Re: OFBiz In 2014

[Adrian Crum]

I would recommend that you create a Jira issue for it and enlist some help.

Adrian Crum
Sandglass Software
www.sandglass-software.com

On 1/6/2014 8:31 AM, Gavin Mabie wrote:

It appears that the citing of Drupal/WordPress/Magento solicited quite a
lot of comment.  It's a side issue really and whether some houses prefer to
integrate existing solutions is besides the point.  More importantly, most
commentators would agree that theme developement in Ofbiz does require more
attention.  The vast majority of threads on this ML focuss on backend
business rules and processes.  That in itself is not a problem - if you
regard Ofbiz as a Framework only.  It only means that, as far as frameworks
go, we need a better framework for theming as well.  This will encourage
more participation from developers who have more of a front-end
orientation.  I would support a drive towards better "themeability" in
2014.  In this regard I would like to suggest that we take a look at the
VisualThemeResource entity which currently is currently poorly defined.

Gavin


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Jacques Le Roux <
jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote:

At least it would be great to have a themeable backend OOTB. Hence, as
much as possible, the widget form for consistency.
Also, though limited, you can always inject js in forms, the price rules
and promotions below are good examples.

Jacques

On Saturday, January 04, 2014 7:09 PM anil.pa...@hotwaxmedia.com wrote

My preference is to use freemarker. With Form widgets, Its nearly

impossible to deliver UI/UX for todays users.

Thanks and Regards
Anil Patel
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacques Le Roux" <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com>
To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org
Sent: Saturday, January 4, 2014 11:52:34 AM
Subject: Re: OFBiz In 2014

To be pragmatic, rather than working on new features, a new framework or

whatever, I'd like to work on "Widget & Application HTML

clean-up" https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5040

I have heard much complaints about this and I'd really like to 1st

replace as much as possible the Freemarker templates used in

backend by widget forms.

I know already some cases where it's impossible, like the geo location.
But in most cases this should be possible and would much facilitate

designers work, when themes or such are needed.

Because we would then have a consistent HTML generation.
And in most cases even a better (consistent) UI, compare the old Price

Rules and Promotions for instance

(still available at

https://demo-old.ofbiz.apache.org/catalog/control/EditProductPriceRules?productPriceRuleId=9000

https://demo-old.ofbiz.apache.org/catalog/control/EditProductPromoRules?productPromoId=9000

)

Because it contained a new FTL template, I recently refused to commit a

working patch for "Improve to allow purchase order ship

method options"  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5387


I though must say that I still want to finish pending new features

(actually 2 new specialpurpose components)

1) I expect to merge the seo branch soon

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5312.

I only see minor issues now, and anyway at some point you need to have

your feet wet...

2) And to finish the Solr integration

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5042.

I sill have to figure out how bad is the security issue. In a first step

adding a credential acces to the the Solr admin should

be enough. But yes underneath is not totally secured as is...

Jacques


On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 1:55 PM adrian.crum@sandglass-software.comwrote

Maybe we can use the start of the new year as an opportunity to consider
the future of OFBiz and update our road map:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/New+Features+Roadmap+-+Living+Document