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[OX Devel] Templates + Integrating new functionality

Roger Kristiansen rogerk at linpro.no
Mon Jul 3 17:04:41 CEST 2006


Hi,

First of all, I'm quite new to both OX and web programming in Java, so 
please be patient. :)

I'm trying to get my head around the templating-system, but I'm afraid 
I've been unable to figure it out on my own, so hopefully someone here 
can help. I see that the intranet servlet handles all the requests and 
writes it to a ComfireServer instance, but from there to actually 
getting a page displayed on screen, I'm a bit lost as to what is going on.

1) Where are the Templates parsed and the variable-names replaced with 
the values that is output to the user?

I've just started looking at implementing some new functionality in OX. 
To be more specific, we want to have a new page where we can view sort 
of a "snapshot" of what everyone in the organization is doing right now, 
according to their calendars. We wish to make this as modular as 
possible/feasible, so it can easily be implemented elsewhere.

Right now, we would like to add a button on the top bar for this, and, 
if possible, have the functionality as an extra element in the left 
frame. Of course the layout would be a little different.

2) Is it at all possible to make this "drop-in" functionality, so that 
everything we need is contained within our project and can be deployed 
at any OX-installations without having to edit the OX-configuration?
3) Do you have a any suggestion on good ways to go about creating 
something like this?

The documentation (or perhaps lack thereof, in some places) and the size 
of OX is quite daunting, so any pointers in the right direction would be 
much appreciated.


Regards,
Roger







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