Re: select your pdf document template from organizational party

[Nicolas Malin <ni...@nereide.fr>]

Hello,

I update the patch on the issue [1] with only the engine to associate 
the custom screen to an organizational party.

Don't hesitate to review and comment it ;)

Nicolas

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10186,


On 23/01/2018 21:10, Nicolas Malin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Currently, I work on a pdf invoice creation for a personal project and 
> I wish go for this time to improve the printable document 
> configuration (like order pdf, invoice pdf, shipment pdf, and soon) 
> related to the organizational party that at its origin.
>
> To realize it I started a POC where a add a new entity 
> PartyAcctgPrefTplDoc (maybe you have a better name) that associate an 
> organizational party (PartyAcctgPreference), a documentType 
> (invoiceType, orderType...) and a content.
> The content return the screen to use (as blog concept) and the 
> standard document screen return the given screen or call the default 
> screen is empty.
>
> With this improvement, you can create your own pdf template document 
> in your custom plugin with associate data and use it without any 
> framework modification.
>
> More, if you have a specific case to rendering different document 
> following functional case, you can implement it on your screen.
>
> Also, we can have a standard choice to rendering your document from a 
> content, manageable from PartyContent association.
>
> The life isn't pretty ? (french expression, if you not understant, 
> just ignore it :)
>
> Feel free if you have some remarks, I will create an issue for each 
> document type manageable by this concept to detail more this idea.
>
> For example :
>    Content data
>  ---------------------
>
>     <DataResource dataResourceId="MY_TPL_SALES_INV" 
> dataResourceTypeId="URL_RESOURCE" dataResourceName="My templage sales 
> invoice" mimeTypeId="application/pdf" 
> objectInfo="component://myplugin/widget/AccountingPrintScreens.xml#MyBeautyfullInvoicePDF"/>
>
>     <Content contentId="MY_TPL_SALES_INV" contentTypeId="DOCUMENT" 
> dataResourceId="MY_TPL_SALES_INV" contentName="My Beautyfull template 
> sales invoice with flowers"/>
>
>     <ContentPurposeType contentPusposeTypeId="INVOICE_TEMPLATE" 
> description="Content dedicate to rendering invoices"/>
>
>     <PartyAcctgPrefTplDoc partyId="Company" 
> invoiceTypeId="SALES_INVOICE" contentId="MY_TPL_SALES_INV" 
> fromDate="2000-01-01 00:00:00" />
>
>  ----------------------
>
>   Standard screen 
> (application/accounting/widget/AccountinPrintScreens.xml)
>  -------------------------
>    <screen name="InvoicePDF">...
>      <actions><script 
> location="component://accounting/groovyScripts/invoice/GetInvoiceTemplateScreen.groovy"/></actions>
>      <widgets>
>           <include-screen name="${screenName}" 
> location="${screenLocation}"/>
>      </widgets>
>     </screen>
>
>     <screen name="DefaultInvoicePDF">
>         <section>.....
>  ------------------------
>
> GetInvoiceTemplateScreen.groovy return DefaultInvoicePDF screen if 
> didn't found any configuration for the invoice.partyIdFrom (for sales) 
> or invoice.partyId (for purchase)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nicolas
>