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Screen Plugins are used to handle the User Interface. Screen plugins provide the UI to the user-interaction parts of EPrints. A screen plugin can include:
 
Screen Plugins are used to handle the User Interface. Screen plugins provide the UI to the user-interaction parts of EPrints. A screen plugin can include:
  
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* Rights testing - the entire plugin, and individual actions, can be restricted in various ways.
 
* Rights testing - the entire plugin, and individual actions, can be restricted in various ways.
  
For EPrints 3.2+
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==Making Screens==
===To make a Screen for the Admin section===
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* [[How to make a Screen for the Admin Section]]
To make an Admin Screen plugin, you create a Perl Module in <code>[eprints]/perl_bin/EPrints/Plugin/Screen/</code> with the following basic structure
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* [[How to make a Screen perform Actions]]
<pre>
 
  
package EPrints::Plugin::Screen::Mypackage;
 
 
use EPrints::Plugin::Screen;
 
 
@ISA = ( 'EPrints::Plugin::Screen' );
 
 
use strict;
 
 
sub new
 
{
 
my( $class, %params ) = @_;
 
my $self = $class->SUPER::new(%params);
 
$self->{priv} = undef;
 
$self->{appears} = [
 
{
 
place => "admin_actions_editorial", # see notes below
 
position => 1450,
 
},
 
];
 
return $self;
 
}
 
 
sub can_be_viewed
 
{
 
my( $self ) = @_;
 
return $self->allow( "my/conf/value" );
 
}
 
 
sub render
 
{
 
my( $self ) = @_;
 
my $session = $self->{session};
 
        my $user = $session->current_user;
 
 
        my $p = $session->make_doc_fragment;
 
 
        # create page contents:
 
        my $h = $session->make_element( "h3" );
 
        $h->appendChild($session->make_text( "Look up organisations known to OA-RJ" ));
 
        $p->appendChild($h);
 
 
return $p
 
}
 
</pre>
 
 
====The locations====
 
There are 4 tabs defined:
 
* admin_actions_editorial
 
* admin_actions_system
 
* admin_actions_config
 
* admin_actions_misc
 
 
===Making the page appear===
 
There are three steps to making a page appear:
 
# The Perl Package should test for ''view-ability''
 
<pre>
 
sub can_be_viewed
 
{
 
my( $self ) = @_;
 
return $self->allow( "my/conf/value" );
 
}
 
</pre>
 
# The ''User'' DataObject needs to list the privilege under a role:
 
<pre>
 
# EPrints::DataObj::User
 
  foo_bar => [
 
    "my/view/value",
 
  ],
 
  foo_baz => [
 
    "my/view/value",
 
    "my/conf/value",
 
  ],
 
</pre>
 
# The user_roles.pl file needs to make the role available to the user-type:
 
<pre>
 
$c->{user_roles}->{user} = [qw{
 
// snip
 
foo_bar
 
}],
 
$c->{user_roles}->{admin} = [qw{
 
        //
 
foo_baz
 
}],
 
</pre>
 
  
 
See Also: [[List of Core Screen Plugins]]
 
See Also: [[List of Core Screen Plugins]]

Revision as of 09:54, 15 April 2010

Screen Plugins are used to handle the User Interface. Screen plugins provide the UI to the user-interaction parts of EPrints. A screen plugin can include:

  • A render (a screen plugin can actually have several pages (like a search) or none (like the eprint move plugin). Most have a single page of output.
  • Actions - things which modify the system in some way.
  • Rights testing - the entire plugin, and individual actions, can be restricted in various ways.

Making Screens


See Also: List of Core Screen Plugins