[OFBiz] Dev - UI Idea

[Adrian Crum]

I put the "Printable" link in the application's tab bar (header.ftl) 
just to the left of the Logout button. That way it is always available.

I modified our main decorator to eliminate the main application menu 
(the application tabs) when printable=Y. Then each page has conditional 
logic to remove non-essential information when printable=Y.

I'm not sure how screen widgets would work either. We're just using them 
to grab bsh and ftl files from different places.


bjfree at free-man.net wrote:
> I like the idea, 
> not sure how to implement the coding for the page.
> No sure if their would be a way to pass this to the screen widget and have
> it do a different decorator but same content.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrian Crum [mailto:adrianc at hlmksw.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 1:53 AM
> To: OFBiz Project Development Discussion (High Traffic)
> Subject: [OFBiz] Dev - UI Idea
> 
> 
> I've implemented an idea here that I thought I would share with the 
> group and see if there is any interest in including it in the project.
> 
> When I visit websites, I really like the ability on some pages to click 
> on a "Printable Version" link and have a stripped down version of the 
> page appear - so that it can be printed.
> 
> We implemented that here in OFBiz using two strategies: 1. Have all 
> pages test for a printable=Y request parameter and suppress 
> non-printable content when it exists, 2. Edit pages so that a Printable 
> Version link is available.
> 
> In FTL it looks like this:
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> <#assign currentURL = request.getRequestURL()>
> <#assign queryString = "?" + request.getQueryString()?default("")>
> ...
> ...
> <#if queryString?contains("&printable=Y")>
>    <a 
> href="${currentURL}${queryString?replace("&printable=Y","")}">Normal 
> Version</a>
> <#else>
>    <a href="${currentURL}${queryString}&printable=Y">Printable Version</a>
> </#if>
> ...
> ...
> <#if !printable?exists>
>    <br>Non-printable content<br>
> </#if>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> All we need to do is agree on whether or not the project will support 
> the printable request parameter, then each developer can accomodate it 
> as changes are made to the project. In other words, there is no need to 
> do any major rewriting of existing code - just include it as changes are 
> submitted or in future work.
> 
> 
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