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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 web pages using FreeMarker


Some people find writing XML code to create HTML counterintuitive. For those who choose not to use OFBiz widgets but would rather write HTML directly using FreeMarker, this section is for you.

Getting ready

The following prerequisites are needed to be taken care of:

  1. 1. At a minimum, you will need to define a Screen widget with a widgets element declaration pointing to your FreeMarker template file.

  2. 2. For any required data preparation, add declarations to the actions portion of the Screen widget definition.

  3. 3. If needed, create any Groovy or BeanShell scripts in preparation for screen rendering.

  4. 4. Open an existing FreeMarker file or create a new one.

How to do it...

Add HTML and/or FreeMarker directives to your file. For example, a simple web page that displays "Hello World" might have the following content:

<html xmls="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="<@ofbizContentUrl>/images/default.css</@ofbizContentUrl...