Best practise for customizing layout

[Wojciech Gdela]

Hello,

Currently I'm customizing layout in my OFBiz application. At the
beginning followed the best practise with CVS Branching/Merging
described in
http://incubator.apache.org/ofbiz/best-practices.html#Differences. Then
I reworked many *.ftl files to change layout, colors, etc - a whole new
look and feel. Now when I try to merge new version of OFBiz CVS shows
many conflicts in those files. Resolving them manualy is a nightmare.

I wonder if anyone has a better way to do complex layout customization?

--
Best regards,
Wojciech Gdela.

[Adrian Crum]

It's best to put your custom UI in a separate component - that way SVN updates
won't affect it. Just copy the existing UI files into your own component, then
modify them.


Wojciech Gdela wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Currently I'm customizing layout in my OFBiz application. At the
> beginning followed the best practise with CVS Branching/Merging
> described in
> http://incubator.apache.org/ofbiz/best-practices.html#Differences. Then
> I reworked many *.ftl files to change layout, colors, etc - a whole new
> look and feel. Now when I try to merge new version of OFBiz CVS shows
> many conflicts in those files. Resolving them manualy is a nightmare.
>
> I wonder if anyone has a better way to do complex layout customization?
>

[cjhowe]

Depending on how far off your customization is from
the ecommerce app you may be better off following this
approach:

http://ofbizwiki.go-integral.com/Wiki.jsp?page=FAQ28

If you follow the difference approach you won't need
to maintain files that you haven't modified.  If you
copy the entire ecommerce app and modify that copy,
you won't benefit from any advancements in the
ecommerce application.

--- Wojciech Gdela <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Currently I'm customizing layout in my OFBiz
> application. At the
> beginning followed the best practise with CVS
> Branching/Merging
> described in
>
http://incubator.apache.org/ofbiz/best-practices.html#Differences.

> Then
> I reworked many *.ftl files to change layout,
> colors, etc - a whole new
> look and feel. Now when I try to merge new version
> of OFBiz CVS shows
> many conflicts in those files. Resolving them
> manualy is a nightmare.
>
> I wonder if anyone has a better way to do complex
> layout customization?
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Wojciech Gdela.
>
>