Hi Bruno,
this is not exactly the same topic but I would like to share some of my ideas
for enhancements for the macro screen widget.
Currently, in order to get an html and a csv version of a screen we have to
create the two screen definitions (with different decorators) and setup entries
in the controller like:
<view-map name="InventoryItemTotals" type="screen"
page="component://product/widget/facility/FacilityScreens.xml#InventoryItemTotals"/>
<view-map name="InventoryItemTotalsExport" type="screencsv"
page="component://product/widget/facility/FacilityScreens.xml#InventoryItemTotalsExport"
content-type="text/csv" encoding="none"/>
The following improvements will make the rendering in different formats more
dynamic:
1) in the controller, the two view-maps could be grouped into one where the
content-type is dynamically retrieved from the request (then the view handler
will use "screen" or "screencsv" etc based on the content type)
2) enhance the global decorator to render properly on different formats; if
the decorator contains screens/forms widgets then the widget should render
themselves in the proper format; if the decorator contains ftl templates, we
will have to provide alternative ones like:
<platform-specific>
<html><html-template
location="component://common/webcommon/includes/simple.ftl"/></html>
<xsl-fo><html-template
location="component://common/webcommon/includes/simple.fo.ftl"/></xsl-fo>
<xml><html-template
location="component://common/webcommon/includes/minimal-decorator.ftl"/></xml>
</platform-specific>
3) in the search form we could add a drop down for the selection of the
"content-type"
At this point we may be able to export in different formats virtually any
screen in OFBiz simply by adding a drop down box for the output format at the
top of the screen (in a decorator): export to PDF, export to xml.
Jacopo
On Dec 4, 2010, at 12:22 AM, Bruno Busco wrote:
> Hi,
> I was thinking that having a CSV export feature embedded in the "list" form
> widget could be nice.
>
> I mean a feature that, simply adding something like a " csv-export="true" "
> attribute in the form widget, would show a link or an icon in the top form
> pagination bar that would export the actual data listed in the form.
> Does this make sense?
> Any idea on how to implement this?
>
> Many thanks to everybody wants to share ideas on this.
>
> -Bruno
