Re: Linking OFBIZ to the on-line help system
OK, I have worked a little bit on this and came to a solution that I have submitted here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-1750 Please review and eventually integrate! -Bruno 2008/4/12, Bruno Busco [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ooops, I have resolved. I was modifying the renderScreenletBegin function instead of the renderContainerBegin function. Now I can continue on my road-map... -Bruno 2008/4/12, Bruno Busco [EMAIL PROTECTED]: After the discussion we had in http://www.nabble.com/Loading-Raw-HTML-td16595109.html I am trying to modify ofbiz to optionally include a little help icon in the screenlet title bar. What I want to obtais is the possibility to specify for every container an help page link. I am not expert of Ofbiz and of Java too but I want use this as an exercize to grow my experience up. My roadmap is: 1 - add a little help icon image (help_yellow.gif) to ofbiz 2 - add a helpHomeUrl property in general.properies 3 - add a new helplink property to the container tag to let the programmer to link an help page to every single UI element. When the container is rendered the following HTML should be added in the container. a class=helpLink target=_ofbizhelp href=HELPURL img width=16 height=16 align=absmiddle title=Get online help about Using Ofbiz src=/images/help_yellow.gif/ /a Where HELPURL is a string obtained from the helpHomeUrl, the helplink property and perhaps the actual locale 4- add something in the main.css to make the little help icon displayed inline on the right of the container area So, after the trivial step 1, skipped step 2 for the moment, I started navigating the code to do step 3. I have seen that the screenlet container is someting that is built in two (at least) different ways in .ftl files and in screens.xml files. I have done it for a single .ftl file inserting the HTML code by hand but now I want to make it for the screens.xml files. I have tried to modify the HtmlScreenRenderer.java but I get no effect at all changing this file ant-building and the startofbizing. Could someone help me? -Bruno
Re: Linking OFBIZ to the on-line help system
Bruno, I'll definitely look at your patch, thanks. An idea we could also consider is to use the screen name (or form name) to compose the name of the help page: in this way we could have a link tht points to an help page even if we don't specify the url in the screen's container (if the page is not available we could return a default page). There are pros and cons with this approach but it is definitely something we could consider. Jacopo On Apr 13, 2008, at 10:46 AM, Bruno Busco wrote: OK, I have worked a little bit on this and came to a solution that I have submitted here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-1750 Please review and eventually integrate! -Bruno 2008/4/12, Bruno Busco [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ooops, I have resolved. I was modifying the renderScreenletBegin function instead of the renderContainerBegin function. Now I can continue on my road-map... -Bruno 2008/4/12, Bruno Busco [EMAIL PROTECTED]: After the discussion we had in http://www.nabble.com/Loading-Raw-HTML-td16595109.html I am trying to modify ofbiz to optionally include a little help icon in the screenlet title bar. What I want to obtais is the possibility to specify for every container an help page link. I am not expert of Ofbiz and of Java too but I want use this as an exercize to grow my experience up. My roadmap is: 1 - add a little help icon image (help_yellow.gif) to ofbiz 2 - add a helpHomeUrl property in general.properies 3 - add a new helplink property to the container tag to let the programmer to link an help page to every single UI element. When the container is rendered the following HTML should be added in the container. a class=helpLink target=_ofbizhelp href=HELPURL img width=16 height=16 align=absmiddle title=Get online help about Using Ofbiz src=/images/help_yellow.gif/ /a Where HELPURL is a string obtained from the helpHomeUrl, the helplink property and perhaps the actual locale 4- add something in the main.css to make the little help icon displayed inline on the right of the container area So, after the trivial step 1, skipped step 2 for the moment, I started navigating the code to do step 3. I have seen that the screenlet container is someting that is built in two (at least) different ways in .ftl files and in screens.xml files. I have done it for a single .ftl file inserting the HTML code by hand but now I want to make it for the screens.xml files. I have tried to modify the HtmlScreenRenderer.java but I get no effect at all changing this file ant-building and the startofbizing. Could someone help me? -Bruno
Re: Linking OFBIZ to the on-line help system
Jacopo, yes the system could be improved. I think anyway that the one that I propose should be a good starting point. There is the possibility to attach an help page, if needed, to every single screenlet or even smaller container. -Bruno 2008/4/13, Jacopo Cappellato [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bruno, I'll definitely look at your patch, thanks. An idea we could also consider is to use the screen name (or form name) to compose the name of the help page: in this way we could have a link tht points to an help page even if we don't specify the url in the screen's container (if the page is not available we could return a default page). There are pros and cons with this approach but it is definitely something we could consider. Jacopo On Apr 13, 2008, at 10:46 AM, Bruno Busco wrote: OK, I have worked a little bit on this and came to a solution that I have submitted here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-1750 Please review and eventually integrate! -Bruno 2008/4/12, Bruno Busco [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ooops, I have resolved. I was modifying the renderScreenletBegin function instead of the renderContainerBegin function. Now I can continue on my road-map... -Bruno 2008/4/12, Bruno Busco [EMAIL PROTECTED]: After the discussion we had in http://www.nabble.com/Loading-Raw-HTML-td16595109.html I am trying to modify ofbiz to optionally include a little help icon in the screenlet title bar. What I want to obtais is the possibility to specify for every container an help page link. I am not expert of Ofbiz and of Java too but I want use this as an exercize to grow my experience up. My roadmap is: 1 - add a little help icon image (help_yellow.gif) to ofbiz 2 - add a helpHomeUrl property in general.properies 3 - add a new helplink property to the container tag to let the programmer to link an help page to every single UI element. When the container is rendered the following HTML should be added in the container. a class=helpLink target=_ofbizhelp href=HELPURL img width=16 height=16 align=absmiddle title=Get online help about Using Ofbiz src=/images/help_yellow.gif/ /a Where HELPURL is a string obtained from the helpHomeUrl, the helplink property and perhaps the actual locale 4- add something in the main.css to make the little help icon displayed inline on the right of the container area So, after the trivial step 1, skipped step 2 for the moment, I started navigating the code to do step 3. I have seen that the screenlet container is someting that is built in two (at least) different ways in .ftl files and in screens.xml files. I have done it for a single .ftl file inserting the HTML code by hand but now I want to make it for the screens.xml files. I have tried to modify the HtmlScreenRenderer.java but I get no effect at all changing this file ant-building and the startofbizing. Could someone help me? -Bruno
Linking OFBIZ to the on-line help system
After the discussion we had in http://www.nabble.com/Loading-Raw-HTML-td16595109.html I am trying to modify ofbiz to optionally include a little help icon in the screenlet title bar. What I want to obtais is the possibility to specify for every container an help page link. I am not expert of Ofbiz and of Java too but I want use this as an exercize to grow my experience up. My roadmap is: 1 - add a little help icon image (help_yellow.gif) to ofbiz 2 - add a helpHomeUrl property in general.properies 3 - add a new helplink property to the container tag to let the programmer to link an help page to every single UI element. When the container is rendered the following HTML should be added in the container. a class=helpLink target=_ofbizhelp href=HELPURL img width=16 height=16 align=absmiddle title=Get online help about Using Ofbiz src=/images/help_yellow.gif/ /a Where HELPURL is a string obtained from the helpHomeUrl, the helplink property and perhaps the actual locale 4- add something in the main.css to make the little help icon displayed inline on the right of the container area So, after the trivial step 1, skipped step 2 for the moment, I started navigating the code to do step 3. I have seen that the screenlet container is someting that is built in two (at least) different ways in .ftl files and in screens.xml files. I have done it for a single .ftl file inserting the HTML code by hand but now I want to make it for the screens.xml files. I have tried to modify the HtmlScreenRenderer.java but I get no effect at all changing this file ant-building and the startofbizing. Could someone help me? -Bruno
Re: Linking OFBIZ to the on-line help system
Ooops, I have resolved. I was modifying the renderScreenletBegin function instead of the renderContainerBegin function. Now I can continue on my road-map... -Bruno 2008/4/12, Bruno Busco [EMAIL PROTECTED]: After the discussion we had in http://www.nabble.com/Loading-Raw-HTML-td16595109.html I am trying to modify ofbiz to optionally include a little help icon in the screenlet title bar. What I want to obtais is the possibility to specify for every container an help page link. I am not expert of Ofbiz and of Java too but I want use this as an exercize to grow my experience up. My roadmap is: 1 - add a little help icon image (help_yellow.gif) to ofbiz 2 - add a helpHomeUrl property in general.properies 3 - add a new helplink property to the container tag to let the programmer to link an help page to every single UI element. When the container is rendered the following HTML should be added in the container. a class=helpLink target=_ofbizhelp href=HELPURL img width=16 height=16 align=absmiddle title=Get online help about Using Ofbiz src=/images/help_yellow.gif/ /a Where HELPURL is a string obtained from the helpHomeUrl, the helplink property and perhaps the actual locale 4- add something in the main.css to make the little help icon displayed inline on the right of the container area So, after the trivial step 1, skipped step 2 for the moment, I started navigating the code to do step 3. I have seen that the screenlet container is someting that is built in two (at least) different ways in .ftl files and in screens.xml files. I have done it for a single .ftl file inserting the HTML code by hand but now I want to make it for the screens.xml files. I have tried to modify the HtmlScreenRenderer.java but I get no effect at all changing this file ant-building and the startofbizing. Could someone help me? -Bruno
