Decorators

A list of pages that can be used for your web application with Sitemesh. For example, if you want to use the financial link decorator, have the following in your decorators.xml in your web application.

Version 3.1 active-cherry with auto complete search feature (Responsive Design)

<decorator name="default" webapp="/decorators"
    page="/decorators/3.1/financial.jsp">
    <pattern>/*</pattern>
</decorator>

Possible page values (click to preview):

If you have a CMS site (i.e. http://rrdp.ucsd.edu) and want your web application to have the same header, top nav, search, footer:

  1. Contact act-uxt@ucsd.edu to make your CMS site's decorator available, then
  2. Set the following in your decorator.xml in your web application. In this example, [your CMS site name] will be rrdp 
<decorator name="default" webapp="/decorators"
    page="/cms/3.1/decorate.jsp?siteName=[your CMS site name]">
    <pattern>/*</pattern>
</decorator>

Version 3 active-cherry (Responsive Design)

<decorator name="default" webapp="/decorators"
    page="/decorators/3/financial.jsp">
    <pattern>/*</pattern>
</decorator>

Possible page values (click to preview):

If you have a CMS site (i.e. http://rrdp.ucsd.edu) and want your web application to have the same header, top nav, search, footer:

  1. Contact act-uxt@ucsd.edu to make your CMS site's decorator available, then
  2. Set the following in your decorator.xml in your web application. In this example, [your CMS site name] will be rrdp 
<decorator name="default" webapp="/decorators"
    page="/cms/3/decorate.jsp?siteName=[your CMS site name]">
    <pattern>/*</pattern>
</decorator>

Version 2 active-banana

<decorator name="default" webapp="/decorators"
    page="/decorators/2/financial.jsp">
    <pattern>/*</pattern>
</decorator>

Possible page values (click to preview):

If you have a CMS site (i.e. http://rrdp.ucsd.edu) and want your web application to have the same header, top nav, search, footer:

  1. Contact act-uxt@ucsd.edu to make your CMS site's decorator available, then
  2. Set the following in your decorator.xml in your web application. In this example, [your CMS site name] will be rrdp 
<decorator name="default" webapp="/decorators"
    page="/cms/2/decorate.jsp?siteName=[your CMS site name]">
    <pattern>/*</pattern>
</decorator>