WAM105 Create Your Own Weblet

Objectives

To create Toolbar Menu Item weblet and a Toolbar weblet. A simple WAM application will then be used to test the Toolbar weblet.

The finished application will look like the following:

In order to complete this exercise, you must complete the following:

Before You Begin

This exercise does not depend on knowledge gained from all preceding exercises. It is recommended that the following have been completed:

Weblets

Layouts are a type of Weblet. They allow you to customize the overall look and feel of a web site or web application.

Weblets are also building blocks of your WAM HTML page. They can be categorized into 2 main groups.

Primitive Weblets typically have a 1-to-1 relationship with an HTML Tag/Element (eg: Push Button, Checkbox, Combo Box, Anchor, Clickable Image, an Input box, etc)

Composite Weblets provide additional functionality combining Javascript, CSS, Primitive Weblets and HTML (eg: Grid, Tabsheets, etc)

XSL Templates

The <xsl:template name="my_template_name"> </xsl:template> element is very similar to the SUBROUTINE command used to define Subroutines in LANSA.

Parameters can be received by a template by defining

<xsl:param name="param_name" /> elements within the template.

Calling XSL Templates

The <xsl:call-template name="layout-form.private"> element is very similar to the EXECUTE command used to call subroutines in LANSA.

Parameters can be passed on the call using the

<xsl:with-param name="param_name" select="param_value"/> element.