The Asset Picker is the mechanism that the ATG Business Control Center provides to allow users to search or browse for assets. It is presented whenever users need to choose an asset—for example, when they select the Add Asset to Project option in the Assets tab or specify an asset as the target of a link from another asset. The Asset Picker is also used as the starting point for creating assets (of those types, such as text assets, that can be created within the ATG Business Control Center).
The Asset Picker is extensible, allowing you to add custom plugin components that support asset search or browse functionality for custom asset types.
The Asset Picker consists of the following pieces:
A set of JSPs that provide the base-level pages of the Asset Picker and function as a container for the plugin search or browse components. The default pages are packaged in the
AssetUI.warfile in<ATG2007.3dir>\AssetUI\j2ee-apps\assetUI.ear.Container JavaScript API: an API implemented by the container pages that is accessed by the plugin page and returns information on the specific asset type included in the search.
Plugin JavaScript Interface: an API implemented by the plugin page and called by the container page to communicate with the Asset Picker plugins.
Client JavaScript API: an API implemented by the ATG Business Control Center. It is used to determine the possible asset types selectable by the picker, to configure its many options, and to invoke it.
Items in the View Mapping repository, which determine the appropriate plugin to present to the user.
JSPs that represent the plugin components. Default plugins are provided for repository search, virtual file system search, and virtual file system browse.
