IMO...
David E Jones wrote:
The target for the ecommerce templates is not to be used completely as-is, it is
meant to be inclusive because it is easier to disable things and comment them out
than it is to dig up details to add things in. For the visual L&F you need to
know some basic CSS in order to modify the CSS file. Is that really too much to ask?
Yes. Maybe the new user is a Java developer and not CSS knowledgeable.
Not to say they can't become knowledgeable, but why make it harder than
it has to be. This worked before. IMO, it was left out of 9.04 as an
oversight and not for any technical reason. Therefore, it is a
regression introduced when someone changed the UI without first
understanding what was there before the change was made.
If someone wants to just replace the logo image then they can create a file
with their logo in the GIF format and then replace the ofbizLogo.gif file with
it.
I think that is what he did. Bravo for Goran. Most new users won't take
the time to try and figure out where that file is. It certainly isn't
obvious at first blush where it might be and where the replacement goes.
Why not provide an upload link in the CM to do just this? The Catalog
Manager is an amazing application with tremendous potential. Why are you
so set against making it all it can be?
That's not too hard, is it?
For a really simplified ecommerce app IMO we should create a separate webapp
that really is meant to be configured and used as-is rather than being meant to
be customized.
I think you missed the point David. This worked before and was a really
good demonstration of how the CM can be used to manage a store. Not how
hard or easy it is to change screens around. We don't need a new
webapp. We need the original stuff working the way it was originally
intended to work.
Any volunteers?
-David
On Feb 18, 2010, at 6:04 PM, Ruth Hoffman wrote:
Hi Scott:
With all due respect and not to beat a dead horse, but the point about getting your
"hands dirty" is exactly why this should never have been changed. It worked
like a charm in 4.0. And there is no reason why a new OFBiz user shouldn't be able to
load up an image and use it as a logo for the store using the existing store management
application - the Catalog Manager. We can do that for product images, why not store
images?
Regards,
Ruth
Scott Gray wrote:
The image is most likely sized via the css file for the page:
framework/images/webapp/images/ecommain.css
Here you'll have to get your hands dirty I'm afraid, but it's pretty much
unavoidable if you want your store to look in any way different from the demo
store.
Regards
Scott
On 18/02/2010, at 5:31 PM, Goran Janevski wrote:
Yey! It worked.
Now if I can just figure out why my gif picture is not showing up properly
as the ofbizLogo.gif, I will have reached my first milestone.
I will read the technical production setup guide, and a couple of others
before I ask more questions.
Thanks very much,
Goran
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Scott Gray <[email protected]>wrote:
Sorry I missed the rest of the settings:
framework/base/config/ofbiz-containers.xml
Find the container named catalina-container and within that the following
two property elements: http-connector and https-connector and change the
port properties to 80 and 443 respectively.
You'll find some other useful information in this document:
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBTECH/Apache+OFBiz+Technical+Production+Setup+Guide
Regards
Scott
On 18/02/2010, at 4:54 PM, Goran Janevski wrote:
Scott,
That actually did not work. After I modify the port in url.properties
and
setting it to 80, I can not access the web site with the domain only. I
can
still access the web site using port 8080, but not without it. I
restarted
the server after making the modification.
I also tried another random port (8088), with the same result.
Which leads me to believe that changing the port in url.properties does
not
impact the port being used, *unless: *do I need to recompile/rebuild the
whole thing in order for the port change to take effect?
Or, is there some other place that I also need to change the port from
8080
to 80.
Sorry for being such a newbie.
Thanks again,
Goran
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Scott Gray <[email protected]
wrote:
You can also modify framework/webapp/config/url.properties to set your
http
port to 80 and the https port to 443 so that users do not need to
specify
the port after the host name.
Regards
Scott
HotWax Media
http://www.hotwaxmedia.com
On 18/02/2010, at 3:30 PM, Ruth Hoffman wrote:
Hi Goran:
You don't need to do that. You can go to the ofbiz-component.xml file
for
the ecommerce component (~specialpurpose/ecommerce) and change the
mount-point entry to be mount-point="/".
Hope that helps.
Ruth
Goran Janevski wrote:
Actually, now that you helped me figure this out, I can probably do
some
kind of DNS mapping through GoDaddy to get down to www.mydomain.com.
When I figure it out, I will report back.
Best Regards,
Goran
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Goran Janevski <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi,
Just trying to get started on OfBiz. First impression: not much
documentation to go on.
I was able to get the vanilla OfBiz running, but:
1) I can't get to it via a domain name. I can get to it on the
intranet,
via the intranet IP address: http://
<local-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://%3clocal-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>
(also
using "localhost" instead of <local-ip>). I can get to it externally
via my
router's WAN IP address: http://<wan-ip>:8080/ecommerce<http://
%3cwan-ip%3e:8080/ecommerce>.
But, I can't get to it via www.mydomain.com.
I made sure there are no firewalls blocking this. I opened up TCP
ports
80, 8080, and the https port on my router.
Can anyone help with this, please?
2) I purchased Ms.Hoffman's catalog book, but it refers to oFBiz 4.
I
downloaded oFBiz 9 (current), and in it, there is no place to change
the
logo on a store (whereas it was clearly available in OfBiz 4) (!).
Why
would this be removed? So I proceeded to overwrite the
ofbizLogo.gif
with
one of my own, and I can see that it replaced the ofbiz logo, but it
is
not
showing properly. Is there some resolution requirements on the logo
or
any
other image displayed on the web page?
Thanks,
Goran
