Re: Working on the query parameter pages ("dialogs")

Hi Yves,

As promissed on IRC, I'm writing down a description of how to work on what you call the "dialogs" for the searches and reports. (We call them the "filter pages".)

There are several things to know here:

* All listing-based reports (that is, not the balance sheet and the PNL, but all others) run through what we call "dynatable"
* Most filters (including balance_sheet.html and income_statement.html) are in UI/Reports/filters/
* All filters and "dynatable" are Template::Toolkit templates
* There are two libraries of "predefined" HTML expansions: (a) UI/lib/elements.html and (b) UI/lib/report-base.html
* The "report-base.html" library is typically used by the filter pages
* elements.html is used by nearly all pages
* The filter pages define forms which posts to scripts you can find in LedgerSMB/Scripts/*.pm (even though the URL says .pl)
* The scripts use Report objects which you can find in LedgerSMB/Report/*
* The various forms of income statements (including PNLs) are in LedgerSMB/Report/Income_Statement/*.pm (including PNL.pm)

Just came up with a another one:

* In 1.5, you can easily work with Dojo widgets of any type and kind, self-implemented or not, but in 1.4,

widgets are instantiated by UI/lib/Loader.js. Any widgets the loader doesn't know about need to be

added to the loader, or - my preference - simply not be used until 1.5 (which is a major reason to want

to release 1.5!)

Bye,

Erik.

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