FreeBSD-12.1p10 (jail) PostgreSQL-11.8 Idempiere 7.1
I am following the customization tutorial found in the Compiere3.6 Cookbook (making the necesary adjustments for the current version of Idempiere). I cannot get two fields to appear on the same line in the custom window. The first field is start_time, the second field is end_time. The end_time field is next in sequence to the start_time field. The end_time field has the Same Line option checked.
However, start_time and end_time are each on their own line when the window is displayed. I made other changes to these two fields to display only time instead of date+time and those changes are reflected in the window display. But they remain on separate lines.
What am I missing?
the approach from Compiere 3.6 to distribute fields in windows is very basic, it just allows to have two columns of fields, and the Same Line flag was intended to allow a field to appear next to the first.
In iDempiere, since version 1.0, the concept to manage the fields was extended like a configurable grid with the values of X Position and Column Span.
You can find more information about that in the wiki page Form Layout.
Configuring windows with that pair of values is not easy manually, so a WISIWYG editor is also implemented, it is called the Tab Editor