Manage Template service

The Template service enables you to create dialogs and view templates for each node type registered. Each node type may have many dialogs and view templates. The template will be used when creating or viewing nodes.

You can find the template service configuration in /webapps/ecm-wcm-core/WEB-INF/conf/wcm-core/core-services-configuration.xml.




<component>

  <key>org.exoplatform.services.cms.templates.TemplateService</key>

  <type>org.exoplatform.services.cms.templates.impl.TemplateServiceImpl</type>

</component>

As usual, one can register a plugin inside the service. This plugin initializes default dialogs and views template of any node type as nt:file, exo:article, exo:workflowAction, exo:sendMailAction, and more.




<component-plugins>

  <component-plugin>

    <name>addTemplates</name>

    <set-method>addTemplates</set-method>

    <type>org.exoplatform.services.cms.templates.impl.TemplatePlugin</type>

    .........

  </component-plugin>

</component-plugins>

With init-parameters as:




<init-params>

  <value-param>

    <name>autoCreateInNewRepository</name>

    <value>true</value>

  </value-param>

  <value-param>

    <name>storedLocation</name>

    <value>war:/conf/ecm/artifacts/templates</value>

  </value-param>

  <value-param>

    <name>repository</name>

    <value>repository</value>

  </value-param>

  <object-param>

    <name>template.configuration</name>

    <description>configuration for the location of templates to inject in jcr</description>

    <object type="org.exoplatform.services.cms.templates.impl.TemplateConfig">

      <field name="nodeTypes">

        <collection type="java.util.ArrayList">

          <value>

            <object type="org.exoplatform.services.cms.templates.impl.TemplateConfig$NodeType">

              <field name="nodetypeName">

                <string>exo:article</string>

              </field>

              <field name="documentTemplate">

                <boolean>true</boolean>

              </field>

              <field name="label">

                <string>Article</string>

              </field>

              <field name="referencedView">

                <collection type="java.util.ArrayList">

                  <value>

                    <object type="org.exoplatform.services.cms.templates.impl.TemplateConfig$Template">

                      <field name="templateFile">

                        <string>/article/views/view1.gtmpl</string>

                      </field>

                      <field name="roles">

                        <string>*</string>

                      </field>

                    </object>

                  </value>

                </collection>

              </field>

              <field name="referencedDialog">

                <collection type="java.util.ArrayList">

                  <value>

                    <object type="org.exoplatform.services.cms.templates.impl.TemplateConfig$Template">

                      <field name="templateFile">

                        <string>/article/dialogs/dialog1.gtmpl</string>

                      </field>

                      <field name="roles">

                        <string>*</string>

                      </field>

                    </object>

                  </value>

                </collection>

              </field>

            </object>

          </value>

        </collection>

      </field>

    </object>

  </object-param>

</init-params>