Skip,
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. If you want to create a custom UI using Dreamweaver, then
lay out the UI in Dreamweaver, and C&P the markup it generates into an FTL file.
You won't be able to do away with dynamic pages altogether since you're dealing
with a dynamic website.
-Adrian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks to both BJ and Adrian for the input. The dynamically produced
screens are not suitable in my view. No eye has been given to layout,
usability, and context making the users live harder than it needs to be. A
prime example is the Payments screen in the Accounting module. Because this
is so generic, there are 14 fields where there needs to be 5 (or six if you
are dealing with foreign currencies) for the common payment tasks.
That is why I want to replace these so I don't have to spend hours training
my customers' employees every time they hire a new one. In other words,
these dynamically generated screens are the problem, not the solution.
Skip
-----Original Message-----
From: BJ Freeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 2:38 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: GUI editors for ftl
Ftl's are tied to the bsh files in ofbiz.'
from the freemaker site
http://freemarker.org/editors.html
but more importantly most displays are dynamically produced from the
entities.
In otherwords the Field are not defined in the editor but produced when
the entity is read.
So the editor would have be entity aware and some form of CSS would have
to be used to give div classes to each field.
there are some Ftls and some widgets the build on other ftls and widgets
to create complex pages.
I am not sure there is any editor that will allow all that.
there has been some talk in the content module, but nothing definite,
like above.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sent the following on 10/17/2007 2:26 PM:
I have Netbeans for Java and XUI as well as JBuilder for Java and
Dreamweaver for HTML, etc.
What do you guys use for new FTL devleopment? Is there a GUI editor to
make
the screen layout easier?
I am passionate about attractive and intuitive UIs and a GUI editor makes
it
all easier.
Any tools and tricks to make life easier?
Skip
