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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

Creating an OFBiz Visual Theme


In OFBiz release 9.04, support for Visual Themes has been extended to allow users to define and install themes of their own creation. Creating a new Visual Theme is as straightforward as creating an OFBiz Component.

Getting ready

As with most OFBiz endeavors, it is often easiest to copy an existing theme and then make changes to the copied resources. To get started, use the following theme checklist to determine values for your new Visual Theme:

New theme checklist

  

Value

Example

Usage

Theme To Copy From

BlueLight

Select an existing OFBiz 9.04 theme. Themes distributed with the download are found in the themes directory located directly beneath the OFBiz installation top-level directory. Any Visual Theme is sufficient to use as a source to copy from.

New Theme Name

myTheme

Choose a name for the new theme. Any name—as a combination of 20 ASCII characters or less and no spaces—will work.

New Component Name

myTheme

Usually, the new Component...