[opencms-dev] Development of Backoffice Modules and XMLTemplates

[kevin fong]

Thanks for the insight Jesus, are u extending the:

com.alkacon.master.CmsBackofficeMaster
com.alkacon.master.CmsContentMaster

classes as well?

Regds,
Kevin




On Jun 24 12:25, "Jesus Gabriel y Galan" <tech at einnovas.com> wrote:
>
> Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] Development of Backoffice Modules and XMLTemplates
>
> From: "kevin fong" <kfong at spto.org>
> 
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just wondering if anyone out there has created a Backoffice module without
> using XMLTemplates for the administration point? Is it
> > workable? Are there any limitations?  My preference would be to use jsps
> instead of the XMLTemplates.
> 
> Hi Kevin. I am currently working on an administration point based on jsps,
> instead of XML templates. Currently I haven't found any limitation to this.
> Just make your index.html under system/modules/xxxx/administration/yyyy a
> plain type (I suppose it should also work with jsp type), and you can code
> whatever you want inside. In my case I am developing a single administration
> point to create/edit/delete entries for several different content, which is
> stored in different database tables. I have several jsps that get called,
> which present forms for editing and listing of entries.
> 
> You just have to take some care about the top.body.admin_head frame if you
> want to keep the blue arrow, or create some filters as OpenCMS does for you
> with the XMLTemplates.
> 
> I have not yet look into permission issues, like locking or unlocking
> entries for editing, because I don't know if I'm going to need it, but I
> suppose you could do something similar to what the backoffice does, with
> your own code.
> 
> If anybody knows a reason to not continue with this approach, please let me
> know. Until know, things have worked fine.
> 
> Jesus.
> 
> 
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