External GUI Module |
  
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External GUI Module |
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With an external GUI Module a custom html site can be displayed in a defined GUI stack. Using the URL Call Interface or the WebOffice Script API you can control WebOffice 10 R3 functionalities from these GUI modules. This way it e.g. possible to use an External GUI Module instead of the WebOffice search form (queries still have to be defined to have an External Layer ID, but no predefined queries need to be configured). You will find an instruction on how to configure a GUI module, that represents news when calling a project in chapter Integration of a GUI module representing News.
External GUI Module configuration - WebOffice Category
Property |
Description |
Module URL |
Configures the URL that gets embedded in the WebOffice GUI |
Application name |
Name of external web application used for display in user interface (result page). |
Use HTTP Get? |
Pass parameters to external application via HTTP Get or HTTP Post. |
Provide user context? |
Specifies if the user context of the user logged on to WebOffice will get passed in the HTTP header. |
Closeable? |
Configures, if the user can remove the module from the user interface (Yes) or not (No / Default). |
Dockable? |
Configures, if the user can dock/undock the module in the user interface (Yes) or not (No / Default). Docking works only with pages that are referenced by HTTP GET, note that each change of state means that the page is requested from the server again. |
External GUI Module - WebOffice category
Display mode of External GUI module
Property |
Description |
HTML target |
Specifies the HTML target to be used. This is useful for accelerating calls to other applications and for controlling in which window a specific web application gets opened. |
Window type |
Window type |
Display mode of External GUI module - WebOffice category
E.g. set up a html page with a hyperlink executing a query using the URL Call Interface:
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFF88" text="#000000">
Custom Search Input Form<br>
<a href="http://<myserver>/WebOffice/externalcall.jsp?&keyvalue=2003&keyvalue=Verkehrsunfall&query=Accidents_SDE&keyname=JAHR&keyname=UNFALLART&project=weboffice_masterprojekt
" target="to_weboffice">Execute Search</a>
</body>
</html>
External GUI Module used as Search Input Form in WebOffice 10 R3 html client