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Aug 7, 2007 8:48 PM

Clearspace 1.4 plugin

I am using Clearspacex 1.4, Jboss 4.05, Windows Vista.

 

I am trying to write a plugin that adds a tab to the user profile page tabs. I have successfully added the tab ' ProfileTab2' as shown in the atachment, and now need to put some business login with the action which is being called.

 

I have attached my plugin.xml, xwork-plugin.xml and the action class. In the other tabs on the profile bar, that url is in the form of /clearspace/people/username?view=viewtype, which triggers a call to ViewProfile action class.

 

In my plugin, how do I pass the current user and any other parameters that I may need to my action class? Is this done in the plugin xml files or in the action class or some other mechanism that ties them together.

 

Thanks for your help,

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alex Jive Employee
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Aug 7, 2007 9:37 PM in response to: abakwaboy
Re: Clearspace 1.4 plugin

the entry in your plugin.xml should look something like this:


        <component id="user-profile">
            <tab id="favorites" name="Favorites" cssClass="jive-link-favorite-small" url="favoriteProfile.jspa?username=${targetUser.username}">
                <description>
                  <![CDATA[http://<#if viewingSelf>View your favorites<#else>View favorites for ${targetUser.username?html}</#if>]|http://<#if viewingSelf>View your favorites<#else>View favorites for ${targetUser.username?html}</#if>\]\]\>
                 </description>
            </tab>
        </component>

 

You can see the url refers to the target user which is part of the profile action which it will be called from. You can populate any other parameters you would like in this way.

 

Hope that helps,

Alex

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Aug 8, 2007 9:34 AM in response to: Alex Wenckus
Re: Clearspace 1.4 plugin

 

Thanks Alex.

 

 

This was quite helpful.

 

 

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Aug 8, 2007 11:39 AM in response to: Alex Wenckus
Re: Clearspace 1.4 plugin

 

I am making headway trying to follow the source code from 1.4.

 

 

 

 

 

In the return ftl file there is a reference to 'targetUser'. I am getting an exception:

 

 

 

2007-08-08 12:27:37,046 ERROR http://www.jivesoftware.com/jivespace/message/50326#50326/STDERR Aug 8, 2007 12:27:37 PM com.opensymphony.webwork.dispatcher.DispatcherUtils serviceAction

SEVERE: Could not execute action

 

 

Expression targetUser is undefined on line 8, column 44 in plugins/profiletab/resources/profiletab-template.ftl.

The problematic instruction:

==&gt; ${targetUser.username} http://on line 8, column 42 in plugins/profiletab/resources/profiletab-template.ftl

 

 

Java backtrace for programmers:

freemarker.core.InvalidReferenceException: Expression targetUser is undefined on line 8, column 44 in plugins/profiletab/resources/profiletab-template.ftl.

     at freemarker.core.TemplateObject.assertNonNull(TemplateObject.java:124)

     at freemarker.core.TemplateObject.invalidTypeException(TemplateObject.java:134)

     at freemarker.core.Dot._getAsTemplateModel(Dot.java:78)

     at freemarker.core.Expression

 

 

 

In my action class there is a variable named 'targetUser' that is being populated with the 'billr' user. How do I get the targetUser to be visible to the ftl file?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Aug 8, 2007 12:09 PM in response to: abakwaboy
Re: Clearspace 1.4 plugin

looks like a needed to add a getter method for the targetIUser variable in my action class.

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