com.ibm.workplace.wcm.api
Interface AbstractAuthoringTemplate

All Superinterfaces:

Document, Editable, EditableItem, Hierarchical, Item, Localized, WCMApiObject, WorkflowedDocument

All Known Subinterfaces:

AuthoringTemplate, HierarchicalTemplate, SiteAreaTemplate

public interface AbstractAuthoringTemplate
extends Editable, WorkflowedDocument, Hierarchical

Represents an abstract authoring template. Authoring Templates are used to define the types of templated documents that can be created within the content management system. New TemplatedDocument objects will derive their default attributes from the AuthoringTemplate defined during its creation.

The Prototype of the AuthoringTemplate is used to define the set of ContentComponents that make up the target TemplateDocument type. Since version 8.0, there are two types of AbstractAuthoringTemplate, AuthoringTemplate and SiteAreaTemplate. Queries that specify the AbstractTemplate DocumentType will return both AuthoringTemplates and SiteAreaTemplates. If only AuthoringTemplate or SiteAreaTemplates are required, use the DocumentType for AuthoringTemplate or SiteAreaTemplate. Note that the AbstractAuthoringTemplate is referred to as a "Authoring Template" since 8.0 in the Authoring UI and that an AuthoringTemplate is referred to as a "Content Template" since 8.0 in the Authoring UI.

Since:

8.0

Method Summary

Prototype	getGenericPrototype() Returns the Prototype for this authoring template.
ContentPrototype	getPrototype() Deprecated. Use getGenericPrototype() instead. Since 8.0, the prototype can be of any Prototype type.
TargetableContentComponent	getTargetComponent() Returns the TargetableContentComponent that has been set on this authoring template.
void	setTargetComponent(TargetableContentComponent target) Sets the TargetableContentComponent as the target component for this AuthoringTemplate.

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.workplace.wcm.api.Editable

addAuthors, addContributorAccessMembers, addDeleteAccessMembers, addEditAccessMembers, addEditorAccessMembers, addHistoryLogEntry, addLiveAccessMembers, addManagerAccessMembers, addMembersForAccess, addOwners, addReadAccessMembers, addUserAccessMembers, isChanged, removeAuthors, removeContributorAccessMembers, removeDeleteAccessMembers, removeEditAccessMembers, removeEditorAccessMembers, removeLiveAccessMembers, removeManagerAccessMembers, removeMembersForAccess, removeOwners, removeReadAccessMembers, removeUserAccessMembers, setContributorAccessInheritance, setDescriptionTextProviderKey, setDescriptionTextProviderName, setEditorAccessInheritance, setInheritance, setManagerAccessInheritance, setPropagation, setTitleTextProviderKey, setTitleTextProviderName, setUserAccessInheritance

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.workplace.wcm.api.Document

getAuthors, getContributorAccessMembers, getCreator, getDeleteAccessMembers, getDescription, getDescriptionTextProviderKey, getDescriptionTextProviderName, getEditAccessMembers, getEditorAccessMembers, getHistoryLog, getId, getInheritedContributorAccessMembers, getInheritedEditorAccessMembers, getInheritedManagerAccessMembers, getInheritedUserAccessMembers, getLastModifier, getLiveAccessMembers, getManagerAccessMembers, getMembersForAccess, getMembersForInheritedAccess, getOwnerLibrary, getOwners, getProject, getReadAccessMembers, getSourceWorkspace, getTitle, getTitleTextProviderKey, getTitleTextProviderName, getUserAccessMembers, getVersionCatalog, getVersionStrategy, hasDeleteAccess, hasDeleteAccess, hasEditAccess, hasEditAccess, hasLiveAccess, hasLiveAccess, hasProject, hasReadAccess, hasReadAccess, isContributorAccessInherited, isEditorAccessInherited, isInherited, isManagerAccessInherited, isNew, isPropagated, isUserAccessInherited, isWorkflowed

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.workplace.wcm.api.Item

getCreationDate, getDescription, getIdentity, getModifiedDate, getName, getTitle

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.portal.Localized

getLocales

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.workplace.wcm.api.EditableItem

setDescription, setName, setTitle

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.workplace.wcm.api.WorkflowedDocument

addAdditionalViewers, addApprovers, approve, cancelDraftDocument, clearApprovers, createDraftDocument, decline, decline, getAdditionalViewers, getCurrentApprovers, getDateEnteredStage, getEffectiveDate, getExpiryDate, getGeneralDateOne, getGeneralDateTwo, getPendingWorkflowStatus, getPublishedDate, getPublishedId, getWorkflowId, getWorkflowStageId, getWorkflowStatus, hasApproverAccess, hasApproverAccess, hasDraft, isDraft, isDraftOfPublishedDocument, isExpired, isPublished, isWorkflowMovingBackward, nextWorkflowStage, nextWorkflowStage, nextWorkflowStage, previousWorkflowStage, previousWorkflowStage, removeAdditionalViewers, removeApprovers, restartWorkflow, setEffectiveDate, setExpiryDate, setGeneralDateOne, setGeneralDateTwo, setWorkflowId, setWorkflowId

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.workplace.wcm.api.Hierarchical

getParentId

Method Detail

getGenericPrototype

Prototype getGenericPrototype()

Returns the Prototype for this authoring template. The type of the Prototype will correspond to the type of the AuthoringTemplate. To update the prototype, save this authoring template. This is referred to as the Default Item for an AuthoringTemplate in the Authoring UI.

Returns:

a reference to the prototype

Since:

8.0

getPrototype

ContentPrototype getPrototype()

Deprecated. Use getGenericPrototype() instead. Since 8.0, the prototype can be of any Prototype type.

Returns the ContentPrototype for this authoring template if this is an AuthoringTemplate. For other AbstractAuthoringTemplate type, an IllegalStateException will be thrown. This method is retained for pre 8.0 backwards compatibility only. To update the content prototype, save this authoring template.

Returns:

a reference to the content prototype

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalStateException

getTargetComponent

TargetableContentComponent getTargetComponent()

Returns the TargetableContentComponent that has been set on this authoring template. If the the TargetableContentComponent hasn't been set then null will be returned. This method is implemented by Content Templates, but not by Site Area Templates.

Returns:

a copy of the current target component

setTargetComponent

void setTargetComponent(TargetableContentComponent target)
                        throws ComponentNotFoundException,
                               IllegalTypeChangeException

Sets the TargetableContentComponent as the target component for this AuthoringTemplate. Passing a null argument to clear target component.

The target component controls the behavior of Content subsequently created by this template when rendered within a Menu, Navigator or by a Link Component.

If the target component is LinkComponent or FileComponent then all links rendered to the that Content item will be directed towards the TargetableContentComponent. E.g. If the target component is FileComponent then all links to that content item will by default render as links to the embedded file resource TargetableContentComponent. This method is implemented by Content Templates, but not by Site Area Templates.

Parameters:

target - A TargetableContentComponent should already created in ContentPrototype.

Throws:

ComponentNotFoundException - if the given TargetableContentComponent doesn't exist in ContentPrototype

IllegalTypeChangeException - if the ContentComponent passed in as an argument is a different type than the existing component