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New Features Roadmap - Living Document

The long term goal of the OFBiz project is to build a complete, features set rich, universal and configurable "enterprise automation software" (ERP, CRM, CMMS, MRP etc.).
OFBiz is one of the few applications of this type developed by a community, rather than one corporation.
Even if the final long term goal is clear and well-defined ("building a universal enterprise automation software"), the short and medium term tasks to accomplish it are not.

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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) it 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)

Introduce Mashups

Example in OFBIZ-1873

List

To have in the results list form of every FindScreen (optionally) a first column of check boxes that let the user to select several items and than a combo box above the list that let the user to select a command to execute on them.

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