Well, that sounds like a good thing to me... I'm sure there are lots
of things that could use some cleanup!
-David
On Jul 10, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
The Work Effort application is fine as it is - we don't need any
customizations. I'm thinking more along the lines of the work I did
in Asset Maintenance a year ago - just go through it and clean it up
a little, makes things a little easier to understand, etc...
It will still be the same application, just easier to use.
-Adrian
--- On Fri, 7/10/09, David E Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
From: David E Jones <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Work Effort UI work
To: [email protected]
Date: Friday, July 10, 2009, 2:03 PM
On Jul 10, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:
We just rolled out the Work Effort component where I
work, and users are complaining about the UI - it's
confusing and a little too "techie." I'd like to start
working on making it more user-friendly. Don't freak out -
I'm not going to make any major changes, I'll just clean up
the labels a little and maybe re-arrange a few things.
If anyone has any suggestions, or if your users have
any suggestions, please share them with me.
I guess the main thing to keep in mind is that the
priorities for the "base applications" (in the components in
the ofbiz/applications directory) are:
1. easy to customize and reuse development artifacts
2. easy to use
In other words, decisions to make it easier to use are
secondary to keeping/making it easy to customize.
The solution for the ease of use is to create something
that is organized around roles/actors or business processes,
instead of around the data model as the base applications
are (so that they will be easier to customize and reuse).
To do this you might want to consider creating a
specialpurpose application, like Hans did with the project
stuff based on WorkEffort, and then reuse as much as
possible from the WorkEffort app and component but feel free
to change whatever you want. You can bootstrap this by doing
something similar to the "ecomclone" webapp so it is exactly
like the workeffort webapp, and then override screens,
menus, forms, etc, etc as needed.
-David
