JSPTableContainer

The JSPTableContainer provides a JSP-based table Desktop.

Sample Desktop

Default Layout

By default, the sample portal Desktop based on the JSPTableContainer (see Figure 38–3) contains the following channels:

• Thin channels: User Information, Sun Information, My Bookmarks, Mailcheck Provider, and My Applications

• Wide channels: Sample JSP, XML Test, Notes, Personal Notes, and Preconfigured Web Service

Figure 37–3 Sample Desktop Based on JSPTableContainer

Default Actions

The sample JSPTableContainer channel, by default, includes:

• Banner links to return to the Desktop Home page, Desktop theme to allow the user to set the color scheme and font type for the Desktop (the URL for this page is action=edit&provider=JSPPresetThemeContainer), Log Out to allow the user to log out of the Desktop (the URL for this page is action=logout), Help to display the Desktop sample online help (the URL for this page is ../docs/locale/desktop/helppage.htm), and Search to allow the user to search.

• Leaf channel. JSPTableContainer does not contain any contained containers, it only has leaf channels. This container uses JSPContentContainer and JSPLayoutContainer to edit the content and layout, respectively.

• Content and layout links. The toptable.jsp file defines the Content and Layout links. JSPContentContainer is the container that displays the Content page, and JSPLayoutContainer is the container that displays the Layout page.

  The Content link (action=edit&provider=JSPContentContainer&container=JSPTableContainer) allows the user to edit the content on the Content page and the Layout link (action=edit&provider=JSPLayoutContainer&container=JSPTableContainer) allows the user to edit the layout of the channels on the Layout page.

Default Display Profile Settings

The provider responsible for generating the JSPTableContainer channel is JSPTableContainerProvider. The provider profile is the template which decides the properties for a container channel, but the container channel profile will ultimately decide the values for the container channel attributes. The default properties that make up JSPTableContainer work as follows:

contentPage

Set to toptable.jsp. This draws the Content Page for the table container.

categories

This collection defines the categories under which the available channels in the JSPTabContainer will be grouped in the Content page. Here there are three categories: Personal Channels, Sample Channels, and News Channels.

channelsRow

This collection and values that appear in this collection, contain the row number value for channels in this container. For example, the mail check channel is defined as row 4.

channelsIsRemovable

This collection defines a collection to contain the isRemovable value for channels in this container. Only one channel, user information, is defined, with a value of false, so that it cannot be removed.

Available

This list describes all available channels for this container. The available channels are displayed in the content preference page for users to select from.

Selected

This list describes selected channels for this container. Only selected channels shows up in the Desktop.

JSPTableContainer Architecture

Figure 38–4 shows the JSPTableContainer architecture. In this figure, toptable.jsp is the top-level JSP file. The toptable.jsp file makes include calls to the header.jsp, launchPopup.jsp, leafWrapper.jsp, and menubar.jsp files.

Figure 37–4 JSPTableContainer Architecture

JSP Files Used by JSPTableContainer

The Portal Server 7.1 uses JSP files for a channel’s presentation layer. JSPTableContainer references one main JSP, toptable.jsp, through the contentPage property.

Content template is responsible for the front page of the container channel and the file name for the tab container channel is toptable.jsp. The toptable.jsp file extensively uses the Desktop taglibs.