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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

OFBiz Tree widgets


OFBiz Tree widgets are widgets that automatically generate HTML unordered lists (HTML ul and li markup tags) from the specified database content and/or other XML declarations.

Tree widgets are defined in Tree widget definition files that have an XML XSD declaration as follows. Tree widget definition files may be located anywhere within an OFBiz install:

<trees xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation=
"http://ofbiz.apache.org/dtds/widget-tree.xsd">
</trees>

How to do it...

Tree widgets can be added by the following steps:

  1. 1. Create a Tree widget definition within an existing Tree widget definition file. Start with a tree name and a root-node-name attribute. The root-node-name is a trigger to OFBiz to create an HTML ul markup tag.

  2. 2. Create one or more "nodes". A tree node is created when you specify a node element.

  3. 3. Create one or more "sub-nodes".

  4. 4. Close all node and sub-node elements.

  5. 5. Save the file.

  6. 6. Add the Tree...