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Enhance the integration with eBay DONE

Isolate the code into a new specialpurpose component. Complete the support for the creation of eBay auctions from OFBiz; improve the synchronization between OFBiz and eBay: order/shipment status changes, in/out communications, etc...

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Enhance the integration with Google Product DONE

Isolate the code into a new specialpurpose component. Add more features and options to the product export.

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Integrate Screen Widget and Form Widget with Dojo.jQery is now used, OBSOLETE

People interested: Mike Wong
People willing to help: Mike Wong

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Use Apache Commons EL instead of the Flexible String Expander DONE

Committed to trunk December 2008.

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• Have less (or even none) buttons in header
• It was also suggesteed to use screenlet like how gmail does. Notably
  • Three buttons max
  • Dropdown for other actions
  • The idea of duplicating at bottom
• Having breadcrumbs under the title bar
• Using portlets in place of screenlets
• Recently (12/08) I was discussed if we should remove the screenlet's navigation-form-name attribute. There are (at least) 3 reasons for that
  • Less informations/features than with default (pages numbers, ability to jump to any page)
  • The last button does not always work (try with widget.form.defaultViewSize=2 when listing invoices)
  • Pagination should be available to the user always in the same way in order to have a consistent UI.
    Then we have 2 possibilities
    1. Remove this attribute and all current uses.
    2. Keep it but then
       1. we should at least make it works (last button issue)
       2. make it consistent with the standard way (direct page access)

OFBiz Theme Gallery DONE

Visual Themes Gallery

Web tools

• Entity Data maintenance
  • have vertical separators for columns when viewing entity content, This issue is no longer a problem in new themes like Bizness Time...
  • make the Find options a collapsible screenlet, This issue has been partially addressed with the "Advanced Search" in Lookups
  • make styles of the Entity Data Maintenance screens in general the same than used by the widgets. I think it's done
• At large, maybe restyle all the Web tools page (not a priority)

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• Sorting
  • The tabs should be sortable not only by alphabetical order in English but in other languages too.
  • An user should to be able to position the tabs according to their preference
• Having something to select the apps desired for a "quick links" bar, and maybe have that go beyond just tabbed applications and include individual pages for easy access.
  We still need that for 'old' themes but it looks like they will be deprecated with new themes like Bizness Time...

Light-blue Theme (or future themes alike) enhancement DONE

Currently we have a Windows Start model UI, or rather a Gnome desktop model but with a sole entry point (Home).
We could, like IMO it's done elegantly in Ubunut/Gnome, have more entries point namely:

• Top Level Applications
  • We should introduce drop-down menus to group applications (like AR and AP under Accounting). Doint that, we should keep in mind permissions access for each sub-application.
• Addon Applications (better name ?)
  • Replace the secondary menu (at bottom) with a primary menu top drop-down item.
• System Applications
• etc.

I think it's done now with the new themes we have-

Quicker an intuitive access to basic functionnalities

Replace slow popup lookups by faster layered lookups (CSS/Ajax)

Following Bruno's suggestion about Compiere UI. We could put a link to https://localhost:8443/partymgr/control/createnew everywhere we have a party lookup, using the party label at left of the field. Actually we could generalize everywhere we have a lookup for something.
It's easy to click on the Party tab and then on "Create New". But after reading BJ's reading suggestion, it's also an easy way to teach newbies how to do it. Easy for us to introduce, and easy for newbies to use, maybe with a tooltip "click on party to create". This would fill the Condition #2 of the BJ's article above.
Of course being able to show the screen where the choice of the type of party to create is done, and then the screen where data are entered in an Ajax filled CSS hidden/shown window could be our next target. This would allow to not leave the page the user is on and would create a less disturbing environment.

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Add a mechanism to allow to collapse/uncollapse all groups-fields in one click (something like that also exists in Compiere UI, see above) Done, I wonder if we should use an icon, or even both ?

• Use the screenlet and put an icon (or a word, it's an icon in Compiere) in the screenlet title bar for that.
• OR
• Another (easier) possibility would be to use the 1st field-group and to make a relation between it and other field-groups. This because in all cases we will no make this 1st field-group collapsible (at least it's how we have done so far) and we could then put an artifact there. This would also allow to not have a mandatory screenlet when using collapsible field-groups

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