Posted by
Arash Kaffamanesh on
Aug 31, 2005; 9:28pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/OFBiz-Users-would-like-to-change-the-content-management-component-of-OfBiz-tp135715p135723.html
Al,
Dear All,
Thank you for the clear explanation.
I have to apologize for my silly suggestions, at meanwhile I'm
convinced to let the CMS as it is and improve it as you've suggested.
But my problem is that I've no FreeMarker experience and have been away
from OfBiz for more than 1 1/2 years, therefor I'm going to outsource my
current OfBiz projects to solution providers and core developers and it
would
be grate if I could manage raise funding the further development of the
current CMS,
as Andrew wisely suggested.
Thanks to you, Andrew and all of you oversees nice guys ;-)
Kind Regards from Berlin,
Arash
-----Original Message-----
From:
[hidden email]
[mailto:
[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Al Byers
Sent: Mittwoch, 31. August 2005 20:24
To: OFBiz Users / Usage Discussion
Subject: Re: [OFBiz] Users - would like to changethe
contentmanagementcomponent of OfBiz
Arash and others,
I apologize for not getting involved sooner; I have had my head down and
will for a little while longer. Having coded most of the CMS (using
David's design), I am the first to admit that it needs a lot of work and
functionality added. There is more there than it might seem and I
strongly reject the idea of trying to integrate third-party packages.
While OFBiz embraces many foundation technologies, trying to integrate a
non-native application would be both difficult and would negate so many
of the advantages of having an app built from one cohesive framework.
Much of what you want is there, though not documented and not fully
developed. The widget-tree components are there to provide a flexible
tree structure environment. It is used in the Community specialized app.
The CMS tools have strong templating capabilities built in. See the
ecommerce app for an example. Look at the webapp/ecommerce/content dir.
The tpl_mb_content.ftl is a good example of using the XSL-like
capabilities of FreeMarker to format content. I admit that it is complex
- I can't even tell you how it is called without spend considerable
amount of time looking thru the code -, but it is powerful.
We did have some template construction pages working at one time. I
think they have lapsed when we moved from JPublish to "widget"
technology. The extent to which the CMS has been integrated with the
widget technology and the possibilities that still exist there, is very
promising.
The "Community" app has a rough example of trying to use CMS for
blogging. I would love to see RSS added to it.
I have been away from CMS for awhile and have forgotten quite a bit (at
my age, that does not have to be a very long time), but I am getting
some work that should reacquaint me with it. I don't think it could be
used to fill in the CMS holes, but it should allow me to make more of a
contribution.
I don't think that I can contribute much to the effort without funding -
I got tapped out with the previous effort. But I would be willing to
explain how things should work to anyone that wants to get involved.
-Al Byers
Arash Kaffamanesh wrote:
>Andrew, Dear all,
>
>
>
>>What sort of functionality are you looking for?
>>
>>
>
>The main things, which I would like to have is:
>
>The CMS should provide a wysiwyg editor with direct edit function (make
>use of existing wysiwyg editors like HTMLArea or fckEdit, Kupu). All
>articles shall be listed in a hierarchical tree (explorer like tree).
>The CMS should provide a templating engine.
>The CMS should provide a cms taglib library.
>The CMS shall be able to export / import articles in RSS format (nice
to
>have).
>The CMS should provide pre defined, easy to change templates.
>...
>
>
>
>>Would you be interested in helping raise funding to develop a pure
>>
>>
>OfBiz CMS?
>
>Yes, but I think developing a pure CMS Solution from scratch is not a
>trivial task and therefor it would be wise to use existing components
>from other mature CM systems like OpenCms or Magnolia (JSR 170
>compliant) or think about integrating Jakarta Slide, JackRabbit
>(
http://incubator.apache.org/jackrabbit/) into OfBiz :-).
>
>May be the existing OfBiz CMS component could be developed further
>through core developers or other solution providers, who have enough
>experience with these frameworks.
>
>I would like to know how the OfBiz core developers think about this
>issue.
>
>Best Regards from Berlin,
>Arash
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:
[hidden email]
>[mailto:
[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Andrew Sykes
>Sent: Mittwoch, 31. August 2005 00:26
>To: OFBiz Users / Usage Discussion
>Subject: RE: [OFBiz] Users - would like to change the
>contentmanagementcomponent of OfBiz
>
>
>Arash, Everyone,
>
>I think you've probably hit on one of the major hurdles to adoption of
>OfBiz for a lot of people.
>
>I know that in my own experience people have taken a look at the CMS
>and either said "how the hell does this work" or worse "this doesn't
>work!".
>
>I know we could make much more use of OfBiz here if there was a more
>mature CMS.
>
>What sort of functionality are you looking for?
>
>Would you be interested in helping raise funding to develop a pure
>OfBiz CMS?
>
>
_______________________________________________
Users mailing list
[hidden email] http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/users
_______________________________________________
Users mailing list
[hidden email]
http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/users