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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

Passing Screen widget parameters to FreeMarker


It is possible to pass context information, such as the name of a screen, to a FreeMarker template and/or a Groovy script directly from the Screen widget definition.

How to do it...

Context information can be passed to FreeMarker in the following way:

  1. 1. Under the actions element within a Screen widget definition, add one/more set elements with the field attribute set to the name of the variable and the value attribute set to the value of the variable.

  2. 2. Retrieve this variable using the name specified in step 1.

How it works

Setting field values using the earlier method places the named variable with its value within the execution context. Once in the context, the FreeMarker rendering engine and any other screen rendering artifact, including any OFBiz widget, has access to it.

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For example, to add an action to set a context variable named myScreenVariable, you might code something like the following:

<actions>
<set field="myScreenVariable...