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Pierre Smits

Re: [jira] Commented: (OFBIZ-2118) Drop-down Applications Bar

Hi all,

Does that mean that documentation regarding visual themes
(http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Visual+Themes+-+How+to) doesn't
apply anymore?

Regards,

Pierre

2009/1/23, Bruno Busco (JIRA) <[hidden email]>:

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>
> Bruno Busco commented on OFBIZ-2118:
> ------------------------------------
>
> Hi All,
> I am happy to see you liked the new theme.
>
> David,
> I think that having the themes folder with a few themes already installed
> OOTB is a great idea indeed.
>
> This will let everybody easily test some features that only have sense when
> more themes are installed (i.e. the theme selection and new one that will
> come like, may be, theme enabling/disabling etc.)
> The OOTB themes will be usefull as living templates to develop new themes
> that will be hosted in the Gallery.
>
> Thank you for enabling me to commit to themes folder it will help.
>
>> Drop-down Applications Bar
>> --------------------------
>>
>> Key: OFBIZ-2118
>> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2118
>> Project: OFBiz
>> Issue Type: New Feature
>> Components: ALL COMPONENTS
>> Reporter: Bruno Busco
>> Assignee: David E. Jones
>> Fix For: SVN trunk
>>
>> Attachments: AppMenuDropDown.patch, AppMenuDropDown.patch,
>> AppMenuDropDown.patch, screenshot1.jpg, screenshot2.jpg, screenshot3.jpg,
>> screenshot4.jpg, screenshot5.jpg, VisualThemeMessage.patch,
>> vt_bluelight.zip, vt_bluelight.zip
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>> we have discussed several times about a new backoffice layout with
>> drop-down menus to have less crowded screens.
>> I am experimenting some solutions and I would like to show you what I came
>> to in order to discuss about it.
>> What you can see in the screenshots attached is based on an new
>> visual-theme but also on several changes in the decorators.
>> The idea is to have a breadcrumbs that is a drop-down menu also.
>> The leftmost Item is always "Home" and when the user hover on it the
>> applications menu is shown up.
>> Then the user can select an application and the application name is shown
>> in the second position of the breadcrumbs.
>> If the user hovers on it the selected application menu is shown and the
>> user can select an option that is shown in third position on breadcrumbs.
>> The idea is to have the breadcrumbs to incorporate both the applications
>> menu, the single application menu and the tab bars.
>> At the right ent of the same line of the breadcrumbs (in the white
>> background region) the actual screen name should be visible.
>> I think that this way of navigating offers to the user a complete view of
>> all applications as a whole.
>> For the moment I only attach screenshots to this jira because I need to
>> clean my code to make a presentable patch. I just want to hear if you
>> think this is a model that we can go through. If the community agrres on
>> this that I will spend more time to clean the code and submit a patch.
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Pierre Smits

Re: [jira] Commented: (OFBIZ-2118) Drop-down Applications Bar

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I love the eye candy.

Well done!

2009/1/23 Bruno Busco (JIRA) <[hidden email]>

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>
> Bruno Busco commented on OFBIZ-2118:
> ------------------------------------
>
> Hi All,
> I am happy to see you liked the new theme.
>
> David,
> I think that having the themes folder with a few themes already installed
> OOTB is a great idea indeed.
>
> This will let everybody easily test some features that only have sense when
> more themes are installed (i.e. the theme selection and new one that will
> come like, may be, theme enabling/disabling etc.)
> The OOTB themes will be usefull as living templates to develop new themes
> that will be hosted in the Gallery.
>
> Thank you for enabling me to commit to themes folder it will help.
>
> > Drop-down Applications Bar
> > --------------------------
> >
> > Key: OFBIZ-2118
> > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2118
> > Project: OFBiz
> > Issue Type: New Feature
> > Components: ALL COMPONENTS
> > Reporter: Bruno Busco
> > Assignee: David E. Jones
> > Fix For: SVN trunk
> >
> > Attachments: AppMenuDropDown.patch, AppMenuDropDown.patch,
> AppMenuDropDown.patch, screenshot1.jpg, screenshot2.jpg, screenshot3.jpg,
> screenshot4.jpg, screenshot5.jpg, VisualThemeMessage.patch,
> vt_bluelight.zip, vt_bluelight.zip
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> > we have discussed several times about a new backoffice layout with
> drop-down menus to have less crowded screens.
> > I am experimenting some solutions and I would like to show you what I
> came to in order to discuss about it.
> > What you can see in the screenshots attached is based on an new
> visual-theme but also on several changes in the decorators.
> > The idea is to have a breadcrumbs that is a drop-down menu also.
> > The leftmost Item is always "Home" and when the user hover on it the
> applications menu is shown up.
> > Then the user can select an application and the application name is shown
> in the second position of the breadcrumbs.
> > If the user hovers on it the selected application menu is shown and the
> user can select an option that is shown in third position on breadcrumbs.
> > The idea is to have the breadcrumbs to incorporate both the applications
> menu, the single application menu and the tab bars.
> > At the right ent of the same line of the breadcrumbs (in the white
> background region) the actual screen name should be visible.
> > I think that this way of navigating offers to the user a complete view of
> all applications as a whole.
> > For the moment I only attach screenshots to this jira because I need to
> clean my code to make a presentable patch. I just want to hear if you think
> this is a model that we can go through. If the community agrres on this that
> I will spend more time to clean the code and submit a patch.
>
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Nicolas Malin (Jira)

[jira] Updated: (OFBIZ-2118) Drop-down Applications Bar

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Bruno Busco updated OFBIZ-2118:
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Attachment: ReducedThemeRedundancy.patch

David,
please find attached a new patch that tryes to reduce code redundancy in the themes.

Basically a new "page-container" DIV is included in header.ftl and footer.ftl
This is generally usefull to have more control from the CSS on the page layout. This is needed for bluelight theme and does not hurt the default theme.

Doing this, the bluelight footer.ftl can simply include the default footer.ftl.

For the message.ftl I have already committed a similar change (based on include).

For the header.ftl it is not so simple becouse I added/changed more content.

A thing that we could discuss is moving the "logout" command from the AppMenu to the Header. Right now, when the bluelight theme is selected, the logout menu option is shown in the drop-down menu (that IMO is not fine) and an additional logout command is shown in the header.

I would add a new menu (i.e. headerMenu) that should contain the logout, help, visualtheme sel., language sel. and timezone sel.

Later, when we will have a user preferences page, the headerMenu should only include logout, help, and preferences options.

This menu should be defined in the CommonScreen and rendered in the header.ftl through a ${render.screen} command.

An additional improvement I am thinking (but this is more general) is to have dynamic menus working passing a map to the menu widget. I am not really very clear about this but I think that could let us have a simpler appheader.ftl.

> Drop-down Applications Bar
> --------------------------
>
> Key: OFBIZ-2118
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2118
> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: ALL COMPONENTS
> Reporter: Bruno Busco
> Assignee: David E. Jones
> Fix For: SVN trunk
>
> Attachments: AppMenuDropDown.patch, AppMenuDropDown.patch, AppMenuDropDown.patch, ReducedThemeRedundancy.patch, screenshot1.jpg, screenshot2.jpg, screenshot3.jpg, screenshot4.jpg, screenshot5.jpg, VisualThemeMessage.patch, vt_bluelight.zip, vt_bluelight.zip
>
>
> Hi all,
> we have discussed several times about a new backoffice layout with drop-down menus to have less crowded screens.
> I am experimenting some solutions and I would like to show you what I came to in order to discuss about it.
> What you can see in the screenshots attached is based on an new visual-theme but also on several changes in the decorators.
> The idea is to have a breadcrumbs that is a drop-down menu also.
> The leftmost Item is always "Home" and when the user hover on it the applications menu is shown up.
> Then the user can select an application and the application name is shown in the second position of the breadcrumbs.
> If the user hovers on it the selected application menu is shown and the user can select an option that is shown in third position on breadcrumbs.
> The idea is to have the breadcrumbs to incorporate both the applications menu, the single application menu and the tab bars.
> At the right ent of the same line of the breadcrumbs (in the white background region) the actual screen name should be visible.
> I think that this way of navigating offers to the user a complete view of all applications as a whole.
> For the moment I only attach screenshots to this jira because I need to clean my code to make a presentable patch. I just want to hear if you think this is a model that we can go through. If the community agrres on this that I will spend more time to clean the code and submit a patch.

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[jira] Reopened: (OFBIZ-2118) Drop-down Applications Bar

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Bruno Busco reopened OFBIZ-2118:
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I think my last comment to this issue has not been posted to the ML (comment on closed issue?) so I reopen it because there is an additional patch that tryes to implement a reduced code redundancy on the themes.

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Jacques Le Roux

Re: [jira] Commented: (OFBIZ-2118) Drop-down Applications Bar

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I think it has to be updated but it still mostly applies

Jacques

From: "Pierre Smits" <[hidden email]>

> Hi all,
>
> Does that mean that documentation regarding visual themes
> (http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Visual+Themes+-+How+to) doesn't
> apply anymore?
>
> Regards,
>
> Pierre
>
> 2009/1/23, Bruno Busco (JIRA) <[hidden email]>:
>>
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>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2118?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12666470#action_12666470
>> ]
>>
>> Bruno Busco commented on OFBIZ-2118:
>> ------------------------------------
>>
>> Hi All,
>> I am happy to see you liked the new theme.
>>
>> David,
>> I think that having the themes folder with a few themes already installed
>> OOTB is a great idea indeed.
>>
>> This will let everybody easily test some features that only have sense when
>> more themes are installed (i.e. the theme selection and new one that will
>> come like, may be, theme enabling/disabling etc.)
>> The OOTB themes will be usefull as living templates to develop new themes
>> that will be hosted in the Gallery.
>>
>> Thank you for enabling me to commit to themes folder it will help.
>>
>>> Drop-down Applications Bar
>>> --------------------------
>>>
>>> Key: OFBIZ-2118
>>> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2118
>>> Project: OFBiz
>>> Issue Type: New Feature
>>> Components: ALL COMPONENTS
>>> Reporter: Bruno Busco
>>> Assignee: David E. Jones
>>> Fix For: SVN trunk
>>>
>>> Attachments: AppMenuDropDown.patch, AppMenuDropDown.patch,
>>> AppMenuDropDown.patch, screenshot1.jpg, screenshot2.jpg, screenshot3.jpg,
>>> screenshot4.jpg, screenshot5.jpg, VisualThemeMessage.patch,
>>> vt_bluelight.zip, vt_bluelight.zip
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> we have discussed several times about a new backoffice layout with
>>> drop-down menus to have less crowded screens.
>>> I am experimenting some solutions and I would like to show you what I came
>>> to in order to discuss about it.
>>> What you can see in the screenshots attached is based on an new
>>> visual-theme but also on several changes in the decorators.
>>> The idea is to have a breadcrumbs that is a drop-down menu also.
>>> The leftmost Item is always "Home" and when the user hover on it the
>>> applications menu is shown up.
>>> Then the user can select an application and the application name is shown
>>> in the second position of the breadcrumbs.
>>> If the user hovers on it the selected application menu is shown and the
>>> user can select an option that is shown in third position on breadcrumbs.
>>> The idea is to have the breadcrumbs to incorporate both the applications
>>> menu, the single application menu and the tab bars.
>>> At the right ent of the same line of the breadcrumbs (in the white
>>> background region) the actual screen name should be visible.
>>> I think that this way of navigating offers to the user a complete view of
>>> all applications as a whole.
>>> For the moment I only attach screenshots to this jira because I need to
>>> clean my code to make a presentable patch. I just want to hear if you
>>> think this is a model that we can go through. If the community agrres on
>>> this that I will spend more time to clean the code and submit a patch.
>>
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[jira] Commented: (OFBIZ-2118) Drop-down Applications Bar

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Jacques Le Roux commented on OFBIZ-2118:
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I like very much this new theme. But I have the feeling that it could be even better. We should try to create an "hybrid" theme between "Chrome" and "Light-Blue".
Actually it would keep most of "Light-Blue", only one point would be mixed : we woul keep the tabs for main application. This would create a theme looking like look desktop UI (on any platform) : a main horizontal top menu (here tabs) from where you can open dropdown menus. This is only an idea I did not consider the difficulties but I guess as tabs are also menu, it should be doable. We could put another main color in place of light blue and call it "Desktop"

My early 2 cts :)

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jacques.le.roux edited comment on OFBIZ-2118 at 1/23/09 10:57 PM:
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I like very much this new theme. But I have the feeling that it could be even better. We should try to create an "hybrid" theme between "Chrome" and "Light-Blue".
Actually it would keep most of "Light-Blue", only one point would be mixed : we would keep tabs for main applications. This would create a new theme looking like look desktop UIs (on any platforms) : a main horizontal top menu (here tabs) from where you can open dropdown menus. This is only an idea, I did not consider the difficulties but I guess as tabs are also menus, it should be doable. We could put another main color in place of light blue (re-using the theme in OFBIZ-2106) and call it "Desktop"

My early 2 cts :)

Bruno, your patch is in trunk at revision: 737309 . I did not close yet, only for my "Desktop" hybrid theme idea

was (Author: jacques.le.roux):
I like very much this new theme. But I have the feeling that it could be even better. We should try to create an "hybrid" theme between "Chrome" and "Light-Blue".
Actually it would keep most of "Light-Blue", only one point would be mixed : we woul keep the tabs for main application. This would create a theme looking like look desktop UI (on any platform) : a main horizontal top menu (here tabs) from where you can open dropdown menus. This is only an idea I did not consider the difficulties but I guess as tabs are also menu, it should be doable. We could put another main color in place of light blue and call it "Desktop"

My early 2 cts :)

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> Drop-down Applications Bar
> --------------------------
>
> Key: OFBIZ-2118
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2118
> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: ALL COMPONENTS
> Reporter: Bruno Busco
> Assignee: David E. Jones
> Fix For: SVN trunk
>
> Attachments: AppMenuDropDown.patch, AppMenuDropDown.patch, AppMenuDropDown.patch, FixExampleMenu.patch, ReducedThemeRedundancy.patch, screenshot1.jpg, screenshot2.jpg, screenshot3.jpg, screenshot4.jpg, screenshot5.jpg, VisualThemeMessage.patch, vt_bluelight.zip, vt_bluelight.zip
>
>
> Hi all,
> we have discussed several times about a new backoffice layout with drop-down menus to have less crowded screens.
> I am experimenting some solutions and I would like to show you what I came to in order to discuss about it.
> What you can see in the screenshots attached is based on an new visual-theme but also on several changes in the decorators.
> The idea is to have a breadcrumbs that is a drop-down menu also.
> The leftmost Item is always "Home" and when the user hover on it the applications menu is shown up.
> Then the user can select an application and the application name is shown in the second position of the breadcrumbs.
> If the user hovers on it the selected application menu is shown and the user can select an option that is shown in third position on breadcrumbs.
> The idea is to have the breadcrumbs to incorporate both the applications menu, the single application menu and the tab bars.
> At the right ent of the same line of the breadcrumbs (in the white background region) the actual screen name should be visible.
> I think that this way of navigating offers to the user a complete view of all applications as a whole.
> For the moment I only attach screenshots to this jira because I need to clean my code to make a presentable patch. I just want to hear if you think this is a model that we can go through. If the community agrres on this that I will spend more time to clean the code and submit a patch.

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Jacques Le Roux commented on OFBIZ-2118:
----------------------------------------

Thanks Bruno,

Your patch is in trunk revision: 737505. There is also a slight issue in GoogleBase component (see Home)

> Drop-down Applications Bar
> --------------------------
>
> Key: OFBIZ-2118
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2118
> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: ALL COMPONENTS
> Reporter: Bruno Busco
> Assignee: David E. Jones
> Fix For: SVN trunk
>
> Attachments: AppMenuDropDown.patch, AppMenuDropDown.patch, AppMenuDropDown.patch, FixExampleMenu.patch, ReducedThemeRedundancy.patch, screenshot1.jpg, screenshot2.jpg, screenshot3.jpg, screenshot4.jpg, screenshot5.jpg, VisualThemeMessage.patch, vt_bluelight.zip, vt_bluelight.zip
>
>
> Hi all,
> we have discussed several times about a new backoffice layout with drop-down menus to have less crowded screens.
> I am experimenting some solutions and I would like to show you what I came to in order to discuss about it.
> What you can see in the screenshots attached is based on an new visual-theme but also on several changes in the decorators.
> The idea is to have a breadcrumbs that is a drop-down menu also.
> The leftmost Item is always "Home" and when the user hover on it the applications menu is shown up.
> Then the user can select an application and the application name is shown in the second position of the breadcrumbs.
> If the user hovers on it the selected application menu is shown and the user can select an option that is shown in third position on breadcrumbs.
> The idea is to have the breadcrumbs to incorporate both the applications menu, the single application menu and the tab bars.
> At the right ent of the same line of the breadcrumbs (in the white background region) the actual screen name should be visible.
> I think that this way of navigating offers to the user a complete view of all applications as a whole.
> For the moment I only attach screenshots to this jira because I need to clean my code to make a presentable patch. I just want to hear if you think this is a model that we can go through. If the community agrres on this that I will spend more time to clean the code and submit a patch.

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Jacques Le Roux commented on OFBIZ-2118:
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Forget it, I did not update, all is OK

> Drop-down Applications Bar
> --------------------------
>
> Key: OFBIZ-2118
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2118
> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: ALL COMPONENTS
> Reporter: Bruno Busco
> Assignee: David E. Jones
> Fix For: SVN trunk
>
> Attachments: AppMenuDropDown.patch, AppMenuDropDown.patch, AppMenuDropDown.patch, FixExampleMenu.patch, ReducedThemeRedundancy.patch, screenshot1.jpg, screenshot2.jpg, screenshot3.jpg, screenshot4.jpg, screenshot5.jpg, VisualThemeMessage.patch, vt_bluelight.zip, vt_bluelight.zip
>
>
> Hi all,
> we have discussed several times about a new backoffice layout with drop-down menus to have less crowded screens.
> I am experimenting some solutions and I would like to show you what I came to in order to discuss about it.
> What you can see in the screenshots attached is based on an new visual-theme but also on several changes in the decorators.
> The idea is to have a breadcrumbs that is a drop-down menu also.
> The leftmost Item is always "Home" and when the user hover on it the applications menu is shown up.
> Then the user can select an application and the application name is shown in the second position of the breadcrumbs.
> If the user hovers on it the selected application menu is shown and the user can select an option that is shown in third position on breadcrumbs.
> The idea is to have the breadcrumbs to incorporate both the applications menu, the single application menu and the tab bars.
> At the right ent of the same line of the breadcrumbs (in the white background region) the actual screen name should be visible.
> I think that this way of navigating offers to the user a complete view of all applications as a whole.
> For the moment I only attach screenshots to this jira because I need to clean my code to make a presentable patch. I just want to hear if you think this is a model that we can go through. If the community agrres on this that I will spend more time to clean the code and submit a patch.

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[jira] Closed: (OFBIZ-2118) Drop-down Applications Bar

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Jacques Le Roux closed OFBIZ-2118.
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Resolution: Fixed

Finally I close this issue because I think that if we add more and more top level applications it will not make sense to have an horizontal menu which will have to be line wrapped .

Currently we have a Windows Start model UI, or rather a Gnome desktop model but with a sole entry point (Home).

We could, like IMO it's done elegantly in Ubunut/Gnome, have more entries point namely:
* Top Level Applications
* Addon Applications (better name ?)
* System Applications
* etc.

I put this in proposition [New Features Roadmap Living Document|http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/New+Features+Roadmap+-+Living+Document]

> Drop-down Applications Bar
> --------------------------
>
> Key: OFBIZ-2118
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2118
> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: ALL COMPONENTS
> Reporter: Bruno Busco
> Assignee: David E. Jones
> Fix For: SVN trunk
>
> Attachments: AppMenuDropDown.patch, AppMenuDropDown.patch, AppMenuDropDown.patch, FixExampleMenu.patch, ReducedThemeRedundancy.patch, screenshot1.jpg, screenshot2.jpg, screenshot3.jpg, screenshot4.jpg, screenshot5.jpg, VisualThemeMessage.patch, vt_bluelight.zip, vt_bluelight.zip
>
>
> Hi all,
> we have discussed several times about a new backoffice layout with drop-down menus to have less crowded screens.
> I am experimenting some solutions and I would like to show you what I came to in order to discuss about it.
> What you can see in the screenshots attached is based on an new visual-theme but also on several changes in the decorators.
> The idea is to have a breadcrumbs that is a drop-down menu also.
> The leftmost Item is always "Home" and when the user hover on it the applications menu is shown up.
> Then the user can select an application and the application name is shown in the second position of the breadcrumbs.
> If the user hovers on it the selected application menu is shown and the user can select an option that is shown in third position on breadcrumbs.
> The idea is to have the breadcrumbs to incorporate both the applications menu, the single application menu and the tab bars.
> At the right ent of the same line of the breadcrumbs (in the white background region) the actual screen name should be visible.
> I think that this way of navigating offers to the user a complete view of all applications as a whole.
> For the moment I only attach screenshots to this jira because I need to clean my code to make a presentable patch. I just want to hear if you think this is a model that we can go through. If the community agrres on this that I will spend more time to clean the code and submit a patch.

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Ryan Foster commented on OFBIZ-2118:
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Bruno,
I have worked up a relatively simple javascript fix for your dropdown menu for IE, just include the following:

var DropDownMenu = Class.create();
DropDownMenu.prototype = {
initialize: function(menuElement) {
menuElement.childElements().each(function(node){
// if there is a submenu
var submenu = $A(node.getElementsByTagName("ul")).first();
if(submenu != null){
// make sub-menu invisible
Element.extend(submenu).setStyle({display: 'none'});
// toggle the visibility of the submenu
node.onmouseover = node.onmouseout = function(){
Element.toggle(submenu);
}
}
});
}
};

Event.observe(window, "load", function(){
var mainmenu = new DropDownMenu($('main-navigation'));
var appmenu = new DropDownMenu($('app-navigation'));
});

I have attached a js file and patch for your to implement. Let me know if you have any questions.

> Drop-down Applications Bar
> --------------------------
>
> Key: OFBIZ-2118
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2118
> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: ALL COMPONENTS
> Reporter: Bruno Busco
> Assignee: David E. Jones
> Fix For: SVN trunk
>
> Attachments: AppMenuDropDown.patch, AppMenuDropDown.patch, AppMenuDropDown.patch, bluelightdropdownfix.patch, FixExampleMenu.patch, ReducedThemeRedundancy.patch, screenshot1.jpg, screenshot2.jpg, screenshot3.jpg, screenshot4.jpg, screenshot5.jpg, VisualThemeMessage.patch, vt_bluelight.zip, vt_bluelight.zip
>
>
> Hi all,
> we have discussed several times about a new backoffice layout with drop-down menus to have less crowded screens.
> I am experimenting some solutions and I would like to show you what I came to in order to discuss about it.
> What you can see in the screenshots attached is based on an new visual-theme but also on several changes in the decorators.
> The idea is to have a breadcrumbs that is a drop-down menu also.
> The leftmost Item is always "Home" and when the user hover on it the applications menu is shown up.
> Then the user can select an application and the application name is shown in the second position of the breadcrumbs.
> If the user hovers on it the selected application menu is shown and the user can select an option that is shown in third position on breadcrumbs.
> The idea is to have the breadcrumbs to incorporate both the applications menu, the single application menu and the tab bars.
> At the right ent of the same line of the breadcrumbs (in the white background region) the actual screen name should be visible.
> I think that this way of navigating offers to the user a complete view of all applications as a whole.
> For the moment I only attach screenshots to this jira because I need to clean my code to make a presentable patch. I just want to hear if you think this is a model that we can go through. If the community agrres on this that I will spend more time to clean the code and submit a patch.

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Ryan Foster updated OFBIZ-2118:
-------------------------------

Attachment: bluelightdropdownfix.patch

patch to fix dropdown menu in bluelight theme for IE

> Drop-down Applications Bar
> --------------------------
>
> Key: OFBIZ-2118
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2118
> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: ALL COMPONENTS
> Reporter: Bruno Busco
> Assignee: David E. Jones
> Fix For: SVN trunk
>
> Attachments: AppMenuDropDown.patch, AppMenuDropDown.patch, AppMenuDropDown.patch, bluelightdropdownfix.patch, FixExampleMenu.patch, ReducedThemeRedundancy.patch, screenshot1.jpg, screenshot2.jpg, screenshot3.jpg, screenshot4.jpg, screenshot5.jpg, VisualThemeMessage.patch, vt_bluelight.zip, vt_bluelight.zip
>
>
> Hi all,
> we have discussed several times about a new backoffice layout with drop-down menus to have less crowded screens.
> I am experimenting some solutions and I would like to show you what I came to in order to discuss about it.
> What you can see in the screenshots attached is based on an new visual-theme but also on several changes in the decorators.
> The idea is to have a breadcrumbs that is a drop-down menu also.
> The leftmost Item is always "Home" and when the user hover on it the applications menu is shown up.
> Then the user can select an application and the application name is shown in the second position of the breadcrumbs.
> If the user hovers on it the selected application menu is shown and the user can select an option that is shown in third position on breadcrumbs.
> The idea is to have the breadcrumbs to incorporate both the applications menu, the single application menu and the tab bars.
> At the right ent of the same line of the breadcrumbs (in the white background region) the actual screen name should be visible.
> I think that this way of navigating offers to the user a complete view of all applications as a whole.
> For the moment I only attach screenshots to this jira because I need to clean my code to make a presentable patch. I just want to hear if you think this is a model that we can go through. If the community agrres on this that I will spend more time to clean the code and submit a patch.

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Ryan Foster updated OFBIZ-2118:
-------------------------------

Attachment: dropdown.js

Javascript file to fix dropdown menu in bluelight theme for IE.

> Drop-down Applications Bar
> --------------------------
>
> Key: OFBIZ-2118
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2118
> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: ALL COMPONENTS
> Reporter: Bruno Busco
> Assignee: David E. Jones
> Fix For: SVN trunk
>
> Attachments: AppMenuDropDown.patch, AppMenuDropDown.patch, AppMenuDropDown.patch, bluelightdropdownfix.patch, dropdown.js, FixExampleMenu.patch, ReducedThemeRedundancy.patch, screenshot1.jpg, screenshot2.jpg, screenshot3.jpg, screenshot4.jpg, screenshot5.jpg, VisualThemeMessage.patch, vt_bluelight.zip, vt_bluelight.zip
>
>
> Hi all,
> we have discussed several times about a new backoffice layout with drop-down menus to have less crowded screens.
> I am experimenting some solutions and I would like to show you what I came to in order to discuss about it.
> What you can see in the screenshots attached is based on an new visual-theme but also on several changes in the decorators.
> The idea is to have a breadcrumbs that is a drop-down menu also.
> The leftmost Item is always "Home" and when the user hover on it the applications menu is shown up.
> Then the user can select an application and the application name is shown in the second position of the breadcrumbs.
> If the user hovers on it the selected application menu is shown and the user can select an option that is shown in third position on breadcrumbs.
> The idea is to have the breadcrumbs to incorporate both the applications menu, the single application menu and the tab bars.
> At the right ent of the same line of the breadcrumbs (in the white background region) the actual screen name should be visible.
> I think that this way of navigating offers to the user a complete view of all applications as a whole.
> For the moment I only attach screenshots to this jira because I need to clean my code to make a presentable patch. I just want to hear if you think this is a model that we can go through. If the community agrres on this that I will spend more time to clean the code and submit a patch.

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David E. Jones commented on OFBIZ-2118:
---------------------------------------

Ryan,

A few tips based on the contributor best practices documented here:

http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/OFBiz+Contributors+Best+Practices

1. put new patches in new issues, especially when the existing issue is already committed and closed (like in this case the issue is closed, so the patch is a fix of existing functionality and should be in a separate issue)

2. always create patches from the ofbiz home directory so that it can be applied with a "patch -p 0 < mychanges.patch" type of command from the ofbiz home/root directory

3. new files don't need to be attached separately, and in this case it looks like it is included in the main patch (as long as you do an "svn add" before doing the "svn diff" then it will be fine

> Drop-down Applications Bar
> --------------------------
>
> Key: OFBIZ-2118
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2118
> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: ALL COMPONENTS
> Reporter: Bruno Busco
> Assignee: David E. Jones
> Fix For: SVN trunk
>
> Attachments: AppMenuDropDown.patch, AppMenuDropDown.patch, AppMenuDropDown.patch, bluelightdropdownfix.patch, dropdown.js, FixExampleMenu.patch, ReducedThemeRedundancy.patch, screenshot1.jpg, screenshot2.jpg, screenshot3.jpg, screenshot4.jpg, screenshot5.jpg, VisualThemeMessage.patch, vt_bluelight.zip, vt_bluelight.zip
>
>
> Hi all,
> we have discussed several times about a new backoffice layout with drop-down menus to have less crowded screens.
> I am experimenting some solutions and I would like to show you what I came to in order to discuss about it.
> What you can see in the screenshots attached is based on an new visual-theme but also on several changes in the decorators.
> The idea is to have a breadcrumbs that is a drop-down menu also.
> The leftmost Item is always "Home" and when the user hover on it the applications menu is shown up.
> Then the user can select an application and the application name is shown in the second position of the breadcrumbs.
> If the user hovers on it the selected application menu is shown and the user can select an option that is shown in third position on breadcrumbs.
> The idea is to have the breadcrumbs to incorporate both the applications menu, the single application menu and the tab bars.
> At the right ent of the same line of the breadcrumbs (in the white background region) the actual screen name should be visible.
> I think that this way of navigating offers to the user a complete view of all applications as a whole.
> For the moment I only attach screenshots to this jira because I need to clean my code to make a presentable patch. I just want to hear if you think this is a model that we can go through. If the community agrres on this that I will spend more time to clean the code and submit a patch.

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David E. Jones commented on OFBIZ-2118:
---------------------------------------

I was going to apply this patch, but it doesn't seem to cause anything to use the dropdown.js file. Is that correct?

Perhaps the best thing is to follow my recommendations above, including creating a new patch, and also please make sure the patch is complete so that changes to existing artifacts are included to use any new code (unless I'm missing something and it is used somehow...).

> Drop-down Applications Bar
> --------------------------
>
> Key: OFBIZ-2118
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2118
> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: ALL COMPONENTS
> Reporter: Bruno Busco
> Assignee: David E. Jones
> Fix For: SVN trunk
>
> Attachments: AppMenuDropDown.patch, AppMenuDropDown.patch, AppMenuDropDown.patch, bluelightdropdownfix.patch, dropdown.js, FixExampleMenu.patch, ReducedThemeRedundancy.patch, screenshot1.jpg, screenshot2.jpg, screenshot3.jpg, screenshot4.jpg, screenshot5.jpg, VisualThemeMessage.patch, vt_bluelight.zip, vt_bluelight.zip
>
>
> Hi all,
> we have discussed several times about a new backoffice layout with drop-down menus to have less crowded screens.
> I am experimenting some solutions and I would like to show you what I came to in order to discuss about it.
> What you can see in the screenshots attached is based on an new visual-theme but also on several changes in the decorators.
> The idea is to have a breadcrumbs that is a drop-down menu also.
> The leftmost Item is always "Home" and when the user hover on it the applications menu is shown up.
> Then the user can select an application and the application name is shown in the second position of the breadcrumbs.
> If the user hovers on it the selected application menu is shown and the user can select an option that is shown in third position on breadcrumbs.
> The idea is to have the breadcrumbs to incorporate both the applications menu, the single application menu and the tab bars.
> At the right ent of the same line of the breadcrumbs (in the white background region) the actual screen name should be visible.
> I think that this way of navigating offers to the user a complete view of all applications as a whole.
> For the moment I only attach screenshots to this jira because I need to clean my code to make a presentable patch. I just want to hear if you think this is a model that we can go through. If the community agrres on this that I will spend more time to clean the code and submit a patch.

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Ryan Foster commented on OFBIZ-2118:
------------------------------------

Thanks for the info David. I have created a new issue with a new patch and linked this issue to it. This new patch should work now. I did an svn add to the dropdown.js file so it should be included. I also included the js file into the header using the theme's BlueLightThemeData.xml, which seems to be a better way of including:

<VisualThemeResource visualThemeId="BLUELIGHT" resourceTypeEnumId="VT_HDR_JAVASCRIPT" resourceValue="/bluelight/dropdown.js" sequenceId="01"/>

Please let me know if this works for you. Thanks.

> Drop-down Applications Bar
> --------------------------
>
> Key: OFBIZ-2118
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2118
> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: ALL COMPONENTS
> Reporter: Bruno Busco
> Assignee: David E. Jones
> Fix For: SVN trunk
>
> Attachments: AppMenuDropDown.patch, AppMenuDropDown.patch, AppMenuDropDown.patch, bluelightdropdownfix.patch, dropdown.js, FixExampleMenu.patch, ReducedThemeRedundancy.patch, screenshot1.jpg, screenshot2.jpg, screenshot3.jpg, screenshot4.jpg, screenshot5.jpg, VisualThemeMessage.patch, vt_bluelight.zip, vt_bluelight.zip
>
>
> Hi all,
> we have discussed several times about a new backoffice layout with drop-down menus to have less crowded screens.
> I am experimenting some solutions and I would like to show you what I came to in order to discuss about it.
> What you can see in the screenshots attached is based on an new visual-theme but also on several changes in the decorators.
> The idea is to have a breadcrumbs that is a drop-down menu also.
> The leftmost Item is always "Home" and when the user hover on it the applications menu is shown up.
> Then the user can select an application and the application name is shown in the second position of the breadcrumbs.
> If the user hovers on it the selected application menu is shown and the user can select an option that is shown in third position on breadcrumbs.
> The idea is to have the breadcrumbs to incorporate both the applications menu, the single application menu and the tab bars.
> At the right ent of the same line of the breadcrumbs (in the white background region) the actual screen name should be visible.
> I think that this way of navigating offers to the user a complete view of all applications as a whole.
> For the moment I only attach screenshots to this jira because I need to clean my code to make a presentable patch. I just want to hear if you think this is a model that we can go through. If the community agrres on this that I will spend more time to clean the code and submit a patch.

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