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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

Chapter 3. The User Interface

In this chapter, we shall examine the following User Interface topics:

  • Building HTML web pages using the OFBiz Screen widget tool

  • Adding actions to Screen widget definitions

  • Adding HTML (and CSS) markup within Screen widget definitions

  • Platform-specific, Tree, Menu, and Form widgets

  • Creating HTML using FreeMarker

  • Passing parameters from the Screen widget to FreeMarker

  • Writing JavaScript to pop-up a new browser window in FreeMarker

  • Calling Java methods using FreeMarker directives

  • Forcing FreeMarker to render HTML markup

  • Uploading files from FreeMarker

Introduction

Users communicate with OFBiz webapps using an off-the-shelf web browser. To build a User Interface (UI) for an OFBiz webapp is to build one or more HTML web pages destined for consumption by a web browser. While OFBiz provides several mechanisms for building HTML web pages, the suggested best practice is to use the OFBiz Screen widget tool to create OFBiz "screens". This tool takes an OFBiz Screen widget configuration...