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Bug 410735

Summary:	Provide an extensible way to update footer content
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Brian Svihovec <svihovec>
Component:	Client	Assignee:	Project Inbox <orion.client-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	Szymon.Brandys
Version:	2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Brian Svihovec

2013-06-13 10:56:49 EDT

Currently, the Orion footer is hard coded to use the template defined in footer.html, which contains links to Orion specific pages (i.e. bugzilla, FAQ, etc).  

I would like to provide a tag named 'footer', so that it participates in the 'show/hide' banner operation, but I would also like to change the footer content.

Some options probably include:
* Allow an extender to provide a footer template when creating globalCommands

* Require a tag named 'footer' in globalCommands, but allow a user to indicate if the default footer template should be used

* etc.

Comment 1 Szymon Brandys

2013-06-14 09:00:22 EDT

You build your own Orion-based app or you want to modify the header of existing Orion with a plugin? If the first, you can just override footer.html to brand your app.

Comment 2 Brian Svihovec

2013-06-17 12:33:49 EDT

I have my own Orion based app.

I agree that I can modify the existing footer.html file, and this is what I am doing right now, but I would like to avoid modifying the files in the Orion framework so that it's easier to migrate to newer versions of Orion in the future.

I am fine with this restriction for now, but it would be interesting to know how the Orion banner and footer will be configurable in the future for applications that want to re-use the Orion client with a different 'look and feel'.

Comment 3 John Arthorne

2015-05-05 14:49:44 EDT

Closing as part of a mass clean up of inactive bugs. Please reopen if this problem still occurs or is relevant to you. For more details see:

https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/orion-dev/msg03444.html