Re: Simple backend UI enhancement proposition

Posted by David E Jones on Jan 21, 2007; 8:16pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Simple-backend-UI-enhancement-proposition-tp143920p143922.html


On Jan 21, 2007, at 6:33 AM, Anil Patel wrote:

> This is great, Can we do this, Save Screen and Form definition in  
> Database
> (Sceeen and Form widget file will loaded into database.), Party Group
> Preferences set of Entities can be designed to store the  
> information like
> which field should be visible/hidden for a Party Group..
> By doing this we can customize what user sees on the Screen.

This sounds quite a bit different from what Jacques was proposing,  
but if I understand right what you are proposing this is something  
I'm happy to write long and loud against.

What would we gain by putting these things into the database?

What will we lose by putting these things into the database?

I'm interested in your thoughts so I won't answer these quite yet,  
though if you (or anyone) is interested in my answer this is  
something I've written about in the past quite a bit and you'll find  
stuff in the old mailing list archives. Still, I'd rather hear  
other's opinions about it before I express my own, just to make sure  
I don't miss anything that people might not want to say when I come  
down hard on this. As I mentioned above, I have very strong opinions  
about this and these are based on some very bad experiences.

-David