User Interface

Creating plugins to customize or extend the user interface.

Hippo CMS offers a fully customizable user interface by means of a user interface plugin architecture. Based on Apache Wicket, a component based web development framework, this plugin architecture allows for customizations ranging from tweaking a particular widget or dialog, to rewriting the entire user interface.

A pure CMS 7 user interface add-on consists of user interface plugins in the form of Java class files, HTML markup and CSS.

If you do not know where to start, just start at the first document listed.

	Hello World Plugin	Introduction to plugin development: create a project for a Hippo CMS user interface plugin that displays "Hello World!"
	Use Hello World Plugin	Use your CMS hello world user interface plugin in your main CMS project.
	Extend Dashboard	Modify the dashboard layout to extend it with the hello world plugin.
	Custom Document Type	Create an example custom document type for later use in plugins.
	Document Type Add-on	How to create a document type add-on, i.e. an add-on that adds a custom document type to the CMS?
	Editor Custom Layout	How to create a document type dependent custom editor layout?
	Create An Editing Template Plugin Test	Create a template plugin that edits a custom type.
	Customize Skin	Customize the appearance of Hippo CMS user interface.
	Communication	Learn how frontend plugins communicate with each other.
	Architecture	Explanation of the frontend plugin architecture.
	Communication Tryout	Aspects of plugin communication that are implemented as tryout. They may change in the future.
	Architecture Tryout	Aspects of architecture that are implemented as tryout. They may change in the future.
	HtmlCleanerService	Removes (copy/pasted) junk from content of html fields.
	CMS Localization	How to translate the CMS to different languages?
	YUI Layout Based Wireframes	Learn how the CMS uses YUI based layouts and how to add your own.
	Add Taxonomy Classification To The Document Type	-
	Add A Section To The Navigator	How to add a section to the CMS browser perspective.
	Setting Up Document Types In A Folder	How to control the document types that can be used in a folder.
	Customize Xinha Fields	How to customize Xinha fields. This includes specifying what buttons are available in Xinha's toolbar and which Xinha plugins are loaded.

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