Pageflow - Dynamic viewID

[connerjohn]

I am about to replace a shopping cart application (struts->seam). The application is multi-tenat and one of the features we are hoping to be able to provide with a new architecture is the ability to customize which page is displayed for a given client.

We have a standard page flow for checkout, however, each client would like their own custom L&F (much more than can be offered by changing css). I am just starting to work with pageflow - so sorry if this is a stupid question.

One way I thought might be possible is to change the viewID. Can the viewID of the different pageflow constructs accept an el value and be dynamic? If not, could you point me in the direction of what I would have to modify in order let this happen (or let me know it's not possible so I look for a different way to achieve what I want).

After reading the docs, I was thinking of trying something like:

<page name="checkout"
 view-id="/#{TENANTID}/checkout.xhtml"
 back="enabled">
 <redirect/>
 <transition to="checkout"/>
 <transition name="complete" to="complete"/>
</page>

--JC

[gavin.king]

Check out the new theming API in Seam CVS (and read the docs and look at the blog example).

[connerjohn]

Thanks!

I'll think about themes some more. I'm not sure what the implications of replacing the template.xhtml based on a theme is going to be in my application. It might work; but I don't want to add another thing to my application if I can modify pageflow do what I want.

To that end, I created a small patch to make Page.getViewId() interpolate the value in viewId.

If there is any interest in the patch, I put it into JIRA.
http://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-326

-- JC