[opencms-dev] opencms as a document management system

[Joachim Arrasz]

Hi Jan,


> Okay, suppose all the functional aspects of the workplace are there as
> needed in my document management system (they are not, but I'll get to
> that later), they just have to be presented in another way, in other
> places.

hm how do you define other places? :-)

> How do I go about? Do I make a new view? Do I create new
> template files? Do I create new template files and place them in a
> backoffice module marked as "view"? Just to get me started... I have
> been reading the manual. Chapters on backoffice modules and system
> architecture, and I am making progress, but a little help never hurt
> someone :)

i would try to build a complete new view, there you`re absolutely free to
do whatever you want to. So after that you have to create folders with
name of the menu icons you want to offer in your new view. In this folders
you have to uild an index.html which is an xml file. In this xml file you
make a link to a jsp or whatever you want to use as view for this submenu.
Have a look for example in /system/workplace/logs/

then inspect a little the code in the files there and i think it`ll become
a bit more clear what to do.
Hope this helps

Achim