HI BJ,
I have updated http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/New+Features+Roadmap+-+Living+Document with some UI enhancements suggested
these last months. Could you please elaborate your propostion, I'm not sure to well understand it
Thanks
Jacques
From: "BJ Freeman" <[email protected]>
I think this would be best handle by the rendering looking up a text
string tooltip_$fieldname in the I8n files.
Sven Wesley sent the following on 11/17/2008 3:54 AM:
Tool tips for labels/fields would enhance the gui a lot. I've been running a
project with ofbiz for a while now and it's a time eater to find out what
fields are about.
2008/11/17 BJ Freeman <[email protected]>
ofcourse then you can enhance the tool tip to handle links
then you could just modify the I8N files without touching code.
"Click here to ($whatever)"
BJ Freeman sent the following on 11/17/2008 3:38 AM:
For a first effort, I would think that the tools tips that direct a user
to the steps would be sufficient.
that in it self is a large project for a community driven project.
especially with all the I8n needed.
like
"create new ($whatever) by clicking on ($whatever1)tab and click on
($whatever2) link"
could make the tooltip a template and ($whaterver1-2) is the only things
that is a variable.
Jacques Le Roux sent the following on 11/17/2008 1:51 AM:
How to allow to create a party from where it could be needed
Following Bruno's suggestion about Compiere UI
http://www.compiere.com/products/product-demos/tour/compiere_window_navigation.htm
I suggest that we 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 generalising everywhere we
have a lookup for something.
I know it's easy to click on the Party tab and then on create new. But
after reading BJ's reading suggestion
http://www.uie.com/articles/design_intuitive/, I think it's 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 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 a CSS hidden/shown window like the calendar would be great
and could be our next target. This would allow to not leave the
page the user is on and would create a less disturbing environment. But
I know that this would also mean to preload these windows in
memory and is maybe out of reach at the moment (from a memory POV,
without speaking of the code needed). Else we could do the same
thing for all the lookups, having them poping up as fast as the
calendar. From a code POV, perhaps generalising from the calendar code
could be a way
Jacques
