Re: Layout Single forms without tables

2008-05-31 Thread Anil Patel
David, Thanks for adding details. For more complex data entry forms like customer, I like to use ftl because we can do Two column layout and have Web Designer make it look the way customer may like most. Let's say if Shipping and Billing address are shown side by side and I want to hide Bi

Re: Layout Single forms without tables

2008-05-31 Thread David E Jones
I still like the idea because these aren't really a "table" per-se, ie no natural columns and rows, just title and field sets. Some might want the title above the field instead of to its left. Others might want it below or to the right (because they are crazy I guess... ;) ). Some might w

Re: Discussion: Main Content Layout Best Practices

2008-05-31 Thread Adrian Crum
I know the two subjects were mixed in some replies. I understand what you mean though. ;-) -Adrian Scott Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was for separating create forms and search/result forms, I was not suggesting that we should separate the search forms themselves. Regards Scott 2008/6/1

Re: Layout Single forms without tables

2008-05-31 Thread Adrian Crum
I remember CSS classes like col-row, col-left, col-right, etc. Basically and elements were replaced with and - which made no sense at all. It was a lot of markup to do nothing more than create a table. Table layout is NOT evil - it is ideal for laying out columns and rows (like forms). CSS

Re: Layout Single forms without tables

2008-05-31 Thread David E Jones
I did some work on this years ago doing a "prototype" of sorts in the newcustomer.ftl page. This is for single type forms only, as for list and multi forms a CSS layout doesn't make sense (given the tabular nature of that layout). The important CSS classes are form-row, form-label, and fo

Re: Discussion: Main Content Layout Best Practices

2008-05-31 Thread Scott Gray
I was for separating create forms and search/result forms, I was not suggesting that we should separate the search forms themselves. Regards Scott 2008/6/1 Jacques Le Roux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I finally agree with most too (I mean I agree with Adrian's proposition and > Andrew's here). Having

Layout Single forms without tables

2008-05-31 Thread Anil Patel
Hi, There has been some momentum recently to add Ajax/Effects goodies to HTML rendered using Screen/Form widget. I think as a part of this effort we should consider moving away from FORM Layout using html tables. The form layout using flexible html structures like div and CSS can be made

Re: svn commit: r661096- /ofbiz/trunk/framework/widget/src/org/ofbiz/widget/html/HtmlMenuRenderer.java

2008-05-31 Thread David E Jones
I'll third the appreciation Adrian, especially for being so thorough and keeping an eye on this. -David On May 31, 2008, at 10:13 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: Yes, thanks for the clear explanation Adrian. I think I will put something in the FAQ page (about clear and no-clear usage). This i

Re: Discussion: Main Content Layout Best Practices

2008-05-31 Thread David E Jones
On May 31, 2008, at 10:03 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: Just one point : I'm not sure it's good to have forms collapsed by default when there are results. If we would really want to have something like that, whe should at least have an indicator to let know the user that the list is not empty.

Re: Discussion: Main Content Layout Best Practices

2008-05-31 Thread Daniel Martínez
I prefer search form showed by default (which does not mean that it cannot be collapsed by means of some button). It informs the user which are the filters for the results he's viewing. I.e. when using google, the search form is always visible. Maybe I forgot which were the terms I was looking

Re: Discussion: Main Content Layout Best Practices

2008-05-31 Thread Jacques Le Roux
I finally agree with most too (I mean I agree with Adrian's proposition and Andrew's here). Having them on 2 screen was a Scott's proposition that I agreed with because of the flexibility given by modern browsers and their integrated tabs capabilities. But I can imagine that some people, especia

Re: svn commit: r661096- /ofbiz/trunk/framework/widget/src/org/ofbiz/widget/html/HtmlMenuRenderer.java

2008-05-31 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Yes, thanks for the clear explanation Adrian. I think I will put something in the FAQ page (about clear and no-clear usage). This is really not obvious... Jacques From: "Hans Bakker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thank you Adrian for the extensive explanation. I implemented it in the sfa manager Re

Re: More Screen Widget Ideas

2008-05-31 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Yes, thanks David for you detailled explanation. I had a look yesterday and even begin to write an answer to Jacopo's question. But I did no sent it since I was not totally sure to well understand underneath reasons. Lostly I did not understand clearly the client-server link through the Writer. I

[jira] Updated: (OFBIZ-1659) Improve usability of Employment Screen

2008-05-31 Thread parimal gain (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-1659?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] parimal gain updated OFBIZ-1659: Attachment: Improvements.patch This patch contain improvement task of HR Regards Parimal Gain > I

[jira] Updated: (OFBIZ-1467) JUNIT test case for finding and editing a party(DemoCustomer)

2008-05-31 Thread Awdesh Parihar (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-1467?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Awdesh Parihar updated OFBIZ-1467: -- Attachment: find_edit_party.patch Done some modification in last uploaded patch : 1) . Put some

Re: More Screen Widget Ideas

2008-05-31 Thread Adrian Crum
David, Thank you very much for your comments. For now I will just convert the StringBuilder arguments to Writer arguments and drop the rendering to a string idea. That change should only affect the Form and Menu widgets. I like the idea of using the Appendable interface as an argument. Perhaps

Re: svn commit: r661096 - /ofbiz/trunk/framework/widget/src/org/ofbiz/widget/html/HtmlMenuRenderer.java

2008-05-31 Thread Hans Bakker
Thank you Adrian for the extensive explanation. I implemented it in the sfa manager Regards, Hans On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 09:50 -0700, Adrian Crum wrote: > Hans, > > I put an example of how to fix this problem in the Find Accounts screen. > You just need to make the same change to the other