Adrian Crum wrote:
You'll find the OFBiz community to be a bit schizophrenic. Those who say OFBiz is ready to use out of the box are generally those who use it primarily for eCommerce. People like yourself who say that OFBiz out of the box is unusable without a custom UI are the ones who want to build back office functionality. Both camps are correct - it just depends upon your perspective.
That's an interesting perspective... but my thought at I was reading this is that it's a bit of the opposite. Usually ecommerce involves branding and other things intended for use by, and enjoyment of ;), customers. This usually involves a lot of customization, often throwing out and redoing all HTML in the ecommerce FTL files (which is why they are ftl files and not form widget defs), and often changing or refactoring or writing additional data prep and input processing code. On the back end it just depends on what the company wants... I've seen client do more customization on the back end than on the customer facing stuff, though sometimes that's a really bad idea because on the back end you have to watch ROI and make sure investments really do make more things possible or make things easier/faster/cheaper for employees. -David
