Adding New Layouts

The following example is intended to show some of the customization possibilities for the Desktop. Details are not provided. See the Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 Developer’s Guide for more information on how to add new layouts.

In this scenario, the Desktop has three rows. The first row contains one full-width channel; the second row contains 2 channels, a thin plus a thick channel; and the third row contains 3 thin channels of equal width.

To create such a Desktop requires a custom container channel, created from the JSPs for the table container (JSPTableContainer).

To enable the Layout link to work with this container, you need a new layout channel with a customized JSP for editing and processing the Edit page. You build this by starting from the layoutedit.jsp and layoutdoedit.jsp files.

You also need to create a new custom table container provider by extending JSPTableContainerProvider.