Problem with sidebar customization

[jhoueix]

Hello! 

I am trying to customise the Alfresco's sidebar in order to show every element one under an other, instead of having to choose between the elements "navigation", "panel" and "opensearch".

So I tried to modify the Java class "UISideBar" which generate this component.

But I have the following problem:

The method which generates the sidebar component is "encodeChildren":

   @Override
   public void encodeChildren(FacesContext context) throws IOException
   {
      if (!isRendered()) return;
      
      // there should be 3 children, the modelist, the actions
      // and the plugin, get them individually and render
      
      if (getChildren().size() == 4)
      {
         ResponseWriter out = context.getResponseWriter();

         out.write("<table border='0' cellpadding='6' cellspacing='0' width='100%'><tr><td>");
         
         // render the list
         UIModeList modeList = (UIModeList)getChildren().get(0);
         Utils.encodeRecursive(context, modeList);
         
         out.write("</td><td align='right'>");

         // render the actions
         UIActions actions = (UIActions)getChildren().get(1);
         Utils.encodeRecursive(context, actions);
         
         out.write("</td></tr></table>");
         
         // render the end of the header panel
         String cxPath = context.getExternalContext().getRequestContextPath();
         out.write("</td><td style=\"background-image: url(");
         out.write(cxPath);
         out.write("/images/parts/sidebar_top_grey_end.gif)\" width=5 align=right valign=top>" +
                   "<img src=\"");
         out.write(cxPath);
         out.write("/images/parts/sidebar_grey_03.gif\" width=5 height=5></td></tr>" +
                   "<tr><td colspan='3'>");
         
         // render the plugin
         out.write("<div id=\"pluginBox\">");
         UIComponent plugin = (UIComponent)getChildren().get(2);
         Utils.encodeRecursive(context, plugin);
         out.write("</div>");         
      }
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and that's the piece of code

         // render the plugin
         out.write("<div id=\"pluginBox\">");
         UIComponent plugin = (UIComponent)getChildren().get(2);
         Utils.encodeRecursive(context, plugin);
         out.write("</div>");       ‍‍‍‍‍

which generates the content of the sidebar ("navigator", "panel" or "opensearch"). But I don't see in the code where is added the compoenent "plugin" in the list ("(UIComponent)getChildren()"). I just need to know where to add other elements in this list to realize my customization. Does anybody knows where in the code is added the plugin?

Thank you all for your help, I am far from being a JSF expert…

[jhoueix]

Hum, is my question not clear? Or nobody has any solution?  :?

[dinger]

See this post: http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11469

Rob

[jhoueix]

Thank you!