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===Making the page appear===
 
===Making the page appear===
 
There are three steps to making a page appear:
 
There are three steps to making a page appear:
# The Perl Package should test for ''view-ability''<pre>
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1. The Perl Package should test for ''view-ability''
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# in
 
sub can_be_viewed
 
sub can_be_viewed
 
{
 
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}
 
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# The ''User'' DataObject needs to list the privilege under a role:<pre> # EPrints::DataObj::User
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  # In EPrints::DataObj::User
 
   foo_bar => [
 
   foo_bar => [
 
     "my/view/value",
 
     "my/view/value",
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   ],
 
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# The user_roles.pl file needs to make the role available to the usr-type:<pre>
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3 The user_roles.pl file needs to make the role available to the user-type:
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$c->{user_roles}->{user} = [qw{
 
$c->{user_roles}->{user} = [qw{
 
// snip
 
// snip

Revision as of 14:11, 13 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.
For EPrints 3.2+ 

To make a Screen for the Admin section

To make an Admin Screen plugin, you create a Perl Module in [eprints]/perl_bin/EPrints/Plugin/Screen/ with the following basic structure


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
}

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: 1. The Perl Package should test for view-ability

# in 
sub can_be_viewed
{
	my( $self ) = @_;
	return $self->allow( "my/conf/value" );
}

2 The User DataObject needs to list the privilege under a role:

  # In EPrints::DataObj::User
  foo_bar => [
    "my/view/value",
  ],
  foo_baz => [
    "my/view/value",
    "my/conf/value",
  ],

3 The user_roles.pl file needs to make the role available to the user-type:

$c->{user_roles}->{user} = [qw{
	// snip
	foo_bar
}],
$c->{user_roles}->{admin} = [qw{
        //
	foo_baz
}],

See Also: List of Core Screen Plugins