[OFBIZ-11808] Improve screen engine with decrease technology dependence

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: Trunk
• Component/s: framework, framework/widget
• Labels: screen widget
• Assignee: Nicolas Malin
• Reporter: Nicolas Malin
• Created: 07/Jun/20 19:55
• Updated: 21/May/21 16:00

Description

After different presentation on thinking about how improve the end user experience on back office screen, we start a list of issues that cover the minimum need.

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Presentation slides

Each improvement is designed to decrease the xml form definition, based on functional concept out any technology (relaying to theme).

Sub-Tasks

• Access to the current screen from any widget element: Closed
• Element link can update partial area: Closed
• on-event-update-area on form inherit information from parent form: Closed
• New child element callback on link to go out information on dynamic navigation from form: Closed
• Add sub-screen decorator DetailScreenDecorator and EmbeddedDecorator: Closed
• Xml Element Link type hidden-form fail to resolve the form: Closed
• Keep paginate list query on dynamic refresh: Closed
• Execute a callback with parameters from the request: Open
• Improve js function OfbizUtil.ajaxSubmitFormUpdateAreas: Closed