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Document Views

Updated: October 16, 2020

Pages visible for a given document can be configured depending on the document type.

First of all, we have to make the difference between a view in a standard JSF way (navigation case view id, navigation case output) and views in the Nuxeo Platform (document type view, creation view).

Standard JSF Navigation Concepts

A standard JSF navigation rule can be defined in the OSGI-INF/deployment-fragment.xml files, inside the faces-config#NAVIGATION directive.

Example of a navigation rule case definition:

<extension target="faces-config#NAVIGATION">

    <navigation-case>
      <from-outcome>create_document</from-outcome>
      <to-view-id>/create_document.xhtml</to-view-id>
      <redirect />
    </navigation-case>

    <navigation-case>
      <from-outcome>view_documents</from-outcome>
      <to-view-id>/view_documents.xhtml</to-view-id>
      <redirect />
    </navigation-case>

</extension>

Nuxeo Platform Views

A certain Nuxeo document type can have defined a default view (used to view/edit the document) and a create view (used to create the document). These views are specified in the OSGI-INF/ecm-types-contrib.xml file, as in the following example.

<extension target="org.nuxeo.ecm.platform.types.TypeService" point="types">
    <type id="Workspace">
      <label>Workspace</label>
      <icon>/icons/workspace.gif</icon>
      <icon-expanded>/icons/workspace_open.gif</icon-expanded>
      <default-view>view_documents</default-view>
      <create-view>create_workspace</create-view>
    </type>
</extension>

The default view of a document is rendered as a list of tabs. The document tabs are defined as actions in the OSGI-INF/actions-contrib.xml file, having as category VIEW_ACTION_LIST. A tab can be added to a document default view as shown in the following example.

<extension target="org.nuxeo.ecm.platform.actions.ActionService" point="actions">
    <action id="TAB_EDIT" link="/incl/tabs/document_edit.xhtml" enabled="true"
      order="20" label="action.view.edit" icon="/icons/file.gif">
      <category>VIEW_ACTION_LIST</category>
      <filter-id>edit</filter-id>
      <filter-id>mutable_document</filter-id>
    </action>
</extension>