swole-dyn-admin
swole-dyn-admin
A collection of classes that can make your Oracle ATG Commerce Dyn Admin Swole.
What?
This project makes the dyn admin swole by tweaking the ouput to add various features. These features are explained in the subsections.
GSA Admin Servlet Enhancements
The GSA Admin Servlet is responsbile for drawing the GSARepository admin interface. The page you probably spend a lot of time running arbitraty RQL within. Swole Dyn Admin makes this servlet swole with a couple of useful features.
Jump to Query Box
If you have ever had a repo with a lot of item descriptors..you are used to scrolling down to get to the query box. Swole Dyn Admin adds a convenient hyperlink to jump you down to RQL box.
RQL Toolbar
If you have used RQL you have certainly typed <query-items item-descriptor=... enough in your life. Now you can point and click yourself to constructing the most basic queries! Options for ordering and paging the results are also available, as well as a handy link to the online RQL overview.
It’s very likely you often want to query for something by its ID. The Append Query by ID button is made for this, it appends a query and moves the focus of the cursor to allow you to type in your ID quickly
Better RQL Box
The RQL Box is now bigger…but it’s better too. When you submit a query you no longer have to scroll down to see your results, instead the RQL box submits against a html fragment identifier for the results. No screen shot can do this marvelousness justice.
Link to RQL Query
It’s reasonable to assume a lot of the time you are doing RQL queries you are troubleshooting an issue. An important component of troubleshooting is sharing discoveries with your team. This has always been hard in the dyn admin because it requires sharing the link to the admin servlet, credentials, and usually the RQL query that shows the data. With the SwoleGSAAdminServlet the first and third pieces are combined in a single link that will execute your query-items query! What’s more every query-items you perform now has a shareable link generated for it.
RQL Item Link Navigation
When viewing an RQL result many times the item you are looking at relates to other items in the same or other repositories. Generally this requires finding the repository and adding more RQL. Swole Dyn Admin automatically hotlinks any related items using the Link to RQL Query functionality so that admins may browse through the related items with easke
How?
The jar contains a bunch of extensions to common ATG nucleus classes. Drop properties files that override the class used with the swole version.
For example suppose you have a GSARepository at /atg/commerce/catalog/ProductCatalog then all you need to do is add swole-dyn-admin.jar to your module’s MANIFEST.MF ATG-Class-Path: and drop a /atg/commerce/catalog/ProductCatalog.properties file with the following contents:
$class=com.vitalize.atg.adapter.gsa.SwoleGSARepository
Why?
If you use or develop with Oracle ATG Commerce, then you certainly are a Dyn Admin user. Vitalize thought it would be better to have swole versions of things when developing bodybuilding.com
Contribute?
Ideas are needed! Everyone has probably said “I wish dyn admin would…” at some point, so now you have a place to express that wish. Just open an issue.
We also happily accept pull requests. The nature of the project is that it’s hard to verify a feature works on all versions, so be prepared to rework some things to make them more version agnostics..possibly. The dyn admin doesn’t change much…so maybe it will all be ok. We appreciate reports of incompatibilities.
Differences from BetterDynAdmin
This project is very similar to the excellent BetterDynAdmin. Surprisingly this project was created without knowing of BetterDynAdmin’s existence…but we came to some very similar UX. The big difference is BetterDynAdmin is a grease monkey based client side manipulation of the existing dyn-admin while swole-dyn-admin is a server side modification of ATG. The former requires installation in every machine of every user (with very easy steps) while the latter requires no installation on client devices.
Disclaimer
This project is completely unofficial and in no way endorsed by Oracle Corporation. Oracle ATG web commerce is a copyrighted product of Oracle Corporation and no rights are contested by this project or it contents.
LICENSE
Copyright 2017 Vitalize LLC
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
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