Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Loris Bennett <>]

Hi Gary,

I have tried the struts patch out with the custom UI from the Quick
Start. 

At the moment, if I modify the URL to see the uncustomised page, this
works. However as soon as a click on a link, it reverts to the
customised version.

Should the version accessed via grouper/i2mi function as a complete
application or is it just possible to access the original page from the
customised page?

Cheers,

Loris

On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 16:19 +0100, GW Brown, Information Systems and
Computing wrote:
> --On 20 April 2009 10:32 -0400 Chris Hyzer 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
> > Are you talking about this?
> >
> > http://middleware.internet2.edu/dir/groups/grouper/grouper-0.9/ui-docs/co
> > ntrib/struts-patch/README.html
> >
> > It is in the UI source code under contrib..
> >
> > Speaking of which, I didn't know this was optional, so when I build the
> > grouper-ui.jar in the latest 1.4.2, I put these classes in there, and I
> > have a struts.jar without these classes in there.  Gary, is this not ok,
> > do these truly need to be optional?  Should we not put these in the
> > grouper-ui.jar, and just revert the struts.jar, and just put them in the
> > classes dir to override?  Since they don't change that much this
> > strategy should be fine...
> It is a while since I looked at this. Struts lets you have a second level 
> path which maps to different config elements so you can try to run > 1 UI 
> variation from one webapp (Grouper connections are the same but the UI can 
> look different). My patch gives a mechanism for ensuring that the path is 
> maintained though you sometimes have to add a tiles attribute to make it 
> work. Originally Tom wanted to separate any of our changes from the core 
> Struts - and make them optional so that people could upgrade Struts without 
> having undue dependencies.
> 
> I haven't used the feature much myself and I'm not sure how many others 
> have.
> 
> None of the contribs should be automatically part of the grouper-ui.jar
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Loris Bennett 
> >> [mailto:]
> >> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 10:28 AM
> >> To: Grouper Users Mailing List
> >> Subject: [grouper-users] Download struts-patch?
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Where can I get the struts-patch mentioned in the UI Customisation
> >> topic? The link under Contributions just leads to a short info page.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> Loris
> >>
> >> --
> >> Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.)
> >> Freie Universität Berlin
> >> ZEDAT - Zentraleinrichtung für Datenverarbeitung / Computer Center
> >> Compute & Media Service
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> >> D-14195 Berlin
> >> Tel ++49 30 838 51024
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> >> Email 
> >> 
> >> Web www.zedat.fu-berlin.de
> >
> 
> 
> 
> ----------------------
> GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing
> 
-- 
Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.)
Freie Universität Berlin
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