SDL Contenta Web Programming
This section provides a programming reference for SDL Contenta Web.
- Introduction
This document is intended for customers who use Contenta Web (CW) and either extend or customize the application. - Upgrading to Contenta Web 5.0
Contenta Web 5.0 has been extensively enhanced leveraging innovative web technologies. This section highlights changes and notes areas that customers should be aware of when upgrading from a previous version of Contenta Web to Contenta Web 5.0. - Customization Overview
There are three types of customization: - Configuration and Customization Examples
This section provides highlights of common configuration and customization tasks. Subsequent chapters provide more detail. - Customizing the CW Interface - Images and CSS
You can customize the look of the Contenta Web interface by changing the images that are defined for use in the Contenta Web interface, by modifying the cascading style sheet that controls the font and color display in the interface, or by editing the HTML in the JSP and XML files. Customizations are done by modifying the following: - Customizing the CW Interface — JSP, XSL and JS
The Contenta Web Java Server Pages (JSP files) consist of HTML markup along with code that separates the page logic from the static elements (the actual design and display of the page) which makes the HTML more functional. The code is executed on the server and the result is a dynamic page that is returned to the client browser. - Configuring Preferred Tool and Search Options
This section describes how to define the preferred tool and search object types in Contenta Web. - Customizing Contenta Web Help
This section describes how to customize the help page that is displayed to CW users. - Custom Web Tools
- Architecture overview
The section presents the high level architecture of Contenta Web. It is intended to provide more information for programmers who will be working with and customizing Contenta Web. - Appendix - CW Install/Configuration Reference
- Sample XML for XSLT Transforms
Below is sample XML output that is generated by CW JSP pages and then formatted by XSL style sheets. The first samples ([Object Info], [Project Info],[Object Details],[URLmap]) are samples that are reused in the XML for several other JSP pages (for example., CWPropertiesView.xsl). - Appendix - CW 5.0 Obsolete/New/Changed Files