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[Loris Bennett <>]

Hi,

Sorry, I must have been experiencing some sort of caching problem. Now
everything is working OK.

Cheers

Loris

On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 14:10 +0000, Loris Bennett wrote:
> 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
> > >> Fabeckstr. 32, Room 221
> > >> D-14195 Berlin
> > >> Tel ++49 30 838 51024
> > >> Fax ++49 30 838 56721
> > >> Email 
> > >> 
> > >> Web www.zedat.fu-berlin.de
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----------------------
> > GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing
> > 
-- 
Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.)
Freie Universität Berlin
ZEDAT - Zentraleinrichtung für Datenverarbeitung / Computer Center
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