Dear Andrea, Thank you very much for your detailed email. This enabled me to achieve exactly what I wanted!
Best regards, Pete > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrea Schweer [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 24 November 2011 20:23 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] adding "menu" items to manikin interface > > Hi Pete, > > On 25/11/11 06:21, Leggett, Pete wrote: > > > > With regard to using Dspace Manikin/xmlui interface, I would like to > > add another menu grouping under the normal "Browse" "My Account" > > "Administrative" menu groupings on the left of the page - sorry if I'm > > not using the right parlance here. > > > > This menu grouping will just be for local links, FAQ etc so very > > simple in theory, but I want it to have the same look and feel as the > > other menu groupings. > > > > My question is, is there any easy way to do this, i.e. some simple > > additions to the template.xsl or messages.xml > > > > or will it involve writing some java ? > > > > I did this using an XMLUI Aspect -- purely within XML files. > > Create this directory: > [dspace- > src]/dspace/modules/xmlui/src/main/resources/aspects/SidebarMenu > (the last bit, SidebarMenu, can be anything you like) > > In that directory, put a sitemap.xmap file with the contents > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <!-- > Add menu to sidebar from file > --> > <map:sitemap xmlns:map="http://apache.org/cocoon/sitemap/1.0";> > <map:pipelines> > <map:pipeline> > <map:generate/> > <map:act type="DSpacePropertyFileReader"> <map:parameter > name="dspace.dir" value="dspace.dir" /> <map:transform type="Include" > src="file://{dspace.dir}/config/sidebar-menu.xml" /> </map:act> > <map:serialize type="xml"/> </map:pipeline> </map:pipelines> > </map:sitemap> > > (Also at https://gist.github.com/1392187#file_sitemap.xmap) > > Then create a file called sidebar-menu.xml in [dspace-src]/dspace/config > with the additions to the DRI that you would like. For an example, see > https://gist.github.com/1392187#file_sidebar_menu.xml. The example has > a two-level list, but obviously you don't have to do that if you don't want > to. > > Finally, you'll have to enable this aspect in [dspace- > src/dspace/config/xmlui.xconf > by adding the line > <aspect name="Sidebar Menu" path="resource://aspects/SidebarMenu/" /> > somewhere suitable -- for example after the line <aspect > name="Submission and Workflow" > path="resource://aspects/Submission/" /> > > You will need to rebuild and restart DSpace (strictly speaking, you can get > away with just copying the files into the right spots if you know where the > right spots are). > > Note that this will most likely put your new menu at the bottom of the > sidebar. If you want to reorder the menus in the sidebar, you can do that in > your theme by overriding the dri:options template -- instead of the > <xsl:apply-templates/> at the bottom of that template, insert lines like this, > matching on what you put under "id" in your sidebar-menu.xml > file: > <xsl:apply-templates select="dri:list[@id = > 'aspect.viewArtifacts.Navigation.list.browse']" /> <xsl:apply-templates > select="dri:list[@id = 'aspect.viewArtifacts.Navigation.list.context']" /> > <xsl:apply-templates select="dri:list[@id = > 'aspect.viewArtifacts.Navigation.list.administrative']" /> <xsl:apply- > templates select="dri:list[@id = 'extra.menu.help']" /> <xsl:apply-templates > select="dri:list[@id = 'aspect.discovery.Navigation.list.discovery']" /> (this > would put the new menu above the Discover menu). > The drawback to this method is that you now have to include every sidebar > menu explicitly. > > I hope this is what you're after. > > cheers, > Andrea > > -- > Dr Andrea Schweer > IRR Technical Specialist, ITS Information Systems The University of Waikato, > Hamilton, New Zealand > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure > contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, > security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this > data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
