Multiple invoice templates

Open this issue behind discussion on user mailing list :
http://ofbiz.markmail.org/message/rtrxzvlozlnribye?q=multiple+invoice+template to keep in mind and/or if some people is interested to contribute

I am looking for a way to add additional invoice templates without changing to much of the original ofbiz code if possible.

The case: - multiple unrelated companies - multi tenant environment - multiple invoice layouts

When I have this case on a projet, I use the content system to load the template.

Example : Store a default template for each organization or a template specific by some customer.

• Create PartyContentType : INVOICE_TEMPLATE
• Load your templates en Content
• Associate your content to each organization in ofbiz
• if a customer have a specific template associate it

On your InvoicePDF screen resolve the template by a groovy script :

 //resolve if customer template is present 
partyContents = delegator.findByAndCache("PartyContent", [partyId : invoice.partyId]) 
if (partyContents) partyContents = EntityUtil.filterByDate(partyContents, invoice.invoiceDate) 
if (partyContents) partyContent = partyContents[0]

if (!partyContent) { //resolve if organization hasa template 
    partyContents = delegator.findByAndCache("PartyContent", [partyId : invoice.partyIdFrom]) 
    if (partyContents) partyContents = EntityUtil.filterByDate(partyContents, invoice.invoiceDate) 
    if (partyContents) partyContent = partyContents[0]
 }
 

Warn, I wrote the code on the fly, maybe it doesn't contains the absolute true

Now you have a content, you can resolve your flow has you want (ftl injection, content service to renderer string), etc ....