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On Dec 16, 2010, at 3:22 PM, Jesse Tayler wrote:

> if you want to substitute a property level component use componentName, but 
> bound the rule around the specific entity and property scope you're looking 
> to target.
> 
> it looks like maybe your rule for substituting your component actually scopes 
> anything in that entity rather than the propertyKey = "theProperty" in the 
> example -?
> 
> this rule that says (and propertyKey = "theProperty") -- this level of scope 
> might be needed in your rule eh?
> 
> 
> On Dec 16, 2010, at 3:04 PM, Johan Henselmans wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Here's the idea:
>> 
>> I have a custom component page from somewhere else with javascript that does 
>> a whole bunch of calculations based on values of an EO. 
>> 
>> No problem, I thought, according to the D2W Rules References I follow rule 7:
>> 
>> (http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WO/D2W+Rules+Reference+-+Cookbook+-+FAQ)
>> 
>> 7. How do I easily use my own custom component in a Direct to Web page?
>> 
>> Step 1:
>> 
>> Add the following rules to your rule file:
>> 
>> 100: pageConfiguration = "ListTheEntity" and propertyKey = "theProperty" => 
>> componentName = "D2WCustomComponent"
>> 100: pageConfiguration = "ListTheEntity" and propertyKey = "theProperty" => 
>> customComponentName = "MyThePropertyComponent"
>> 
>> 
>> Step 2:
>> 
>> Create a component in your project named 'MyThePropertyComponent' and give 
>> it an 'object' and 'key' binding. The object will receive the current 
>> object, and the key will receive the current propertyKey (as a string) from 
>> DirectToWeb. Do with them what you will.
>> 
>> public
>> EOEnterpriseObject object() {
>> 
>> return (EOEnterpriseObject) valueForBinding("object"
>> );
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> public String
>> key() {
>> 
>> return (String) valueForBinding("key"
>> );
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> So I add these methods, but removed this propertyKey thingy because I want 
>> my the entity  to be used as the object. 
>> 
>> Im my situatiion:
>> 
>> 100: pageConfiguration = "InspectTheEntity"  => componentName = 
>> "D2WCustomComponent"
>> 100: pageConfiguration = "InspectTheEntity"  => customComponentName = 
>> "MyNiceJavascriptAndAllPage"
>> 
>> first I had to add some extra methods to this page, because WebObjects 
>> complained it could not set object and key values, so I added:
>> 
>>      public void setObject(EOEnterpriseObject anObject) {
>>              currentObject = anObject;
>>        }
>> 
>>      public void setKey(String aKey) {
>>              currentkey = aKey;
>>        }
>> 
>> But then it displayed the page. 
>> 
>> 20 times. 
>> 
>> I get a display of my custom page for all the components in the page. So 
>> component 1 displays a complete empty page, component 2  etc. None of my 
>> EOEnterprise values are displayed from the EOObject that I selected. 
>> 
>> I must be missing something. I understood that the object would pass through 
>> the current select enterprise object, and I could use that to fill in the 
>> values in my custom page. Apparently, that is not the case. I tried to find 
>> some customcomponent in the d2wmodels of BugTracker or ERMoviesDemo, but did 
>> not find anything over there. 
>> 
>> Can someone enlighten me?
>> 
>> Johan Henselmans
>> [email protected]
>> 
>> 
>> 
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