Re: Creating Custom Content Objects in Jahia 5.0

Hi Keith,

Basically all content structure you have in your site is made through
templates. Its in the templates that you define how your containerlists
and containers should be constructed, then this template will be used
to create pages.

In the case of the "add box" button, its only a template which calls
different pieces of jsp code depending on the kind of content you want
to add on a given page. If you open the template file simple.jsp, you
can see that it will include another file called box.jsp, which in
turns includes various pieces of code (for instance files.inc )
depending on the content you are adding.

If you want to have another type of "box", you simply have to make a
new include with the corresponding code (lets say addresslist.inc)
which will be included in the box.jsp file.

I would suggest you check the template developer guide here
http://www.jahia.net/jahia/Jahia/site/jahia_net/pid/585 for more
details on how to create templates.

best regards,

Michel

-------- Original Message --------

My group and I are at the beginning of creating
a customized
Jahia 5.0 implementation and I have what I believe to be a basic
question.

When you add content to a page via ‘Add a Box’
button
you have the choice of several types for the content, for example
Files, Groups
Container, Pages, Portlet etc. My question is how to we create our own
custom types. For example on several of our pages we have a structure
such
as

-
Containerlist

o
Container

§
Title

§
First Name

§
Last Name

§
Phone

§
Fax

Obviously this is not a template as this
containerlist
construct will be added to several pages. In order to do this does it
have to be a portlet or is there some other way it is done. If you
could
supply a starting point would greatly be appreciated.

Cheers

Keith Chadwick

Keith Chadwick

Senior Web
Developer

iStudio Canada

11 Holland Ave,
Suite 715

Ottawa, ON K1Y
4S1

Tel: (613)
244-4747, ext. 237

Fax: (613)
244-4613

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