Customizing e-client
tom
client provided with CM? The reason I ask is because with our new
item type structure it would be handy to customize the search in e-
client to provide a drop down with a list of values as opposed to a
text box. It sounds simple, but I know it will be tough. Anybody
challenge anything like this?
Javier Plumey
I haven't made that specific customization but I have made lots of customizations to the eClient and I'll tell you that while IBM has attempted to make it extensible, it's not very easy to do and things tend to break with new releases of the product. I am assuming that you want to provide a list of pre-determined values for a search?
Javier Plumey
Technical Lead - SYSCOM, Inc.
www.syscom.com
Regards,
Javier Plumey
Allan Flatoff
However, I'd still recommend against it. You're better off writing a custom app using the CMB Beans because when a new eClient fixpack comes out you will install your fixpack and overwrite your code changes with the out-of-box eclient.
Then, when you want to go in and re-integrate your code changes, a lot of times IBM will change the structure of the eClient web application and your code changes won't fit into the same JSPs you customized earlier.
You basically have to rewrite the code each time you update fixpacks or levels.
Custom apps, for the most part, require no modification for a fixpack.
--Allan
tom
All I needed to do was add a foreign key.
The IBM Documentation is kind of fuzzy on how to set it up, and I
needed to write a program to get the values in the item type, but I
got it working. Here are two decent links.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/cmgmt/v8r3m0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.sysadmin.hlp/mddh2015.htm
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/cmgmt/v8r3m0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.cmgmtreadme.doc/dIO02603.htm
So remember set up a new item type (which contains the lookup values)
which will require you to write a program to populate because e-client
doesn't display Resource Items, or items. I thought it was access
problems at first but it is a 'feature' of CM. I can get the thing to
work with windows client but it comes up just fine with e-client. If
anybody has any ideas on that let me know!
On Feb 23, 4:33 pm, "Allan Flatoff" <flat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a common eClient customization - I believe IBM even provides a
> sample of this exact scenario on their website somewhere.
>
> However, I'd still recommend against it. You're better off writing a custom
> app using the CMB Beans because when a new eClient fixpack comes out you
> will install your fixpack and overwrite your code changes with the
> out-of-box eclient.
>
> Then, when you want to go in and re-integrate your code changes, a lot of
> times IBM will change the structure of the eClient web application and your
> code changes won't fit into the same JSPs you customized earlier.
>
> You basically have to rewrite the code each time you update fixpacks or
> levels.
>
> Custom apps, for the most part, require no modification for a fixpack.
>
> --Allan
>
> On 2/23/07, Javier Plumey <javierplu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Tom.
>
> > I haven't made that specific customization but I have made lots of
> > customizations to the eClient and I'll tell you that while IBM has attempted
> > to make it extensible, it's not very easy to do and things tend to break
> > with new releases of the product. I am assuming that you want to provide a
> > list of pre-determined values for a search?
>
> > Javier Plumey
> > Technical Lead - SYSCOM, Inc.
> >www.syscom.com
>
> > On 2/23/07, tom < tom.kr...@gbmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Just curious if anyone out there has challenged customizing the e-
> > > client provided with CM? The reason I ask is because with our new
> > > item type structure it would be handy to customize the search in e-
> > > client to provide a drop down with a list of values as opposed to a
> > > text box. It sounds simple, but I know it will be tough. Anybody
> > > challenge anything like this?
>
> > --
> > Regards,
>
> > Javier Plumey- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -
aflat362
On Feb 26, 12:52 pm, "tom" <tom.kr...@gbmail.com> wrote:
> Actually I figured it out. I don't need to change the e-client code.
> All I needed to do was add a foreign key.
> The IBM Documentation is kind of fuzzy on how to set it up, and I
> needed to write a program to get the values in the item type, but I
> got it working. Here are two decent links.
>
Hello -
I'd like to clarify in my mind what you were able to do with foreign
keys in CM since I have not used that feature.
According to the documentation you linked to, we are able to define a
foreign key on an attribute as being another CM Item Type or a
database table. Presumably if we choose CM Item Type, we link the
foreign key to an Attribute and if we choose Database table, we link
to a Column (or Field depending on what you call it). It sounds like
you decided to use a CM Item Type - and judging by this comment:
"So remember set up a new item type (which contains the lookup values)
which will require you to write a program to populate because e-client
doesn't display Resource Items, or items."
It sounds like you made the "Item Type Classification" as either an
Item or Resource Item - I'm assuming "Item"
And the reason you had to write a program to populate this Item Type
is because there are no out of the box utilities which let you create
"Items" into an Item Type with classification "Item"
Is this correct?
Questions:
After doing this, in the eClient search screen, does a dropdown
appears populated from your foreign key to search?
Also in the eClient, when reindexing your Document, does the dropdown
also appear on the reindex screen?
And just to verify, none of these dropdown boxes appear in the Thick
Client, correct?
What version of CM / eClient are you running?
Thanks!
Allan