How to Display custom JSP's in work area

vsoman1984

Hi All,

Having followed a Hello World example to use action classes,xmls and Jsp's and with apt help from the community, i have been able to display my custom JSP page.The page looks like this:The page gets displayed when i click my custom link from the menubar.

The code responsible for the output is:

1) menubar_component.xml:

The following line added:

actionmenuitem dynamic="genericnoselect" id="send_freeway" name="send_freeway" nlsid="MSG_FREEWAY" action="hello_world_action" showifinvalid="true"/> ("Send To Freeway" is the custom link i see on my menubar)

2) The following start page added also to menubar_component.xml:

<pages>

<start>/custom/classic/menubar/menubar.jsp</start>

</pages>

3) Created file hello_world_action.xml

<config version='1.0'><scope><action id="hello_world_action"><execution class="com.documentum.web.formext.action.LaunchComponent"><component>hello_world_component</component><container>dialogcontainer</container></execution></action></scope></config>4) Created hello_world_component.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?><config version='1.0'><scope><component id="hello_world_component"><pages><start>/custom/hello_world/hello_world.jsp</start></pages><class>com.documentum.custom.library.DummyComponent</class></component></scope></config>5)Created hello_world.jsp <%@page contentType="text/html"%><%@ page errorPage="/wdk/errorhandler.jsp" %><%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tlds/dmform_1_0.tld" prefix="dmf" %><%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tlds/dmformext_1_0.tld" prefix="dmfx" %><html><head><dmf:webform /></head><body><dmf:form><font color="darkred"><b>Hello World</b></font></dmf:form></body></html>6) And finally the class file DummyComponent.javapackage com.documentum.custom.library;import com.documentum.web.common.ArgumentList;import com.documentum.web.formext.component.Component;public class DummyComponent extends Component{public void onInit(ArgumentList arg){super.onInit(arg);}}

The above steps were done following the HelloWorld wdk documentation which used WDK 5.2 . So i had to make a few changes (evident from the steps above) to mould it into version 6.5.

The following is the folder structure for more clarity.

My attempt is to produce the JSP page seen at the top inside the Workarea and not in a container - on the click of the custom link from menu bar.

Once clue is from step 3 : the <container>dialogcontainer</container> has the below given description in the Document."This tag is optional for our hello_world example, it instructs WebTop to display the output from the component wrapped in a container that adds OK, Cancel and Help buttons and a pretty blue border."

But still i am uncertain how to display the Hello World JSP inside my Workarea.I hope i would get your valued support.Thank You

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dnvhariprasad

Change your action file like this

<config version='1.0'><scope><action id="hello_world_action"><execution 
class="com.documentum.web.formext.action.LaunchComponent"><component>hello_world_component</component><navigation>jump</navigation></execution></action></scope></config>

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vsoman1984

Hi All,

Continuing with my efforts, as i removed the line

<container>dialogcontainer</container> from hello_world_action.xml ,the hello_world.jsp page was displayed as a separate page.

With just the text "Hello World" written on the page.

Still trying to get the page inside of workarea content.

DCTM_Guru

You need to extend doclist or objectlist component to customize work area.

vsoman1984

Hi Johnny,

Thank you for the hint.Will extending the DocList class to my custom class alone suffice? Will there be any changes at the JSP or XML level?Currently my sole java file "DummyComponent.java" extends Component.

vsoman1984

Having gone through the code after Johnny's help i feel i misunderstood the solution.So i am rephrasing my question. In my current scenario, for the hello_world.jsp to be seen in the workarea , will adding extends extends="doclist:webcomponent/config/navigation/doclist/doclist_component.xml" to hello_world_component.xml suffice as the solution?

Awaiting your valuable response.

Thank You

udeleng

I think what you're trying to do is open your component so that the menubar and left navigation are still visible?

In that case, call setModal(false) in you custom component's onInit method. And in such a case, you should not use the container tag in the action's xml.

dnvhariprasad

Change your action file like this

<config version='1.0'><scope><action id="hello_world_action"><execution 
class="com.documentum.web.formext.action.LaunchComponent"><component>hello_world_component</component><navigation>jump</navigation></execution></action></scope></config>

vsoman1984

Hi All

Thank you dnvhariprasad. Your solution was the appraoch i needed.I applied the change to my xml and i worked.

Thank You for your support.:).

I will try out the other solutions too.Thank you all for the support.

Vinod_Rapeswal

Hi VSoman,

Thanks a lot for such a good example.

You described very well & in a very simple manner.

Thanks you.

vsoman1984

Hi Vinod,

Glad to know that you found the trail informative. I attribute it all to the support of senior members of this forum. Hope u will learn as u interact here.This is a wonderful place to learn Documentum.

Thank You