Ah! Educating the Community once again! ;-D Very good. Of course this item can be the start of a "Creating and Bootstrapping your own module" cookbook. ;-)
Enjoy, Bert -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Grégory Joseph Sent: donderdag 1 oktober 2009 13:35 To: Magnolia User-List Subject: Re: [magnolia-user] Custom Magnolia Module On Sep 30, 2009, at 11:48 PM, Denis Demichev wrote: > Hello there! > > I want to ask for a help - spending last 2 days trying to package a > primitive custom module for magnolia 4.1 community edition. > I've read http://documentation.magnolia-cms.com/reference/custom-module.html > and trying to follow this how to: > 1. Created following file structure: > META-INF > mgnl-bootstrap > mgnl-bootstrap-samples > mgnl-files The module descriptor xml must be in META-INF/magnolia/<module-name>.xml Bootstrap files and files-to-extract have to be in mgnl-bootstrap/ <module-name>/ and mgnl-files/[...]/<module-name>/ respectively. > 4. created dummy com.abc.cms.ABCModule and placed it into module > folder Not needed. > 5. Placed *.jsp template files to > mgnl-files\templates\ProofOfConcept\templates\custom.jsp This path does not contain your module name: the file will never be extracted. > however due to some exception or misconfiguration it fails to > import actual data. Got a stacktrace we could look at somewhere ? On Oct 1, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Bert Leunis wrote: > Did you create a ModuleVersionHandler? Not required. Denis' simple case should work with the default. (I would recommend having an MVH of course, but it's just not needed here yet, and isn't the reason why his module doesn't "work") On Oct 1, 2009, at 9:09 AM, Andreas Weder wrote: > a module only imports data (DMS, Data module, Website repository), > if you set the magnolia.bootstrap.samples property to true. Not true. Everything under mgnl-bootstrap/<module-name>/ will be imported by default; it's the stuff under mgnl-bootstrap-samples/ <module-name>/ that will be imported only if the magnolia.bootstrap.samples property is set to true. Cheers, -g ---------------------------------------------------------------- For list details see http://www.magnolia-cms.com/home/community/mailing-lists.html To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- For list details see http://www.magnolia-cms.com/home/community/mailing-lists.html To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> ----------------------------------------------------------------
