Done.

Adrian Crum
Sandglass Software
www.sandglass-software.com

On 1/23/2015 12:45 PM, Pierre Smits wrote:
Adrian,

Could you update http://ofbiz.apache.org/dtds/ so that the underlaying xsd
files reflect the recent changes?

Best regards,

Pierre Smits

*ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
Services & Solutions for Cloud-
Based Manufacturing, Professional
Services and Retail & Trade
http://www.orrtiz.com

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Pierre Smits <[email protected]>
wrote:

I have created the placeholder for now:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-6034

Pierre Smits

*ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
Services & Solutions for Cloud-
Based Manufacturing, Professional
Services and Retail & Trade
http://www.orrtiz.com

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Pierre Smits <[email protected]>
wrote:

Ahh. Ok.

Thanks for the insights.

Best regards,

Pierre Smits

*ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
Services & Solutions for Cloud-
Based Manufacturing, Professional
Services and Retail & Trade
http://www.orrtiz.com

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Adrian Crum <
[email protected]> wrote:

Right. The renderers need to be updated to render links consistently. So
far, I have avoided touching the renderers. I will work on those later if I
have time. Meanwhile, feel free to create a patch and I will apply it.

Adrian Crum
Sandglass Software
www.sandglass-software.com

On 1/23/2015 7:01 AM, Pierre Smits wrote:

Yes, I thought so too.

But when I use link in a Sreen.xml, like example below:

<link link-type="ajax-window"  target=
"newaction?partyId=${parameters.partyId}" width="1000" height="400"
text=
"${uiLabelMap.CommonCreateNew}" style="buttontext create"/>
I get a popup window.

Whereas when I use the same in a menu-item, like:

   <menu-item name="newaction" title="${uiLabelMap.
SEPASetBankAttributes}">
       <link link-type="ajax-window" target="nAttributeLayer" title=
"${uiLabelMap.CommonCreateNew}" width="1000" height="600">
          <parameter param-name="partyId" from-field="partyId"/>
      </link>
</menu-item>


it doesn't open the screen in a popup wind, in stead it renders the new
screen in the browser window.

Best regards,

Pierre Smits

*ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*
Services & Solutions for Cloud-
Based Manufacturing, Professional
Services and Retail & Trade
http://www.orrtiz.com

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Adrian Crum <
[email protected]> wrote:

  I did that already - in the schema and in code. There is a common link
type, then the various widgets extend it to add their specific
attributes.

Adrian Crum
Sandglass Software
www.sandglass-software.com

On 1/23/2015 1:45 AM, Pierre Smits wrote:

  Hi Adrian,

Would it not be a good thing to have all the linking definition to be
refactored to one single definiton?

Currently we have:

      - link
      - hyperlink
      - sub-hyperlink

It seems to me that they are intended to deliver the same
functionality,
but are applied differently per application area:

      1. link -> menu, screen - but with different behaviour between
the
two,
      e.g. ajax-window doesn't work in a menu
      2. hyperlink -> forms, commonly used to have a link associated
to a
field
      3. sub-hyperlink -> forms, commonly used in a display entity
associated
      to a field

Best regards,


Pierre Smits

*ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>*

Services & Solutions for Cloud-
Based Manufacturing, Professional
Services and Retail & Trade
http://www.orrtiz.com

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 7:30 AM, Gavin Mabie <[email protected]>
wrote:

   Yes.  Cell/Column sizes in conjunction with screen media directives
can

then be used to achieve responsive layouts.

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 7:13 AM, Adrian Crum <
[email protected]> wrote:

   So, you're suggesting a grid widget would accept any screen widget

within
a cell? That could be done fairly easily.

Adrian Crum
Sandglass Software
www.sandglass-software.com

On 1/18/2015 8:49 PM, Gavin Mabie wrote:

   With columns already existing, rendering them inside rows would


  constitute


  a grid.


On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Adrian Crum <
[email protected]> wrote:

    We have columns for that.


Adrian Crum
Sandglass Software
www.sandglass-software.com

On 1/17/2015 6:14 PM, Gavin Mabie wrote:

    Hi Adrian


I like the grid idea.  It will almost certainly simplify and
enhance

  UI


  design. Furthermore, it will facilitate responsive design in
Ofbiz.  I

agree that form widget should apply to forms.  I would recommend
that

  we


  create a table widget for multi-column lists instead of the proposed

grid
widget.  My thinking is that the grid widget should be used as a

  layout


  widget on a level just beneath screens but higher than lower level

widgets
(screenlets/forms/tables/menus/trees).  In other words a screen
contains
grids and grids contain lower level widgets.  This pattern will
enable
us
to make Ofbiz truly responsive.  What do you think?

Gavin

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Adrian Crum <
[email protected]> wrote:

     Some time ago I started working on the screen widget thread
safety.
There

   were many places in code where widget models were being
modified


  during


  rendering - resulting in unpredictable behavior, and in some cases
it

resulted in users having access to data they shouldn't be able to

  see.



  While doing that work, I was overwhelmed by the quantity of source
code.
The screen widget library was built using a lot of
copy-and-paste -
instead
of extracting and reusing common things. Scott started working
on
reusing
widget code, but that was just a small beginning.

In a recent commit, I continued his work and made some more
things
reusable.

Next, I would like to reorganize the source code folder
structure.

  Here


  is

what I have pictured:

org/ofbiz/widget
       artifact (Artifact Info classes)
       cache (Widget cache classes)
       model (Widget models)
       renderer (Widget renderers)
         macro
         html
         xml

I think the simplified folder structure makes more sense and it
will
make
it easier to locate classes.

After that, I would like to add error checking code to the
widget
models
-
similar to what I did in Mini-Language. Right now, errors in
widget

  XML


  are

(sometimes) logged and widget parsing continues. If a developer
does
something wrong, they will not know it unless they check the
logs. I
would
like to change the behavior so widget XML errors throw an
exception
with
a
detailed error message that includes the XML file name and line

  number


  where the error occurred. I believe this will benefit developers by

making
it clear when they have done something wrong.

Finally, I would like to extract list functionality from the
form
widget
and create a new grid widget. So, instead of a form widget
representing a
single data entry form OR a list, it will ONLY represent a
single

  form.


  If

you want a list, you use the grid widget. Initially, this change
will
be
backwards-compatible - the XML parser will accept a <form>
element

  for


  both

types and it will create the correct model based on the type

  attribute.



  Overall, my goal is to make screen widgets more developer-friendly,

  and


  also to make it easier to innovate in the screen widget component.


After all of this work is completed, I would like to backport
it to

  the


  R14 branch.


Comments are welcome.


--
Adrian Crum
Sandglass Software
www.sandglass-software.com













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