[opencms-dev] Re: Contribution: CustomValuesSelectWidget

[Georges Baladi / 220i]

I think that is very important to grow of OpenCms Community.

Plugins is very important to wide acceptance of a product. Look at 
Plone. They have a large number of contributions.



Stefan Uldum Grinsted wrote:

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> Regarding the e-mail below.
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> Should iI upload the module to the modules section at opencms.org?
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> Best regards
> Stefan Uldum Grinsted
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> *Stefan Uldum Grinsted/Interactive*
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> 26-07-2005 14:01
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> To Alkacon and the list
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> I have made a little simple select widget for the xmlcontent editor 
> that reads its options from another xmlcontent file.
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> My problem was that i needed the editor of a website to be able to 
> control the options of a dropdown-selection-box in the xmlcontent.
> I wouldn't neither want him or expect him to edit the xsd for the 
> xmlcontent to change the configuration-string of OpenCmsSelectWidget.
> Therefore i got the idea of letting him edit an xmlcontent file that 
> contains the options for the select-box and crete this widget that 
> generates its options from the file.
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> I created this as a module for OCMS 6, so it can be used as is. I also 
> added my eclipse-project with the source-code for the widget, so 
> someone can, if wanted, implement it into OpenCms.
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> In the zip-file, the module can be found under 
> opencms/WEB-INF/packages/modules, and the eclipse-project lies under 
> eclipse/workspace.
> I added my opencms-vfs.xml config file as well.
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> You might want to read the notice.txt under the eclipse-project before 
> using the module. The widget has to be configured in OpenCms before 
> usage.
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> The module contains simple examples of how to use the widget.
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> See http://mail.opencms.org/pipermail/opencms-dev/2005q3/018194.html 
> for a description of my eclipse-project structure, if nessecery.
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> Hope this is usefull.
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> Good luck and
> Best regards
> Stefan Uldum Grinsted
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> Par No 1 Interactive a|s
> sug at interactive.as
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