Richard, Adding an additional layer of functionality to hide other functionality might increase performance degradation.
Regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Richard Siddall < [email protected]> wrote: > Let me just suggest the approach of using "display:none" in a custom CSS > file to suppress display of the screen elements you don't want to see. I > don't know if it would actually meet Integrin's requirements. > > You would not use this approach normally since you have control over the > HTML generated, but it looks like it requires little more than spending > several hours in Firebug to get the CSS selectors of the screen elements > you want to suppress, and somehow registering the extra VT_STYLESHEET with > a VisualThemeResource element for all the themes you want to be able to use. > > Richard. > > > Jacques Le Roux wrote: > >> This is good, you can even go further. >> Most of the OFBiz parts can be overridden in a hot-deploy component. >> This prevents you to have even to maintain patches... >> >> When you always try to apply this idea you really understand the genius >> behind OFBiz... >> >> Jacques >> >> Le 20/06/2014 16:31, Anil Patel a écrit : >> >>> Hi, >>> As a general practice we don’t modify source files that comes with >>> Apache OFBiz. In case we need to, the changes are maintained in patch >>> file. >>> >>> Here is document on wiki that talks about customization in OFBiz. >>> >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Addressing+Custom+ >>> Requirements+In+OFBiz >>> >>> >>> In my experience, this is the right way to do it. >>> >>> Thanks and Regards >>> Anil Patel >>> COO >>> Hotwax Media Inc >>> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com/ >>> ApacheCon US 2014 Silver Sponsor >>> http://na.apachecon.com/sponsor/our-sponsors >>> >>> On Jun 20, 2014, at 10:18 AM, Integrin <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Ofbiz Users, >>>> >>>> I'm working on customizing ofbiz as a ERP solution and the requirement >>>> comes to having less number fields in most of the screens than what >>>> comes >>>> out of the box, this requires changes in .ftl files and Forms xml, in >>>> the >>>> past i have been commenting out the fields that are not required or use >>>> access privilege to limit the fields that are being displayed; >>>> however this >>>> requires merging all these changes when i will be upgrading to the new >>>> version; please can you advise what is the best way to handle this, Any >>>> pointers appreciated >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >
