I must say that your comments and Brendan's have given me insight into how this thing works that could have taken me days of digging on my own to find. Thanks a lot for that. Well, it's not that I'm lazy or anything, but to tell you the truth, my manager doesn't really think that Jetspeed is the solution to our problem, and it's me who needs to convince him besides doing my job tasks which makes things pretty hard.
I still don't understand exactly what controllers are? How do I make a new controller? Is it just about writing that velocity template? How easy is it to write a velocity template (never used velocity before), can it be done by web designers? I really appreciate the help :) Thanks, Tarek Nabil -----Original Message----- From: Weaver, Scott [mailto:Sweaver@;rippe.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 3:24 PM To: 'Jetspeed Users List' Subject: RE: Changing the templates > It seems a lot of the HTML on the site is produced in the source code of > the components by jakarta ECS (element constuction set) > http://jakarta.apache.org/ecs/ > I which is fine for JAVA developers that don't know HTML but is (i think) > clunky for anyone who is experienced in hand-coding HTML for web sites. > (on the ECS page I find the first example far more readable!) 99% of Jetspeed's content is generated using Velocity templates not through ECS. Location of templates: Controllers: WEB-INF/templates/vm/contollers Controls: WEB-INF/templates/vm/controls Jetspeed's default layout: WEB-INF/templates/vm/layouts/html/default.vm Jetspeed's default page: WEB-INF/templates/vm/screens/html/home You can use the existing controls and controllers as examples to write your own. After creating your own controls and/or controllers, you will need to add entries for them to the local-controls and/or local-controllers respectively in WEB-INF/conf. Neither of these files come with Jetspeed as they are to be used for user-defined entries, so you will need to create them. You can use controls.xreg and controllers.xreg as examples on how to structure local-controls.xreg and local-controllers.xreg. Once you have your custom controls and controllers registered, re-start tomcat and they should be available for selection. Scott > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:brendan.richards@;draftlondon.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 8:54 AM > To: Jetspeed Users List > Subject: RE: Changing the templates > > From what I can tell there isn't a single global template that controls > site look and feel. > > A page is built from a number of portlet objects embedded into a heirachy > of controller objects. > > the simplest portlet will just display a chunk of html code from a file so > you can get your web designers to produce these. > For example, the fist portlet displayed when logging in as Tommy Turbine > just shows some HTML with a "Welcome to jetspeed" message. > > The skins system allows you to apply stylesheets to these portlets. > > What I don't know is how the HTML from a controller is built. > For example, if you use a tabbed pane controller you get a tab-navigation > system (login as admin to see this). > Is the HTML for those navigation buttons hard coded into the controller > code or is it customisable in some form? > > My guess is that to fully customise every visual aspect of the page, you > would have to build your own or modify existing controllers. > > It seems a lot of the HTML on the site is produced in the source code of > the components by jakarta ECS (element constuction set) > http://jakarta.apache.org/ecs/ > I which is fine for JAVA developers that don't know HTML but is (i think) > clunky for anyone who is experienced in hand-coding HTML for web sites. > (on the ECS page I find the first example far more readable!) > > > As far as web design is concerned, I'd do the following: > 1) Look at page architecture with your designers - divide up into left > nav, top bar etc. > 2) use PSML to layout the page to this structure > 3) get your web designers to deveolop HTML components to fit within this > framework. > > > > Brendan Richards > > > > > > "Tarek M. Nabil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 23/10/2002 13:22 > Please respond to "Jetspeed Users List" > > > To: "Jetspeed Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: > Subject: RE: Changing the templates > > > Does that mean I have to know PSML to change the template? I think our web > designers won't like that :( > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:brendan.richards@;draftlondon.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 9:59 AM > To: Jetspeed Users List > Subject: Re: Changing the templates > > > Tarek, > > As far as I can tell, the site can be fully customised using the "site > markup" features of PSML. > using this you can specify the layout of controller objects (menu, tabbed > pane etc.) > > I think the customiser interface provides a way to easily change the PSML > via point-and-click but to get full control you could edit the PSML for > yourself. > > The customisation works by allowing differnt PSML files for different > users, groups etc. > > go to http://jakarta.apache.org/jetspeed/site/psml.html > > that's my take on it anyway. could someone please correct me if i'm > mistaken.... > > Brendan Richards > > > > > > "Tarek M. Nabil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 22/10/2002 20:58 > Please respond to "Jetspeed Users List" > > > To: "Jetspeed (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: > Subject: Changing the templates > > > Hi everyone, > > I just downloaded Jetspeed today to evaluate it, and it looks pretty good > to me so far. I've worked with a similar product before - Plumtree, but it > > wasn't an open-source one. > > Now, to the question, I've been looking around in the documents, and it > seems like the documentation about how to change the whole look of the > site is hidden somewhere I can't find. I need to make new templates and > change the whole look of the site while retaining its main > functionalities. I also wonder whether they way gadgets are laid out can > be changed, I mean, does the page always have to be divided into columns? > > I appreciate your help. > > Thanks, > > Tarek M. 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