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Apache OfBiz Cookbook

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Apache OfBiz Cookbook

Overview of this book

Apache Open For Business (OFBiz) is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that provides a common data model and an extensive set of business processes. But without proper guidance on developing performance-critical applications, it is easy to make the wrong design and technology decisions. The power and promise of Apache OFBiz is comprehensively revealed in a collection of self-contained, quick, practical recipes in this Cookbook. This book covers a range of topics from initial system setup to web application and HTML page creation, Java development, and data maintenance tasks. Focusing on a series of the most commonly performed OFBiz tasks, it provides clear, cogent, and easy-to-follow instructions designed to make the most of your OFBiz experience. Let this book be your guide to enhancing your OFBiz productivity by saving you valuable time. Written specifically to give clear and straightforward answers to the most commonly asked OFBiz questions, this compendium of OFBiz recipes will show you everything you need to know to get things done in OFBiz. Whether you are new to OFBiz or an old pro, you are sure to find many useful hints and handy tips here. Topics range from getting started to configuration and system setup, security and database management through the final stages of developing and testing new OFBiz applications.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Apache OFBiz Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Platform-specific widgets


Platform-specific widgets are used to specify HTML templates. Currently, the only HTML template type supported are FreeMarker templates. There are two types of FreeMarker templates supported: HTML and XSL Formatting Objects (or XSL-FO) templates with markup to generate PDFs.

How to do it...

HTML platform-specific templates can be specified by following these steps:

  1. 1. Open a Screen widget definition file.

  2. 2. Locate a screen definition within the Screen widget definition file.

  3. 3. Create a platform-specific element within the widgets element. If a widgets element does not exist, create one.

  4. 4. To add an HTML FreeMarker file, create an html element.

  5. 5. To specify a FreeMarker template with XSL-FO markup, add an xsl-fo element beneath the platform-specific element.

  6. 6. Close all elements with end tags.

  7. 7. Save and close the file.

  8. 8. Test as appropriate.

How it works...

Platform-specific widgets point to FreeMarker template files. Since any widget may be located anywhere within...