Devs, We would like to propose few enhancement over ecommerce portal in OFBiz. In other words we want to demonstrate how to use ecommerce portal for creating your own site. Regarding the same, we were looking at some wiki documents to browse the features already exists and demonstrated by Ecommerce portal. After browsing all the features we understand from ecommerce site OFBiz have, that, it covers all the aspects as a framework to demonstrate all the possible features OFBiz can support for Ecommerce. Also it demonstrate how these features uses the data model.
So we were thinking to use ecommerce clone to demonstrate our purpose. That means, how an OFBiz user can create a modern Ecommerce site using the OFBiz Ecommerce portal. But on further diagnose we found that, the ecomclone have been removed in last month as result of email thread - *"Removing the ecomclone webapp from the ecommerce component"*. Also we gone thru the usage of *ecomseo* webapp and it also use the ecommerce to demonstarte its own seo related features metioned here <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Search+Engine+Optimisation%2C+SEO+in+ecommerce>. With all this said, we would like to use the *ecomseo* for our purpose or if community is not okay with it then we can add one more webapp parallel to ecommerce. We are fine in either way. Following are the enhancements we would like to propose for it, so that we can show an modern ecommerce site using OFBiz *ecomseo* or *new webapp*. - *ecomseo* or *new webapp* already cover the search engine friendly URLs using the SeoControlServlet and SeoCatalogUrlFilter. We just need to make sure all the features are working properly if we browse to *ecomseo*. As while browsing we have seen that the breadcrumbs are not working properly in all cases, also on changing catalogs page doesn't show the related data in *ecomseo*. So first we will fix all the related issue exists in *ecomseo* . - Like many modern ecommerce site, we would like show the catalogs as menu and category navigation in the menu bar. That means, if required we can set some data specific to *ecomseo *or* new webapp.* - *Category Navigation:* should shown from Solr instead of product and category data. - *Product Search Pages:* should shown from Solr instead of product keywords. With all the basic feature filtering criteria. - *Product Detail Page:* should show the minimum required fixed set of product features. That means, it does not cover all type of products like configurable products and other complex products. This also mean that, at some point we would like to narrow the ecommerce features and keep the general items required by mostly. - *Login and Registration:* We would like to add basic site registration process with minimum information. - *Shopping Cart:* Shopping cart will have all the basic functionality with fancy UI and JS support. - *Checkout:* Only one single page checkout with no steps. Fancy UI and JS support. It also includes the changes on assumption like by default billing and shipping address will be same and based on user action process will separate them. - *Overall Changes:* With the above basic flow changes on ecommerce, we would also override the decorators, UI, UX and add JS support to follow the latest standards. We would love to hear from community on this, and inputs on other areas if we missed something. Also if we do agree to do these changes, then we will start documenting the things one by one in detail on wiki probably with some wireframes to understand the things better. And after community agree on each item we can start on fixing the flows as per the final design. Thanks to Jacques and Pranay for the adding useful documents on wiki. It help us for identifying the work flows, the usage of apps, and preparing this basic plan. Thanks to Arun Patidar for discussion and planning. References: - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/ Search+Engine+Optimisation%2C+SEO+in+ecommerce - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/ Business+Process+Stories+and+Use+Cases+Library - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/E-commerce -- Rishi Solanki Manager, Enterprise Software Development HotWax Systems Pvt. Ltd. Direct: +91-9893287847 http://www.hotwaxsystems.com
