OFBiz Widgets: Was: Extending OFBiz: The BigFish eCommerce Project

2011-12-04 Thread Ruth Hoffman

All:

For more information about how to use OFBiz Screen, Menu, Tree and Form 
widgets, I did a concise write-up in the Apache OFBiz Cookbook available 
from PACKT Publishing:


[http://www.packtpub.com/apache-ofbiz-cookbook/book]

After re-reading this section (I did this over a year ago), I now recall 
why I said lists. HTML lists (ul/ol) are created automatically by Menu 
and Tree widgets.


Regards,
Ruth Hoffman

On 12/3/11 3:51 PM, Ruth Hoffman wrote:

Hi Jacques:
Sorry, by list I really mean Screen widgets with entity-condition 
lists. Never meant to imply that I would not use a Screen widget. No, 
always I use Screen widgets with Freemarker templates and Groovy 
scripts (not XML conditional statements in the actions part of the 
Screen Widget.)


And yes, jQuery is a godsend. I've been using it now for some time and 
love it. Haven't had a chance to use it with a Form or Menu widget yet 
but who knows...


Agreed about the User ML.

Regards,
Ruth
http://www.myofbiz.com

On 12/3/11 2:23 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
To simplify, I'd say; go with Form/Menu widgets  as long as you can 
and switch to Freemarkers templates when your needs go beyond what  
Form/Menu widgets can offer. BTW I don't know what List widgets stand 
for Ruth ;o). Alos you need screen widgets in all cases. Remember 
that you can use Jquery (and js by and large) also with Form/Menu 
widgets and sometimes it opens you awesome possiblities. You can find 
examples in OFBiz trunk and R11.04


I just wonder if this thread should not be in user ML rather...

Jacques

From: Ruth Hoffman rhoff...@aesolves.com

Hi Gareth:
Can't help but add my 2 cents here...

First, I take issue with Han's statement: ...it is an 
implementation of a 'simple' OFBiz component all in a single 
webapp I would argue that there is no such thing as a simple 
OFBiz component. To my way of thinking, simple adds no value to 
the discussion. A component is a component.


Second, components are not implemented in webapps. User interfaces - 
built from one or more OFBiz webapps - which provide browser access 
to OFBiz features and functions, are implemented within a component. 
Not the other way around.


Third, after many years of using OFBiz and developing many new 
applications (and working with existing ones), IMHO the menu, form 
and list widgets are of limited value. Here is when I (sometimes) 
use them: If you need to build a quick webpage (HTML) view into a 
single database table, perhaps an entity you have added to implement 
some new business function, you may want to consider using these 
widgets. To add and remove data to a single table or list the 
contents of a table, widgets work just fine.


The problem arises in that most modern, web based user interface 
designs don't lend themselves to this very one-dimensional view of 
the data model.


It is extremely difficult (and IMHO a waste of time) to build an 
OFBiz user interface with these widgets when you have the best tool 
available (Freemarker) to do this. Use the right tool for the job 
and you will be rewarded handsomely!


Best of luck
Ruth
http://www.myofbiz.com

On 12/3/11 8:59 AM, Gareth O'Brien wrote:

Hans,

I'm new to ofbiz; also to the tools and components that it 
comprises having

come from a Windows .NET C# background.

I'm interested in your comment about it being a pity that only ftl 
is used.

Can you expand a bit on that?

What are the shortcomings of ftl?
What alternative(s) would you recommend and why?

The whole area of UI, especially simplified and deployed as an 
end-user

package will feature heavily in a project due to kick off in January.

Thanks,

Gareth.

-Original Message-
From: Hans Bakker [mailto:mailingl...@antwebsystems.com]
Sent: 02 December 2011 06:45
To: d...@ofbiz.apache.org
Cc: Len Shein
Subject: Re: Extending OFBiz: The BigFish eCommerce Project

I think this is pretty interesting, it is an implementation of a 
'simple'
OFBiz component all in a single webappa pity that only ftl is 
used, but

still..

A demo version would be helpfull.

what is the license of this contribution, is it a contribution?

Regards,
Hans

On 12/01/2011 01:06 AM, Len Shein wrote:

OFBiz Community:

We have developed an eCommerce specific solution, something like a
Store In a Box. We call it BigFish.

Built on top of OFBiz; completely ready-to-go, with lots of
flexibility and configuration options. We are looking for 
adopters! We

are looking for the OFBiz community to download, support, critique,
suggest improvements, and validate our efforts.

To participate take a look at
http://www.salmonllc.com/downloads/bf_deploy.doc
http://www.salmonllc.com/website/downloads/bf_deploy.doc



* BigFish eCommerce

* A fully functional eCommerce implementation (a real working Store
In A Box)
* Includes product categories, products, configurations, check-out
etc.
* BigFish eCommerce is a single framework that can be used to
implement any number of eCommerce stores, all

Re: Extending OFBiz: The BigFish eCommerce Project

2011-12-02 Thread Mike
I checked both of these out.

BigFish eCommerce: http://gmh.salmonllc.com/osafe/control/main
BigFish Admin Module: https://gmh.salmonllc.com/osafe-admin/control/main

I think this is a great idea.  I thought that creating a simplified UI
for such a complex system like OFBiz was a fantastic idea.  The only
thing that I saw that was lacking was an accounting system.

See, this is the big thing.  There are a lot of ecommerce hosting
services out there, and they are good shopping carts, but ZERO of them
have built-in accounting capabilities.  Not just orders, I mean
general ledgers. etc.  If you could expand BigFish to include
simplified accounting, THAT would be cool and would stand out in the
crowed ecommerce hosting solutions out there.


On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Len Shein lsh...@salmonllc.com wrote:


 Yes mike we have a couple of on-line demo sites using 'BigFish eCommerce'
 and some live.  Take a look at the demo site and try the download as well;
 your feedback would be greatly appreciated!



 BigFish eCommerce



 http://gmh.salmonllc.com/osafe/control/main



 BigFish Admin Module



 https://gmh.salmonllc.com/osafe-admin/control/main







 -Original Message-
 From: Mike [mailto:mz4whee...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 2:39 AM
 To: user@ofbiz.apache.org
 Subject: Re: Extending OFBiz: The BigFish eCommerce Project



 Are there any on-line demos?



 On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Len Shein lsh...@salmonllc.com wrote:

 OFBiz Community:



 We have developed an eCommerce specific solution, something like a Store
 In

 a Box. We call it BigFish.



 Built on top of OFBiz; completely ready-to-go, with lots of flexibility
 and

 configuration options. We are looking for adopters! We are looking for the

 OFBiz community to download, support, critique, suggest improvements, and

 validate our efforts.



 To participate take a look at

 http://www.salmonllc.com/website/downloads/bf_deploy.doc







 *       BigFish eCommerce



 *       A fully functional eCommerce implementation (a real working Store

 In A Box)

 *       Includes product categories, products, configurations, check-out

 etc.

 *       BigFish eCommerce is a single framework that can be used to

 implement any number of eCommerce stores, all with their own products,

 look-and-feel and behavior

 *       The Product Catalog data drives all aspects of the shopping

 experience

 *       And look-and-feel is modified within the CSS styling and the
 BigFish

 configuration

 *       With flexible configuration options to fine-tune the user
 experience

 and functionality (all easily maintained in the Admin Module)

 *       Features:



 *       Flexible Home Page configuration

 *       The OFBiz Product Catalog drives many aspects, including the main

 navigation bar, listing and detail pages

 *       Fully functional Product Listing Page (PLP), with options for

 sorting and integration with SOLR for faceted navigation

 *       Complete Product Detail Page, with options for Ratings and Reviews

 *       Site Search: using SOLR

 *       Complete Customer Account Management features, register, login,

 forgot password, address book, order status

 *       Complete Check-Out process

 *       sitemap.xml generator

 *       email generation for each relevant trigger

 *       Flexible and powerful Static Page solution for About-Us, Terms and

 Conditions etc.



 *        BigFish Admin Module



 *       The Admin Module exposes all the great back-end OFBiz
 functionality

 that is applicable to our eCommerce store

 *       Intended to be used by the business experts, without IT
 involvement

 *       Features:



 *       Manage your Product Catalog

 *       Customer Management

 *       Order Management

 *       Manage home page content

 *       Approve customer reviews

 *       Manage specific Page content spots

 *       Control how the faceted navigation will behave

 *       Maintain Static Pages

 *       Manage email templates and generation

 *       and more



 *       Coming Soon (scheduled into our dev team)



 *       Guest Checkout

 *       Single Page Checkout

 *       Store Locator

 *       Manage Promotions

 *       Full multi support:



 *       Language

 *       Country Formatting (date, tel, address)

 *       Currency



 *       Road Map



 *       SEO User Friendly URL's

 *       You Previously Viewed

 *       Flexible import and export features

 *       Home Page carousel

 *       Multi-Catalog, Multi-Site

 *       Site Search:



 *       auto complete

 *       spell-check

 *       did you mean?

 *       search non-catalog content

 *       store Locator: click and collect



 *       Enhanced Order Management

 *       Enhanced Customer Management

 *       Integrate with more OFBiz features:



 *       Inventory

 *       Back-Orders

 *       Warehousing

 *       etc.





 To participate, and for complete download / install instructions look

RE: Extending OFBiz: The BigFish eCommerce Project

2011-12-01 Thread Len Shein


There is a demo built into to the download.
http://www.salmonllc.com/website/downloads/bf_deploy.doc




-Original Message-
From: Mike [mailto:mz4whee...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 2:39 AM
To: user@ofbiz.apache.org
Subject: Re: Extending OFBiz: The BigFish eCommerce Project

Are there any on-line demos?

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Len Shein lsh...@salmonllc.com wrote:
 OFBiz Community:

 We have developed an eCommerce specific solution, something like a Store
In
 a Box. We call it BigFish.

 Built on top of OFBiz; completely ready-to-go, with lots of flexibility
and
 configuration options. We are looking for adopters! We are looking for the
 OFBiz community to download, support, critique, suggest improvements, and
 validate our efforts.

 To participate take a look at
 http://www.salmonllc.com/downloads/bf_deploy.doc
 http://www.salmonllc.com/website/downloads/bf_deploy.doc



 *       BigFish eCommerce

 *       A fully functional eCommerce implementation (a real working Store
 In A Box)
 *       Includes product categories, products, configurations, check-out
 etc.
 *       BigFish eCommerce is a single framework that can be used to
 implement any number of eCommerce stores, all with their own products,
 look-and-feel and behavior
 *       The Product Catalog data drives all aspects of the shopping
 experience
 *       And look-and-feel is modified within the CSS styling and the
BigFish
 configuration
 *       With flexible configuration options to fine-tune the user
experience
 and functionality (all easily maintained in the Admin Module)
 *       Features:

 *       Flexible Home Page configuration
 *       The OFBiz Product Catalog drives many aspects, including the main
 navigation bar, listing and detail pages
 *       Fully functional Product Listing Page (PLP), with options for
 sorting and integration with SOLR for faceted navigation
 *       Complete Product Detail Page, with options for Ratings and Reviews
 *       Site Search: using SOLR
 *       Complete Customer Account Management features, register, login,
 forgot password, address book, order status
 *       Complete Check-Out process
 *       sitemap.xml generator
 *       email generation for each relevant trigger
 *       Flexible and powerful Static Page solution for About-Us, Terms and
 Conditions etc.

 *        BigFish Admin Module

 *       The Admin Module exposes all the great back-end OFBiz
functionality
 that is applicable to our eCommerce store
 *       Intended to be used by the business experts, without IT
involvement
 *       Features:

 *       Manage your Product Catalog
 *       Customer Management
 *       Order Management
 *       Manage home page content
 *       Approve customer reviews
 *       Manage specific Page content spots
 *       Control how the faceted navigation will behave
 *       Maintain Static Pages
 *       Manage email templates and generation
 *       and more

 *       Coming Soon (scheduled into our dev team)

 *       Guest Checkout
 *       Single Page Checkout
 *       Store Locator
 *       Manage Promotions
 *       Full multi support:

 *       Language
 *       Country Formatting (date, tel, address)
 *       Currency

 *       Road Map

 *       SEO User Friendly URL's
 *       You Previously Viewed
 *       Flexible import and export features
 *       Home Page carousel
 *       Multi-Catalog, Multi-Site
 *       Site Search:

 *       auto complete
 *       spell-check
 *       did you mean?
 *       search non-catalog content
 *       store Locator: click and collect

 *       Enhanced Order Management
 *       Enhanced Customer Management
 *       Integrate with more OFBiz features:

 *       Inventory
 *       Back-Orders
 *       Warehousing
 *       etc.


 To participate, and for complete download / install instructions look at
 http://www.salmonllc.com/downloads/bf_deploy.doc
 http://www.salmonllc.com/website/downloads/bf_deploy.doc



 Best Regards,



 Len Shein

 Salmon LLC

 www.salmonllc.com http://www.salmonllc.com/



 O: 516.742.7888




Extending OFBiz: The BigFish eCommerce Project

2011-12-01 Thread Len Shein


OFBiz Community:

We have developed an eCommerce specific solution, something like a Store In
a Box. We call it BigFish.

Built on top of OFBiz; completely ready-to-go, with lots of flexibility and
configuration options. We are looking for adopters! We are looking for the
OFBiz community to download, support, critique, suggest improvements, and
validate our efforts. 

To participate take a look at
http://www.salmonllc.com/website/downloads/bf_deploy.doc




*   BigFish eCommerce

*   A fully functional eCommerce implementation (a real working Store
In A Box)
*   Includes product categories, products, configurations, check-out
etc.
*   BigFish eCommerce is a single framework that can be used to
implement any number of eCommerce stores, all with their own products,
look-and-feel and behavior
*   The Product Catalog data drives all aspects of the shopping
experience
*   And look-and-feel is modified within the CSS styling and the BigFish
configuration
*   With flexible configuration options to fine-tune the user experience
and functionality (all easily maintained in the Admin Module)
*   Features:

*   Flexible Home Page configuration
*   The OFBiz Product Catalog drives many aspects, including the main
navigation bar, listing and detail pages
*   Fully functional Product Listing Page (PLP), with options for
sorting and integration with SOLR for faceted navigation
*   Complete Product Detail Page, with options for Ratings and Reviews
*   Site Search: using SOLR
*   Complete Customer Account Management features, register, login,
forgot password, address book, order status
*   Complete Check-Out process
*   sitemap.xml generator
*   email generation for each relevant trigger
*   Flexible and powerful Static Page solution for About-Us, Terms and
Conditions etc.

*BigFish Admin Module

*   The Admin Module exposes all the great back-end OFBiz functionality
that is applicable to our eCommerce store
*   Intended to be used by the business experts, without IT involvement
*   Features:

*   Manage your Product Catalog
*   Customer Management
*   Order Management
*   Manage home page content
*   Approve customer reviews
*   Manage specific Page content spots
*   Control how the faceted navigation will behave
*   Maintain Static Pages
*   Manage email templates and generation
*   and more

*   Coming Soon (scheduled into our dev team)

*   Guest Checkout
*   Single Page Checkout
*   Store Locator
*   Manage Promotions
*   Full multi support:

*   Language
*   Country Formatting (date, tel, address)
*   Currency 

*   Road Map

*   SEO User Friendly URL's
*   You Previously Viewed
*   Flexible import and export features
*   Home Page carousel
*   Multi-Catalog, Multi-Site
*   Site Search:

*   auto complete
*   spell-check
*   did you mean?
*   search non-catalog content
*   store Locator: click and collect

*   Enhanced Order Management
*   Enhanced Customer Management
*   Integrate with more OFBiz features:

*   Inventory
*   Back-Orders
*   Warehousing 
*   etc.


To participate, and for complete download / install instructions look at
http://www.salmonllc.com/website/downloads/bf_deploy.doc

 



Best Regards,

 

Len Shein

Salmon LLC

www.salmonllc.com http://www.salmonllc.com/ 

 

O: 516.742.7888




RE: Extending OFBiz: The BigFish eCommerce Project

2011-12-01 Thread Len Shein
 

Yes mike we have a couple of on-line demo sites using 'BigFish eCommerce'
and some live.  Take a look at the demo site and try the download as well;
your feedback would be greatly appreciated!

 

BigFish eCommerce

 

http://gmh.salmonllc.com/osafe/control/main

 

BigFish Admin Module

 

https://gmh.salmonllc.com/osafe-admin/control/main

 

 

 

-Original Message-
From: Mike [mailto:mz4whee...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 2:39 AM
To: user@ofbiz.apache.org
Subject: Re: Extending OFBiz: The BigFish eCommerce Project

 

Are there any on-line demos?

 

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Len Shein lsh...@salmonllc.com wrote:

 OFBiz Community:

 

 We have developed an eCommerce specific solution, something like a Store
In

 a Box. We call it BigFish.

 

 Built on top of OFBiz; completely ready-to-go, with lots of flexibility
and

 configuration options. We are looking for adopters! We are looking for the

 OFBiz community to download, support, critique, suggest improvements, and

 validate our efforts.

 

 To participate take a look at

http://www.salmonllc.com/website/downloads/bf_deploy.doc

 

 

 

 *   BigFish eCommerce

 

 *   A fully functional eCommerce implementation (a real working Store

 In A Box)

 *   Includes product categories, products, configurations, check-out

 etc.

 *   BigFish eCommerce is a single framework that can be used to

 implement any number of eCommerce stores, all with their own products,

 look-and-feel and behavior

 *   The Product Catalog data drives all aspects of the shopping

 experience

 *   And look-and-feel is modified within the CSS styling and the
BigFish

 configuration

 *   With flexible configuration options to fine-tune the user
experience

 and functionality (all easily maintained in the Admin Module)

 *   Features:

 

 *   Flexible Home Page configuration

 *   The OFBiz Product Catalog drives many aspects, including the main

 navigation bar, listing and detail pages

 *   Fully functional Product Listing Page (PLP), with options for

 sorting and integration with SOLR for faceted navigation

 *   Complete Product Detail Page, with options for Ratings and Reviews

 *   Site Search: using SOLR

 *   Complete Customer Account Management features, register, login,

 forgot password, address book, order status

 *   Complete Check-Out process

 *   sitemap.xml generator

 *   email generation for each relevant trigger

 *   Flexible and powerful Static Page solution for About-Us, Terms and

 Conditions etc.

 

 *BigFish Admin Module

 

 *   The Admin Module exposes all the great back-end OFBiz
functionality

 that is applicable to our eCommerce store

 *   Intended to be used by the business experts, without IT
involvement

 *   Features:

 

 *   Manage your Product Catalog

 *   Customer Management

 *   Order Management

 *   Manage home page content

 *   Approve customer reviews

 *   Manage specific Page content spots

 *   Control how the faceted navigation will behave

 *   Maintain Static Pages

 *   Manage email templates and generation

 *   and more

 

 *   Coming Soon (scheduled into our dev team)

 

 *   Guest Checkout

 *   Single Page Checkout

 *   Store Locator

 *   Manage Promotions

 *   Full multi support:

 

 *   Language

 *   Country Formatting (date, tel, address)

 *   Currency

 

 *   Road Map

 

 *   SEO User Friendly URL's

 *   You Previously Viewed

 *   Flexible import and export features

 *   Home Page carousel

 *   Multi-Catalog, Multi-Site

 *   Site Search:

 

 *   auto complete

 *   spell-check

 *   did you mean?

 *   search non-catalog content

 *   store Locator: click and collect

 

 *   Enhanced Order Management

 *   Enhanced Customer Management

 *   Integrate with more OFBiz features:

 

 *   Inventory

 *   Back-Orders

 *   Warehousing

 *   etc.

 

 

 To participate, and for complete download / install instructions look at

http://www.salmonllc.com/website/downloads/bf_deploy.doc

 

 

 

 Best Regards,

 

 

 

 Len Shein

 

 Salmon LLC

 

 www.salmonllc.com http://www.salmonllc.com/

 

 

 

 O: 516.742.7888

 



Extending OFBiz: The BigFish eCommerce Project

2011-11-30 Thread Len Shein
OFBiz Community:

We have developed an eCommerce specific solution, something like a Store In
a Box. We call it BigFish.

Built on top of OFBiz; completely ready-to-go, with lots of flexibility and
configuration options. We are looking for adopters! We are looking for the
OFBiz community to download, support, critique, suggest improvements, and
validate our efforts. 

To participate take a look at
http://www.salmonllc.com/downloads/bf_deploy.doc
http://www.salmonllc.com/website/downloads/bf_deploy.doc 



*   BigFish eCommerce

*   A fully functional eCommerce implementation (a real working Store
In A Box)
*   Includes product categories, products, configurations, check-out
etc.
*   BigFish eCommerce is a single framework that can be used to
implement any number of eCommerce stores, all with their own products,
look-and-feel and behavior
*   The Product Catalog data drives all aspects of the shopping
experience
*   And look-and-feel is modified within the CSS styling and the BigFish
configuration
*   With flexible configuration options to fine-tune the user experience
and functionality (all easily maintained in the Admin Module)
*   Features:

*   Flexible Home Page configuration
*   The OFBiz Product Catalog drives many aspects, including the main
navigation bar, listing and detail pages
*   Fully functional Product Listing Page (PLP), with options for
sorting and integration with SOLR for faceted navigation
*   Complete Product Detail Page, with options for Ratings and Reviews
*   Site Search: using SOLR
*   Complete Customer Account Management features, register, login,
forgot password, address book, order status
*   Complete Check-Out process
*   sitemap.xml generator
*   email generation for each relevant trigger
*   Flexible and powerful Static Page solution for About-Us, Terms and
Conditions etc.

*BigFish Admin Module

*   The Admin Module exposes all the great back-end OFBiz functionality
that is applicable to our eCommerce store
*   Intended to be used by the business experts, without IT involvement
*   Features:

*   Manage your Product Catalog
*   Customer Management
*   Order Management
*   Manage home page content
*   Approve customer reviews
*   Manage specific Page content spots
*   Control how the faceted navigation will behave
*   Maintain Static Pages
*   Manage email templates and generation
*   and more

*   Coming Soon (scheduled into our dev team)

*   Guest Checkout
*   Single Page Checkout
*   Store Locator
*   Manage Promotions
*   Full multi support:

*   Language
*   Country Formatting (date, tel, address)
*   Currency 

*   Road Map

*   SEO User Friendly URL's
*   You Previously Viewed
*   Flexible import and export features
*   Home Page carousel
*   Multi-Catalog, Multi-Site
*   Site Search:

*   auto complete
*   spell-check
*   did you mean?
*   search non-catalog content
*   store Locator: click and collect

*   Enhanced Order Management
*   Enhanced Customer Management
*   Integrate with more OFBiz features:

*   Inventory
*   Back-Orders
*   Warehousing 
*   etc.


To participate, and for complete download / install instructions look at
http://www.salmonllc.com/downloads/bf_deploy.doc
http://www.salmonllc.com/website/downloads/bf_deploy.doc 



Best Regards,

 

Len Shein

Salmon LLC

www.salmonllc.com http://www.salmonllc.com/ 

 

O: 516.742.7888



Re: Extending OFBiz: The BigFish eCommerce Project

2011-11-30 Thread Mike
Are there any on-line demos?

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Len Shein lsh...@salmonllc.com wrote:
 OFBiz Community:

 We have developed an eCommerce specific solution, something like a Store In
 a Box. We call it BigFish.

 Built on top of OFBiz; completely ready-to-go, with lots of flexibility and
 configuration options. We are looking for adopters! We are looking for the
 OFBiz community to download, support, critique, suggest improvements, and
 validate our efforts.

 To participate take a look at
 http://www.salmonllc.com/downloads/bf_deploy.doc
 http://www.salmonllc.com/website/downloads/bf_deploy.doc



 *       BigFish eCommerce

 *       A fully functional eCommerce implementation (a real working Store
 In A Box)
 *       Includes product categories, products, configurations, check-out
 etc.
 *       BigFish eCommerce is a single framework that can be used to
 implement any number of eCommerce stores, all with their own products,
 look-and-feel and behavior
 *       The Product Catalog data drives all aspects of the shopping
 experience
 *       And look-and-feel is modified within the CSS styling and the BigFish
 configuration
 *       With flexible configuration options to fine-tune the user experience
 and functionality (all easily maintained in the Admin Module)
 *       Features:

 *       Flexible Home Page configuration
 *       The OFBiz Product Catalog drives many aspects, including the main
 navigation bar, listing and detail pages
 *       Fully functional Product Listing Page (PLP), with options for
 sorting and integration with SOLR for faceted navigation
 *       Complete Product Detail Page, with options for Ratings and Reviews
 *       Site Search: using SOLR
 *       Complete Customer Account Management features, register, login,
 forgot password, address book, order status
 *       Complete Check-Out process
 *       sitemap.xml generator
 *       email generation for each relevant trigger
 *       Flexible and powerful Static Page solution for About-Us, Terms and
 Conditions etc.

 *        BigFish Admin Module

 *       The Admin Module exposes all the great back-end OFBiz functionality
 that is applicable to our eCommerce store
 *       Intended to be used by the business experts, without IT involvement
 *       Features:

 *       Manage your Product Catalog
 *       Customer Management
 *       Order Management
 *       Manage home page content
 *       Approve customer reviews
 *       Manage specific Page content spots
 *       Control how the faceted navigation will behave
 *       Maintain Static Pages
 *       Manage email templates and generation
 *       and more

 *       Coming Soon (scheduled into our dev team)

 *       Guest Checkout
 *       Single Page Checkout
 *       Store Locator
 *       Manage Promotions
 *       Full multi support:

 *       Language
 *       Country Formatting (date, tel, address)
 *       Currency

 *       Road Map

 *       SEO User Friendly URL's
 *       You Previously Viewed
 *       Flexible import and export features
 *       Home Page carousel
 *       Multi-Catalog, Multi-Site
 *       Site Search:

 *       auto complete
 *       spell-check
 *       did you mean?
 *       search non-catalog content
 *       store Locator: click and collect

 *       Enhanced Order Management
 *       Enhanced Customer Management
 *       Integrate with more OFBiz features:

 *       Inventory
 *       Back-Orders
 *       Warehousing
 *       etc.


 To participate, and for complete download / install instructions look at
 http://www.salmonllc.com/downloads/bf_deploy.doc
 http://www.salmonllc.com/website/downloads/bf_deploy.doc



 Best Regards,



 Len Shein

 Salmon LLC

 www.salmonllc.com http://www.salmonllc.com/



 O: 516.742.7888



extending ofbiz

2009-10-12 Thread Chris Snow

Is there documentation available describing how to extend ofbiz?

In particular, I am looking for ways to extend (and hide) existing 
functionality. 

For example,  if I want to add a custom menu item to a party manager 
profile screens, how would I do it?  What about if I want to hide a menu 
item such as the party Billing Account menu?


Many thanks in advance,

Chris


Re: extending ofbiz

2009-10-12 Thread Mridul Pathak
The standard practice is to extend the webapp in you hot-deploy component
and customize the desired forms, menus and screens.

-- 
Thanks  Regards
Mridul Pathak
Hotwax Media
http://www.hotwaxmedia.com
mridul.pat...@hotwaxmedia.com
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direct: +91 - 942.592.6892

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Chris Snow sno...@snowconsulting.co.ukwrote:

 Is there documentation available describing how to extend ofbiz?

 In particular, I am looking for ways to extend (and hide) existing
 functionality.
 For example,  if I want to add a custom menu item to a party manager
 profile screens, how would I do it?  What about if I want to hide a menu
 item such as the party Billing Account menu?

 Many thanks in advance,

 Chris



Re: extending ofbiz

2009-10-12 Thread Ruth Hoffman

Hello Chris:
This doesn't sound like an extension in the OFBiz sense. It sounds 
more like you want to modify some existing web pages. Is that correct?


Regards,
Ruth

Chris Snow wrote:

How do you extend the webapp?

Many thanks...

Mridul Pathak wrote:
The standard practice is to extend the webapp in you hot-deploy 
component

and customize the desired forms, menus and screens.

  





Re: extending ofbiz

2009-10-12 Thread Chris Snow

Hi Ruth, yes that is correct.

Ruth Hoffman wrote:

Hello Chris:
This doesn't sound like an extension in the OFBiz sense. It sounds 
more like you want to modify some existing web pages. Is that correct?


Regards,
Ruth

Chris Snow wrote:

How do you extend the webapp?

Many thanks...

Mridul Pathak wrote:
The standard practice is to extend the webapp in you hot-deploy 
component

and customize the desired forms, menus and screens.

  









Re: extending ofbiz

2009-10-12 Thread Ruth Hoffman

Hi Chris:
IMHO, you have two choices:
1) You can design some code changes that could be committed back to the 
project that allow for selective menu/form display much like the Catalog 
Manager allows for an end-user to modify some of the functionality of a 
store. If you choose to go that route, then you would most likely create 
a new component etc. etc. etc.


2) You can do what I have done in the past, and for which there isn't 
really a Best Practice guide: Modify the screen/form widgets and 
comment out the stuff you don't want to be displayed or create a new 
screen/form widget for each of the web pages you would like to modify 
and insert them inline with the other screens for the application(s) in 
question.


The rest of this discussion will depend on which route you decide to take.
Regards,
Ruth

Chris Snow wrote:

Hi Ruth, yes that is correct.

Ruth Hoffman wrote:

Hello Chris:
This doesn't sound like an extension in the OFBiz sense. It sounds 
more like you want to modify some existing web pages. Is that correct?


Regards,
Ruth

Chris Snow wrote:

How do you extend the webapp?

Many thanks...

Mridul Pathak wrote:
The standard practice is to extend the webapp in you hot-deploy 
component

and customize the desired forms, menus and screens.

  










Re: extending ofbiz

2009-10-12 Thread Pranay Pandey

Hi Chris,

Having a webapp overridden in your custom hot-deploy component will  
solve the purpose. In this way you can have all the existing once  
working for you along with the custom changes you want to have which  
includes hiding or extending something.



Thanks  Regards
--
Pranay Pandey
HotWax Media | www.hotwaxmedia.com




On Oct 12, 2009, at 8:22 PM, Chris Snow wrote:


Hi Ruth, yes that is correct.

Ruth Hoffman wrote:

Hello Chris:
This doesn't sound like an extension in the OFBiz sense. It  
sounds more like you want to modify some existing web pages. Is  
that correct?


Regards,
Ruth

Chris Snow wrote:

How do you extend the webapp?

Many thanks...

Mridul Pathak wrote:
The standard practice is to extend the webapp in you hot-deploy  
component

and customize the desired forms, menus and screens.













Re: extending ofbiz

2009-10-12 Thread Chris Snow

Hi Pranay,

Is there any documentation on how to override this way?

Many thanks,

Chris

Pranay Pandey wrote:

Hi Chris,

Having a webapp overridden in your custom hot-deploy component will 
solve the purpose. In this way you can have all the existing once 
working for you along with the custom changes you want to have which 
includes hiding or extending something.



Thanks  Regards
--
Pranay Pandey
HotWax Media | www.hotwaxmedia.com




On Oct 12, 2009, at 8:22 PM, Chris Snow wrote:


Hi Ruth, yes that is correct.

Ruth Hoffman wrote:

Hello Chris:
This doesn't sound like an extension in the OFBiz sense. It sounds 
more like you want to modify some existing web pages. Is that correct?


Regards,
Ruth

Chris Snow wrote:

How do you extend the webapp?

Many thanks...

Mridul Pathak wrote:
The standard practice is to extend the webapp in you hot-deploy 
component

and customize the desired forms, menus and screens.