Hi Bruno:
I'd be happy to share everything I've done so far:
I wrote my own UI that unifies all my business applications such as
this. (I have a really hard time going back and forth between all
the many OFBiz webapps.)
My UI coding standards are not of the OFBiz "way". I don't use any
of the widgets except for the Screen Widget. All of my web pages are
based on Freemarker templates. I've removed lots of the CSS "DIVs"
in favor of an easier to follow markup. I also have my own external
CSS files.
My Java Service coding standards are not of the OFBiz "way". I don't
use simple-methods (for reasons I've already stated). I use Java.
(Since I just discovered I can use Groovy to write Services, I'm
going to start experimenting with that...but so far, I use Java
exclusively) so I am assuming that most of my work would be throw
away as far as the project is concerned.
I wrote a number of Services to:
Allow website visitor's to subscribe to my mailing lists without
having to register.
Add/remove list subscribers given only an email address.
For testing: add/remove ContactLists(and all the related Entities).
Add/Remove a list of contactMech "infoStrings" to a ContactList.
Initiate a mailing list event. (I did this one because I was
getting too much log file output with all the HTML validity checks
that one of the updated sendMail SECAs does. So, I had to disable
the SECA and do my own sendMail/commEvent updates.)
I don't think any of this work is a worth sharing. There isn't anything
here that even comes close to the project's standards or "way" of doing
things.
However, if you or anyone else out there would be interested in more
specifics, I'll put together a more detailed document, similar to the
one I wrote for adding RSS support. [You can find that on the
MyOFBiz.com website http://www.myofbiz.com/control/cms01?article=10000 .
There is also a more detailed article w/Entity information etc. included
as part of the e-book subscriber's members only site.]
If there is a demand for something like that, then I will consider
writing it.
Regards,
Ruth
Bruno Busco wrote:
Thank you All for your suggestions.
Ruth,
what you describes is the closest to what I had in mind to build.
Is there any way to share the code?
In any case I think I will submit the code I will write for this since it
seems an enough general feature.
-Bruno
2010/3/18 Ruth Hoffman <rhoff...@aesolves.com>
Hi Bruno:
Here's what I do:
I wrote my own UI and use the existing contact list services to create and
manage multiple mailing lists (these are contact lists) including adding and
removing users. In addition I wrote some of my own services to handle the
initiation of a mailing to the contact list. Once you have the contact
list(s) set up, it's pretty easy to associate a mailing with them. I'm
getting ready to create a few services to mail reports to me (and certain
list recipients) automatically. I don't think that would be much different
than your requirement to mail to a contact list based on some triggering
event.
Regards,
Ruth
Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Hi Bruno,
Like you I think that OOTB a contact list seems appropriate
ESME could be used also, maybe in conjunction with contact list
http://blog.esme.us/integration-with-apache-ofbiz/
There is also the mechanism Hand used to show a message in the header. But
I'm not sure it can be used for brodcasting?
You could also use Classifications to group people
Jacques
From: "Bruno Busco" <bruno.bu...@gmail.com>
Hi,
I am going to implement a notification mechanism and I would like to konw
what is the best way to do it in OFBiz.
What I need is a way to select for each one of several "events" that can
happen in the system, a set of users that will receive a notification of
the
event.
An event could be an error condition detected in a service or simply a
service execution itself.
I would like to have a screen where the admin could add users to the
groups
so that they will be notified of the events.
How to implement this in OFBiz?
Is it already a feature like this?
I was thinking to use the contact list for this.
There is already a way to send a communication to a contact list so the
event should create a communication to the related contact list and the
admin could include in the contact list all users he want to notify of
that
particular event.
If this is the right solution I would like to have the contact list moved
from the marketing component to the framework.
Does this make sense ?
Thank you,
Bruno
