Amit
I am doing basically the same thing as you, and am a few steps ahead so
I will detail what I've done so far. Hopefully someone else will then
help me past my next hurdle.
1. Copied the ecommerce component (/applications/ecommerce) to
hot-deploy and renamed ecommerce to webstore (call it whatever you want,
I will use "webstore" for the remainder of this thread.)
2. Change all the necessary references from ecommerce to your new
webstore name. Search and replace in eclipse works well for this. I
started with my new folder under hot-deploy and replaced from there. You
need to replace all references to:
component://ecommerce/webapp/ecommerce with the new path. Something
like: component://webstore/webapp/webstore
3. Update the ofbiz-component.xml file in your new component. Change the
component name to webstore and change the webapp settings:
<webapp name="webstore"
title="eCommerce"
server="default-server"
location="webapp/webstore"
mount-point="/webstore"
app-bar-display="false"/>
<webapp name="images"
title="Webstore Images"
server="default-server"
location="webapp/images"
mount-point="/webstore/images"
app-bar-display="false"/>
Note that I added an "images" webapp to keep custom style sheets and
images separate from the default image location.
There is a document set available on Sourceforge from the OpenTaps
project that does a very good job of explaining all of the changes that
need to be made in this process. I suggest you review it. Download the
zip file and look in the eCommerce Online Store folder. There is a doc
called "customizing your online store.doc".
When I first tried accessing my webapp I received some errors. I found a
few other references that needed to be changed but the errors are good
indicators and will lead you to what is wrong.
Once you have your new component established it is now time to start
making changes.
In my particular case, I am retaining basically the same layout but want
to change most of the information and/or navigation in the left and
right columns of the eCommerce window. I used existing "screenlets" as a
point of reference and created additional ones for my custom use.
Examples are sidedeepcategory, keywordsearch, etc. You will find file
pairs like:
sidedeepcategory.bsh
sidedeepcategory.ftl
Add your custom ftl to CatalogScreens.xml (under your widget directory)
Add and rearrange items on the eCommerce window in CommonScreens.xml
Each of these files contains plenty of good examples so I will not
elaborate.
That's the basics. Now to the next step, customizing the information in
the screenlets. This is where I am stuck. As far as I can tell the
process is basically to execute the bean shell (bsh file) defined in the
<action> tag of the screen definition. This interacts with the service
layer and puts information in the request object so it is accessible to
the ftl file for rendering.
I am struggling with understanding how beanshell puts the data in the
request. I see "context.put" and assume it happens here. I am also
struggling with what classes to use to get the information I need, and
how to pass these classes constraints to limit the result.
Amit Gangadhar Mehetre wrote:
> Hello there,
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> I am new to Ofbiz, n just started to know it.....
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> I don't know how to create a totally new screen portlet in Ofbiz ....
> Also on how to add it to the existing ecommerce site......
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> Is there any configurations ...that needs to be changed..... I went
> through many xml files in the application.... But couldn't figure where
> exactly to make the changes,,,,
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> Actually I have created one new web application and I want to integrate
> that in the Ofbiz ecommerce site....
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> Kindly..help me out with this,,,,,
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> Regards
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> Amit
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