Re: Simple backend UI enhancement proposition

Posted by Anil Patel on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Simple-backend-UI-enhancement-proposition-tp143920p143925.html

yes we can also say that. true.



On 1/21/07, David E. Jones <[hidden email]> wrote:

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> So, you're thinking of more of a permission system?
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> -David
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> On Jan 21, 2007, at 9:10 PM, Anil Patel wrote:
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> > If we have Form meta data in Database then we can enhance the screen
> > rendering system to read field visibility attribute from the database.
> > So lets say, userLogin.userId belongs to Casher User group. So when
> > rendering a ScreenA::FormX, System will look for visibility
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> > fields on FormX as part of ScreenA for Casher userGroup.
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> > I have seen PeopleSoft does this.
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> > Regards
> > Anil Patel
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> > On 1/21/07, David E. Jones <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> >> On Jan 21, 2007, at 6:33 AM, Anil Patel wrote:
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> >> > This is great, Can we do this, Save Screen and Form definition in
> >> > Database
> >> > (Sceeen and Form widget file will loaded into database.), Party
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> >> > 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.
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> >> 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.
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> >> What would we gain by putting these things into the database?
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> >> What will we lose by putting these things into the database?
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> >> 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.
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> >> -David
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