Notes/Domino XPages Development Forum - Re: xPages and DXL import

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~Julia Opjipymanetsi

Feb 24, 2011, 1:52 PM

23 Posts

Re: xPages and DXL import

Category: Custom JSF code (Eclipse IDE)
Platform: All
Release: 8.5.2
Role:
Tags: Dynamic Design
Replies: 4

I am working on a CMS that should allow the CM's to design their own HTML skin (stored in documents) for the presentation of the content. The Admin/CM side will be oneUI but I don't want to limit the look of the end user side. Well that is the basic idea I am just struggling to do this in xpages. I think I'm going to look at the xpage agent technique next. I really wish I could have got the injecting controls at run time working the way I wanted and I may revisit it. I just could not seem to to inject an com.ibm.xsp.component.UIInclude and have it render it's content. I'm not sure what i was missing.

~Dean Umjipychekoopsi

Feb 24, 2011, 2:26 PM

40 Posts

Re: xPages and DXL import

If you want to give complete control over the rendered output of the XPage probably something like an XAgent is your only way to go. Otherwise you'll have to build some sort of basic framework and then have them produce css to style it how they want. The later is how I have accomplished things like this in the past, giving them a framework, like page snippets that they can style how they want. I build each of the snippets as a separate page, and then give them the ability to configure a document that lets them import the snippets on to the main page (through xp:includes) the way they want. Its not full control. but its far more control than i think most really want/need in an end user CMS....

~Naomi Deskroterakol

Feb 28, 2011, 2:29 AM

9 Posts

Re: xPages and DXL import

If you want to do runtime injection, it isn't that hard. You just need to remember that you're going to inject a TREE, not just one block. (well, in 99% of cases, anyway.)

However, this is all going to work vastly better if you do it in Java. The best approach there is to go to OpenNTF.org, and get the XPages Extension Library source code. Then look for components like Tooltips or Dialogs.

It's a more complex issue than can be addressed in a single forum post.