Travis
Thanks for the idea/concept - I think it has a lot of merit in our
environment as well. I guess you could even provide them (the clients) with
some useful, "safe", well documented, WM utility objects to allow some
dynamic screens (e.g. for reporting especially).
Frank
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From: "Travis Low" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Turbine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 2:41 AM
Subject: Adding "simple" screens (Was: Re: JPython)
> One quick-and-dirty way to add "simple" (I guess you mean non-dynamic?)
screens
> to the system is by provide a special directory into which users place
HTML
> files. The way I have it set up, the base navigation module notices files
in
> these directories and adds them to the navbar. The filenames are passed
to a
> GenericScreen module that then displays them.
>
> For example, given the file
<template_home>/screens/generic/TuesdayMeeting.html:
> - The navigation shaves off the ".html" and inserts spaces before
non-initial
> capital letters, yielding the text "Tuesday Meeting".
> - The navigation generates the URL
> "http://foo.com/servlet/Turbine/screen/GenericScreen/name/TuesdayMeeting".
> - The GenericScreen appends the ".html" extension and looks for the
template
> <template_home>/screens/generic/TuesdayMeeting.html.
>
> Probably not the best way, but I got it working quickly and I haven't had
any
> problems with it yet. The only restriction I gave the client is that
these
> files must contain only a single HTML table, i.e. no <html>, <head>, or
<body>
> tags.
>
> -- Travis
>
> Frank Conradie wrote:
> >
> > BRILLIANT! Leon and I have been discussing Python scripting in much the
same
> > way - our clients often require a way to add "simple" screens to their
> > system - without recompiling Java etc. We will probably explore this a
bit
> > later - after the Torque stuff is where we want it.
> >
> > Frank
>
>
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