[opencms-dev] Create Admin Module

Tue Apr 6 19:39:01 CEST 2004

Ok, I finally have the solution to my woes and I'll post it here:

Set your properties for your admin module to something like this:
/system/modules/com.modulename.www/administration/admin_module_name
NavText: com.modulename.www.administration.icon.label
Title:icon_residing_in_pics_directory_minus_gif_extension

Next, create a workers.properties file and place it in either your classes
directory or in a self contained jar file (inside the lib). The path in the
jar or classes directory should be com/modulename/www.

Contents of the workers.properties:

com.modulename.www.administration.icon.label=My Label

Make sure all the changed items are published and restart Tomcat. Voila!

-----Original Message-----
From: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org [mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org]
On Behalf Of Michael Goodwin
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 3:20 AM
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Subject: RE: [opencms-dev] Create Admin Module

Yes, look here http://opencms.al-arenal.de

You need to try searching the archives for answers (it quicker than waiting
for an answer anyway)

From:  "Darin Kuntze" <dkuntze at thinksacco.com>@opencms.org  on 05/04/2004
       14:54 EST

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I still haven't heard any responses to this post. Is there a module I can
import to give me a example to follow?

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From: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org [mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org]
On Behalf Of Darin Kuntze
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 10:45 AM
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Subject: RE: [opencms-dev] Create Admin Module

What would be my properties on the psadmin directory?

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From: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org [mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org]
On Behalf Of Michael Goodwin
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 1:47 AM
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Subject: RE: [opencms-dev] Create Admin Module

well the only differences I can see are

for me the dir is with just admin (though if it is picking up the icon ...
etc. this isn't a problem) ie.
/system/modules/com.mymodule.www/admin/psadmin
and
my properties file is in the package directory
ie.
/system/modules/com.mymodule.www/classes/com/mymodule/www/workplace.properti

es

if its not that I don't know, sorry. Don't forget to restart.

Mike.

From:  "Darin Kuntze" <dkuntze at thinksacco.com>@opencms.org  on 31/03/2004
       13:29 CST

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I tried that and it did not work.

Here's what I tried:

/system/modules/com.mymodule.www/classes/workplace.properties
Contains:
com_mymodule_www_psadmin.icon.navtext=User Admin

/system/modules/com.mymodule.www/administration/psadmin
Has the following properties:
NavPos:220
NavText:com_mymodule_www_psadmin.icon.navtext
Title:ic_admin_psadmin

The icon shows up fine (from the pics directory), but no label.

Any input?

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From: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org [mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org]
On Behalf Of Michael Goodwin
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 1:38 AM
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Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] Create Admin Module

I think this is the case:

The label comes from a properties file (workplace.properties which belongs
in the classes directory of the module), I think it is done like this to
facilitate having different languages.

You have to restart to see changes made to properties files.

From:  "Darin Kuntze" <dkuntze at thinksacco.com>@opencms.org  on 30/03/2004
       14:34 CST

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I posted a few questions about creating a new admin module a while back and
I'm only now getting around to doing it... and I have run into a problem:

I can't seem to get my icon's caption to appear in the admin section. The
icon shows up fine, but I get the "??" navtext caption instead of my
intended caption.

What are the steps to getting a my module's navtext to display properly?

What should the navtext property of my module point to? etc...

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