It can be either one of the cases that you have mentioned. Could you explain how to go about them?
Another question: Will javascript work? If yes, can we get the values of form elements in javascript? Sorry for asking too many questions but Velocity appears totally different from JSP. Regards, Sunil -----Original Message----- From: Scott T Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 8:55 AM To: 'Jetspeed Users List' Subject: RE: How to create a new skin and add custom mode to it injetspeed2? Hi Sunil, > But I am finding it difficult to add new functionality to the layout. > For example, I want to include a search box and a submit button on the > right hand side of header image defined in header.vm (something like: > <img src="#GetPageResource('images/mqnt_banner.gif')"/>). > > How to go about it? > > And how to show the results of search? I am not sure I understand fully. Is the search box tied to a portlet or will it be the result of a direct request to a servlet? Regards, -Scott > -----Original Message----- > From: Tiwari, Sunil Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 6:55 PM > To: Jetspeed Users List > Subject: RE: How to create a new skin and add custom mode to it > injetspeed2? > > Hi Scott, > > Sorry, I was on vacation this time and so could not reply to your mail. > I have read your documentation and it helped me a lot to create some new > skins and themes. > > I am able to change the look and feel of pages by altering the > header.vm/footer.vm file of the layout. > > But I am finding it difficult to add new functionality to the layout. > For example, I want to include a search box and a submit button on the > right hand side of header image defined in header.vm (something like: > <img src="#GetPageResource('images/mqnt_banner.gif')"/>). > > How to go about it? > > And how to show the results of search? > > I have worked on Websphere portal and it uses jsp/stylesheets to > accomplish the above mentioned goals. > > Just imagine a commercial web portal with so many links and other > functionalities. Where shall I place them? > > Regards, > Sunil > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott T Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 7:46 AM > To: 'Jetspeed Users List' > Subject: RE: How to create a new skin and add custom mode to it > injetspeed2? > > Hi Sunil, > > Sorry, I was on vacation last week and not able to get to this sooner. > Please look at the initial documentation I have written, > http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/guides/guide-decorators.html. It > is > far from finished but should give you an idea what is required to build > a > decoration. > > -Scott > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tiwari, Sunil Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 6:47 PM > > To: Jetspeed Users List > > Subject: RE: How to create a new skin and add custom mode to it > > injetspeed2? > > > > Hi Randy, > > > > I was able to create a new skin by copying the folder structure of an > > existing skin and tinkering with it. So far, I am able to just change > > the look and feel but wasn't able to add new custom mode. > > > > I noticed a macro #PortletActionBar($decoration) in > > jetspeed/decorations/portlet/decorator.vm > > > > I guess this macro has to do with what modes can be provided. > > But I don't know much about Velocity and so I cldn't figure it out. > > > > Could you tell me where these macros are defined and how they work > with > > themes and skins? > > > > Thanks so much for your inputs. > > > > -Sunil > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Randy Watler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 3:15 PM > > To: Jetspeed Users List > > Subject: Re: How to create a new skin and add custom mode to it > > injetspeed2? > > > > Sunil, > > > > The best way to start with the decorators is to make a copy of them > and > > tinker! > > > > Decorators can be deployed by jaring them up and dropping them into > the > > webapps/jetspeed/WEB-INF/deploy directory, (the jar file must contain > > the *.properties and *.vm files at the top level and folders for css > and > > images filled appropriately). There might be a small bug in the 2.0 > > release deployer, but we'll fix that soon. In the interim, you should > be > > able to edit them in place or copy new ones into the existing > > webapps/jetspeed/decorators directory. > > > > If you need to add a new custom mode, that is more complicated. I am > not > > sure J2 supports this without code changes. I am sure David Taylor can > > give you some input there, or you can try to search the mailing list > > archives. > > > > HTH, > > > > Randy > > > > On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 11:32 -0800, Tiwari, Sunil Kumar wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have recently started using jetspeed2 portal and it looks amazing. > > > The themes and skins have been developed using Velocity and I don't > > know > > > much about it. > > > > > > Can someone help me in creating a new skin and adding custom mode to > > it? > > > I want a config mode in addition to the default modes. I need to add > > the > > > image to the skin.. am I right? > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Sunil > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
