[opencms-dev] New Content Definition Questions

[Bart Elberg]

I have some questions about adding a new content definition and 
controlling access to it in the back office/administration view.

1) Is it possible to get the "Locked by" column to display like it does 
in the Explorer view? If so, what needs to be done?
2) What controls access to each custom content entry? The documentation 
talks about implementing isReadable() and isWriteable() methods and 
calling them in the constructor, write(), and delete() methods. Using 
that approach just allows the application to generate an exception. Is 
is possible to make the non-writeable entries grayed-out in the list? or 
just disable the "Edit" menu entry?
3) What determines what appears in the popup menu when left clicking on 
a content entry? The only menu entries that are displayed currently are 
Edit, Delete, and (Un)Lock. Is it possible to add other functions to the 
menu like Copy, Rename, View History, ...?

The closest example I can find is the "Module-management" back office, 
but I haven't found where the magic happens in the code. Any 
help/guidance on this is appreciated.

System Configuration:

OpenCMS: 4.6.1
Mandrake Linux: 2.4.18-6mdk
Tomcat: 4.0.3
JDK: 1.3.1 (for compiling)
1.4.0 (for JRE)

Thanks!

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Bart Elberg
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