
tactic:
* I replaced all occurences of LookupDecorator by LookupLayerPopupDecorator in
screens
* I replaced all occurences of <lookup by <lookup presentation="layer"
position="center"
It's as simple as this. For the moment I decided to use as default
position="center" because it's was the easiest (sure that any lookups will be
out of the screen). I think we will refine this by removing position="center"
and use the default (position="normal") which does not move the layer from the
point it's called and will be more aesthetic.
I did not test anything in OFBIz OOTB for the moment, but I already use layered
lookups in a custom application without any issues so far.
The only drawback I found for the moment is when a lookup is called from a
lookup. If you are aware of such cases please chime in.
Of course everybody is encouraged to test this improvement as much as possible.
I really think it's a very cool feature for users, and they will appreciate.
There are still some ideas like that (see the link Sasca referred to in
OFBIZ-3374), and we will try to implement them.
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