RSF Sakai Widgets
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Information
The vision of re-usuable, consistent, and flexible user interface components was presented early in the development of Sakai. A large effort resulted in a set of XML tags that extended JSF layouts. The idea was that if everyone used these tags, the user interface would be rendered in a consistent manner for all. While the idea was sound, several problems were encountered along the way:
- JSF is not that easy to use and has some serious representation problems.
- Creating JSF compoments that implement the tags is not easy and requires special knowledge.
- People started using other presentation technologies like JSP, Struts, and even Servlets, none of which leveraged the idea of reusuable UI components.
RSF has a chance to breath new life into the idea of reusable components without the challenges presented by JSF.
This page contains information on the usage of Sakai Widgets in RSF.
Widgets
The following tags come from the JSF tablib for Sakai 2.3
Some relatively up to date information on styles can be found in Sakai Skin
The prefix "SakaiUI" is proposed for classes that implement Sakai widgets and elements to an RSF component tree.
Show Messages
Tag Name |
Component Name |
Style |
Notes |
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sakai:debug |
SakaiUIDebug |
alertMessage |
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sakai:instruction_message |
SakaiUIInstruction |
instruction |
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sakai:messages |
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(didn't find a style) |
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(information) |
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information |
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(success) |
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success |
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View Containers and Boxes
Tag Name |
Component Name |
Style |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
sakai:view |
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sakai:view_container |
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sakai:view_content |
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sakai:view_title |
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sakai:group_box |
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sakai:panel_edit |
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sakai:panel_titled |
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Tool Bar
Tag Name |
Component Name |
Style |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
sakai:tool_bar |
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sakai:tool_bar_item |
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sakai:tool_bar_message |
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sakai:tool_bar_spacer |
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Lists
Tag Name |
Component Name |
Style |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
sakai:dynaTable |
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sakai:flat_list |
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(side by side) |
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Documents
Tag Name |
Component Name |
Style |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
sakai:doc_properties |
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sakai:doc_section |
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sakai:doc_section_title |
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sakai:applet |
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sakai:multiColumn |
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sakai:anchorReference |
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sakai:alphaIndex |
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sakai:stylesheet |
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(indent} |
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Forms
Tag Name |
Component Name |
Style |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
sakai:button_bar |
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sakai:button_bar_item |
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sakai:input_date |
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sakai:inputColor |
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sakai:inputFileUpload |
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sakai:inputRichText |
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sakai:rich_text_area |
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Indicators and Instruments
Tag Name |
Component Name |
Style |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
sakai:progressBar |
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sakai:timerBar |
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Other Stuff
These widgets can be moved up to other sections if they seem to be more appropriate.
Tag Name |
Component Name |
Style |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
sakai:contentTypeMap |
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sakai:courier |
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sakai:dataLine |
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sakai:flowState |
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sakai:hideDivision |
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sakai:output_date |
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sakai:pager |
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sakai:peer_refresh |
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sakai:popup |
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sakai:script |
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sakai:selectCommand |
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