WebSphere Portal Server - Changing Layout JSP's

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Changing Layout JSP's

2007-03-20, 7:29 am

Hi to all,

I am facing a problem and really need help. I am trying to create a custom theme for a portal website. For this I have created a new folder, XYZ under the themes folder, parallel to engineering, corporate etc. I also copied on of the existing theme conten
ts into it.

I also wanted to create customized page and place bar. In fact everything needs to be customized. So I also placed other JSP's (from the theme folder) into the XYZ folder.

Now i modified my own default.jsp so that the different include files point to my own jsp's. (placebarinclude.jsp, pagebarinclude.jsp, adminlinkbarinclude.jsp etc.)

But the problem i am facing is that EVEN if i delete the entire contents of any of the JSP's except for default.jsp, everything renders fine. Its like it is not using any of my jsp's (the ones inside XYZ) at all. Only default.jsp is being picked up. If th
e default.jsp is pointing to my own files, why aren't they read at all. And also the original JSP's, the ones in the theme folder, I tried to delete them to see if they are being used or not, but i wasn't able to delete them as they are in use.

I have also enabled automatic JSP Reloading. And i have no clue why this is happening. Please help me.

Thanks

Bala Labhishetty

2007-03-20, 1:21 pm

I think it is cache problem, you can delete the cache directory and try again.
Are you testing in RAD or server environment?

Thanks & Regards,
Bala

2007-03-20, 1:21 pm

Hi,

Thanks for the reply, i am trying on server environment.

2007-03-20, 1:21 pm

Hi,
My suggestion is better to use 'ThemeBuilder' portlet for creating customized themes rather than using RAD. You can get 'ThemeBuilder.war' from IBM Catalogue site.

2007-03-20, 1:21 pm

Is Themebuilder compatible with portal 6.0.0.1 on WAS 6.0.2.17 ?? I tried running it and when I went to edit settings, the portlet display blanks out and I have to reload the page....

2007-03-21, 7:25 am

Hi,
I am running ThemBuilder portlet on WPS v5.1 Its running fine for me.

RuneH

2007-03-21, 7:25 am

It should be enough to enable automatic reload by following this guide
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoc...dgn_reload.html

BUT - you might also need to edit this file
<AppServer>\config\cells\<your_host_name>\applications\wps.ear\deployments\wps\wps.war\WEB-INF\ibm-web-ext.xmi

Read more at
http://groups.google.com/group/ibm....97ea63d8b268689

R.

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Rune Hellem http://hellem.org

2007-03-21, 1:26 pm

Yeah, I think I was asking about version 6 though if anyone out there had tried it on that.

Anyone?