From what I understand, the Content Manager enables the user to create as many web pages as they
want - without the need to modify controller.xml files. I gave this thread a more accurate subject
line - let's see if it helps bring in informed answers.
-Adrian
JohnBrown wrote:
Thank you for reply. Well, I can add ( pre-define) URLS/MAPS to conroller in
design time for some standard pages but it works unless they want to add a
new custom page with some URL/MAP which is not in controller. And this is
where I need programmatically add the entry in runtime. Because, the content
admin person will just get lost in raw xml editing and quit possible can
make syntax error there etc.
On my opinion this would be a useful thing to automate in the terms of
user-friendly content management.
BJ Freeman wrote:
The controller, at this point, is loaded once at boot up.
you can write an enhanced xml editor that reads the xsd for fields in a
form, similar to how the widgets read the entities to display info.
But non of this has been done, to my knowledge.
Just a note, view map must follow all the request-maps or you get an
error on loading.
my thought it would better to have all these in the Controller on
distribution then they can just edit the FAQ page as HTML in the Content
application.
JohnBrown sent the following on 1/9/2008 2:47 PM:
Hi Guys,
I am in process of making more intuitive UI and some automation over
standard ofbiz CMS for creating FAQ, Policy and alike pages. The process
involves adding some entries ( a reference to page and the view map etc.)
to
controller.xml file. ANd what I would like at this point is that user
just
would enter the url part he wants it to be: for example
host.com:8080/ecommerce/MyFAQPage and there would be generated respective
entries in controller.xml behind the scene - with no need for user to
edit
the file manually.
something like:
<request-map uri="MyFAQPage">
<security https="false" auth="false"/>
<response name="success" type="view" value="FAQ"/>
</request-map>
..and the view map.
So I wonder does Ofbiz has something already within the packages which
could
help me to add such kind of entries to controller.xml via java code?
Perhaps
some xml file editor api classes?
Thank you guys in advance for any hints.
