Customizing the Web Page Composer

This section of the wiki will provide information about how to extend and make the tool meet better the requirements of your scenario. Moreover, here you will be able to find and share different deployable components (for example, a new custom made web form) and ingenious ideas.

Configuration Procedures in details and How To guides

• Creating Custom Web Forms
  This guide describes step-by-step how to create custom page layouts for Web Page Composer.
  How-to Guide: Custom Web Forms in NW 7.0
  How-to Guide: Custom Web Forms in NW 7.3

• Creating Custom Page Layouts
  This guide describes step-by-step how to create custom page layouts for Web Page Composer.
  How-to Guide: Custom Page Layouts in NW 7.0
  How-to Guide: Custom Page Layouts in NW 7.3

• Creating Section-based Page Layouts
  This guide describes step-by-step how to create a section-based page layout for Web Page Composer, which provides much more flexibility within different sections of a Web page.
  How-to Guide: Section-based Page Layouts

• Configuring Anonymous Access for WPC Web Sites
  Using the Web Page Composer (WPC) you can create Web sites and expose them to the general public over the Internet. This guide will lead you through all the configuration steps you need to perform for both KM and WPC.
  SDN Article: Access for Anonymous Users

• Setting up the Cache for WPC
  Optimizing the performance of the system is always a crucial, but complex topic. In order to provide optimal performance for Web content created with Web Page Composer (WPC), you need to understand all available cache mechanisms and configure them accordingly. This guide will provide you with conceptual information as well as with all relevant cache configuration procedures.
  Setting up the Cache for WPC Web Pages

• Creating Editor Components for Composite Web Form Elements
  The purpose of this comprehensive guide is to reveal how you can create editor components for composite elements for your WPC Web forms. In other words, this is a guide for creating an entity of a couple of different editors and combining them in a single and easily maintainable Web form element. This of course results in an easier manipulation of Web forms in design time. Moreover, you avoid major inconveniences, such as separate manipulation of otherwise logically unified editors and wrong positioning of the different editors.
  For the sake of clarity of this guide, the author explains the whole approach through an example of a "Question and Answer" element designed for an FAQ web form.
  SDN Article: Creating Editor Components for Composite Web Form Elements

• Creating and Publishing Web Pages in the Portal Using Web Page Composer's Subscription Feature
  The This article describes the process of creating and publishing web content and web pages in the portal using a new Web Content Management tool known as Web Page Composer. It describes 'Subscription' feature at Web page level.
  SDN Article: Creating and Publishing Web Pages in the Portal Using Web Page Composer's Subscription Feature

Extending the Web Page Composer

FAQ Web Form

Extend your list of available WPC Web forms with this new user-friendly FAQ Web form. Download and deploy this package to provide content authors with an easy way to create and manipulate FAQ documents. This new web form features an element type that groups logically related questions and answers. Those elements can then be easily maintained in the form as composite units. Thus, you avoid error-prone situations caused by the isolated treatment of Questions and Answers as standalone elements. 

Download the deployment package from here
For more information about the necessary configuration procedure after you have deployed the new Web form, see Working Through Configuration Steps for New Web Forms and the Registering the Composite Editor Component section within the SDN Article: Creating Editor Components for Composite Web Form Elements
Discuss the new FAQ Web Form and share ideas for improvements here: Discussion forum - FAQ Web Form

Web Form for Exposing iViews and External Web Pages

This new Web form enables your users to easily expose iViews or external Web pages in your WPC Web pages. Using the Web form, you can bridge over resizing difficulties and tailor the size of the iFrame, so that it fits best to the corresponding scenario. This means, that you are able to specify height and width of the iFrame, in which the corresponding iView/web page will be displayed on the WPC Web page. 

Download the deployment package from here
For more information about the necessary configuration procedure after you have deployed the new Web form, see Working Through Configuration Steps for New Web Forms and the Registering the Composite Editor Component section within the SDN Article: Creating Editor Components for Composite Web Form Elements
Discuss the new FAQ Web Form and share ideas for improvements here: Discussion forum - Web Form for exposing iViews/external Web pages