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The following is a proposal for the definition of a list of short and medium term tasks list: your input, suggestions and help is welcome. Please add your comment at the bottom of the page.

Legenda:

• "People interested": the people that think that the feature should be considered a priority for the project (in the short term)

• "People willing to help": persons that are in the position to help with the development of the task; if possible specify an approximately number of hours per week or month to give an idea of the total resources available for each task

Complete the support for VAT (Value-Added-Tax)

See the project's specific page here.

People interested: Jacques Le Roux,
People willing to help: Jacques Le Roux

Now I just want to add VAT reports to central administrations

Add support for online contextual help

People interested: Sharan Foga, Jacques Le Roux
People willing to help: Sharan Foga, Jacques Le Roux

Sharan said today (2014/01/28) that she wants to continue to help.

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Prioritized tasks by order of appearance

Introduce a plugin system

Replace Minilang and widgets actions by a Groovy DSL

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Not yet prioritized tasks (backlog)

Add support for online contextual help

Improve the Content Management Component

have a content management system which is comparable, in terms of features, to the more popular open source content management applications

People interested:
People willing to help:

Add at least a versionning system to the content management

Sascha built the foundations https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/

The jackrabbit branch has been created https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/branches/jackrabbit20120501

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have a SFA/CRM which is comparable, in terms of features, to the more popular open source SFA/CRM applicationsPeople interested: Pierre Smits, Jacques Le Roux People willing to help: Jacques Le Roux

Improve the Project Manager Component

Improve and enhance the Project Manager Component

People interested: Pierre Smits
People willing to help: Pierre Smits

Ecommerce component enhancements

See the project specific page here

People interested: Anil Patel, Jacques Le Roux
People willing to help: Anil Patel, Jacques Le Roux

Improve SEO with https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5312 and its related branch https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/branches/OFBIZ-5312-ofbiz-ecommerce-seo-2013-10-23

Complete the migration of older bsh/ftl files to widgets

People interested: Jacopo Cappellato 
People willing to help: Jacopo Cappellato (2 hours per week), Nicolas Malin

Change the Entity Engine to be user aware for security, logging

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Backend widget & application HTML clean-up

People interested: Jacques Le Roux
People willing to help: Jacques Le Roux, Paul Piper

See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/

Jira
server ASF JIRA serverId 5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b key

OFBIZ-5040

Manufacturing improvement

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People willing to help: Pierre SmitsEspecially regarding lifecycle mgt of recipes (BoM and production schema) and on in-situ adding materials, production resources and outputs of end and by-products (like we had the discussion on dev ML about in September 2013).

Expense Declaration

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See https://issues.apache.org/

Jira

/browse/OFBIZ-5473

Ivy integration

People interested: Pierre Smits
People willing to help: Pierre Smits

See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5464

Solr integration

People interested: Jacques Le Roux
People willing to help: Jacques Le Roux

Theme framework (Bootstrap, Zurb, etc.) integration (for both back and frontend)

People interested: Jacques Le Roux, Jonatan Soto, Gavin Mabie, Ean Schuessler, Nicolas Malin, Julien Nicolas, Pierre Gaudin, Taher Alkhateeb, Nick Rosser, Florient Petit
People willing to help: Jonatan Soto, Gavin Mabie, Ean Schuessler, Julien Nicolas, Pierre Gaudin, Taher Alkhateeb, Nick Rosser, Florient Petit

http://markmail.org/message/i7fnxid55cq5uiiz

http://markmail.org/thread/6hvrvzkdz2huennv

Introduce Websocket usage

People interested: Jacques Le Roux, Ean Schuessler
People willing to help: Ean Schuessler, Jacques Le Roux

Jira
server ASF JIRA serverId 5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b key OFBIZ-7538

See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5522

Services exposed as RESTful web services

People interested: Jacques Le Roux, Rabjir Saini, Adrian Crum
People willing to help: Adrian Crum, Jacques Le Roux

REST Service Implementation

Export service using REST

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-4274

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(this section related with the "UI (User Interface) enhancements" section, to be clarified)

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It would be genuinely interesting if we could write a client side form widget interpreter that would delegate generation of the interface to the client side and then supply the "action" interface via AJAX. It may be interesting to approach this as a "bridge" where we begin to layer dynamic AJAX functionality more aggressively onto the existing widgets.
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(this section needs to be checked and possibly split into more accurate sections)
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Links in screenlets.
Have less (or even no) buttons in header
It was also suggested to use screenlets like 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 information/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
Remove this attribute and all current uses.
Keep it but then
we should at least make it works (last button issue)
make it consistent with the standard way (direct page access)
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