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Christian Carlow commented on OFBIZ-6474:
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Hey Jacques,
Widgets rendered as FOP definitely need a lot of work and do not offer the same
flexibility as Freemaker as of right now which is partly why I created this
issue. I figured the best way to improve the FOP widget flexibility would be
to try to replace some fo.ftl files with widgets but admittedly it is much more
difficult that I thought. Styling is the main issue encountered so far that
prevents easy rendering as FOP. If css styles could be synchronized with FOP
then it seems many html forms could more easily be rendered as FOP, but again
its not an easy task and quite time consuming.
Lately I've been creating JIRAs for issues that typically may to be discussed
on dev ML first because I've found it easier to describe the issue since JIRAs
allow links to related issues and patches to be submitted to give a clearer
picture. It also allows work to be started which leads to encountering other
issues that need to be fixed regardless if the one for which they were
encountered is eventually deemed invalid. For example, these OFBIZ-6479,
OFBIZ-6481, OFBIZ-6483 were all encountered while trying to provide a patch for
this issue. Also, if a patch is provided for an issue that is deemed invalid,
then later if a similar but valid issue is created then some of the code in the
patch may be able to be reused. I'm always willing to close my issues as
Invalid when the community recommends and I'll try to discuss these issues on
dev ML before creating JIRAs from now on.
I'll update the links as sub-tasks rather than "is related to" and try to pay
closer attention to the link type from now on.
OFBIZ-6479, OFBIZ-6481, OFBIZ-6483
> Replace ordermgr/control/QuoteReport FTL with widgets
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> Key: OFBIZ-6474
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-6474
> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: order
> Affects Versions: Trunk
> Reporter: Christian Carlow
> Priority: Minor
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