Re: How to create a new screen portlet n integrate that in Ofbiz ecommerce

[jitender <ji...@gmail.com>]

Vince Clark wrote:
> 
> 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,
>>
>>  
>>
>> I am new to Ofbiz, n just started to know it.....
>>
>>  
>>
>> 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......
>>
>>  
>>
>> 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,,,, 
>>
>>  
>>
>> Actually I have created one new web application and I want to integrate
>> that in the Ofbiz ecommerce site....
>>
>>  
>>
>>  
>>
>> Kindly..help me out with this,,,,,
>>
>>  
>>
>>  
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Amit
>>
>>  
>>
>>
>>
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Hi Vince and Amit and all
according to previous mails.
i did not found any component under applications:(i.e folder under
(/applications/ecommerce)
i am not sure that it is folder otherwise anyother configuration 
it is in specialpurpose folder:
(/applications/ecommerce

please let me know asap

jitender9717989688
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