Is there a CSIDE "Hello World" example available?

I am looking for a sample program that uses CSIDE to build a very simple custom module for Content Server 10.5. The module should be very simple and assume no previous knowledge of OScript. Any technical person should be able to follow the steps to create and test this module. It should be as easy to follow as the AppWorks examples that OpenText provided in their AppWorks page.

An example of a simple module would be:

1. Put a function on a folder.

2. The function will pop up a form with a text box.

3. The user can save fill in a value for the text box and hit save. The data gets saved to the database.

4. The next time any user pops invokes the function for the folder, they will see that value. They can modify the value if they want to and then save again.

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John W. Simon, Jr.

From the "OpenText Content Server Oscript Development using Eclipse" manual, CSIDE "is the development environment that has replaced builder". In other words CSide is the new IDE for Content Server, it is NOT a replacement for Oscript. Asking for a module assuming "no previous knowledge of OScript" is simply not realistic!

Darcy_Casselman

Examples like this exist in the CSIDE (formerly Builder) Fundamentals training course, but that's something OpenText charges for.

HFCDev

I thought I'd add my 2 cents to this after responding to another thread about callbacks. I've been doing Oscript for close to 15 years and it isn't the language that is the problem for new developers, it's the context. That is, do you use callbacks or do you orphan your web node or do you orphan your llnode? These are questions that would still need to be answered (BTW the correct answer is almost always callbacks in case anyone was wondering). It's possible to shrink-wrap a few sample solutions (i.e. the infamous AddressBook module from the Builder course) but these may give the new developer a false sense of security.

I would encourage anyone new to Oscript to go on the builder fundamentals course. It teaches you the Oscript language but more importantly, it teaches you how and what to customize and can save you a lot of pain, and make your customizations more robust.

-Hugh Ferguson

PS Open Text Learning Services did not pay me to endorse the builder course

HFCDev

I just had a re-read of the original post, and a couple of thoughts came to mind:

Quoted Carlos Barichello on 05/26/2014 06:09 PM:

An example of a simple module would be:

1. Put a function on a folder.

2. The function will pop up a form with a text box.

3. The user can save fill in a value for the text box and hit save. The data gets saved to the database.

4. The next time any user pops invokes the function for the folder, they will see that value. They can modify the value if they want to and then save again.

What occurred to me is that this specific use case is really an example of a custom view (or maybe a cascading appearance) which has a form embedded in it. The form template would specify a table to write to and SQL would be the form submission mechanism. This approach or a variant of it would accomplish the above without any Oscript. The trick would be to get the form to appear where you want it. CustomViews would do this but they are static HTML and it sounds like you need this to cascade to any folder within a specific area.

Using the Appearances module, you could embed some jQuery in your appearance that would open the form in a new DIV or IFRAME within the area that customviews normally write to. Once again, this is just thinking off the top of my head but this is the sort of thing that can be done using existing product. And you get to go to the client and say "It's not a customization, it's a configuration"

-Hugh Ferguson