General guidelines about Portlet StyleSheets

THIS SECTION OF GCUBE DOCUMENTATION IS CURRENTLY UNDER UPDATE.

Homogenizing the D4Science interface

Pre-development Actions

Downloading Gridpshere

The official D4Science gridsphere version is: 3.1.
All the portlet developers must use this version.

Preparing the environment

1. Unzip / Untar the file
2. Add a new environmental variable: export GRIDSPHERE_HOME=<grdsphere-folder>

Patching Gridpshere Home

In order to be able to use D4Science header themes, you should first patch gridsphere. The needed steps are:

1. Download the patch (coming soon)
2. Unzip / Untar the file
3. Execute: cd <patch-folder>; ./patch.sh $GRIDSPHERE_HOME

! Important Info 1:
This patch also contains the changes needed on Gridsphere so as to consume GWT applications.
! Important Info 2:
If you want to use credentials you also have to patch gridpshere for credentials. You can find the needed info here

Installing GridSphere

• Execute: cd $GRIDSPHERE_HOME; ant install
• The server url is: http://localhost:port/gcube/portal

StyleSheet Classes

Header

For using the diligent-header class, you should add in your html tag the following code:
class="d4science-header"
Example:
In order to have the following result:

You must write:

<table>
    <tr class="diligent-header">
        <td><img src="browse.png"></td>
        <td>Browse</td>
    </tr>
</table>

Body

For the body you should you the css class named "portlet-section-body"

Importing Custom-made CSS files

There are two ways to import a custom-made css file:

1. In doView() method of your portlet, you write: response.addProperty("CSS_HREF", request.getContextPath() + "/html/<css-filename>.css");
2. Directly in the jsp page: <link rel="stylesheet" href="<%= request.getContextPath()%>/html/<css-filename>.css" type="text/css">

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--Valia 19:22, 25 May 2007 (EEST)