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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

HTML markup in Screen widgets


The widgets element within a Screen widget definition may contain one or more XML statements defining an HTML markup tag. In the cases where it isn't practical to call another widget or a FreeMarker template, you may want to insert one or more HTML directives within the Screen widget definition.

How to do it...

Adding HTML markup is as simple as the following:

  1. 1. Within any widgets element, add one or more XML statements with HTML markup. Example XML HTML markup elements include: label, container, and link.

  2. 2. Close all HTML markup elements with respective end tags.

  3. 3. Save and close the file.

Note

Note: The addition of HTML markup to a widget is immediate. You do not need to restart OFBiz.

How it works..

HTML markup statements are interpreted inline (and in the order in which they are written) as the screen handler parses the screen's definition. There is a one-to-one translation between the XML-wrapped HTML markup and the target HTML output.

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