General guidelines about Portlet StyleSheets
THIS SECTION OF GCUBE DOCUMENTATION IS CURRENTLY UNDER UPDATE.
Homogenizing the DILIGENT interface
Contents
Pre-development Actions
Downloading Gridpshere
The official DILIGENT gridsphere version is: 2.2.7.
All the portlet developers must use this version.
To download it click here.
Preparing the environment
- Unzip / Untar the file
- Add a new environmental variable: export GRIDSPHERE_HOME=<grdsphere-folder>
Patching Gridpshere Home
In order to be able to use DILIGENT header themes, you should first patch gridsphere. The needed steps are:
- Download the patch from here
- Unzip / Untar the file
- Execute: cd <patch-folder>; ./patch.sh $GRIDSPHERE_HOME
! Important Info 1:
This patch also contains the changes needed on Gridsphere so as to consume GWT applications.
! Important Info 2:
If you want to use credentials you also have to patch gridpshere for credentials. You can find the needed info here
Installing GridSphere
- Execute: cd $GRIDSPHERE_HOME; ant install
- The server url is: http://localhost:port/diligent/gcube
StyleSheet Classes
Header
For using the diligent-header class, you should add in your html tag the following code:
class="diligent-header"
Example:
In order to have the following result:
You must write:
<table> <tr class="diligent-header"> <td><img src="browse.png"></td> <td>Browse</td> </tr> </table>
Body
For the body you should you the css class named "portlet-section-body"
Importing Custom-made CSS files
There are two ways to import a custom-made css file:
- In doView() method of your portlet, you write: response.addProperty("CSS_HREF", request.getContextPath() + "/html/<css-filename>.css");
- Directly in the jsp page: <link rel="stylesheet" href="<%= request.getContextPath()%>/html/<css-filename>.css" type="text/css">
--Valia 19:22, 25 May 2007 (EEST)