Changing Content Layout to Support Categorizing the Available and Selected Lists

For sites with a great number of channels, and a need to categorize and sub-categorize these into a hierarchical kind of structure, to make channel selection easier to navigate, and channels easier to find, customization options include:

• Customizing Existing JSPs

• Writing a New Content Channel

Customizing Existing JSPs

You can customize contentedit.jsp, which generates the Content page, and contentdoedit.jsp, which processes the page. The Content page uses categories to group channels into different sections. If you want this page to look different, for example, to use a pull-down menu instead of showing all the channels for one category, to save on page space, you can customize the two JSPs mentioned. (The main reason for a JSP-based content and layout channels is to support ease of customization.)

Writing a New Content Channel

You can write a new content channel by extending JSPSingleContainerProvider to support your site’s needs. You would then only need to modify the Content link in table.jsp under JSPTableContainerProvider to point to this new content channel. You can also create your own JSP to do whatever specific implementation you need, and change the link from table.jsp to new.jsp.