Posted by
Jacques Le Roux on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Simple-backend-UI-enhancement-proposition-tp143920p143930.html
Ok, it seems that it's not the great idea that everybody was waiting for ;o)
Though we may keep 2 ideas from this thread :
Using tabs to hide unnecessary complexity and break overload of information in some screens. Is it desirable/possible to create a
tabs artifact in form widget ? Else I guess we have to use Ajax, but is that desirable in backend ?
Using tooltips to better explain non obvious fields. By real tooltips I mean using the html title attribute. This is already done
for explaining format of date fields for instance and IMO should be generalized for non obvious fields. It's easily done, don't
clutter the UI but can't be used for option tag (title attribute is accepted but browser do not render it). Anyway in this case the
widgets take care of the problem by adding a plain text after the select field.
Jacques
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From: "David E. Jones" <
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Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: Simple backend UI enhancement proposition
>
> On Jan 22, 2007, at 12:03 AM, Jonathon -- Improov wrote:
>
> > > It could be very useful for new users to have a help icon link
> > next to
> > > each field or for each form with a full explanation of each field
> > and
> > > examples.
> >
> > THAT is what I've been pushing for too! Anyway, I'm also happy that
> > the OFBiz community is focusing more time on improving/debugging
> > OFBiz (and neglecting docs aspect).
> >
> > But your suggestion won't even see light of day, at least not until
> > someone DOES do a proper comprehensive doc of OFBiz (ERP aspect,
> > not framework). As it is now, I often ask questions about OFBiz-ERP
> > that even veterans don't know how to answer offhand (what with
> > 600,000++ lines of codes and 700+ database tables!).
>
> There is a lot of work to be done here, and lot left to do, but it
> _has_ already been started and there is a pretty good bit of
> information that mostly needs to be restructured but of course could
> also use some editing and fleshing out. Check out these links:
>
>
http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/Bw>
http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/Y>
http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/5gI>
> Once there are more fleshed out and structured it will be easy to add
> links to them in the applications.
>
> -David
>
>