Re: Dev - configurable custom views

Posted by Adrian Crum on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Dev-configurable-custom-views-tp167905p167925.html

We implemented UI themes that users can choose from. Maybe some of that work
could be helpful.



Si Chen wrote:

> Hi everybody -
>
> We want to implement a feature where users can configure their view
> choices in the applications.  For example, the same page can serve up
> different content, etc.  I think this would have to be implemented
> specifically in each application, but nevertheless a common data model
> for all of them might be nice.
>
> My questions:
>
> 1.  Is this something we want in OFBIZ?
>
> 2.  If so, here's what I have so far
> ViewPreference: header entity with an ID, description, etc.
> ViewPreferenceItem consisting of viewPrefId, component, view, item (FK
> on enum)
> ViewPreferenceEnums is a list of allowable choices for all the view
> preferences
> UserLoginViewPreference - allows userLogin to be associated with a view
> preference
>
> Does this sound reasonable?
>
> Where I'm a little hazy is how ViewPreferenceItem should be.  Should be
> structured around application compnent and view-request, or around
> screens and sub-screens, or form/fields?  Or should we have something
> that would allow all of the above, so users can configure any of those?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Si
>
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