Clarification on extending components

Alpa

Hello Experts,

I have this confusion over extending the components to create custom components for business requirements.

If we extend a particular components to make a few changes for e.g extending the import component to set the object type as the custom type making a few more changes to some of the jsp files.....does it affect the base functionality.

I have made above changes to the import component and calling it from a different custom menuitem.....but i have seen that the original import functionality also changed accordingly.

I thought extending a component should not affect the base functionality.

Heres my custom component :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>

    <config version='1.0'>

    <scope>

        <component id="import"

            extends="import:webcomponent/config/library/contenttransfer/importcontent/import_component.xml">

                       <document-docbase-base-type>doc_import</document-docbase-base-type>

            <document-docbase-type>doc_import</document-docbase-type>

           

            <folder-docbase-type>custom_folder</folder-docbase-type>

           

            <pages>

                <start>

                    /webcomponent/library/contenttransfer/importcontent/importContent.jsp

                   

                </start>

                <folder>/custom/jsp/library/contenttransfer/importcontent/importFolder.jsp</folder>

            </pages>

        </component>

    </scope>

</config>

Please reply......

kcrkarthik

This is because you have used the same component id for your custom component.

-karthik