[Building Sakai] Insert UI variant in JSF or in Java file

[Aaron Zeckoski]

They both sound pretty reasonable to me but I suppose I would lean
towards the "if-then" in the original file since I think that is less
likely to surprise people when they go to change things. In other
words, 2 files can get out of sync pretty easily, while a single file
would be less likely to have this problem (the 2 sections could still
get out of sync).

Did you consider a CSS solution where you simply apply different CSS
styles? It may be possible to rework the structure so that it is just
a matter of changing the CSS class and maybe showing some different
instructions. I defer to the CSS experts on that though.

Sounds like a helpful contribution either way.
:-)
-AZ


On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Thomas Lampert <Thomas.Lampert at mci.edu> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm rather new to the Sakai project so I have a question concerning design of development:
>
> The preference-tool display doesnt offer enough space for our course titles which forced me to redesign the side-by-side lists into a top-to-bottom display.
> I want to get access to the side-by-side display quickly by just activating a single flag in sakai.properties, and now comes the specific point of my question:
>
> Do I embed my code in the UserPrefsTool.java where i redirect the "m_tabOutcome" to my adapted tabs-more-dhtml.jsp (results in a third .jsp file besides the already existing)
> or
> do I just expand the tabs-more-dhtml.jsp where I let a condition decide (jstl, c:choose) which one of the designs should be displayed. (results in importing and using jstl code what wasnt needed before in this file)
>
> I already coded both solutions but I dont know which solution makes more sense.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Thomas Lampert
>
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