Users - Guidance on Widgets vs FTLs
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This is a good general guideline. The only real exception is the ecommerce webapp which is meant to be more easily customize for a specific look and feel because it is customer facing where such things are more important. In general with the layout and such is critical, plain old HTML-based templates (in FTL files) are the way to go. -David On Feb 25, 2006, at 11:07 AM, Al Byers wrote: > Vinay, > > Having coded a good bit of the widget functionality, I am partial > to it. > I do believe that it is the way that OFBiz will be going. We are > trying > to switch all screens to it. The goal is always to reduce code size > while preserving flexibility. Since you can always call .ftl templates > from within widget screens, there is not much reason not to use it. > > The multi-levels of the decorator screen includes makes it > practical to > have a fairly complex UI framework. Trying to do the same thing > without > using widget technology would get messy. > > Also, I believe that having your entire UI codebase in XML will > make for > some powerful generation and maintenance scripts down the road. > > -Al > > Vinay Agarwal wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I used ecommerce as base for my application which uses FTLs for most >> screens instead of form widgets. I have built about 20 or so screens >> (about 10% of total task) using FTLs based on ecommerce css but >> having >> increasing difficulty in making their output predictable. I am not >> looking for any “slick” screens, just some clean and professional >> looking interface. I am looking for guidance on the direction I >> should >> take. >> >> Option 1. Switch to form widgets since 90% work remains. >> >> Option 2. Stay with FTL since they potentially allow ultimate >> customization of screens. >> >> Other options? >> >> I would appreciate your suggestions. >> >> Regards, >> >> Vinay Agarwal >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> [hidden email] >> http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [hidden email] > http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/users |
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Re: Users - Guidance on Widgets vs FTLs
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In reply to this post by Vinay Agarwal
The easiest one is the "example" component... -David On Feb 26, 2006, at 8:52 AM, Vinay Agarwal wrote: > I have decided to go with form widgets. Which application should I > use as > base of how to do things? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [hidden email] [mailto:users- > [hidden email]] > On Behalf Of David E. Jones > Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 10:15 AM > To: OFBiz Users / Usage Discussion > Subject: Re: [OFBiz] Users - Guidance on Widgets vs FTLs > > > This is a good general guideline. The only real exception is the > ecommerce webapp which is meant to be more easily customize for a > specific look and feel because it is customer facing where such > things are more important. In general with the layout and such is > critical, plain old HTML-based templates (in FTL files) are the way > to go. > > -David > > > On Feb 25, 2006, at 11:07 AM, Al Byers wrote: > >> Vinay, >> >> Having coded a good bit of the widget functionality, I am partial >> to it. >> I do believe that it is the way that OFBiz will be going. We are >> trying >> to switch all screens to it. The goal is always to reduce code size >> while preserving flexibility. Since you can always call .ftl >> templates >> from within widget screens, there is not much reason not to use it. >> >> The multi-levels of the decorator screen includes makes it >> practical to >> have a fairly complex UI framework. Trying to do the same thing >> without >> using widget technology would get messy. >> >> Also, I believe that having your entire UI codebase in XML will >> make for >> some powerful generation and maintenance scripts down the road. >> >> -Al >> >> Vinay Agarwal wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I used ecommerce as base for my application which uses FTLs for most >>> screens instead of form widgets. I have built about 20 or so screens >>> (about 10% of total task) using FTLs based on ecommerce css but >>> having >>> increasing difficulty in making their output predictable. I am not >>> looking for any "slick" screens, just some clean and professional >>> looking interface. I am looking for guidance on the direction I >>> should >>> take. >>> >>> Option 1. Switch to form widgets since 90% work remains. >>> >>> Option 2. Stay with FTL since they potentially allow ultimate >>> customization of screens. >>> >>> Other options? >>> >>> I would appreciate your suggestions. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Vinay Agarwal >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> - >>> --- >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list >>> [hidden email] >>> http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/users >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> [hidden email] >> http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [hidden email] > http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/users |
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