Customizing workspace ES ??

[_Nith_]

Is it possible to add a new tab along with the existing  Start Process, To Do and Tracking tabs?

Is it so easy to proceed or am I taking risk?

Expecting any valuable suggestions.

Thanks,

Nith

[Former Community Member]

Hi $Nith$,

As I understand you would have to hire a vendor to do that. We have the search form tab that done by Ensemble.

HD

[_Nith_]

Thanks Han,

I saw the product description from ensemble. It will be useful to find the forms.

Now, i have the flex form and the logic implemented with me. All I need now is to add one extra tab to the workspace.

See the attached screen;

1. Area highlighted with blue color is already implemented and i'm able to use it in the workspace (with the help of process cards)

2. I just need a new tab (highlighted in red color)

I don't think it will be much complex to add this tab. If we find a good documentation, we could do it by ourself. Am I wrong?

-Nith

[Former Community Member]

They provide the code for workspace, so my understanding is that you can tweak Workspace as much as you want.  You could write your own UI if you want.  I have not it done it yet, but have been very tempted to.

[_Nith_]

Is the source code available in any .ear files? If you know the details, please let me know, as I'm in the final stage of development.

Many Thanks,

Nith

[Former Community Member]

I am not in front of my work machine right, so can't tell you from memory.  But ...

On the machine you have Workbench installed on, do a search for ITaskManager.  You should see an ITaskManager.as file in some path.

[_Nith_]

Thanks Dude,

I will try to find out and proceed!

Cheers,

Nith

[Jasmin_Charbonn]

The Worksapce source is part of the SDK under C:\Adobe\LiveCycle8.2\LiveCycle_ES_SDK\misc\Process_Management\Workspace.

Jasmin

[_Nith_]

Thanks Jasmin!

Few more clarifications:

1. I am trying to import the project into Flex Builder 3, but it shows a reference error ("Main.mxml not found")

I am able to locate the file In the folder. Do I need a different flex builder to edit this project?

2. To modify the flex project and deploy it in the workspace, do I need to unpack any .ear files and repack it?

Regards,

Nith

[_Nith_]

After following the procedures to customize workspace UI, I made it work !!

Thanks Jasmin.

Nith

[Former Community Member]

Hi Nith,

You said you made it work, was that for the additional tab like search in the workspace? Can you share some experience in customizing workspace, how did you solve the problem in your previous note? Please share any additional eperience/tips in making it work.

Thanks much in advance,

Han Dao

[_Nith_]

Hi Han Dao,

I am quite unfamiliar with Adobe Flex development. Anyhow, I managed to modify the default "Tracking" tab available in the workspace.

You can find the code located in src\layout\Workspace.mxml file and from thereon you need to write your logic.

I did not follow the coding standards as followed by Adobe. My requirement is to populate some custom columns with some extra information.

Nith

[Former Community Member]

Hi Nath,

I am planning to customise  the workspace as per our requirement.

First of all I need to add   one button  and implement some logic over there.. so that i will get  some bacis in customisation of workspace.

Please provide  the stpes you followed and if  any  docs are availiable  , please  let   me know.

Thanks

Praveen

[_Nith_ · Accepted solution]

See the attached material provided by Adobe.

Nith

[NW987]

Nith

Did you have to recompile the workspace source for the customization that you developed?  I believe the component that you customized is located in the workspace-runtime.swc, which customizing is not supported.  Do you have an ant script for recompiling from source?  Which service pack did you pull the source from?

The guide you posted does not describe how to customize the workspace layout.  It describe how to customize locale and style, OR how to extend the workspace and build a custom app.  Thanks.

[_Nith_]

I customized the workspace from version 9.0 source. I did not modify anything within workspace-runtime.swc.

Also the document I have attached is the guide to understand the architecture of workspace model and few quick solutions to change the appearances.

Nith