Agreed. The reason I shared this particular PIM is that it shows a “good” UI for managing products especially when a lot of business users are involved. I am intimately familiar with the ofbiz catalog manager - we manage a catalog of over 50,000 SKUs, kits, assemblies, etc. However the OFBiz UI is very very difficult to train new users on and it has a lot of shortcomings for managing large catalogs. Most of them on the UI side.
Is anyone working on using a modern framework/toolkit for the UI? These guys seem to be the most promising in this space and their core offering is https://vaadin.com/home <https://vaadin.com/home> https://vaadin.com/elements <https://vaadin.com/elements> is Apache 2.0 licensed! Vaadin Grid, on its own, would fix a huge chunk of OFbiz UI issues since most of he problems revolve around interacting with tabular data and views. https://cdn.vaadin.com/vaadin-grid/2.0.0/demo/ <https://cdn.vaadin.com/vaadin-grid/2.0.0/demo/> —P > On Jun 30, 2017, at 4:04 AM, Rishi Solanki <rishisolan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I also spend some time on PIM and linked shared by Paul. Agree with Michael > that PIM + more features already available in the catalog manager of OFBiz. > Also agree on the point of complex and difficult to understand UI. > > Many conversation I have seen for the responsive UI with change in the UX > design, also I have also started similar conversation in past. Hopefully, > we would be able to see better UI in OFBiz soon which is as per the user > expectations. > > Finally, OFBiz is able to manage more complex catalog structure then PIM. > So if we have the better UI that would be great as it will follow the > Universal Data Model for which OFBiz is committed for. > > > > > Rishi Solanki > Sr Manager, Enterprise Software Development > HotWax Systems Pvt. Ltd. > Direct: +91-9893287847 > http://www.hotwaxsystems.com > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 1:42 AM, Michael Brohl <michael.br...@ecomify.de> > wrote: > >> Hi Paul, >> >> thanks for sharing! >> >> I have no experience with this software and only had a brief >> click-through, so my opinion might be inaccurate: I think that OFBiz >> already has most of these features, and much more, in the catalog manager. >> >> The only drawback is the UI, which is very complex and not so clearly >> arranged. But it is easy to slim down the catalog manager and hide all the >> stuff you don't need or rearrange the screens/forms to build a better UI. >> Plus, you have full access and can change any process as you like. >> >> For example, we did some projects to build specialized catalog management >> systems for spare parts, both frontend and backend on top of the strong >> data model and using a lot of existing services (see [1], [2]). >> >> I'm pretty sure that it is worth to evaluate the OFBiz catalog manager if >> you are looking or a good and integrated PIM solution. >> >> Regards, >> >> Michael Brohl >> ecomify GmbH >> www.ecomify.de >> >> [1] https://www.gigant-parts.com/control/category/~pcategory=101 >> 08/~category_id=10144 >> >> [2] https://www.krone-trailerparts.com/brems-und-luftanlage/modulatoren >> >> >> Am 13.06.17 um 18:18 schrieb Paul Mandeltort: >> >> Hey guys, anyone played with Akeneo at all for PIM (Product Information >>> Management)? >>> >>> http://demo.akeneo.com/ <http://demo.akeneo.com/> (admin/admin) >>> >>> Looks like it would complement OFBiz very nicely for managing large >>> complex catalogs. Wanted to see if anyone had any experience here with it >>> or had recommendations for similar tools. It’s open-source, but >>> unfortunately it’s a PHP stack. >>> >>> —P >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >>
